Alumni

Lab Alumni

Former Harrington Lab Members

Sander

Sander Koenraadt joined the Harrington lab as a postdoc in February 2006. After working for 2.5 years in the tropical heat of Thailand as a postdoc in the Scott lab (University of California, Davis), he quickly adjusted to the cold, severe winters of Ithaca, New York. His research interests include the ecology of dengue and malaria vectors, disease control and the impact of climate change on public health.

Sander accepted a position at the University of Waginingen in March 2008. He maintains a personal website (in Dutch) with many pictures of his Thai and US adventures (www.sanderenwieteke.nl).

Wieteke Tuiten joined the lab in June 2006 as a research assistant. In 2001 she obtained her Masters degree at Wageningen University in The Netherlands in development economics. Before coming to the US, she lived in Thailand with her husband (Sander Koenraadt) for 2.5 years. There she did a study on what people know, think and do about dengue and the mosquitoes that transmit this disease. In Ithaca, she worked on a similar study concerning West Nile virus.

Wieteke moved to Wageningen in March 2008 with her husband, Sander, and daughter, Veerle.

Hong-Fei Gong received a B.S. from Zhejing University,China, then he became a research assistant at Biotechnology Institute of the same unversity. He went to Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technical University of Lisbon as a RA and then started his PhD study at Computer Engnieering Department of IST-UTL in 2001. He joined the lab in March 2006, where his research focused on WNV mosquito vector development. He collaborated with Dr. Art DeGeatano and Harrington on a an climate based population dynamic model. His research interests include simulation and modeling,computational biology, computational intelligence, artificial life, evolutionary algorithms, and bioInformatics.

In March 2008, Hongfei accepted a position at Oxitec in the United Kingdom, where he is a Senior Mathematical Modeler.

Alongkot Ponlawat or Boy as we know him, has just completed his M.S. under the guidance of Dr. Harrington in 2004 and his PhD in 2008. His research topics included blood feeding patterns and insecticide susceptibility of Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus in Thailand. His PhD research focused on mating biology and male reproductive success of Ae. aegypti.

Boy is originally from Trang, the southern part of Thailand. He graduated from the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. His senior project was Transovarial transmission of Chigger Mite, Leptotrombidium imphalum and L.chiengraiensis (vector of scrub typhus).

In February 2008, Boy accepted a position as Head of the Vector Biology section in the Department of Entomology, USAMC Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences in Thailand.

	Jonathan Darbro earned his PhD in 2007 from the Harrington Lab. Click here for more information on Jon's research while in the Harrington lab. Jon is now a post doctoral researcher at CISRO in Australia.
	Becky Poulson was a technician in the Harrington Lab from April 2004 to Dec.2006. After graduating from Cornell University in 2001 with a B.S. in Biology, Becky worked for several years as a technician in the ecology department studying diatom assemblages in the sediments of embayments along the shores of Lake Ontario. Her main responsibilities in the Harrington lab were just about everything, from undergraduate research counseling and PCR data analysis, to running ELISAs and maintaining mosquito colonies. Becky is now working at the University of Georgia and pursuing a MS degree in Public Health.

For a list on undergraduate alumni click here

For a list on undergraduate alumni click here