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Paul Airs
Fellow

Dr Paul Airs

Research Fellow

Contact
pma37@cam.ac.uk⁠
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Degrees

  • PhD in Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • BSc in Molecular Biology, University of Exeter

Research Interests

  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Host-parasite ecology
  • Gastrointestinal nematode parasites of livestock
  • Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
  • Vector-borne disease transmission and epidemiology
  • Molecular entomology
  • Molecular parasitology
  • Diagnostics of parasitic nematodes

Biography

Paul Airs is an Early Career Research Fellow at Â鶹ƵµÀ, visiting research fellow at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, and consultant molecular parasitologist for the National Sheep Association. Paul has broad research interests revolving around parasitic nematodes and arthropod vectors of disease (mosquitoes and ticks). Receiving a PhD in Comparative Biomedical Sciences in 2018 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying RNA interference in mosquitoes, his research has spanned from the small (spatial transcriptomics), to the large (livestock management trials in Southern Africa). His current research investigates the transformative impact of ‘sustainable’ parasite control approaches on rural livelihoods.

Authored work

  • Link to work 

     

    Relevant articles:

    Airs PM, Tinsley JHI, Mvula W, Ventura-Cordero J, Takahashi T, Nalivata P, van Wyk JA, Morgan ER, Safalaoh ACL (2024) Prevalence of Plastic and Hardware Foreign Bodies among Goats at Malawi Markets. Animals 14 (1), 147  

     

    Airs PM, Ventura-Cordero J, Safalaoh A, Mvula M, van Wyk J, Nalivata P, Takahashi T, Morgan ER. (2023) Goat health and management are critical to livelihood improvement in central Malawi smallholdings – a socioeconomic analysis of rural households. Small Ruminant Research 229, 107114  

     

    Airs PM, Ventura-Cordero J, Mvula M, van Wyk J, Nalivata P, Safalaoh A, Morgan ER. (2023) Low-cost molecular methods to characterise gastrointestinal nematode co-infections of goats in Africa. Parasites & Vectors 16 (1), 216  

     

    Brown T, Airs PM, Porter S, Caplat P, Morgan ER. (2022) Understanding the role of wild ruminants in anthelmintic resistance in livestock. Biology letters (Review)   

Subject
Veterinary Medicine