Dr. Sheena Francis is a senior research fellow at the Caribbean Centre for Research in Biosciences, in the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the West Indies Jamaica. Her research seeks to characterize insecticide resistance in mosquitoes and other insects. Her research explores novel applications to reduce the mosquito populations, such as, the use of secondary metabolites from plants as novel insecticides, boosting the survival of male mosquitoes for the success of Sterile Insect Technique, as well as exploring behavioural adaptative traits in mosquitoes to answer questions on mosquito population dynamics. Such understanding may lead to decrease mosquito population, which is essential to reduce diseases transmitted by these mosquitoes.

Current Students:

Miss Denielle Boothe
Project Title: Pilot Project Assessing Abiotic and Biotic Factors Influencing Mosquito Population Dynamics in Mona, Jamaica 

Mrs. Juliet Smith-Marshall
Project Title: Optimisation of Diets for Mass Rearing of Mosquitoes

Mrs. Deiondra Tia
Project Title: Transcriptomic Insights into Insecticide Resistance in Aedes aegypti from Kingston and St. Andrew, Jamaica