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Tibebu Habtewold Division of Cell & Molecular Biology South Kensington Campus, SAF London, SW72AZ UK t.habtewold[at]imperial.ac.uk

Medical and Veterinary Entomologist Education 2000-2004 PhD in Medical and Veterinary Entiomology, the University of Greenwich, NRI, UK 1998/2000 MSc in International Animal Health at the University of Edinburgh, CTVM, UK 1988-1893 Doctor of the Degree of Veterinary Medicine at the Addis Ababa University, FVM, Ethiopia

Current Research Interests I am a Research Assistant/postdoctoral fellow in the Kafatos/Christophides Lab at Imperial College, London.

Publications Habtewold T, Povelones M, Blagborough AM, Christophides GK. TTransmission blocking immunity in the malaria non-vector mosquito Anopheles quadriannulatus species A. PLoS Pathog. 2008 May 23;4(5):e1000070. Habtewold T, Prior A, Torr SJ, Gibson G. Could insecticide-treated cattle reduce Afrotropical malaria transmission? Effects of deltamethrin-treated Zebu on Anopheles arabiensis behaviour and survival in Ethiopia. Med Vet Entomol. 2004 Dec;18(4):408-17. Habtewold T, Walker AR, Curtis CF, Osir EO, Thapa N. The feeding behaviour and Plasmodium infection of Anopheles mosquitoes in southern Ethiopia in relation to use of insecticide-treated livestock for malaria control. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2001 Nov-Dec;95(6):584-6.