Dorian Jackson

Dorian is a postdoctoral fellow studying vector control strategies to reduce the spread of Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes in Ethiopia. He received his bachelor’s degree in biology with an entomology minor from Virginia Tech, where he worked in an infectious disease ecology laboratory studying environmental factors that impact mosquito vector competence for LaCrosse virus. He also completed an MPH with a concentration in infectious disease and vaccinology from UC Berkeley. He received his PhD training in the Cell Biology department at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. At JHU, he studied tissue development in flies and mosquitoes to understand how the salivary gland is transcriptionally regulated to establish a specialized secretory organ. Before coming to Emory, Dorian was at the CDC as a Laboratory Leadership Service fellow working with the Global Neglected Tropical Diseases team within the Laboratory Science and Diagnostics Branch of the Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria.