Marion Morris has been a member of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) staff since 2006 and had the opportunity to work on a wide and interesting variety of projects alongside many different individuals and groups within the Vector Department. She is currently employed as a Research Technician on the Insecticide Resistance Prediction Platform aiming for a more pro-active approach to understanding and managing the threat of vector borne diseases under the guidance of Dr. Hanafy M. Ismail.

Marion is primarily involved in measuring increasing and new emerging insecticide resistance in different regional mosquito populations with the aim of developing next-generation technologies in malaria vector control. She rears and has established multiple mosquito colonies within LSTM performing lab assays looking at uptake, break-down and metabolism of new and novel insecticides and the genetic mutations and up-regulation of enzymes conferring these advantages. She has been involved in long-lasting insecticidal net and next generation long-lasting insecticidal net studies performing a range of World Health Organisation assays and particularly enjoyed performing mosquito dissections. Marion is also very interested in the study and effect of the mosquito microbiome on its ability to survive and transmit disease and assisted in early research on this topic under the guidance or Dr. V. Ingham and Dr D.Weetman. Marion also worked alongside J.Krzywinski using genetically modified mosquito crosses for the study of the doublesex gene and juvenile hormone knock-out on male sterility as a method of vector control.

Marion often assists in training new members of staff, students and visitors in basic insectary and laboratory techniques.