Annie J. Forster

COSMOS integrates vector-pathogen metagenomics to monitor mosquito-borne diseases, detecting pathogens and mosquito communities in field samples with high accuracy.

This study evaluates how k-mer based tools affect abundance estimation in metagenomic data with closely related references, showing differential performance based on sample-reference distance and reference similarity.

The paper investigates how geographical variation influences the adaptive evolution of Plasmodium falciparum mutations that counteract sickle cell trait protection.

The paper identifies ultra-conserved sequences in Anopheles mosquito genomes and suggests their potential use as targets for gene drive-based malaria control.