Phnom Penh 28-30 January 2020
Thanks to TICA support, the Entomology Unit at IPC continue to nurture important and deeply rooted relationships with the Department of Entomology at the Faculty of Agriculture, Kasetsart University, in Bangkok.
Prof. Theeraphap Chareonviriyaphap assisted by Miss Rungarun Tisgratog, Mr. Jirod Nararak and Mr. Manop Saeung conducted a 3-day refreshing session on taxonomy of mosquitoes at IPC. This training focused on Aedes, Culex, Mansonia and Toxorhynchites genus
This training was essential because the team of the Medical Entomology Unit at IPC is expanding to be able to address the development of activities through several projects.
Only for ECOMORE2 project, 56,000 mosquitoes from 11 genus and 60 species have been collected…it demonstrates the importance of building the capacity of junior entomologists to identify mosquitoes. Moreover The Medical Entomology Unit conduct other projects, PREEMPT project funded by the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), namely « Understanding Arbovirus Emergence and Changing the Approach to Intervention », a FSPI project funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on the development and implementation of a diagnostic tool for known and unknown emerging viruses of vector-borne diseases in Cambodia. The Institut Pasteur in Cambodia supports as well a study on the dynamic of vectors in Phnom Penh Municipality by collecting mosquitoes in 40 pagodas at periodic intervals. All these projects require strong capacity to identify mosquitoes.
On the other hand, in this perspective of development, Pierre-Olivier Maquart, PhD entomologist, has joined the team of the Medical Entomology Unit at IPC to work in the field to discover insects species still unknown to science, to better understand evolution and role of insects; taxonomy and identification are cornerstone for this specific work.
The Medical Entomology Unit will participate in the ICID Conference in Kuala Lumpur in February 2020 and in the ICTMM Symposium in Bangkok in September 2020 to present the studies completed in the framework of ECOMORE2 project.
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