Amy Guy is the Test Facility Manager of the Liverpool Insect Testing Establishment. She joined the Liverpool Insect Testing Establishment as a Study Director in 2020 and completed a PhD on mosquito behaviour in 2022. She also holds a BSc (Hons) in Biology and management from the University of Leeds and an MSc in the Biology and Control of Parasites and Disease Vectors from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM).
After working as a medical laboratory assistant in the NHS for two years, Amy joined LSTM in 2014. She worked as a technician for Liverpool Insect Testing Establishment and then as a diagnostic dose technician in the vector department before moving to a research assistant post in Dr Philip McCall’s group in 2017. She began her PhD in the Vector Biology department in 2017, with her project focusing on the effects of insecticidal bed nets on insecticide susceptible and resistant mosquito host seeking and blood feeding behaviour.
In her role as Test Facility Manager she is responsible for the organisation and operation of the facility, ensuring it functions according to good laboratory practice principles.