Biography:

Chryso Th. Pallari is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Nicosia Medical School. Dr Pallari holds a BSc (First-Class Honours degree) in Biological Sciences, and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cyprus. Her research interests are in the fields of epidemiology and infectious diseases. She is particularly interested in the epidemiology and extent of West Nile Virus (WNV) in Cyprus. Furthermore, she has extensive experience in the classification of mosquitoes and her research interests also cover the field of entomology, vector-borne infections, and statistics. She performed her diploma dissertation at the Tumour Viruses and Cancer laboratory, where she investigated the in vivo interaction of the HPV16 oncogenes and telomerase in mouse epithelium. Her PhD Thesis was then performed at the Behavioural Ecology and Evolution laboratory and investigated the epidemiology of WNV in its primary hosts and potential vectors in Cyprus. Her research findings represent the first demonstration of WNV in mosquitoes in Cyprus.