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List of works by Omar S. Akbari

A Sensitive, Rapid, and Portable CasRx-based Diagnostic Assay for SARS-CoV-2

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

A drug-inducible sex-separation technique for insects

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

A mosquito small RNA genomics resource reveals dynamic evolution and host responses to viruses and transposons

scientific article published on 08 January 2021

A novel promoter-tethering element regulates enhancer-driven gene expression at the bithorax complex in the Drosophila embryo

scientific article

A synthetic gene drive system for local, reversible modification and suppression of insect populations

scientific article published on 28 March 2013

An Entry/Gateway cloning system for general expression of genes with molecular tags in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article

Assessment of a Split Homing Based Gene Drive for Efficient Knockout of Multiple Genes

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

BIOSAFETY. Safeguarding gene drive experiments in the laboratory

scientific article

Broad dengue neutralization in mosquitoes expressing an engineered antibody

scientific article published on 16 January 2020

Can CRISPR-based gene drive be confined in the wild? A question for molecular and population biology.

scientific article

Cheating evolution: engineering gene drives to manipulate the fate of wild populations

scientific article

Correction: Disruption of the Abdominal-B Promoter Tethering Element Results in a Loss of Long-Range Enhancer-Directed Hox Gene Expression in Drosophila

scientific article published on 9 February 2011

Development of a confinable gene drive system in the human disease vector

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

Disruption of the abdominal-B promoter tethering element results in a loss of long-range enhancer-directed Hox gene expression in Drosophila

scientific article

Efficient sex separation by exploiting differential alternative splicing of a dominant marker in Aedes aegypti

scientific article published in 2023

Engineered Reciprocal Chromosome Translocations Drive High Threshold, Reversible Population Replacement in Drosophila.

scientific article published on 2 April 2018

Engineered reproductively isolated species drive reversible population replacement

scientific article published on 02 June 2021

Engineered resistance to Zika virus in transgenic expressing a polycistronic cluster of synthetic small RNAs

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Erratum to: Unique sequence organization and small RNA expression of a "selfish" B chromosome

scientific article published on 19 August 2017

Generation of heritable germline mutations in the jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis using CRISPR/Cas9

scientific article

Genome elimination mediated by gene expression from a selfish chromosome

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

Germline Cas9 expression yields highly efficient genome engineering in a major worldwide disease vector, Aedes aegypti.

scientific article published on 14 November 2017

Identification of Genes Uniquely Expressed in the Germ-Line Tissues of the Jewel Wasp Nasonia vitripennis

scientific article

Identification of germline transcriptional regulatory elements in Aedes aegypti

scientific article published on 04 February 2014

Identification of human skin microbiome odorants that manipulate mosquito landing behavior

Inherently confinable split-drive systems in Drosophila

scientific article published on 05 March 2021

Live calcium imaging of Aedes aegypti neuronal tissues reveals differential importance of chemosensory systems for life-history-specific foraging strategies.

scientific article

Male-Killing Spiroplasma Alters Behavior of the Dosage Compensation Complex during Drosophila melanogaster Embryogenesis

scientific article published on 04 May 2016

Mapping a multiplexed zoo of mRNA expression

scientific article

Novel synthetic Medea selfish genetic elements drive population replacement in Drosophila; a theoretical exploration of Medea-dependent population suppression

scientific article published on 28 December 2012

Opinion: Standardizing the definition of gene drive

scientific article published on 18 November 2020

Overcoming evolved resistance to population-suppressing homing-based gene drives.

scientific article

Progress towards engineering gene drives for population control

scientific article published on 07 February 2020

Radical remodeling of the Y chromosome in a recent radiation of malaria mosquitoes

scientific article published on 29 March 2016

Reply to 'Concerns about the feasibility of using "precision guided sterile males" to control insects'

scientific article published on 02 September 2019

Rules of the road for insect gene drive research and testing

scientific article published in August 2017

Suppressing mosquito populations with precision guided sterile males

scientific article published on 10 September 2021

Targeting female flight for genetic control of mosquitoes

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

The Developmental Transcriptome of Aedes albopictus, a Major Worldwide Human Disease Vector

scientific article published on 05 March 2020

The abdominal-B promoter tethering element mediates promoter-enhancer specificity at the Drosophila bithorax complex

scientific article published on November 2007

The chromosomal association/dissociation of the chromatin insulator protein Cp190 of Drosophila melanogaster is mediated by the BTB/POZ domain and two acidic regions

scientific article

The developmental transcriptome of the mosquito Aedes aegypti, an invasive species and major arbovirus vector ⬇️

scientific article

The olfactory basis of orchid pollination by mosquitoes

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Transcriptome profiling of Nasonia vitripennis testis reveals novel transcripts expressed from the selfish B chromosome, paternal sex ratio

scientific article published on 04 September 2013

Transforming insect population control with precision guided sterile males with demonstration in flies

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Unique sequence organization and small RNA expression of a "selfish" B chromosome

scientific article published on 5 August 2017

Unraveling cis-regulatory mechanisms at the abdominal-A and Abdominal-B genes in the Drosophila bithorax complex

scientific article

Vectored antibody gene delivery mediates long-term contraception

scientific article published in October 2015

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