Research Interests:

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• Oxford nanopore sequencing of pests and pathogens
  • Cassava Virus Action Project

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• Invasive species especially the Bemisia tabaci species complex and Cassava Brown Streak Disease.
  • ​​TED Blog

Bemisia tabaci (whitefly)

Click here for Bemisia tabaci COI dataset or here for our beta version

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• High performance computing
  

HPC story on Bemisia

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• Unbiased species delimitation
  

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• Food security-combining all of the above to increase food production around the world, especially Africa.
  

Scientists committed to helping smallholder farmers in Africa.

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Specific collaborative projects:

• B. tabaci systematics. 
• Cassava Brown Streak Disease whole genome sequencing and evolution.
• Global relationships of Diaphornia citri, Asian Citrus Psyllid.
• Nanopore sequencing on farmer's fields in east Africa