Cator, Lauren - Imperial College London - Department of Life Sciences, Biology, Ecology and Environmental Biology, Microbiology, Zoology

研究领域

Mosquito transmitted pathogens have an enormous impact of human health. A substantial amount of funding and resources are being spent to control the transmission of diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. In many ways this investment is paying off. Innovative and exciting new strategies and technologies have been developed to help combat these plagues. The next challenge we face is implementing these new tools effectively and sustainably to start to make a real impact on disease transmission. One of the key challenges to implementation of many of these new strategies is that we don't actually know very much about what mosquitoes actually do in the real world. My research aims to improve understanding of mosquito behavior and how behavior mediates interactions with other organisms, the parasites that they transmit, and the dynamic world that they live in. Current areas of research fall under two broad categories: the feeding behaviors of infected mosquitoes and mosquito mating behavior in aerial swarms.

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Cator LJ, Zacharo Z, Size, sounds, and sex: interactions between body size and harmonic convergence signals determine mating success in Aedes aegypti, Parasites and Vectors Cator LJ, Lynch PA, Thomas MB, Read AFet al., 2014, Alterations in mosquito behaviour by malaria parasites: potential impact on force of infection, Malaria Journal, Vol: 13, Pages: 164-164, ISSN: 1475-2875 Cator LJ, George J, Blanford S, Murdock CC, Baker TC, Read AF, Thomas MBet al., 2013, 'Manipulation' without the parasite: altered feeding behaviour of mosquitoes is not dependent on infection with malaria parasites, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Vol: 280, Pages: 20130711-20130711, ISSN: 0962-8452 Cator LJ, Thomas S, Paaijmans KP, Ravishankaran S, Justin JA, Mathai MT, Read AF, Thomas MB, Eapen Aet al., 2013, Characterizing microclimate in urban malaria transmission settings: a case study from Chennai, India, Malaria Journal, Vol: 12, Pages: 84-84, ISSN: 1475-2875 Paaijmans KP, Cator LJ, Thomas MB, 2013, Temperature-Dependent Pre-Bloodmeal Period and Temperature-Driven Asynchrony between Parasite Development and Mosquito Biting Rate Reduce Malaria Transmission Intensity, PLoS ONE, Vol: 8, Pages: e55777-e55777 Cator LJ, Lynch PA, Read AF, Thomas MBet al., 2012, Do malaria parasites manipulate mosquitoes?, Trends in Parasitology, Vol: 28, Pages: 466-470, ISSN: 1471-4922 Das A, Anvikar AR, Cator LJ, Dhiman RC, Eapen A, Mishra N, Nagpal BN, Nanda N, Raghavendra K, Read AF, Sharma SK, Singh OP, Singh V, Sinnis P, Srivastava HC, Sullivan SA, Sutton PL, Thomas MB, Carlton JM, Valecha Net al., 2012, Malaria in India: The Center for the Study of Complex Malaria in India, Acta Tropica, Vol: 121, Pages: 267-273, ISSN: 0001-706X Cator LJ, Ng'Habi KR, Hoy RR, Harrington LCet al., 2010, Sizing up a mate: variation in production and response to acoustic signals in Anopheles gambiae, Behavioral Ecology, Vol: 21, Pages: 1033-1039, ISSN: 1045-2249 Cator LJ, Arthur BJ, Harrington LC, Hoy RRet al., 2009, Harmonic Convergence in the Love Songs of the Dengue Vector Mosquito, Science, Vol: 323, Pages: 1077-1079, ISSN: 0036-8075