Population Replacement Strategies for Controlling Vector Populations and the Use of Wolbachia pipientis for Genetic Drive

So my name's Dr.Jason Rascon. I'm an assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, and also in the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. And I'm broadly interested in the relationship between the genetics of vector populations and the epidemiology of vector-borne Pathogens.

So malaria Is the most important vector-borne disease in the world today. It's a huge killer. It kills, the stats vary somewhere between one and 3 million people per year.