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Prof Paul Eggleston

Title:	Professor of Molecular Entomology
Phone:	+44 (0)1782 733027
Email:	p.eggleston@keele.ac.uk
Location:	Huxley Building : 173
Role:	Deputy Director, Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine
Contacting me:	Arrange an appointment by e-mail

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I was appointed to the Chair of Molecular Entomology in the Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology (now part of the Institute for Science and Engineering in Medicine) in 1999. Before that, I obtained a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Biological Sciences from Birmingham University in 1977 and a Ph.D. in Genetics, also from Birmingham University, in 1981. Shortly afterwards, I was appointed to a Lectureship in the Department of Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Liverpool, progressing to a Senior Lectureship in Genetics within the new School of Biological Sciences at Liverpool University in 1993. During this time, I was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship from the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, which was held at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine from 1987-1995. I was also elected to present the 1990 Balfour Lecture to the Genetics Society, an award that recognizes outstanding achievement by a young Geneticist.

My research interests are in molecular entomology, particularly the molecular genetics of mosquitoes that transmit human disease and their complex interactions with the parasites and viruses that cause disease. Because of their medical importance, the focus of my group is on the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae and the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Current projects include the development of technologies for genetic engineering of mosquitoes, the creation of genetically modified mosquitoes that are compromised in their ability to transmit disease and the development of strategies for stage- and tissue-specific gene expression within genetically modified mosquitoes. My research has attracted external funding of just under £4 million since 1982 and this has resulted in over 55 primary publications and 65 published abstracts. I am currently a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and a member of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, the British Society for Parasitology and the Genetics Society.

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