Loading...

Omar Akbari

Title(s)Associate Researcher, Cell and Developmental Biology
SchoolAcademic Aff
Phone858-246-0640
vCardDownload vCard

    Collapse Research 
    Collapse Research Activities and Funding
    Developing reciprocal chromosomal translocations for wild population replacement in an important vector of human disease.
    NIH/NIAID R21AI123937Dec 19, 2016 - Nov 30, 2018
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Synthetically engineering population control systems in vectors of human disease
    NIH/NIAID K22AI113060Aug 11, 2015 - Jul 31, 2018
    Role: Principal Investigator

    Collapse ORNG Applications 
    Collapse Featured Publications
    Collapse Websites
    Collapse In The News
    Collapse Twitter

    Collapse Bibliographic 
    Collapse Publications
    Publications listed below are automatically derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and other sources, which might result in incorrect or missing publications. Researchers can login to make corrections and additions, or contact us for help.
    List All   |   Timeline
    1. Vinauger C, Van Breugel F, Locke LT, Tobin KKS, Dickinson MH, Fairhall AL, Akbari OS, Riffell JA. Visual-Olfactory Integration in the Human Disease Vector Mosquito Aedes aegypti. Curr Biol. 2019 Jul 05. PMID: 31327719.
      View in: PubMed
    2. 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 Neurosci. 2019 Jun 17; 20(1):27. PMID: 31208328.
      View in: PubMed
    3. Dalla Benetta E, Akbari OS, Ferree PM. Sequence Expression of Supernumerary B Chromosomes: Function or Fluff? Genes (Basel). 2019 Feb 08; 10(2). PMID: 30744010.
      View in: PubMed
    4. 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 Aedes aegypti expressing a polycistronic cluster of synthetic small RNAs. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 02 26; 116(9):3656-3661. PMID: 30723148.
      View in: PubMed
    5. 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. Nat Commun. 2019 01 08; 10(1):84. PMID: 30622266.
      View in: PubMed
    6. 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, Campbell CL, Chan S, Cox E, Evans BR, Fansiri T, Filipovic I, Fontaine A, Gloria-Soria A, Hall R, Joardar VS, Jones AK, Kay RGG, Kodali VK, Lee J, Lycett GJ, Mitchell SN, Muehling J, Murphy MR, Omer AD, Partridge FA, Peluso P, Aiden AP, Ramasamy V, Rašic G, Roy S, Saavedra-Rodriguez K, Sharan S, Sharma A, Smith ML, Turner J, Weakley AM, Zhao Z, Akbari OS, Black WC, Cao H, Darby AC, Hill CA, Johnston JS, Murphy TD, Raikhel AS, Sattelle DB, Sharakhov IV, White BJ, Zhao L, Aiden EL, Mann RS, Lambrechts L, Powell JR, Sharakhova MV, Tu Z, Robertson HM, McBride CS, Hastie AR, Korlach J, Neafsey DE, Phillippy AM, Vosshall LB. Improved reference genome of Aedes aegypti informs arbovirus vector control. Nature. 2018 11; 563(7732):501-507. PMID: 30429615.
      View in: PubMed
    7. Gantz VM, Akbari OS. Gene editing technologies and applications for insects. Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2018 Aug; 28:66-72. PMID: 30551769.
      View in: PubMed
    8. Buchman A, Marshall JM, Ostrovski D, Yang T, Akbari OS. Synthetically engineered Medea gene drive system in the worldwide crop pest Drosophila suzukii. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 05 01; 115(18):4725-4730. PMID: 29666236.
      View in: PubMed
    9. Buchman AB, Ivy T, Marshall JM, Akbari OS, Hay BA. Engineered Reciprocal Chromosome Translocations Drive High Threshold, Reversible Population Replacement in Drosophila. ACS Synth Biol. 2018 05 18; 7(5):1359-1370. PMID: 29608276.
      View in: PubMed
    10. Raban R, Akbari OS. Gene drives may be the next step towards sustainable control of malaria. Pathog Glob Health. 2017 12; 111(8):399-400. PMID: 29566584.
      View in: PubMed
    11. Marshall JM, Akbari OS. Can CRISPR-Based Gene Drive Be Confined in the Wild? A Question for Molecular and Population Biology. ACS Chem Biol. 2018 02 16; 13(2):424-430. PMID: 29370514.
      View in: PubMed
    12. Vinauger C, Lahondère C, Wolff GH, Locke LT, Liaw JE, Parrish JZ, Akbari OS, Dickinson MH, Riffell JA. Modulation of Host Learning in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes. Curr Biol. 2018 02 05; 28(3):333-344.e8. PMID: 29395917.
      View in: PubMed
    13. Li M, Akbari OS, White BJ. Highly Efficient Site-Specific Mutagenesis in Malaria Mosquitoes Using CRISPR. G3 (Bethesda). 2018 02 02; 8(2):653-658. PMID: 29233915.
      View in: PubMed
    14. Li M, Bui M, Akbari OS. Embryo Microinjection and Transplantation Technique for Nasonia vitripennis Genome Manipulation. J Vis Exp. 2017 12 25; (130). PMID: 29364231.
      View in: PubMed
    15. 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. 2017 12; 126(6):781. PMID: 28821911.
      View in: PubMed
    16. 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. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 12 05; 114(49):E10540-E10549. PMID: 29138316.
      View in: PubMed
    17. 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, Gibson C, Hay BA, Hoddle M, James AA, James S, Jorgenson L, Kalichman M, Marshall J, McGinnis W, Newman J, Pearson A, Quemada H, Rudenko L, Shelton A, Vinetz JM, Weisman J, Wong B, Wozniak C. Rules of the road for insect gene drive research and testing. Nat Biotechnol. 2017 08 08; 35(8):716-718. PMID: 28787415.
      View in: PubMed
    18. Li Y, Jing XA, Aldrich JC, Clifford C, Chen J, Akbari OS, Ferree PM. Unique sequence organization and small RNA expression of a "selfish" B chromosome. Chromosoma. 2017 Dec; 126(6):753-768. PMID: 28780664.
      View in: PubMed
    19. Marshall JM, Buchman A, Sánchez C HM, Akbari OS. Overcoming evolved resistance to population-suppressing homing-based gene drives. Sci Rep. 2017 06 19; 7(1):3776. PMID: 28630470.
      View in: PubMed
    20. 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. Sci Rep. 2017 04 19; 7(1):901. PMID: 28424460.
      View in: PubMed
    21. 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, Patterson PH, Davidson EH, Mazmanian SK, Prober DA, van de Rijn M, Leadbetter JR, Newman DK, Readhead C, Bronner ME, Wold B, Lansford R, Sauka-Spengler T, Fraser SE, Pierce NA. Mapping a multiplexed zoo of mRNA expression. Development. 2016 10 01; 143(19):3632-3637. PMID: 27702788.
      View in: PubMed
    22. Cheng B, Kuppanda N, Aldrich JC, Akbari OS, Ferree PM. Male-Killing Spiroplasma Alters Behavior of the Dosage Compensation Complex during Drosophila melanogaster Embryogenesis. Curr Biol. 2016 05 23; 26(10):1339-45. PMID: 27161498.
      View in: PubMed
    23. 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, Nolan T, Radune D, Sharakhova MV, Steele A, Timoshevskiy VA, Windbichler N, Zhang S, Hahn MW, Phillippy AM, Emrich SJ, Sharakhov IV, Tu ZJ, Besansky NJ. Radical remodeling of the Y chromosome in a recent radiation of malaria mosquitoes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Apr 12; 113(15):E2114-23. PMID: 27035980.
      View in: PubMed
    24. Champer J, Buchman A, Akbari OS. Cheating evolution: engineering gene drives to manipulate the fate of wild populations. Nat Rev Genet. 2016 Mar; 17(3):146-59. PMID: 26875679.
      View in: PubMed
    25. 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). 2015 Oct 13; 5(12):2647-53. PMID: 26464360.
      View in: PubMed
    26. Li J, Olvera AI, Akbari OS, Moradian A, Sweredoski MJ, Hess S, Hay BA. Vectored antibody gene delivery mediates long-term contraception. Curr Biol. 2015 Oct 05; 25(19):R820-2. PMID: 26439332.
      View in: PubMed
    27. 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, James AA, Kaufman TC, Knoblich J, Malik HS, Matthews KA, O'Connor-Giles KM, Parks AL, Perrimon N, Port F, Russell S, Ueda R, Wildonger J. BIOSAFETY. Safeguarding gene drive experiments in the laboratory. Science. 2015 Aug 28; 349(6251):927-9. PMID: 26229113.
      View in: PubMed
    28. Akbari OS, Papathanos PA, Sandler JE, Kennedy K, Hay BA. Identification of germline transcriptional regulatory elements in Aedes aegypti. Sci Rep. 2014 Feb 04; 4:3954. PMID: 24492376; PMCID: PMC3912481.
      View in: PubMed, PubMed Central
    29. 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). 2013 Sep 04; 3(9):1493-509. PMID: 23833213; PMCID: PMC3755910.
      View in: PubMed, PubMed Central
    30. 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). 2013 Sep 04; 3(9):1597-605. PMID: 23893741.
      View in: PubMed
    31. 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. Curr Biol. 2013 Apr 22; 23(8):671-7. PMID: 23541732.
      View in: PubMed
    32. 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 Synth Biol. 2014 Dec 19; 3(12):915-28. PMID: 23654248; PMCID: PMC3742681.
      View in: PubMed, PubMed Central
    33. 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. 2011 Jan 21; 6(1):e16283. PMID: 21283702; PMCID: PMC3025016.
      View in: PubMed, PubMed Central
    34. 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 Biol. 2010 Dec 31; 11:101. PMID: 21194420; PMCID: PMC3022720.
      View in: PubMed, PubMed Central
    35. 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 Biol. 2009 Jan 29; 10:8. PMID: 19178707; PMCID: PMC2654426.
      View in: PubMed, PubMed Central
    36. 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. 2008 Jan; 135(1):123-31. PMID: 18045839; PMCID: PMC2205987.
      View in: PubMed, PubMed Central
    37. 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 (Austin). 2007 Nov-Dec; 1(6):337-9. PMID: 18504507; PMCID: PMC2394718.
      View in: PubMed, PubMed Central
    38. 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. Dev Biol. 2006 May 15; 293(2):294-304. PMID: 16545794.
      View in: PubMed
    Omar's Networks
    Concepts
    Derived automatically from this person's publications.
    See all (148) concept(s)
    _
    Co-Authors
    People in Profiles who have published with this person.
    See all (11) people
    _
    Similar People
    People who share similar concepts with this person.
    See all (60) people
    _
    Same Department
    Search Department
    ↑