Caroline Wanjiku Kung'u

<p><strong>Research project title:</strong>&nbsp; Development of surveillance tools for males of select Afrotropical disease vectors.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Research goals:</strong> her research is focused on exploiting mosquito-plant interactions for development of surveillance and/or control tools for arbovirus and malaria vectors.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Supervisors:</strong>&nbsp; Prof. Baldwyn Torto, Dr. David Tchouassi (<em>icipe</em>) and Prof. Catherine Sole, Prof. Christian Pirk (university of pretoria)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Bio:</strong> Caroline joined ICIPE in 2011 as a DRIP MSc. Scholar to work on semio-chemicals&nbsp; &nbsp;in the &nbsp;&nbsp;tri-trophic interaction between the cashew tree, a heteropteran pest and its natural enemy. In 2013, after obtaining her MSc.&nbsp; she moved to human health research where she worked as a research assistant in&nbsp; &nbsp;a collaborative project between ICIPE and partners from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (<em>ETH-Zurich</em>) looking to unravel signature odor markers of malaria infections in humans. She holds an MSc.&nbsp; in Biochemistry and a BSc. In Zoology both from Kenyatta University, Kenya<strong>.</strong></p>