Expertise: Mosquito biology and ecophysiology, specifically how mosquitoes thrive in the environments that they inhabit across all life stages (larvae, pupae, adults) and across seasonal and climatic gradients, and how anthropogenic climate change and pollution influence their success.
As a comparative animal physiologist, Andrea Durant is broadly interested in the basic architecture of larval and adult mosquitoes that makes them so successful across the most peculiar and/or extreme environments. These curiosity-driven questions stem from her upbringing in the Virgin Islands (U.S. and British) where she’s long observed mosquitoes breeding in both polluted sewage in septic systems as well as in seawater mangrove forests!
