Dr. Frank Jiggins

Biography

Frank Jiggins joined the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge in 1996 as a PhD student and later as a junior research fellow. In 2003, he moved to the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Edinburgh where he worked as a Wellcome Trust Fellow and a Royal Society Research Fellow. He returned to Cambridge in 2009 to take up a university lectureship in the Department of Genetics. His research is focused on Evolutionary Genetics, with particular interest in the genetics of host-parasite interactions. His lab studies the evolutionary genetics of various hosts and their parasites, primarily using Drosophila and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes as model organisms. He investigates the genetic basis of variation in susceptibility to infections and how natural selection shapes host and parasite genomes. Jiggins is also involved in research that addresses critical questions about the transmission of human disease by mosquitoes.

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