Meet Ruobing Feng from the Champer Lab @PKU1898!

Ruobing is reimagining the fight against #malaria by working on new approaches targeting #Anophelesstephensi, a #malaria-spreading 🦟 that thrives in urban areas and is rapidly spreading across #Africa🌍⬇️

#WMD2025 #MalariaEndsWithUs

I want to recognize my PhD student, Sima, for doing a great job with this work biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…. Thank you for your hard work and dedication!Thanks to all the collaborators for making the project brilliant.@Omar_Akbari_ @sdavydova23 @ImperialLifeSci @Lacie414 @USDA

Engineering Resilient Gene Drives Towards Sustainable Malaria Control: Predicting, Testing and Overcoming Target Site Resistance biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_synbio

Summary of a recent research study by graduate student Weizhe Chen: communities.springernature.com/posts/getting-…

Assessment of drive efficiency and resistance allele formation of a homing gene drive in the mosquito Aedes aegypti biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_genetic

A comparative assessment of self-limiting genetic control strategies for population suppression biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_genetic

We’re excited to share this recently published talk by @Jackson_Champer (Peking University), who discusses the different types of gene drives and their applications. 👇 Click below to access in full! try.hstalks.com/tblsc-a/?sourc…

New tools such as #genedrive technologies could help control #Aedesaegypti 🦟, vectors of diseases like #dengue and #yellowfever.

At the Champer Lab @PKU1898, Jialiang Guo works on modelling in #AedesAegypti. ➡️bit.ly/3WPM3XP

#WorldMosquitoDay
@Jackson_Champer

#Genedrive technologies could offer a promising avenue to reduce the #malaria burden.

At the Champer Lab @PKU1898, Xuejiao Xu @xux41423947 works on developing novel genetic tools to control #Anopheles mosquitoes. 🔬🧬 ➡️bit.ly/3Aw6j9y

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#ClimateChange could heighten the threat of #mosquitobornediseases like #malaria🦟

In the face of existing challenges, Weitang Sun is working at the Champer Lab @PKU1898 to advance #genedrive approaches for mosquito control 🔬

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#WorldMosquitoDay

As temperatures rise and weather patterns shift, #AedesAegypti 🦟 are expanding their range, increasing the risk of outbreaks in new regions.

Jie Du, Champer Lab @PKU1898, is working on innovative tools to control these mosquitoes. ➡️bit.ly/3WPM3XP

@Jackson_Champer

#WorldMosquitoDay

Aedes🦟 are a major global health concern due to their role in spreading disease.

This #WorldMosquitoDay, hear from researchers sharing facts about these 🦟, the diseases they carry & novel control tools🔬🧬

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#EndDengue

@PKU1898

#Malaria continues to claim lives every day🦟

This #WorldMosquitoDay, we are sharing facts about the disease, its vectors, and hearing from experts and researchers working to #endmalaria

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@imperialcollege @TargetMalaria @transm0 @PKU1898 @UVRIug

#AedesAegypti 🦟are a known vector of several diseases, including #dengue, #Zika, #chikungunya, and #yellowfever.

Weizhe Chen, from the Champer Lab @PKU1898 is working on novel tools to fight this mosquito. 🔬🧬➡️ bit.ly/3WPM3XP

@Jackson_Champer

#WorldMosquitoDay

A model-informed target product profile for population modification gene drives for malaria control medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #medRxiv

Population dynamics in spatial suppression gene drive models and the effect of resistance, density dependence, and life history biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_ecology

Performance of low-threshold, population replacement gene drives in cage populations of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_genetic

The spatial spread and the persistence of gene drives are affected by demographic feedbacks, density dependence and Allee effects biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_genetic

We are delighted to welcome the Champer Lab to the Network!

Led by @Jackson_Champer @PKU1898, the Champer Lab focuses on investigating different #genedrive strategies and designs in organisms including mosquitoes and fruit flies. 🔬🦟⬇️

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How Ants Do Battle: Toxic Sprays, Thick Armor, Overwhelming Numbers, and More entomologytoday.org/2024/07/19/ant… via @EntsocAmerica