Eric Lucas
LSTM
Dr. Eric Lucas received a BA in Natural Sciences (specialising in Zoology) from Cambridge in 2003 and obtained his PhD on the evolution of sociality in wasps from the University of Sussex in 2009. After this, he moved to the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, for a PostDoc investigating the transcriptional basis of ageing and lifespan in ants and then to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) to study the genomics of insecticide resistance in mosquitoes. He is currently part of the analysis team for the Anopheles gambiae 1000 Genomes (Ag1000G) project and the Vector Observatory, and a member of the Genomics for African Anopheles Resistance Diagnostics (GAARD) network. Dr. Lucas has worked extensively on copy number variants (CNVs) in Anopheles gambiae, and their importance in resistance to several operationally important insecticides. He has also carried out genome-wide association studies of insecticide resistance in several populations of Anopheles, discovering novel resistance-associated loci.