As vector biologist at the Institute Pasteur in French Guiana for about 10 years, I had been working on topics related to mosquito vectors from transmission to control and mosquito adaptation. The various projects, […]
Cassandra Koh is a vector biologist and virologist seeking to understand what makes mosquitoes such successful vectors of arboviral diseases. The viruses that mosquitoes transmit are a great public health concern, especially in this […]
I am currently head of the Immunology Unit at Institut Pasteur du Cambodge and HHMI/Wellcome International Research Scholar. I am interested to unravel host immune responses to infectious diseases of high prevalence in South-East […]
EDUCATION University of Oregon Bachelor of Science, Biology (3.98 GPA) – 2013 EXPERIENCE Research Technician May 2017 – Present Institut Pasteur, Department of Genomes and Genetics, Louis Lambrechts Lab – Precise genome editing of Aedes […]
During my PhD I worked on interactions between mosquitoes and their viruses. My postdoc projects were mostly on virus discovery in diverse vertebrate and invertebrate hosts. I am currently a research engineer and my […]
I am currently leading the Insect Immunity & Infection group within the Virology Department and the Insect-Virus Interactions Unit. Our primary focus is to understand interactions between Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and the arboviruses they […]
My project is on the evaluation of the vector competence of mosquito populations Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus to Zika virus, an arbovirus which is emerging in Brazil. I also investigate the role of […]