So I definitely want to thank you so much and for what he just said because sometimes

we do conferences and you never know what the impact of conferences do or what the impact

of workshops do.

I mean, I'm myself, I'm a graduate from the University of Booyah, but when I came to the

U.S. and got my PhD, I thought, what is the best, I feel like UB gave me so much, developed

the foundation of who I am today and how could I give back. But of course you need a partner

to do that and Okonga has been that wonderful partner. I will work together, throw this

out. And that first workshop as you're talking about was really one of the workshops we did.

And I'm really happy because sometimes it's like you plant a seed, you never know what

happens, right? You just throw it out and you go. But I think that's what we can do,

always plant the seeds and what happens. It's for the next set of people to see. But thank

you so much. And I'm really happy to be able to give this talk. And I want to share a little

bit some of the things we've been working on that concerns malaria. We've really spent

a good amount of time looking at the facets, what makes malaria what it is and what are

all the contributing factors. So my talk today is titled, A Multistage Mosquito Centered

Mathematical Model for Malaria, which accounts for musculoskeletal psychocontributions. So

I definitely want to acknowledge this is work that has been going on. And I should have

actually had to do it on this too because he did some aspects of this whole mosquito

stuff. But it really was an idea that's pioneered by Dr. Mbua talking about. Let's put focus

on mosquitoes, right? And throughout, we've done different work with Dr. Mbua, who is

at U of Florida, Dr. Mbua, who is at the University of Boer, Dr. Eve.

Are you changing your slide already? Maybe?

Okay, hold on. Let me see.

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I think I know what it is. So yes. Now you see it. So it should be changed.

Oh, exactly. Now we can see it.

Okay. And let me see if I can hide this. Okay. And so then we have Dr. Terence Wanca and

Professor Banasiak in South Africa and Wafiki in South Africa as well. And this is, this

accumulation of talks that come from various papers, Panya with Dr. Mbua's 2006 paper on

mosquito dynamics. And then we also have, Claudon has some of the things he said in

his manuscript really incited some of the work that we've been looking at as well. And

then some work that we have done moving forward.

So I'll start with a little introduction and then I'll talk about a simple mosquito demographic

model from the 2006 paper that I mentioned from Dr. Mbua here. Then the role of gonotrophic

cycles in the malaria model will focus on mosquito demography and then talk conclusion

and discussion. So I really want to drive in this idea of gonotrophic cycles.

So indirectly transmitted diseases involve interaction among various population groups.

Malaria is an indirectly transmitted disease. Instead it involves interaction between three

components. The three population groups really, you have the parasite, you have the human,

and you have the mosquito. The parasite is a disease-causing agent, but it's a living

organism. The human, of course, is always the ways that everybody's fighting. We want

to save, right? That's not what we want to save. But the mosquito is an integral part

of this. It's the agent that is responsible for transmitting that parasite. So if you

want to think about it, you have three interacting... interact, drive this malaria disease into

the society in the system. But think of it this way. You have a human component, you

have a mosquito component. The parasite lives in both the human and the host. So for the

malaria parasite, you have an aspect, different forms of the parasite in the human, and you

have different forms of the parasite in the mosquito. It's the interaction between mosquitoes

and human that allows transmission of the virus. There are various ways one could control

the disease. We've talked about, well, let's control this contact, setting this contact