O. S. Akbari

This paper establishes a genetic sexing system for the fruit fly Ceratitis capitata using a sex-specific fluorescent marker, enabling accurate male-female separation without antibiotics or temperature dependence.

This study identifies human skin microbiome odorants that influence mosquito landing behavior, finding specific volatiles reduce mosquito attraction.

This paper develops a precision guided Sterile Insect Technique (pgSIT) for malaria vector control using CRISPR to achieve high male sterility and female lethality in Anopheles gambiae.

The paper introduces SEPARATOR, a method using sex-specific alternative splicing to enable efficient male-only sex separation in Aedes aegypti for genetic biocontrol.

This paper develops a CRISPR-based sterile insect technique to suppress Aedes aegypti populations by generating sterile males that outcompete wild mosquitoes.

This study shows that the mosquito gene Man2 affects arbovirus infection and Wolbachia interactions differently depending on the pathogen and Wolbachia strain.

This paper presents Genetic Sexing Strains for Aedes mosquitoes that enable efficient sorting of non-transgenic males for genetic control.

The paper engineers reproductively isolated species using CRISPR to create threshold-dependent gene drive capabilities in D. melanogaster.

The paper models threshold-dependent gene drive systems in Aedes aegypti populations to assess their confineability and reversibility through simulated releases.

The paper identifies haploidizer, a gene on a B chromosome in Nasonia vitripennis, that mediates genome elimination and sex conversion through testis-specific expression.

This paper develops CRISPR-based split-gene drives in Aedes aegypti with high cleavage and transmission rates, demonstrating their potential for safe and reversible population control.

This paper develops a mathematical model to assess resistance to CRISPR-Cas9 homing gene drives and proposes a multiplexed gRNA strategy to enhance suppression efficacy.