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My Exploration on Improving Understanding of Mosquito Distributions to Improve Malaria Control

Kasey Cervantes  is a Junior majoring in Biology. He was awarded a Summer 2019 Independent Grant which he used to conduct research on Malaria under Dr. Helen Baker.  Figure 1 This summer I undertook research into mosquitoes associated with malarial transmission at the  Natural History Museum  (NHM)   in   London in collaboration  with the  Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , and the  Emory School of Nursing   (Figure 1) . Mosquitoes (Culicidae) are dipterans – True flies, which is one of the orders of insects, the scientific study of which is called  entomology .