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Biography
Chris Jones is a Senior Lecturer and Entomologist at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) with experience of working with several insect pests of agriculture and human disease.
His research experience includes projects investigating insecticide resistance, transcriptomics and migration biology. Chris held a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Future Leader Fellowship and previously led the Vector Biology group at Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme in Malawi. He is co-lead of the National Institute for Health and Care Research Global Health Research Group project, Shire-Vec, that seeks to understand the interaction between irrigation and vector-borne disease in an area subject to significant change.
Chris is a supervisor of PhD students, active mentor of early career researchers, Associate Editor of Medical & Veterinary Entomology and a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.
Research interests
Currently, Chris’s primary research interests are in the field ecology of mosquitoes. In particular, he is interested in mosquito migration and dispersal – applying different methods to understand this fascinating behaviour. To do this, he is investigating the ecology salt marsh mosquitoes in the UK as a case study as part of a UK Research and Innovation/Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs project.
Chris is also interested in the population ecology of disease vectors and how this relates to land use. This is the subject of his most recent projects based in Malawi. Strengthening the resilience against sleeping sickness (funded by the Medical Research Council), and Controlling Vector Borne Diseases in Emerging Agricultural Systems in Malawi, Shire-Vec (funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research).
Teaching
Chris leads a module on Vector Biology as part of Masters degree teaching at LSTM. He also supervises PhD students in the area of vector ecology.
Themes
- Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Innovation to Impact: Therapeutics, Diagnostics, Vaccines
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 15 Life on Land
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Repeated biannual cross-sectional surveys in primary schools set baseline seasonal and spatial surveillance for malaria and schistosomiasis in the Shire Valley Transformation Programme (SVTP), Malawi
Kapolo, P., Chiepa, B., Mbewe, R. B., Kapumba, B., Kambewa, E., Kaunga, L., Coleman, S., Chirombo, J., Mzilahowa, T., Jones, C. M., Stanton, M. C. & Russell Stothard, J., 9 Jan 2026, In: Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases. 9, 100350.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A first report of Biomphalaria pfeifferi in the Lower Shire Valley, Southern Malawi, a major intermediate snail host species for intestinal schistosomiasis
Nkolokosa, C., Mbewe, R., Chirombo, J., Stanton, M., Jones, C., Makaula, P., Namacha, G., Chiepa, B., Kalonde, P., Baluwa, C., Zembere, K., Kambewa, E., Kaonga, C. C., Archer, J., Juhasz, A., Cunningham, L., Tangena, J.-A. & Stothard, J. R., 15 Feb 2025, In: Scientific Reports. 15, 1, p. 5603 5603.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mapping waste piles in an urban environment using ground surveys, manual digitization of drone imagery, and object based image classification approach.
Kalonde, P., Mwapasa, T., Mthawanji, R., Chidziwisano, K., Morse, T., Torguson, J. S., Jones, C., Quilliam, R. S., Feasey, N., Henrion, M., Stanton, M. & Blinnikov, M. S., 11 Mar 2025, In: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 197, 4, p. 374 374.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Predicting current habitat suitability for intermediate snail hosts of urogenital and intestinal schistosomiasis in the Lower Shire Valley floodplain of southern Malawi
Nkolokosa, C., Chirombo, J., Jones, C., Mbewe, R. B., Kambewa, E., Makaula, P., Tangena, J.-A. & Stothard, R., 29 Aug 2025, In: Parasites & Vectors. 18, 1, 368.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The migratory behaviour of salt marsh mosquitoes: Revisiting the evidence
Jones, C. M., Reynolds, D. R., Wipf, N. C., Chapman, J. W. & Lehmann, T., 23 Oct 2025, In: Medical and Veterinary Entomology. 40, 2, p. 215-220 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial