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Omar S. Akbari

University of Southern California ORCID

258

Works

8,754

Citations

46

h-index

119

i10-index

Research Topics

Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences CRISPR and Genetic Engineering Mosquito-borne diseases and control

Affiliations

University of California, Riverside2015–2018

University of Southern California2025–2025

California Institute of Technology2012–2021

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation2023–2023

Pennsylvania State University2023–2023

Top Works

Improved reference genome of Aedes aegypti informs arbovirus vector control

Benjamin J. Matthews,Olga Dudchenko,et al.

2018672 citations

Insect Resistance and Genetics

Insect behavior and control techniques

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

Jackson Champer,Anna Buchman,et al.

2016554 citations

Malaria eradication within a generation: ambitious, achievable, and necessary

Richard Feachem,Ingrid Chen,et al.

2019406 citations

Mapping a multiplexed zoo of mRNA expression

Harry M. T. Choi,Colby R. Calvert,et al.

2016291 citations

Safeguarding gene drive experiments in the laboratory

Omar S. Akbari,Hugo J. Bellen,et al.

2015285 citations

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

Nikolay P. Kandul,Junru Liu,et al.

2019270 citations

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

Ming Li,Ting Yang,et al.

2020248 citations

The Developmental Transcriptome of the Mosquito <i>Aedes aegypti</i>, an Invasive Species and Major Arbovirus Vector

Omar S. Akbari,Igor Antoshechkin,et al.

2013215 citations

Germline Cas9 expression yields highly efficient genome engineering in a major worldwide disease vector, <i>Aedes aegypti</i>

Ming Li,Michelle Bui,et al.

2017199 citations