Re-visiting an old question: can black soldier fly outcompete houseflies?
Examining inter-specific competition between ‘filth flies’ – flies whose larvae are found in excrement, decaying vegetable matter, rotting meat or… Read more »
Research Fellow at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Ailie is interested in the biology and ecology of medically important insects, and exploiting aspects of this for novel methods of monitoring and control. She currently studies Musca sorbens flies for trachoma control on the Stronger SAFE project.
Latest posts by Ailie Robinson (see all)
- Re-visiting an old question: can black soldier fly outcompete houseflies? - 24th January 2020
- Malaria mosquito crosses large desert – ‘it was a breeze’ - 13th December 2019
- Sick’s scent - 27th April 2018
Malaria mosquito crosses large desert – ‘it was a breeze’
Evidence for large-scale dispersal of malaria mosquitoes across the Sahel comes from balloon sampling
Sick’s scent
Characteristic skin odour associated with malaria is attractive to mosquitoes
Can blindness be spread by flies?
The transmission routes of trachoma, a blinding eye disease, are still not fully understood. Some evidence points towards transmission by a disease vector -… Read more »
Scoping out a novel tool for public engagement
An origami microscope: built by cleverly folding a single sheet of A4 card.
Evidence mounts that Zika virus causes foetal abnormalities
One year ago the transmission of Zika Virus was first described in Brazil. Five months later an increase in microcephaly in new-borns was reported, but only… Read more »
Smells like (turpen)-teen spirit: do malaria-infected humans smell like plants to mosquitoes?
Kelly and co-authors detected terpenes in the headspace gas that they sampled over cultures of P. falciparum.
Home Leone: Experiences from a diagnostic laboratory in an Ebola Treatment Centre
I recently returned from a five-week deployment to Port Loko, Sierra Leone, where I was working as a diagnostic laboratory staff member in an Ebola treatment… Read more »