Research

Major Departmental Research Project(s)
The Target Malaria research consortium, University of Oxford and Keele University, United Kingdom, in partnership with the University of Ghana, Department of Animal Biology and Conservation Science are running two projects aimed at enhancing product delivery towards the control of malaria mosquitoes.
These projects are titled as follows:
1. Anopheles gambiae ecological observatory study
2. Malaria mosquito rearing and male fitness study

1. Anopheles gambiae ecological observatory study
This component of the project is being done in collaboration with University of Oxford, U.K. and involves the setting up and operating of an “ecological observatory” to study the ecological consequences of suppressing or eliminating the major mosquito transmitting malaria in Africa (the Anopheles gambiae complex).
An ecological observatory here means a site where the relevant community of plants and animals has been sufficiently well characterised, making it possible to answer questions about the consequences of suppressing or eliminating the malaria vector An. gambiae.

2. Malaria mosquito rearing and male fitness study
This component of the project is being done in collaboration with the Keele University, U.K. and it is aimed at developing protocols for rearing, transport and release of malaria mosquitoes to ensure that any future mosquitoes that are developed as control tools are introduced into natural populations in an efficient manner to ensure their success. While the outcome of the project will inform the management of technics involving the release of male mosquitoes, the research is not being done with modified mosquitoes.

Major equipment

Scanning Electron microscope

Services 

Environmental Impact Assessments
Scanning Electron Microscopy