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About Dr. Beccy Corkill

DR. BECCY CORKILL

Dr. Beccy Corkill

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Beccy [BEH-KEE] (she/her) is a tea-drinking, book-hoarding, animal-loving science writer. She has a PhD in Biological Science from the University of East Anglia, where she spent 4 years trying to determine the early sex genes in Bemisia tabaci (the mosquito of the plant world). A MSc in Molecular Biology of Parasites and Disease Vectors from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, where she spent a summer collecting mosquitoes for insecticide resistance research in Burkina Faso … just to find out she was allergic to mosquito bites. And a BSc in Human Biology and Forensic Science from Keele University. Now, this northerner spends her days with her 3 cats in a Suffolk-based cottage reading about science and trying out new hobbies.

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