Description: Dr. Sheena Francis is a zoologist and senior research fellow at the Caribbean Centre for Research in Biosciences, in the Faculty of Science and Technology, The University of the West Indies, Mona 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