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Stone, Chris

Medical Entomologist

Address and Contact Information

Prairie Research Institute
Forbes Natural History Building
1816 S. Oak Street, M/C 652
Champaign, IL  61820
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Education

  • Ph.D., Entomology, Ohio State University, 2011
  • M.S., Population Biology, Wageningen University, 2004
  • B.S., Biology, Wageningen University, 2002

Research Biography

Selected Publications

CS Sutherland, CM Stone, P Steinmann, M Tanner & F Tediosi. 2017. Seeing beyond 2020: An economic evaluation of contemporary and emerging strategies for Trypanosoma brucei gambiense elimination. The Lancet Global Health 5: e69-e79.

CM Stone, N Chitnis & K Gross.  2016. Environmental influences on mosquito foraging and integrated vector management can delay the evolution of behavioral resistance. Evolutionary Applications 9: 502-517.

CM Stone & N Chitnis. 2015. Implications of heterogeneous biting exposure and animal hosts on Trypanosomiasis brucei gambiense transmission and control. PLoS Computational Biology 11: e1004514.

CM Stone, SW Lindsay & N Chitnis. 2014. How effective is integrated vector management against malaria and lymphatic filariasis where the diseases are transmitted by the same vector? PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 8: e3393.

CM Stone, BT Jackson & WA Foster. 2012. Effects of plant-community composition on the vectorial capacity and fitness of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 87: 727-736.

CM Stone, IM Hamilton & WA Foster. 2011. A survival and reproduction trade-off is resolved in accordance with resource availability by virgin female mosquitoes. Animal Behaviour 81: 765-774.

Research Interests

As director of the Medical Entomology Laboratory, my research interests include the impact of environmental change on mosquito-borne pathogen transmission and control; mosquito behavioral ecology and physiology; mathematical modelling of vector demography, population dynamics and pathogen transmission; integrated vector management.

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