Michael Wells

Department of Biomedical Sciences

Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine

Michael Wells

Dr. Wells earned his B.S. in Biology at The College of Idaho, then a Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the University of Michigan. While at Michigan, he uncovered the molecular mechanism of hermaphrodite X chromosome gene regulation in the model organism C. elegans, and he earned a CRLT Graduate Teaching Certificate. Dr. Wells then completed postdoctoral training and worked as a Research Associate at Johns Hopkins University, applying Molecular Biology research methods to study mosquito salivary glands as a target organ for novel strategies to prevent pathogen transmission to people.

Dr. Wells completed a Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship and has successfully mentored research trainees numerous times, leading to conference poster presentations and multiple co-authorships in published studies. While in Maryland, Dr. Wells also completed a Teaching Fellowship at Towson University and served as an Adjunct Professor there for three years teaching Introductory Biology for non-majors and a graduate-level seminar course. Dr. Wells has been lead or co-author on many published research articles, has an interest in mining high-throughput genomic data sets, and continues to pursue research projects related to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases.

Publications

Effective Oral RNA Interference (RNAi) Administration to Adult Anopheles gambiae Mosquitoes

1Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Entomology Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2Department of Entomology, Cornell University, 3Centro de Estudios en Biotecnologia, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, 4Department of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 5Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 6Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Malaria Research Institute, 7Department of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 8Biomedical Sciences Department, Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine

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