Jan Conn

Jan E. Conn (born 1952) is a Canadian geneticist and poet. She resides in Great Barrington, Massachusetts where she does research on mosquito genetics at the Wadsworth Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, New York State Department of Health in Albany, New York.{{cite journal |last1=Carrasco-Escobar |first1=Gabriel |last2=Moreno |first2=Marta |last3=Fornace |first3=Kimberly |last4=Herrera-Varela |first4=Manuela |last5=Manrique |first5=Edgar |last6=Conn |first6=Jan E. |title=The use of drones for mosquito surveillance and control |journal=Parasites & Vectors |date=16 December 2022 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=473 |doi=10.1186/s13071-022-05580-5 |doi-access=free |pmid=36527116 |pmc=9758801 |issn=1756-3305}}{{Cite web |title=Jan E. Conn, PhD {{!}} New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center |url=https://www.wadsworth.org/senior-staff/jan-conn |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=www.wadsworth.org}} She has also written six books of poetry.

Biography

Conn was born in Asbestos, Quebec and moved to Montreal at the age of 17.{{cite web |title=Member Profile |url=https://www.writersunion.ca/member/jan-conn |website=The Writers' Union of Canada |access-date=18 December 2020 |language=en}} She received her Ph.D. in genetics from the University of Toronto in 1987. She has traveled to Guatemala, Venezuela, Florida, Vermont and Massachusetts, conducting research on insects that transmit pathogens. Before taking up her current work on population genetics of malaria-carrying mosquitoes in South America and Africa,{{Cite web |title=VBD Home page |url=https://vbd-environment.org/residual-malaria-hotspots-in-peru-and-brazil/the-team |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=vbd-environment.org}}{{cite book |last1=Conn |first1=Jan E. |last2=Quiñones |first2=Martha L. |last3=Póvoa |first3=Marinete M. |title=Anopheles mosquitoes - New insights into malaria vectors |date=24 July 2013 |publisher=IntechOpen |isbn=978-953-51-1188-7 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/55217 |language=en |chapter=Phylogeography, Vectors and Transmission in Latin America|doi=10.5772/55217 }}{{cite book |last1=Conn |first1=Jan E. |last2=Ribolla |first2=Paulo E. |editor1-last=Adelman |editor1-first=Zach N. |title=Genetic Control of Malaria and Dengue |date=15 October 2015 |publisher=Academic Press |isbn=978-0-12-800405-0 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-LIBAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Jan+E.+Conn%22+-wikipedia&pg=PR7 |language=en |chapter=Ecology of Anopheles darlingi, the Primary Malaria Vector in the Americas and Current Nongenetic methods of Vector Control}} she was a recognized expert on the genetics of Black fly (Simulium) species vectoring river blindness (onchocerciasis) in Central America.

=Poetry=

Conn has written several books of poetry, including Jaguar Rain: the Margaret Mee poems, inspired by the diaries and botanical art of Margaret Mee.{{Cite journal |last=Beck |first=Magali Sperling |last2=Corseuil |first2=Anelise R. |date=2024-10-14 |title=Amazon Journeys and Poetic Re-Discoveries in Jan Conn's 'Jaguar Rain' and Malu de Martino's 'Margaret Mee e a Flor da Lua' |url=https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/IL/article/view/24535 |journal=Interlitteraria |language=en |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=60–77 |doi=10.12697/IL.2024.29.1.5 |issn=2228-4729|doi-access=free }} She has won numerous awards and major travel grants related to poetry, including a CBC Literary Prize, the inaugural P.K. Page Founder’s Award, and a nomination for a Pushcart Prize in 2016.{{Cite news |date=Aug 16, 2023 |title=Peony Vertigo by Jan Con |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/peony-vertigo-by-jan-conn-1.6938014 |work=CBC}}{{Cite web |last=Conn |first=Jan |last2=Books |first2=Brick |title=Jan Conn's 10th Collection Blends Flowers, Neurons, & More to Celebrate and Cry Out for the Earth |url=https://open-book.ca/News/Jan-Conn-s-10th-Collection-Blends-Flowers-Neurons-More-to-Celebrate-and-Cry-Out-for-the-Earth |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=open-book.ca |language=en}} In 1987, her book The Fabulous Disguise of Ourselves was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, as was South of the Tudo Bem Cafe, in 1991.{{Cite web |title=CM Archive |url=https://cmreviews.ca/cm/cmarchive/vol19no2/tudobemcafe.html |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=cmreviews.ca}}

Bibliography

Red Shoes in the Rain{{Cite web |title=Red Shoes in the Rain · Canadian Book Review Annual Online |url=https://cbra.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/37224 |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=cbra.library.utoronto.ca}} - 1980 {{ISBN|0-86492-025-3}}
The Fabulous Disguise of Ourselves - 1986 {{ISBN|091989075X}}
South of the Tudo Bem Cafe - 1990 {{ISBN|9781550650082}}
What Dante Did With Loss - 1996 {{ISBN|978-1550650525}}
Beauties on Mad River{{Cite web |title=Review - Beauties on Mad River by Jan Conn |url=https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/202/300/danforth/2009/no27/reviews/poetry/conn.htm |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=epe.lac-bac.gc.ca}} - 2000 {{ISBN|9781550651409}}
Jaguar Rain: the Margaret Mee poems{{Cite web |date=2006-07-19 |title=Jaguar Rain: The Margaret Mee Poems by Jan Conn {{!}} Reviews of Canadian Poetry Books and Chapbooks |url=https://poetryreviews.ca/2006/07/19/jaguar-rain-the-margaret-mee-poems-by-jan-conn/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |language=en-US}} - 2006 {{ISBN|9781894078481}}
Botero's Beautiful Horses - 2009 {{ISBN|978-1894078719}}
Peony Vertigo - 2023 {{ISBN|9781771316163}}