Witness Ramashia (PhD)
Office: TIG / 2.42
Tel.: +49 641/99-35904
Justus Liebig University Giessen
Institute for Insect Biotechnology, Department of Insect Biotechnology in Plant Protection
Winchester Str. 2
35394 Giessen
Curriculum Vitae
|
|
|
|
2025-to date
|
Ph.D. researcher
at the Department for Insect Biotechnology in Plant Protection, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany.
|
| 2023-2025 |
Research Fellow, Insect Pest Control Laboratory, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Austria |
| 2023 |
Laboratory Supervisor, Wits Health Consortium, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa
|
| 2022 | Medical laboratory Technician, Wits Health Consortium, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa |
|
2020-2021
|
Medical Technologist, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) (NextGen Health), South Africa |
|
2017-2022 |
Medical Technologist, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) (NextGen Health), South Africa
MSc (Medicine), University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences, Parktown, South Africa. Master Thesis: Transcription analysis of an immune factor in the main African malaria vector, Anopheles funestus |
|
2018
|
Academic Intern, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of the Witwatersrand, School of Therapeutic Sciences, South Africa |
|
2011-2016
|
Bachelor of Science with Honors in Genetics and Developmental Biology. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. BSc (Hons) thesis: Molecular Characterization of Insecticide resistance in main African Malaria vector Anopheles gambiae s.s from Côte d’Ivoire. |
Ph.D. Project
Developing genetic sexing for mosquito vector control in Aedes species. My PhD is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The objective of the project is to develop and evaluate genetic sexing systems based on temperature sensitive lethal mutations for species-specific mosquito control within the framework of the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) in Aedes aegypti.