Marco Neira, PhD.
     

Biology, Physiology, and Control of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of medical interest

    Education: 

• 2013 - 2015. Postdoctoral fellow Fogarty International Center (National Institutes of Health), D43 Training Grant.
• 2009 - 2010. Postdoctoral fellow. Vector Group. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
• 2005 - 2009. Postdoctoral fellow.The Whitney Laboratory. University of Florida, St. Augustine, Florida.
• 2005. PhD. in Biological Sciences. Ohio University, OH, USA.
• 2001. Master in Arts. International Development Affairs – Health Concentration. Ohio University, OH, USA.
• 1999. Bachelor in Biology. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. 

  Current position:  

• Adjunct researcher to the group of Dr. Anita Villacís. 

  Recent publications: 

• Sippy, R., Rivera, G.E., Sanchez, V., ... and Neira, M. (2020). Ingested insecticide to control Aedes aegypti: developing a novel dried attractive toxic sugar bait device for intra-domiciliary control. Parasites Vectors 13, 78. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-3930-9

• Pilaquinga, F., Morejón, B., Ganchala, D., Morey, J., Piña, N., Debut, A. & Neira M. (2019). Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using Solanum mammosum L. (Solanaceae) fruit extract and their larvicidal activity against Aedes aegypti L. (Diptera: Culicidae). PLOS ONE 14(10): e0224109. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224109

• Mordecai, E. A., Caldwell, J. M., Grossman, M. K., Lippi, C. A., Johnson, L. R., Neira, M., Rohr, J. R., Ryan, S. J., Savage, V., Shocket, M. S., Sippy, R., Stewart Ibarra, A. M., Thomas, M. B. and Villena, O. (2019), Thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease. Ecol Lett. doi:10.1111/ele.13335

• Ryan, S., Mundis, S., Aguirre, A., Lippi, C., Beltrán, E., Heras, F., Stewart-Ibarra, A., Neira, M. 2019. Seasonal and geographic variation in insecticide resistance in Aedes aegypti in southern Ecuador. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 13(6): 00007448

• Morejón, B., Pilaquinga, F., Domenech, F., Ganchala, D., Debut, A., & Neira, M. (2018). Larvicidal Activity of Silver Nanoparticles Synthesized Using Extracts of Ambrosia arborescens (Asteraceae) to Control Aedes aegypti L. (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal Of Nanotechnology, 1-8

Libros

• Anita G. Villacís, Fabián E. Sáenz, Marco V. Neira, Mario J. Grijalva. 2018. Ecosalud en las enfermedades transmitidas por vectores: Chagas, Dengue y Malaria. Tercer tomo (Ciencia de la Salud). La Medicina Ecuatoriana en el siglo XXI. Academia Ecuatoriana de Medicina Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Corporación Editora Nacional, editor Jaime Breilh.

  Orcid:  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8068-5772 

                  ReseachGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marco_Neira