Tree health
Previous to starting at FR, Anastasia completed a BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences, with her dissertation focusing on the reproductive behaviours of the dragonfly, Orthetrum coerulescens. Her subsequent research work looked at the mating behaviours of wild Drosophila and working in an arthropod genetic group researching killer-rescue systems of Aedes aegypti.
Anastasia is an early-career entomology researcher with a strong interest in emerging invasive forest pests, microbial communities involved in pest-host interactions, and forest ecology. Anastasia joined Forest Research in 2022. She works as part of a collaborative research team focused on high-priority pests, including Agrilus planipennis (emerald ash borer, EAB) and Ips typographus. Her current work centres on assessing the resistance of UK treescapes to EAB.
Member of the Royal Entomological Society
Inward D, Vutz J, Thomas G, Barnard K, Caulfield J. C, Powers S. J, Uglow A and Reed K. (2025) Investigating the threat to Sitka spruce from Ips typographus: discrimination and colonization of Britain’s principal commercial conifer by a damaging forest pest. Pest Management Science. 81(1), 123-135 http://doi.org/10.1002/ps.8644
Reed K, Cole F, Audsley N, Uglow A, Down R, Barnard K and Inward D. (2025) Susceptibility of European Agrilus beetle species to the biocontrol agents of Emerald Ash Borer in the laboratory. Biological control. 200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2024.105678.
Carabajal Paladino LZ, Wilson R, Tng PYL, Dhokiya V, Keen E, Cuber P, Larner W, Rooney S, Nicholls M, Uglow A, Williams L, Anderson MAE, Basu S, Leftwich PT and Alphey L. (2023) Optimizing CRE and PhiC31 mediated recombination in Aedes aegypti. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 11:1254863. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2023.1254863
