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Dr Emma Warr

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Location: Huxley Building : 023
Role: Research Assistant
Dr Emma Warr

I completed my undergraduate degree in Biology and Geography here at Keele University in 2000. After spending a year working as a technician in a microbiology laboratory, I returned to Keele University to carry out a PhD under the supervision of Professor Hilary Hurd and Professor Paul Eggleston. Upon completion of my PhD in 2004, I spent 18 months working in the United States with Dr George Dimopoulos at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Here my research centered on mosquito immunity, with particular focus on the GNBP gene family of Anopheles gambiae. Using a combination of microarray, RNAi and protein studies Following my time in the US, I then spent 2.5 years working as a Senior Research Assistant at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine as part of the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC). Here my research focused on identifying genes, from both Anopheles gambiae and Aedes aegypti, which are involved in metabolic resistance to insecticides in mosquitoes. I returned to Keele University in September 2008 as a Post-doctoral Research Associate to work on a project which involves the genetic engineering of Anopheles gambiae so that the mosquito is unable to transmit the malaria parasite. This project is a collaboration between our laboratory at Keele University and the Malaria Research and Training Centre (MRTC) at the University of Bamako (Mali, Africa).

  • L. Baton, E. Warr, S. Hoffman and G. Dimopoulos, 2008. Programmed Cell Death during malaria parasite infection of the vertebrate host and mosquito vector. In: Programmed Cell Death in Protozoa, edited by Jose Manuel and Perez Martin, Landes bioscience, Springer.
  • E. Warr, S. Das, Y. Dong and G. Dimopoulos, 2008. The Gram-Negative Bacteria-Binding Protein gene family: Its role in the innate immune system of Anopheles gambiae and in anti-Plasmodium defence. Insect Molecular Biology, 17(1), 39-51.
  • E. Warr, R. Aguilar, Y. Dong, V. Mahairaki and G. Dimopoulos, 2007. Spatial and sex-specific dissection of the Anopheles gambiae midgut transcriptome. BMC Genomics, 8:37.