Triatoma
infestans
I am currently a
researcher at the Bolivian
INLASA Institute,
in the Medical Entomology Laboratory.
I am conducting investigations on secondary vectors of the Chagas
Disease in Bolivia. In the same time, I study the resistance
to insecticides of Triatoma
infestans.
After studies in France, I obtained my doctorate in Biological Science, specialization in Ethology, at the Paris XIII University and at the Free University of Brussels, in 2003. During my Ph.D., I dedicated my work to the analysis of the gregariousness in ants, more particularly in Lasius niger, studying the dynamics and the mechanisms of this process.
Then, I worked in a European Project (LEURRE) to study the behaviour of aggregation in the cockroach Periplaneta americana, in order to discover the behavioural rules and then implement them in some small robots (Insbots) which mime the behaviour of cockroaches. The aim of this project was to integrate these insbots to the insect group, forming "mixed societies", and then try to control the insects by the insbots.
Furthermore, I enter in the medical entomology world by beginning a study in Bolivia on the assassin bug Triatoma infestans, studying their aggregation behaviour.
Enjoy your visit !
After studies in France, I obtained my doctorate in Biological Science, specialization in Ethology, at the Paris XIII University and at the Free University of Brussels, in 2003. During my Ph.D., I dedicated my work to the analysis of the gregariousness in ants, more particularly in Lasius niger, studying the dynamics and the mechanisms of this process.
Then, I worked in a European Project (LEURRE) to study the behaviour of aggregation in the cockroach Periplaneta americana, in order to discover the behavioural rules and then implement them in some small robots (Insbots) which mime the behaviour of cockroaches. The aim of this project was to integrate these insbots to the insect group, forming "mixed societies", and then try to control the insects by the insbots.
Furthermore, I enter in the medical entomology world by beginning a study in Bolivia on the assassin bug Triatoma infestans, studying their aggregation behaviour.
Enjoy your visit !
