Biography
I am a PhD candidate in the Insect Genetics and Evolution group, currently completing my thesis on the genomics of the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens.
Research
Insect genomics, insects as food and feed, vector biology, bioinformatics, population genetics, speciation and general entomology.
Publications
Reitmayer, C. M., Levitt, E., Basu, S., Atkinson, B., Fragkoudis R., Merits A., Lumley, S., Larner, W., Diaz, A. V., Rooney, S., Thomas, C. J. E., et al. 2023. "Mimicking superinfection exclusion disrupts alphavirus infection and transmission in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti." PNAS 120 (37):e2303080120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.23030801
Hugo, Leon E., Rašić, G., Maynard, A. J., Ambrose, L., Liddington, C., Thomas, C. J. E, et al. 2022. “Wolbachia wAlbB Inhibit Dengue and Zika Infection in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti with an Australian Background.” PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 16(10):e0010786. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010786
Pereira, R. J., Ruiz‐Ruano, F. J., Thomas, C. J. E., Pérez‐Ruiz, M., Jiménez Bartolomé, M., Liu S., Torre, J., and Bella, J. L., 2021. “Mind the numt: Finding Informative Mitochondrial Markers in a Giant Grasshopper Genome.” Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 59 (3): 635–45. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12446
Leftwich, Philip T., Spurgin, L. G., Harvey-Samuel, T., Thomas, C. J. E., Carabajal Paladino, L., Edgington, M.P., and Alphey, L. 2021. “Genetic Pest Management and the Background Genetics of Release Strains.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 376 (1818): 20190805. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0805
