DrMaraLawniczak

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences

Honorary Lecturer

Contact

+44 (0)20 7594 3002m.lawniczak Website

Location

Sir Alexander Fleming BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

Summary

Please note, I joined the Sanger Institute as a group leader in November 2014.

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/research/faculty/mlawniczak/

My group is using GWAS (genome wide association studies) to explore the genetic basis of a variety of phenotypes relating to vector biology with a focus on the genetic basis of mosquito susceptibility to human malaria. We are also exploring the intersection of mating/sex and immunity in mosquitoes. Our research is funded by the MRC.

This link to PubMed lists my publications.

My interests include anything related to evolutionary genetics, population genetics/genomics, anopheles, plasmodium, sexual conflict, sexual selection, host-parasite antagonistic coevolution, genetic conflict, evolvability, drosophila, cephalopods & nepenthes.

Brief CV:

University of Michigan: Undergraduate in Biology with High Honors

University of California at Davis: PhD in Population Biology with David Begun

University College London: Postdoc with Tracey Chapman

Imperial College London: Postdoc with Fotis Kafatos and George Christophides

MRC Career Development Research Fellow (2012-2016)

Publications

Journals

Fontaine MC, Pease JB, Steele A, et al.Fontaine MC, Pease JB, Steele A, Waterhouse RM, Neafsey DE, Sharakhov IV, Jiang X, Hall AB, Catteruccia F, Kakani E, Mitchell SN, Wu Y-C, Smith HA, Love RR, Lawniczak MK, Slotman MA, Emrich SJ, Hahn MW, Besansky NJ close, 2015, Extensive introgression in a malaria vector species complex revealed by phylogenomics, Science, Vol:347, ISSN:0036-8075

Stathopoulos S, Neafsey DE, Lawniczak MKN, et al.Stathopoulos S, Neafsey DE, Lawniczak MKN, Muskavitch MAT, Christophides GK close, 2014, Genetic dissection of anopheles gambiae Gut epithelial responses to serratia marcescens, Plos Pathogens, Vol:10, ISSN:1553-7366, Pages:1-19

White BJ, Lawniczak MKN, Cheng C, et al.White BJ, Lawniczak MKN, Cheng C, Coulibaly MB, Wilson MD, Sagnon N, Costantini C, Simard F, Christophides GK, Besansky NJ close, 2011, Adaptive divergence between incipient species of Anopheles gambiae increases resistance to Plasmodium, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol:108, ISSN:0027-8424, Pages:244-249

Lawniczak MKN, Emrich SJ, Holloway AK, et al.Lawniczak MKN, Emrich SJ, Holloway AK, Regier AP, Olson M, White B, Redmond S, Fulton L, Appelbaum E, Godfrey J, Farmer C, Chinwalla A, Yang S-P, Minx P, Nelson J, Kyung K, Walenz BP, Garcia-Hernandez E, Aguiar M, Viswanathan LD, Rogers Y-H, Strausberg RL, Saski CA, Lawson D, Collins FH, Kafatos FC, Christophides GK, Clifton SW, Kirkness EF, Besansky NJ close, 2010, Widespread Divergence Between Incipient Anopheles gambiae Species Revealed by Whole Genome Sequences, Science, Vol:330, ISSN:0036-8075, Pages:512-514

Neafsey DE, Lawniczak MKN, Park DJ, et al.Neafsey DE, Lawniczak MKN, Park DJ, Redmond SN, Coulibaly MB, Traore SF, Sagnon N, Costantini C, Johnson C, Wiegand RC, Collins FH, Lander ES, Wirth DF, Kafatos FC, Besansky NJ, Christophides GK, Muskavitch MAT close, 2010, SNP Genotyping Defines Complex Gene-Flow Boundaries Among African Malaria Vector Mosquitoes, Science, Vol:330, ISSN:0036-8075, Pages:514-517

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