Andrea Gloria-Soria

Andrea Gloria-Soria has a background in population genetics and genomics, molecular biology, vector biology, evolutionary genetics, and arthropod genetics. She obtained her PhD from the Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston in 2009. She was a Gaylord Donnelley Environmental Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale from 2009-2011, working with Dr. Leo Buss on the allorecognition system of Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus. In 2012 she joined Dr. Jeffrey Powell’s lab as a postdoctoral scientist to work in population genetics of Aedes aegypti, transitioning to Associate Research Scientist in 2013. She joined the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in 2018 as an Assistant Agricultural Scientist I, where she is conducting research on how the genetic diversity of disease vectors influence their ability to transmit arboviruses, as part of the Northeast Region Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases, among other projects. She continues to be affiliated with Yale and the Powell lab as a Laboratory Associate and maintains strong collaborations. In the past, Andrea has also worked with Glossina fuscipes (tsetse flies), Lymantria dispar (gypsy moth), Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus (hydroid / snail fur), Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), and Procambarus clarkii (crayfish).