During her secondment at the University of Perugia, Marta Andrés received training in the generation of transgenic mosquitoes of public health relevance in Southern Europe, particularly Culex pipiens and Aedes albopictus. The knowledge and expertise acquired will be transferred to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), where these methodologies will be implemented to investigate the molecular basis of mosquito mating behaviour.
In addition, the secondment resulted in the development of an analytical pipeline for comparative transcriptomic analyses of hearing and mating processes across mosquito species. Particular attention was given to species-specific behavioural rhythms, enabling more robust cross-species comparisons and providing a framework for future studies of the molecular mechanisms underlying mosquito behaviour.
