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Raja Babu Kushwah
- Postdoctoral Research Associate - Dr. Zach Adelman
- Office:
- HPCT 415
College Station - Email:
- [email protected]
- Resume/CV
Education
- Undergraduate Education
- B.S. Biology, Maharishi Dayanand University
- Graduate Education
- M.S. Biotechnology, Barakatullah University
- Ph. D. Life Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University
Areas of Expertise
- Vector Control
- Insecticide resistance
- Genetic control tool development
Professional Summary
Raja Babu Kushwah, Ph. D., is postdoctoral research associate in the Texas A&M University, department of Entomology. His research interests to study mosquitoes and the infections spread them globally and how this can be stopped or at least to develop interventions. His work with field populations of Aedes aegypti in India to show high resistance among this vector. He worked at University of California San Diego and used technology developed in Prof. Ethan Bier’s lab to show the proof of principle in Drosophila melanogaster to revert the insecticide susceptibility in the knockdown resistant (kdr) mutants. Presently at Prof. Adelman’s lab he is working towards making the gene drives biodegradable.