6/?/2017: Paper published in Nature Scientific Reports on the role that multiplexing of guide RNAs could play in enabling homing-based gene drive systems to suppress disease-transmitting mosquito populations on a potentially global scale. Corresponding molecular work outlines successful multiplexing in Drosophila.
4/26/2017: Series of three papers published in BMJ Global Health on the role of novel mosquito control strategies that go beyond bed nets and insecticide spraying of walls to suppress mosquito populations and potentially eliminate malaria (http://gh.bmj.com/content/2/2/e000211, http://gh.bmj.com/content/2/2/e000212, http://gh.bmj.com/content/2/2/e000198).
2/2/2017: Welcome to Biyonka Liang who is joining the lab as an undergrad researcher working with Sean Wu on an individual-based model of mosquito-borne disease transmission.
11/17/2016: Pre-print published on bioRxiv describing synthetic reciprocal translocations engineered in Drosophila with the potential for confinable and reversible population replacement (http://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/11/17/088393.full.pdf).
10/1/2016: Commentary published in Trends in Parasitology describing how to most effectively control malaria transmission in the context of human movement patterns (http://escholarship.org/uc/item/29k5q3ws).
8/4/2016: Welcome to Chloe Tarrasch who is joining the lab as an undergrad researcher working on a mathematical model of novel mosquito control methods for a project sponsored by the Parker Foundation.
4/12/2016: Paper published in Malaria Journal on the results of a survey of human movement patterns in Mali, Burkina Faso, Zambia and Tanzania highlighting women traveling with children and seasonal youth workers as key traveler groups (https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12936-016-1252-3).
3/1/2016: Welcome to Héctor Sánchez who is visiting the lab as a PhD student working on optimal mosquito-borne disease control strategies funded by a UC MEXUS Collaborative Research Grant.
2/29/2016: Congrats to Sean Wu who has just been admitted to the PhD program in epidemiology at UC Berkeley to work in our lab!
2/10/2016: Paper published in PLoS NTDs on determinants of a large dengue outbreak in Guanzhou, China in 2014, based on results of a mathematical model (http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0004417).
10/15/2015: Book chapter published in Genetic Control of Dengue and Malaria entitled “Gene drive systems in mosquitoes” exploring the full range of homing-based, toxin-antidote-based and other gene drive systems (http://jmarshall.berkeley.edu/Chapter9GeneticControlOfDengueAndMalaria.pdf).
12/8/2015: Paper published in Malaria Journal on an individual-based model of mosquito ecology investigating the use of attractive toxic sugar baits (ATSBs) on malaria control (https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12936-015-1012-9).
7/22/2015: Two book chapters on biosafety issues related to the use of GM mosquitoes published in WHO biosafety training manual: Chapter 9 on the Cartagena Protocol and releases of transgenic mosquitoes, and Chapter 11 on measuring public attitudes to releases of transgenic mosquitoes (http://jmarshall.berkeley.edu/Chapter9WHOTrainingManualGMMs.pdf, http://jmarshall.berkeley.edu/Chapter11WHOTrainingManualGMMs.pdf).
6/26/2015: Lab receives UC MEXUS Collaborative Research Grant in collaboration with Prof. Edgar Emmanuel Vallejo of Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico to determine optimal strategies for the control of mosquito-borne diseases in Mexico and the US (http://ucmexus.ucr.edu/results/results_ucmcongrants.html).
6/26/2015: Congrats to Dr. Samson Kiware on being awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship to develop an informatics system and mathematical models for mosquito ecology and control.
2/5/2015: Paper published in Malaria Journal on an individual-based model of mosquito ecology investigating the impact of sugar resources on mosquito survival (https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12936-015-0555-0).
1/5/2015: Lab opens doors.