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'''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 |url=https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-022-05580-5 |issn=1756-3305}}</ref>. She has also written six books of poetry.

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. 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 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}}</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 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Genetic_Control_of_Malaria_and_Dengue/q-LIBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Jan+E.+Conn%22+-wikipedia&pg=PR7&printsec=frontcover |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]].