Frank Collins
George and Winifred Clark Professor of Biological Sciences
Office: 313 Galvin Life Science
Phone: 574-631-9245
Email: frank@nd.edu
Areas of Expertise
Malaria, bioinformatics, malaria transmission and control
Collins, the former director of the Eck Institute for Global Health, was one of the key figures in the 2002 sequencing of the genome of Anopheles gambiae, the primary mosquito species that transmits the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum to humans. The Collins laboratory also directs two other major malaria projects. One is a contract from the National Institutes of Health to develop and manage a Web-based bioinformatics resource center that provides scientists with access to all data related to the genomes of arthropod vectors. Collins’ other major research activity is directing the Malaria Transmission Consortium, a group of scientists at multiple research institutions who work on developing more effective ways to measure malaria transmission and use those measures to better assess the effectiveness of malaria control methods that target mosquito vectors. He has had his research published in a number of scholarly publications, including Science, Nature, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Genetics and many other scientific journals.
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