Noboru Minakawa

Organization・Title
Department of vector ecology and environment, Institue of Tropical Medicine, Professor
Special field
Malaria and dengue vectors
Research themes
Developing an early warning system based on climate prediction, Ecology of malaria vectors, the effects of bed nets.

Science: logical thinkng

Recommended books

Faraway JJ (2006)
Extending the linear model with R : generalized linear, mixed effects and nonparametric regression models. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, 301 pp.

Homepage

http://www.tm.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/nekken/english/research/vector_ecology.html

personal history

1997 University of Washihngton PhD
2006 Institue of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki Univeristy

works/thesis

When they don't bite, we smell money: understanding bed net misuse. Parasitology 2003; Malaria vectors in Lake Victoria and adjecent habitats in western Kenya. PLoS One 2012.