MOSQUITO CONTROL & RESEARCH
UC Kearney Agricultural Center

ANTHONY J. CORNEL, Msc.Med., Ph.D.
 

Phone:  559-646-6556 or 6581
Fax:  559-646-6593
cornel@uckac.edu

ANTHONY J. CORNEL received his primary and undergraduate schooling in South Africa with a Bachelors of Science (majors in Botany and Zoology). During his final year he was inspired by Professor Hugh Paterson (then Zoology department chair, University of the Witwatersrand) to pursue a professional career in academics researching systematics of insects. After a further year of obtaining an honors degree in Zoology under Dr. Paterson, he worked with Dr. Peter Jupp and Professor Bob Swanepoel on arboviruses at the National Institute of Virology.  He completed a masters dissertation entitled “Effects of environmental temperature on the transmission of West Nile and Sindbis viruses in the mosquito Culex univittatus”.

Systematics of mosquitoes became his passion thereafter, and he worked as a research scientist with Richard Hunt and Maureen Coetzee in the Department of Medical Entomology at the South African Institute for Medical Research. He completed a PhD thesis entitled “The Biology and Systematics of some Culicine mosquitoes in South Africa”.  

In 1993, Dr. Cornel moved to the United States and worked as a Post Doctoral fellow under Dr. Frank Collins at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. While in Atlanta he learned skills in molecular biology and polytene chromosomes in Anopheles mosquitoes.

In August 1997, Dr. Cornel accepted a faculty position as assistant Professor and Entomologist in the Department of Entomology at UC Davis. This position requires balancing both basic and operational research to provide improved methods of controlling disease vector mosquitoes of California and elsewhere. His laboratory is located at an agricultural field station about 180 miles south of Davis and is known as the Mosquito Control Research Laboratory at Kearney Agricultural Center  (http://www.uckac.edu/).  

Dr, Cornel's research program focuses on the biology, molecular biology and population genetics of disease vectors with the intention of using this information to provide sustained methods for their control. All three of these disciplines are intertwined and for successful applications, Dr. Cornel expressly fosters collaborations with others of expertise that differ from his. 

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