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Omar S. Akbari, Ph.D. - Publications

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2008 Cell and Molecular Biology University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, United States 
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2024 Urakova N, Joseph RE, Huntsinger A, Macias VM, Jones MJ, Sigle LT, Li M, Akbari OS, Xi Z, Lymperopoulos K, Sayre RT, McGraw EA, Rasgon JL. Alpha-mannosidase-2 modulates arbovirus infection in a pathogen- and Wolbachia-specific manner in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Insect Molecular Biology. PMID 38450861 DOI: 10.1111/imb.12904  0.538
2024 Ma Q, Srivastav SP, Gamez S, Dayama G, Feitosa-Suntheimer F, Patterson EI, Johnson RM, Matson EM, Gold AS, Brackney DE, Connor JH, Colpitts TM, Hughes GL, Rasgon JL, Nolan T, ... Akbari OS, et al. Corrigendum: A mosquito small RNA genomics resource reveals dynamic evolution and host responses to viruses and transposons. Genome Research. 34: 160. PMID 38326031 DOI: 10.1101/gr.278898.123  0.533
2024 Li M, Kandul NP, Sun R, Yang T, Benetta ED, Brogan DJ, Antoshechkin I, Sánchez C HM, Zhan Y, DeBeaubien NA, Loh YM, Su MP, Montell C, Marshall JM, Akbari OS. Targeting sex determination to suppress mosquito populations. Elife. 12. PMID 38289340 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.90199  0.317
2023 Raban R, Marshall JM, Hay BA, Akbari OS. Manipulating the Destiny of Wild Populations Using CRISPR. Annual Review of Genetics. PMID 37722684 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-031623-105059  0.503
2023 Smidler AL, Pai JJ, Apte RA, Sánchez C HM, Corder RM, Jeffrey Gutiérrez E, Thakre N, Antoshechkin I, Marshall JM, Akbari OS. A confinable female-lethal population suppression system in the malaria vector, . Science Advances. 9: eade8903. PMID 37406109 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ade8903  0.311
2023 Akbari O, Li M, Kandul N, Sun R, Yang T, Benetta ED, Brogan D, Antoshechkin I, C HS, Zhan YP, DeBeaubien N, Loh Y, Su M, Montell C, Marshall J. Targeting Sex Determination to Suppress Mosquito Populations. Research Square. PMID 37162925 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2834069/v1  0.312
2023 Li M, Kandul NP, Sun R, Yang T, Benetta ED, Brogan DJ, Antoshechkin I, Sánchez C HM, Zhan Y, DeBeaubien NA, Loh YM, Su MP, Montell C, Marshall JM, Akbari OS. Targeting Sex Determination to Suppress Mosquito Populations. Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology. PMID 37131747 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.18.537404  0.312
2023 Bui M, Dalla Benetta E, Dong Y, Zhao Y, Yang T, Li M, Antoshechkin IA, Buchman A, Bottino-Rojas V, James AA, Perry MW, Dimopoulos G, Akbari OS. CRISPR mediated transactivation in the human disease vector Aedes aegypti. Plos Pathogens. 19: e1010842. PMID 36656895 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010842  0.361
2022 Sun R, Li M, McMeniman CJ, Akbari OS. CRISPR-Mediated Genome Engineering in Aedes aegypti. Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2509: 23-51. PMID 35796955 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2380-0_2  0.309
2022 Schairer CE, Triplett C, Akbari OS, Bloss CS. California Residents' Perceptions of Gene Drive Systems to Control Mosquito-Borne Disease. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 10: 848707. PMID 35360388 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.848707  0.32
2021 Gamez S, Chaverra-Rodriguez D, Buchman A, Kandul NP, Mendez-Sanchez SC, Bennett JB, Sánchez C HM, Yang T, Antoshechkin I, Duque JE, Papathanos PA, Marshall JM, Akbari OS. Exploiting a Y chromosome-linked Cas9 for sex selection and gene drive. Nature Communications. 12: 7202. PMID 34893590 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27333-1  0.344
2021 Kandul NP, Belikoff EJ, Liu J, Buchman A, Li F, Yamamoto A, Yang T, Shriner I, Scott MJ, Akbari OS. Genetically Encoded CRISPR Components Yield Efficient Gene Editing in the Invasive Pest . The Crispr Journal. 4: 739-751. PMID 34661429 DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2021.0032  0.305
2021 Wang GH, Gamez S, Raban RR, Marshall JM, Alphey L, Li M, Rasgon JL, Akbari OS. Combating mosquito-borne diseases using genetic control technologies. Nature Communications. 12: 4388. PMID 34282149 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24654-z  0.569
2021 Terradas G, Buchman AB, Bennett JB, Shriner I, Marshall JM, Akbari OS, Bier E. Inherently confinable split-drive systems in Drosophila. Nature Communications. 12: 1480. PMID 33674604 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21771-7  0.336
2021 Kandul NP, Liu J, Bennett JB, Marshall JM, Akbari OS. A confinable home and rescue gene drive for population modification. Elife. 10. PMID 33666174 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.65939  0.314
2021 Ma Q, Srivastav SP, Gamez S, Dayama G, Feitosa-Suntheimer F, Patterson EI, Johnson RM, Matson EM, Gold AS, Brackney DE, Connor JH, Colpitts TM, Hughes GL, Rasgon JL, Nolan T, ... Akbari OS, et al. A mosquito small RNA genomics resource reveals dynamic evolution and host responses to viruses and transposons. Genome Research. PMID 33419731 DOI: 10.1101/gr.265157.120  0.565
2020 Dalla Benetta E, Chaverra-Rodriguez D, Rasgon JL, Akbari OS. Pupal and Adult Injections for RNAi and CRISPR Gene Editing in Nasonia vitripennis. Journal of Visualized Experiments : Jove. PMID 33346197 DOI: 10.3791/61892  0.59
2020 Long KC, Alphey L, Annas GJ, Bloss CS, Campbell KJ, Champer J, Chen CH, Choudhary A, Church GM, Collins JP, Cooper KL, Delborne JA, Edwards OR, Emerson CI, Esvelt K, ... ... Akbari OS, et al. Core commitments for field trials of gene drive organisms. Science (New York, N.Y.). 370: 1417-1419. PMID 33335055 DOI: 10.1126/science.abd1908  0.53
2020 Xu XS, Bulger EA, Gantz VM, Klanseck C, Heimler SR, Auradkar A, Bennett JB, Miller LA, Leahy S, Juste SS, Buchman A, Akbari OS, Marshall JM, Bier E. Active Genetic Neutralizing Elements for Halting or Deleting Gene Drives. Molecular Cell. PMID 32949493 DOI: 10.1016/J.Molcel.2020.09.003  0.427
2020 Palatini U, Masri RA, Cosme LV, Koren S, Thibaud-Nissen F, Biedler JK, Krsticevic F, Johnston JS, Halbach R, Crawford JE, Antoshechkin I, Failloux AB, Pischedda E, Marconcini M, Ghurye J, ... ... Akbari OS, et al. Improved reference genome of the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus. Genome Biology. 21: 215. PMID 32847630 DOI: 10.1186/S13059-020-02141-W  0.353
2020 Chaverra-Rodriguez D, Dalla Benetta E, Heu CC, Rasgon JL, Ferree PM, Akbari OS. Germline mutagenesis of Nasonia vitripennis through ovarian delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoprotein. Insect Molecular Biology. PMID 32715554 DOI: 10.1111/Imb.12663  0.628
2020 Cheung C, Gamez S, Carballar-Lejarazú R, Ferman V, Vásquez VN, Terradas G, Ishikawa J, Schairer CE, Bier E, Marshall JM, James AA, Akbari OS, Bloss CS. Translating gene drive science to promote linguistic diversity in community and stakeholder engagement. Global Public Health. 1-15. PMID 32589115 DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2020.1779328  0.328
2020 Bui M, Li M, Raban RR, Liu N, Akbari OS. Embryo Microinjection Techniques for Efficient Site-Specific Mutagenesis in Culex quinquefasciatus. Journal of Visualized Experiments : Jove. PMID 32510506 DOI: 10.3791/61375  0.397
2020 Sánchez C HM, Bennett JB, Wu SL, Rašić G, Akbari OS, Marshall JM. Modeling confinement and reversibility of threshold-dependent gene drive systems in spatially-explicit Aedes aegypti populations. Bmc Biology. 18: 50. PMID 32398005 DOI: 10.1186/S12915-020-0759-9  0.407
2020 Kandul NP, Liu J, Hsu AD, Hay BA, Akbari OS. A drug-inducible sex-separation technique for insects. Nature Communications. 11: 2106. PMID 32355156 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-020-16020-2  0.532
2020 Dalla Benetta E, Antoshechkin I, Yang T, Nguyen HQM, Ferree PM, Akbari OS. Genome elimination mediated by gene expression from a selfish chromosome. Science Advances. 6: eaaz9808. PMID 32284986 DOI: 10.1126/Sciadv.Aaz9808  0.423
2020 Raban RR, Marshall JM, Akbari OS. Progress towards engineering gene drives for population control. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 223. PMID 32034041 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.208181  0.455
2020 Gamez S, Antoshechkin I, Mendez-Sanchez SC, Akbari OS. The Developmental Transcriptome of , a Major Worldwide Human Disease Vector. G3 (Bethesda, Md.). PMID 31964684 DOI: 10.1534/G3.119.401006  0.434
2020 Li M, Yang T, Kandul NP, Bui M, Gamez S, Raban R, Bennett J, Sánchez C HM, Lanzaro GC, Schmidt H, Lee Y, Marshall JM, Akbari OS. Development of a confinable gene drive system in the human disease vector . Elife. 9. PMID 31960794 DOI: 10.7554/Elife.51701  0.444
2020 Buchman A, Gamez S, Li M, Antoshechkin I, Li HH, Wang HW, Chen CH, Klein MJ, Duchemin JB, Crowe JE, Paradkar PN, Akbari OS. Broad dengue neutralization in mosquitoes expressing an engineered antibody. Plos Pathogens. 16: e1008103. PMID 31945137 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Ppat.1008103  0.377
2019 Kandul NP, Liu J, Buchman A, Gantz VM, Bier E, Akbari OS. Assessment of a Split Homing Based Gene Drive for Efficient Knockout of Multiple Genes. G3 (Bethesda, Md.). PMID 31882406 DOI: 10.1534/G3.119.400985  0.459
2019 Lahondère C, Vinauger C, Okubo RP, Wolff GH, Chan JK, Akbari OS, Riffell JA. The olfactory basis of orchid pollination by mosquitoes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 31871198 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1910589117  0.306
2019 Schairer CE, Taitingfong R, Akbari OS, Bloss CS. A typology of community and stakeholder engagement based on documented examples in the field of novel vector control. Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases. 13: e0007863. PMID 31765377 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pntd.0007863  0.331
2019 Marshall JM, Raban RR, Kandul NP, Edula JR, León TM, Akbari OS. Winning the Tug-of-War Between Effector Gene Design and Pathogen Evolution in Vector Population Replacement Strategies. Frontiers in Genetics. 10: 1072. PMID 31737050 DOI: 10.3389/Fgene.2019.01072  0.456
2019 Li M, Li T, Liu N, Raban RR, Wang X, Akbari OS. Methods for the generation of heritable germline mutations in the disease vector Culex quinquefasciatus using clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats-associated protein 9. Insect Molecular Biology. 29: 214-220. PMID 31693260 DOI: 10.1111/Imb.12626  0.424
2019 Bui M, Shyong J, Lutz EK, Yang T, Li M, Truong K, Arvidson R, Buchman A, Riffell JA, Akbari OS. Live calcium imaging of Aedes aegypti neuronal tissues reveals differential importance of chemosensory systems for life-history-specific foraging strategies. Bmc Neuroscience. 20: 27. PMID 31208328 DOI: 10.1186/S12868-019-0511-Y  0.318
2019 Dalla Benetta E, Akbari OS, Ferree PM. Sequence Expression of Supernumerary B Chromosomes: Function or Fluff? Genes. 10. PMID 30744010 DOI: 10.3390/Genes10020123  0.324
2019 Buchman A, Gamez S, Li M, Antoshechkin I, Li HH, Wang HW, Chen CH, Klein MJ, Duchemin JB, Paradkar PN, Akbari OS. Engineered resistance to Zika virus in transgenic expressing a polycistronic cluster of synthetic small RNAs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 30723148 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1810771116  0.391
2019 Kandul NP, Liu J, Sanchez C HM, Wu SL, Marshall JM, Akbari OS. Transforming insect population control with precision guided sterile males with demonstration in flies. Nature Communications. 10: 84. PMID 30622266 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-018-07964-7  0.387
2019 Li M, Yang T, Kandul NP, Bui M, Gamez S, Raban R, Bennett J, C HMS, Lanzaro GC, Schmidt H, Lee Y, Marshall JM, Akbari OS. Author response: Development of a confinable gene drive system in the human disease vector Aedes aegypti Elife. DOI: 10.7554/Elife.51701.Sa2  0.363
2018 Gantz VM, Akbari OS. Gene editing technologies and applications for insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 28: 66-72. PMID 30551769 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cois.2018.05.006  0.385
2018 Matthews BJ, Dudchenko O, Kingan SB, Koren S, Antoshechkin I, Crawford JE, Glassford WJ, Herre M, Redmond SN, Rose NH, Weedall GD, Wu Y, Batra SS, Brito-Sierra CA, Buckingham SD, ... ... Akbari OS, et al. Improved reference genome of Aedes aegypti informs arbovirus vector control. Nature. PMID 30429615 DOI: 10.1038/S41586-018-0692-Z  0.409
2018 Buchman A, Akbari OS. Site-specific transgenesis of the D. melanogaster Y-chromosome using CRISPR/Cas9. Insect Molecular Biology. PMID 30079589 DOI: 10.1111/Imb.12528  0.333
2018 Buchman A, Marshall JM, Ostrovski D, Yang T, Akbari OS. Synthetically engineered gene drive system in the worldwide crop pest . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 29666236 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1713139115  0.434
2018 Buchman A, Ivy T, Marshall J, Akbari OS, Hay BA. Engineered reciprocal chromosome translocations drive high threshold, reversible population replacement in Drosophila. Acs Synthetic Biology. PMID 29608276 DOI: 10.1021/Acssynbio.7B00451  0.578
2018 Raban R, Akbari OS. Gene drives may be the next step towards sustainable control of malaria. Pathogens and Global Health. 1-2. PMID 29566584 DOI: 10.1080/20477724.2017.1453587  0.368
2018 Marshall JM, Akbari OS. Can CRISPR-based gene drive be confined in the wild? A question for molecular and population biology. Acs Chemical Biology. PMID 29370514 DOI: 10.1021/Acschembio.7B00923  0.363
2017 Li M, Bui M, Akbari OS. Embryo Microinjection and Transplantation Technique for Nasonia vitripennis Genome Manipulation. Journal of Visualized Experiments : Jove. PMID 29364231 DOI: 10.3791/56990  0.354
2017 Li M, Akbari OS, White BJ. Highly Efficient Site-Specific Mutagenesis in Malaria Mosquitoes Using CRISPR. G3 (Bethesda, Md.). PMID 29233915 DOI: 10.1534/G3.117.1134  0.389
2017 Li M, Bui M, Yang T, Bowman CS, White BJ, Akbari OS. Germline Cas9 expression yields highly efficient genome engineering in a major worldwide disease vector, Aedes aegypti. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 29138316 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1711538114  0.423
2017 Li Y, Jing XA, Aldrich JC, Clifford C, Chen J, Akbari OS, Ferree PM. Erratum to: Unique sequence organization and small RNA expression of a "selfish" B chromosome. Chromosoma. PMID 28821911 DOI: 10.1007/S00412-017-0642-9  0.317
2017 Adelman Z, Akbari O, Bauer J, Bier E, Bloss C, Carter SR, Callender C, Denis AC, Cowhey P, Dass B, Delborne J, Devereaux M, Ellsworth P, Friedman RM, Gantz V, et al. Rules of the road for insect gene drive research and testing. Nature Biotechnology. 35: 716-718. PMID 28787415 DOI: 10.1038/Nbt.3926  0.589
2017 Marshall JM, Buchman A, Sánchez C HM, Akbari OS. Overcoming evolved resistance to population-suppressing homing-based gene drives. Scientific Reports. 7: 3776. PMID 28630470 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-017-02744-7  0.342
2017 Li M, Au LYC, Douglah D, Chong A, White BJ, Ferree PM, Akbari OS. Generation of heritable germline mutations in the jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis using CRISPR/Cas9. Scientific Reports. 7: 901. PMID 28424460 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-017-00990-3  0.418
2016 Choi HM, Calvert CR, Husain N, Huss D, Barsi JC, Deverman BE, Hunter RC, Kato M, Lee SM, Abelin AC, Rosenthal AZ, Akbari OS, Li Y, Hay BA, Sternberg PW, et al. Mapping a multiplexed zoo of mRNA expression. Development (Cambridge, England). 143: 3632-3637. PMID 27702788 DOI: 10.1242/Dev.140137  0.523
2016 Cheng B, Kuppanda N, Aldrich JC, Akbari OS, Ferree PM. Male-Killing Spiroplasma Alters Behavior of the Dosage Compensation Complex during Drosophila melanogaster Embryogenesis. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 27161498 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2016.03.050  0.385
2016 Hall AB, Papathanos PA, Sharma A, Cheng C, Akbari OS, Assour L, Bergman NH, Cagnetti A, Crisanti A, Dottorini T, Fiorentini E, Galizi R, Hnath J, Jiang X, Koren S, et al. Radical remodeling of the Y chromosome in a recent radiation of malaria mosquitoes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 27035980 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1525164113  0.383
2016 Champer J, Buchman A, Akbari OS. Cheating evolution: engineering gene drives to manipulate the fate of wild populations. Nature Reviews. Genetics. PMID 26875679 DOI: 10.1038/Nrg.2015.34  0.454
2015 Ferree PM, Fang C, Mastrodimos M, Hay BA, Amrhein H, Akbari OS. Identification of Genes Uniquely Expressed in the Germ Line Tissues of the Jewel Wasp Nasonia vitripennis. G3 (Bethesda, Md.). PMID 26464360 DOI: 10.1534/G3.115.021386  0.611
2015 Li J, Olvera AI, Akbari OS, Moradian A, Sweredoski MJ, Hess S, Hay BA. Vectored antibody gene delivery mediates long-term contraception. Current Biology : Cb. 25: R820-2. PMID 26439332 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2015.08.002  0.538
2015 Akbari OS, Bellen HJ, Bier E, Bullock SL, Burt A, Church GM, Cook KR, Duchek P, Edwards OR, Esvelt KM, Gantz VM, Golic KG, Gratz SJ, Harrison MM, Hayes KR, et al. BIOSAFETY. Safeguarding gene drive experiments in the laboratory. Science (New York, N.Y.). 349: 927-9. PMID 26229113 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aac7932  0.347
2014 Akbari OS, Papathanos PA, Sandler JE, Kennedy K, Hay BA. Identification of germline transcriptional regulatory elements in Aedes aegypti. Scientific Reports. 4: 3954. PMID 24492376 DOI: 10.1038/Srep03954  0.644
2014 Akbari OS, Chen CH, Marshall JM, Huang H, Antoshechkin I, Hay BA. Novel synthetic Medea selfish genetic elements drive population replacement in Drosophila; a theoretical exploration of Medea-dependent population suppression. Acs Synthetic Biology. 3: 915-28. PMID 23654248 DOI: 10.1021/Sb300079H  0.603
2013 Akbari OS, Antoshechkin I, Hay BA, Ferree PM. Transcriptome profiling of Nasonia vitripennis testis reveals novel transcripts expressed from the selfish B chromosome, paternal sex ratio. G3 (Bethesda, Md.). 3: 1597-605. PMID 23893741 DOI: 10.1534/G3.113.007583  0.606
2013 Akbari OS, Antoshechkin I, Amrhein H, Williams B, Diloreto R, Sandler J, Hay BA. The developmental transcriptome of the mosquito Aedes aegypti, an invasive species and major arbovirus vector. G3 (Bethesda, Md.). 3: 1493-509. PMID 23833213 DOI: 10.1534/G3.113.006742  0.61
2013 Akbari OS, Matzen KD, Marshall JM, Huang H, Ward CM, Hay BA. A synthetic gene drive system for local, reversible modification and suppression of insect populations. Current Biology : Cb. 23: 671-7. PMID 23541732 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2013.02.059  0.696
2011 Ho MC, Schiller BJ, Akbari OS, Bae E, Drewell RA. Disruption of the abdominal-B promoter tethering element results in a loss of long-range enhancer-directed Hox gene expression in Drosophila. Plos One. 6: e16283. PMID 21283702 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0016283  0.371
2010 Oliver D, Sheehan B, South H, Akbari O, Pai CY. The chromosomal association/dissociation of the chromatin insulator protein Cp190 of Drosophila melanogaster is mediated by the BTB/POZ domain and two acidic regions. Bmc Cell Biology. 11: 101. PMID 21194420 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2121-11-101  0.622
2009 Akbari OS, Oliver D, Eyer K, Pai CY. An Entry/Gateway cloning system for general expression of genes with molecular tags in Drosophila melanogaster. Bmc Cell Biology. 10: 8. PMID 19178707 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2121-10-8  0.621
2008 Akbari OS, Bae E, Johnsen H, Villaluz A, Wong D, Drewell RA. A novel promoter-tethering element regulates enhancer-driven gene expression at the bithorax complex in the Drosophila embryo. Development (Cambridge, England). 135: 123-31. PMID 18045839 DOI: 10.1242/Dev.010744  0.357
2007 Akbari OS, Schiller BJ, Goetz SE, Ho MC, Bae E, Drewell RA. The abdominal-B promoter tethering element mediates promoter-enhancer specificity at the Drosophila bithorax complex. Fly. 1: 337-9. PMID 18504507 DOI: 10.4161/Fly.5607  0.388
2006 Akbari OS, Bousum A, Bae E, Drewell RA. Unraveling cis-regulatory mechanisms at the abdominal-A and Abdominal-B genes in the Drosophila bithorax complex. Developmental Biology. 293: 294-304. PMID 16545794 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ydbio.2006.02.015  0.391
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