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About Dr. Beccy Corkill

Dr. Beccy Corkill

Dr. Beccy Corkill

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About the Author

Beccy [BEH-KEE] (she/her) is a tea-drinking, book-hoarding, animal-loving science writer. She has a PhD in Biological Science from the University of East Anglia, where she spent 4 years trying to determine the early sex genes in Bemisia tabaci (the mosquito of the plant world). A MSc in Molecular Biology of Parasites and Disease Vectors from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, where she spent a summer collecting mosquitoes for insecticide resistance research in Burkina Faso … just to find out she was allergic to mosquito bites. And a BSc in Human Biology and Forensic Science from Keele University. Now, this northerner spends her days with her 3 cats in Derbyshire reading about science and trying out new hobbies.

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ACADEMIC HISTORY

Keele University , BSc Human Biology and Forensic Science , 2013

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine , MSc Molecular Biology of Parasites and Disease Vectors , 2014

University of East Anglia, MSc Molecular Biology of Parasites & Disease Vectors, 2020

TIME AT IFLSCIENCE

2022 - PRESENT

232 PUBLISHED ARTICLES

LOCATION

Suffolk

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Insects Parasites Genetics Reproductive Health Forensics
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