Background

Dr. Thipruethai Phanitchat is Lecturer in the Department of Medical Entomology. She is involved in research and teaching. She teaches M.Sc. and Ph.D. students at the Bangkok School of Tropical Medicine. She earned her B.Sc. in Medical Technology (first class honors, gold medal) from Huachiew Chalermprakiet University, Thailand and Ph.D. in Tropical Medicine (first class honors, gold medal) from Mahidol University. She was a post-doctoral researcher and project leader of DENGUE-INDEX, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.

Departments/Centers

• Medical Entomology

Research

Dr Thipruethai’s research expertise include vector control, epidemiology, and disease surveillance. She has a special interest in vector-borne diseases such as dengue. Examples of her research works comprise spatio-temporal analysis of dengue and seasonal variation and prediction model of dengue in Thailand. She has a broad background in principles and applications of Real-time PCR (Mastercycler ® ep realplex, Eppendorf) and primer design, and is experienced in population genetic analysis.

Ongoing Research Project(s)

Research Name	Funding Source
• Existence of insect growth regulator (pyriproxyfen) effecting to development of Aedes aegypti in the breeding containers with different water quality • การดำรงอยู่ของสารยับยั้งการเจริญเติบโตของแมลง (pyriproxyfen)ที่มีผลต่อการเจริญของลูกน้ำยุงลายบ้าน (Aedes aegypti) ในภาชนะที่เป็นแหล่งเพาะพันธุ์ที่มีสภาพน้ำแตกต่างกัน	ทุนส่งเสริมนักวิจัยรุ่นใหม่ (ทุนมหาวิทยาลัย)