2019 News
- 1/09/2019 - Akbarilab featured on NBC 7 News in San Diego
- 1/08/2019 - New article published in Nature Communications entitled "Transforming Insect Population Control with Precision Guided Sterile Males"
- 1/07/2019 - New article published in BioRxiv entitled "Visual-olfactory integration in the human disease vector mosquito, Aedes aegypti"
2018 News
- 1/09/2019 - Akbarilab featured on NBC 7 News in San Diego
- 1/08/2019 - New article published in Nature Communications entitled "Transforming Insect Population Control with Precision Guided Sterile Males"
- 1/07/2019 - New article published in BioRxiv entitled "Visual-olfactory integration in the human disease vector mosquito, Aedes aegypti"
- 11/21/2018 - Akbari lab is on the move to the Brand New Tata Hall at UCSD. Click to see Video.
- 10/02/2018 - New talk by Dr. Akbari published on HSTalks within the Gene-drives and Active Genetics series entitled "Engineering Reciprocal Chromosomal Translocations to Control the Fate of Populations".
- 09/24/2018 - Akbari Lab is moving to the brand new TATA Hall @ UCSD.
- 08/06/2018 - New article published on Insect Molecular Biology entitled "Site-specific trans genesis of the D. melanogaster Y-chromosome using CRISPR/Cas9"
- 08/04/2018 - New state-of-the-art 2,000sf mosquito Insectary opens @ UCSD.
- 08/2018 - New article published on Current Opinion in Insect Science entitled "Gene editing technologies and applications for insects"
- 07/26/2018 - New article published on BioRxiv entitled "Transforming insect population control with precision guided sterile males"
- 07/16/2018 - Sierra Corban joins the Akbari Lab as an Lab Technician.
- 07/16/2018 - Jyotheeswara Reddy Edula joins the Akbari Lab as a Postdoctoral Scholar.
- 07/16/2018 - Elena Dalla Benetta joins the Akbari Lab as a Postdoctoral Scholar.
- 06/18/2018 - Sitara Roy joins the Akbari Lab as a Postdoctoral Scholar.
- 06/12/2018 - New article published on BioRxiv entitled "Live calcium imaging of Aedes aegypti neuronal tissues reveals differential importance of chemosensory systems."
- 06/12/2018 - New article published on BioRxiv entitled "Engineered resistance to Zika virus (ZIKV) in transgenic Ae. aegypti expressing a polycistronic cluster of synthetic miRNAs"
- 05/29/2018 - Undergraduate student, Junru Liu featured in an article on SQOnline, UC San Diego's Premier Undergraduate Biology Research Journal.
- 04/17/2018 - New article published on PNAS entitled "Synthetically engineered Madea gene drive system in the worldwide crop pest, D. suzukii"
- 04/02/2018 - New article published on ACS Synthetic Biology entitled "Engineered reciprocal chromosome translocations drive high threshold, reversible population replacement in Drosophila"
- 03/23/2018 - New article published in Pathogens and Global Health entitled " Gene drives may be the next step towards sustainable control of malaria"
- 02/07/2018 - New article published in ACS Chemical Biology entitled "Can CRISPR-based gene drive be confined in the wild? A question for molecular and population biology."
- 01/2018 - The Akbari lab Moves to UCSD
2017 News
- 12/4/2017 - Robyn Raban joins our lab as a Project Manager
- 11/14/2017 -New article published in PNAS entitled "Germline Cas9 Expression Yields Highly Efficient Genome Engineering in a Major Worldwide Disease Vector, Aedes aegypti"
- 08/12/2017 - Akbari lab is a project lead in a major $8 million grant awarded from the CDC to fight Vector-Borne Diseases.
- Website for more information: www.pacvec.us
- 08/09/2017 - New article published in BioRxiv entitled "Can CRISPR-based gene drive be confined in the wild? A question for molecular and population biology"
- 08/08/2017 - New article published in Nature Biotechnology entitled " Rules of the road for insect gene drive research and testing"
- 08/04/2017 - New article published in BioRxiv entitled "Dopamine modulation of host learning in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes"
- 07/24/2017 - Akbari Lab is Moving to UCSD - Division of Biological Sciences starting Jan 2018!!
- 07/19/2017 - Akbari lab receives $14.9 Million from DARPA to lead UC Wide Safe Genes project.
- 07/14/2017 - New article published in Chromosoma entitled "Unique sequence organization and small RNA expression of a selfish B chromosome"
- 07/11/2017-New article published in bioRxiv entitled "Synthetically Engineered Medea Gene Drive System in the Worldwide Crop Pest, D. suzukii"
- 06/30/2017-New article published in bioRxiv entitled "Highly efficient site-specific mutagenesis in Malaria mosquitoes using CRISPR"
- 06/27/2017 -New article published in bioRxiv entitled "Germline Cas9 Expression Yields Highly Efficient Genome Engineering in a Major Worldwide Disease Vector, Aedes aegypti"
- 06/20/2017 - New article published in Scientific Reports entitled "Overcoming evolved resistance to population-suppressing homing-based gene drives"
- 05/13/2017 - Congratulations to undergraduate Nicole Colindres for receiving an NSF funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Fellowship to work in the Akbari Lab this summer!! Great Job!
- 04/19/2017 - New article published in Scientific Reports entitled "Generation of heritable germline mutations in the jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis using CRISPR/Cas9"
- 04/05/2017 -Akbari and Woodard Lab receive joint UCR seed funding for project entitled "Development of the first ever gene disruption technique for bumble bees."
- 03/01/2017 -Congratulations to graduate student Michelle Bui for receiving a NSF-NICE (NRT Integrated Computational Entomology) fellowship to support her research efforts!! Great job! read more here
2016 NEWS
- 12/23/2016 - New article published in bioRxiv entitled "Generation of heritable germline mutations in the jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis using CRISPR/Cas9"
- 12/16/2016 - Akbari Lab receives NIH-NIAID-R21 Grant entitiled " Developing reciprocal chromosomal translocations for wild population replacement in an important vector of human disease" to support research efforts.
- 11/17/2016 - New article published in bioRxiv entitled "Engineered reciprocal chromosome translocations drive high threshold, reversible population replacement in Drosophila"
- 11/17/2016 - New article published in bioRxiv entitled "Overcoming evolved resistance to population-suppressing homing-based gene drives"
- 10/10/2016 - Akbari Lab receives USDA-NIFA subaward to engineer the Asian Citrus Psyllid to combat HLB.
- 10/04/2016 - New article published in Development entitled "Mapping a multiplexed zoo of mRNA expression"
- 07/01/2016 - Akbari Lab receives an Omnibus Travel grant from the division of the Academic Senate @ UCR.
- 06/09/2016 -Akbari Lab receives the 2016-2017 sophomore STEM fund from UCR to support research efforts.
- 05/23/2016 - New article published in Current Biology entitled "Male-Killing Spiroplasma Alters Behavior of the Dosage Compensation Complex during Drosophila melanogaster Embryogenesis."
- 05/15/2016 - Akbari Lab receives grant from the California Cherry Board to support research.
- 04/14/2016 - Akbari Lab receives second private grant from www.maxmind.com to support research.
- 04/12/2016 - New article published in PNAS entitled "Radical remodeling of the Y chromosome in a recent radiation of malaria mosquitoes."
- 04/11/2016 - Akbari Lab receives HATCH grant from the USDA.
- 03/17/2016 - New article published in Nature Review Genetics entitled "Cheating evolution: engineering gene drives to manipulate the fate of wild populations."
- 02/03/2016 - Congratulations to graduate student Stephanie Gamez for receiving a summer diversity fellowship from the graduate division @ UCR to support her summer research!
2015 NEWS
- 11/04/2015 - Book Chapter published in Genetic Control of Malaria and Dengue, 1st Edition entitled "Chapter 9 - Gene Drive Strategies for Population Replacement."
- 10/31/2015 - Akbari Lab receives private grant from www.maxmind.com to support research.
- 10/13/2015 - New article published in Genes, Genetics and Genomics (G3) entitled "Identification of Genes Uniquely Expressed in the Germ-Line Tissues of the Jewel Wasp Nasonia vitripennis."
- 10/05/2015 - New article published in Current Biology entitled "Vectored antibody gene delivery mediates long-term contraception."
- 09/31/2015 - Akbari Lab receives an NIH-NIAID K22 Career Transition award entitled "Synthetically engineering population control systems in vectors of human disease" to support research efforts.
- 08/28/2015 - New article published in Science entitled "Safeguarding gene drive experiments in the laboratory."
- 08/01/2015 - Lab Opens Doors.
