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Optimized CRISPR tools and site-directed transgenesis in Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes for gene drive development. dlvr.it/RsWwnG

Congratulation to my postdoc Xuechun Feng for her great work on the recent manuscript: "Optimized CRISPR tools and site-directed transgenesis in Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes for gene drive development." biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great work on Somatic gene conversion by Zhiqian Li: "Efficient interhomolog gene conversion in both somatic and germline cells of Drosophila." bioengineeringcommunity.nature.com/posts/efficien…

New Paper: Feng, López Del Amo, Mameli, Lee, Bishop, Perrimon & Gantz. Optimized CRISPR tools and site-directed transgenesis towards gene drive development in Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes. Nature Communications volume 12. nature.com/articles/s4146…

.Valentino Gantz Xuechun Feng Victor Lopez del Amo Enzo Mameli Alena Bishop Perrimon Lab at UC San Diego Research and Innovation UC San Diego UC San Diego News UCSD BioSciences optimize CRISPR tools for use in Culex mosquitoes to progress towards a gene drive go.nature.com/2Sirdmc

Out in Nature Communications a great work by my postdoc Xuechun Feng in collaboration with the Perrimon Lab building a gorgeous Cas9-expressing Culex quinquefasciatus using HDR. Enzo Mameli Victor Lopez del Amo Alena Bishop. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Abstracts are welcome for our “Population Genetic Engineering” session at the ICIS conference in Baoding (near Beijing) on August 6-10. icis2023.scievent.com

🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨 Want to apply pangenome/genome assembly/long reads + CRISPR to solve evolutionary/quantitative/population genomics problems? Chakraborty Lab (chakrabortylab.org) is hiring job ad coming soon. Informal inquiries welcome. Please RT.

CRISPR-based gene drives generate super-Mendelian inheritance in the disease vector Culex quinquefasciatus. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

CRISPR-based Gene Drive in Culex quinquefasciatus is out on bioRxiv! Great work by Xuechun Feng & Tim Harvey-Samuel et al. in a great collaboration with the Alphey Lab. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

CRISPR-based Gene Drive in Culex quinquefasciatus is out on bioRxiv! Thanks to lab members and collaborators!!! Valentino Gantz, Harvey-Samuel, Emily Okamoto, Alphey Lab!!!

Thanks to Victor and all the authors for your efforts!

See our gene drive in Culex mosquito in Nature Communications. Thanks to Valentino and all collaborators for your efforts! Valentino Gantz Alphey Lab