Dr Marianne Sinka

Dr Marianne Sinka

Marianne Sinka is a medical entomologist with a specific interest in mosquito vectors of human malaria, in particular she examines the environmental drivers that limit different species’ distributions,  their behaviour relevant to disease transmission and how species’ relative abundance is affected by common control measures.

Marianne leads the Vector Atlas - building a data-hub that links African vector occurrence, bionomics and insecticide resistance data to provide a ‘one stop shop’ of up-to-date data and spatial models to inform malaria vector control strategies.

Marianne is also the Senior Postdoctoral researcher and Co-I of HumBug, a cross disciplinary project developing an acoustic mosquito sensor that can passively detect and identify host-seeking mosquitoes attracted to people sleeping in their homes.

She advises on the CEASE (Controlling emergent Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia and Sudan) project, is part of the GBIF task group on mobilsation and use of biodiversity data for research and policy on human diseases and provides data and expertise for the WHO Malaria Threat Map and the vector alert  for the invasion and spread of An. stephensi in Africa.

Selected Publications

Sinka, M. E., Zilli, D. Li, Y., Kiskin, I., Kirkham, D, Rafique, W., Wang, L., Chan, H., Gutteridge, B., Herreros-Moya, E., Portwood, H., Roberts, S. and Willis, K. J. (2021) HumBug – An Acoustic Mosquito Monitoring Tool for use on budget smartphones  Methods in Ecology and Evolution doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13663

Sinka, M. E., Pironon, S., Massey, N.C., Longbottom, J., Hemingway, J., Moyes, C. L., Willis, K. J. (2020) A new malaria vector in Africa: Predicting the expansion range of Anopheles stephensi and identifying the urban populations at risk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 117 (40) 24900-24908; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2003976117

Sinka, M.E., Golding, N., Massey, N.C., Wiebe, A., Huang, Z., Hay, S.I., Moyes, C.L. (2016) Modelling the relative abundance of the primary African vectors of malaria before and after the implementation of indoor, insecticide-based, vector control. Malaria Journal 15:142.

Massey, N.C., Garrod, G., Wiebe, A., Henry, A.J., Huang, Z., Moyes, C.L., Sinka, M.E. (2016) A global bionomic database for the dominant vectors of human malaria. Scientific Data 3: 160014.