About
Gordana Rašić leads the Mosquito Genomics team in the Population Health Program at QIMR Berghofer MRI. She received her PhD in biology from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, in 2011, building an empirical landscape genetics model system using the pitcher plant insects. Since 2012, her work has been focused on the development and implementation of genomic-based tools for mosquito surveillance and control, focusing on the implementation of the Wolbachia-based replacement and suppression of arboviral vectors, and in recent years on the novel genetic-based strategies, including gene drives. Gordana has pioneered mosquito population genomics/ bioinformatics research in Australia and has collaborative projects with prominent researchers in the USA (UC Berkeley), France (Institut Pasteur), Singapore (National Environment Agency) and French Polynesia (Institut Louis Malardé). She serves as an Academic Editor at the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and a Content Advisor at The GeneConvene Virtual Institute, The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.
Research Skills
Genomics, bioinformatics, population genetics, spatial statistics, molecular biology
Area of Interest
Symbiont- and Genetics-based strategies to control mosquito-borne diseases; Population genomics and modelling for mosquito surveillance and control