My name is Dr. Angela Priestman and I'm the subject lead for biology and biomedical
sciences here at Staffordshire University it's
scheduled for World Malaria Day 
on the 25th April. And I've called it Mosquitoes on the rampage
and although the focus of the day
world malaria day is obviously on malaria and its transmission the focus of my
lecture is really to look at mosquitoes and their biology and the 
latest scientific developments.
With respect to controlling mosquitoes and their transmission of malaria
and in fact as part of world malaria day and for the millenium
development goals as well which is the
which the world health organization
have identified
they have a target to reduce malaria transmissions
and the incidents of malaria by 75%
by 2015, progress is good but it could be better of course
So it's very important that we focus on the control of the vectors of the mosquitoes as well
as looking at the control and the
treatment of the parasite, the malaria parasite
itself
I mean it's a very exciting time, obviously we've got all of the genetic 
technologies that are
you know as tools now so we can sequence the
genes for all these vectors and
the parasites that they carry and I think there amongst
the genetic information is really the answer to how we're going to be able to
control these things in the future. So I think it's a very exciting time to be
 studying these sorts of
parasites and
the vectors that transmit them
so it's a great time to be in science
