Editing Jan Conn

{{Short description|Canadian geneticist and poet}}
{{for|the American rock climber and caver|Jan and Herb Conn}}
'''Jan E. Conn''' (born 1952) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[geneticist]] and [[poet]]. She resides in [[Great Barrington, Massachusetts|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|Albany]], [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{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}}</ref> She has also written six books of poetry.

==Biography==
Conn was born in [[Asbestos, Quebec|Asbestos]], [[Quebec]] and moved to [[Montreal]] at the age of 17.<ref name="WUCBio">{{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}}</ref> She received her Ph.D. in genetics from the [[University of Toronto]] in 1987.<ref name=":0" /> 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]],<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{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 }}</ref> She has won numerous awards and major travel grants related to poetry, including a CBC Literary Prize, the inaugural [[P. K. Page|P.K. Page]] Founder’s Award, and a nomination for a [[Pushcart Prize]] in 2016.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{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}}</ref>  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.<ref name="CM Archive">{{Cite web |title=CM Archive |url=https://cmreviews.ca/cm/cmarchive/vol19no2/tudobemcafe.html |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=cmreviews.ca}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
*''Red Shoes in the Rain''<ref>{{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}}</ref> - 1980 {{ISBN|0-86492-025-3}}
*''The Fabulous Disguise of Ourselves'' - 1986 {{ISBN|091989075X}}
*''South of the Tudo Bem Cafe''<ref name="CM Archive"/> - 1990 {{ISBN|9781550650082}}
*''What Dante Did With Loss'' - 1996 {{ISBN|978-1550650525}}
*''Beauties on Mad River''<ref>{{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}}</ref> - 2000 {{ISBN|9781550651409}}
*''Jaguar Rain: the Margaret Mee poems''<ref>{{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}}</ref> - 2006 {{ISBN|9781894078481}}
*''Botero's Beautiful Horses'' - 2009 {{ISBN|978-1894078719}}
*''Peony Vertigo''<ref name=":1" /> - 2023 {{ISBN|9781771316163}}

==See also==
{{portal|Poetry}}
*[[List of Canadian poets]]
*[[List of Canadian writers]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.janconn.com/ Jan Conn poetry homepage.]

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