Yvonne Linton
Smithsonian Institution – National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) Co-Investigator
Dr. Linton was educated in Scotland, United Kingdom. She was awarded her BSc (First Class Honors) in Zoology (Environmental Physiology) in 1995, and her PhD in Zoology from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland in 1999. In 1998, she acquired a tenured position in Mosquito Systematics at the Natural History Museum in London, England, where she grew an active research team in Molecular Systematics and spearheaded the global Mosquito Barcoding Initiative. In 2011, she moved to the United States to undertake a National Research Council Senior Fellowship at the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (WRBU), through the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR). She served as Research Director of the WRBU from 2017-2024.
Since 20217, Dr. Linton has served as Research Entomologist and Curator of the USNM Mosquito Collection comprising over 1.7 million specimens, in addition to the following families: Ceratopogonidae, Corethrellidade, Chaoboridae, Chironomidae, Dixidae, Hippoboscidae, Psychodidae, Simuliidae, and Tabanidae. She has conducted field collections in 37 countries worldwide and has published over 130 publications, centered on integrated systematics, DNA taxonomy, phylogenetics and population genetics of mosquitoes, ticks and other vectors, as well as global biosurveillance and pathogen detection studies. Her first book—Mosquitoes of the World (Vol. 1 & 2) by Richard C. Wilkerson, Yvonne-Marie Linton, and Daniel Strickman—was published by Johns Hopkins Press, in 2021.