Past post-docs and grad students
Rachel Althoff – MSc student
Rachel is an insect fanatic through and through and self-proclaimed to have taken care of beetles in her barbie house as a kid. Her MSc work focused on comparing CDC bottle assays, WHO tube tests and topical application bioassays and she graduated with an impressive two peer-reviewed publications from the lab.
Rebecca Smith Aguasca Laboratory manager
Rebecca is the savior of the lab. She has been the one doing all the heavy lifting of getting us started at ASU. Rebecca is responsible for the day-to-day smooth sailing of the lab, performs a large variety of molecular assays in the lab and in addition is heading a project on novel antimalarial resistance surveillance tools.
Smita Das Post-doc (co-supervised by Krijn Paaijmans)
Smita holds the dubious honor of first post-doc in the Huijben lab. She is a field work veteran. Smita currently works on the heterogeneity of insecticide resistance in mosquitoes in southern Mozambique.
Alice Namias
MSc student – Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris
Alice has been the lab’s pioneer in exploring our new field site in Guyana. In her master project she is working on insecticide resistance surveillance in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Georgetown, Guyana as well as analyzing the meaning of insecticide bioassays for intervention programs. Currently doing her PhD in Montpellier!
Mara Maquina Junior entomologist, CISM
Mara is our insecticide resistance expert overseas. She carries out all insecticide resistance bioassays for mosquitoes from both Magude and Manhiça districts (southern Mozambique), using WHO tube assays and the CDC bottle assays.