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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">April 2026</span><br />
Paper published in <em>Nature Communications</em>: "<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71397-w" target="_blank">Experimental and modeling demonstration of stronger population suppression by gene drive targeting <em>doublesex</em> from dominant female-sterile resistance alleles</a>."<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.01.715791v1" target="_blank">A confined gene drive for population modification in the malaria vector <em>Anopheles stephensi</em></a>."<br />

<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">March 2026</span><br />
Paper published in <em>iScience</em>: "<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004226005961" target="_blank">A simulation-based deep learning framework for spatially explicit malaria modeling of CRISPR suppression gene drive mosquitoes</a>."<br />
Paper published in <em>Parasites & Vectors</em>: " <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13071-026-07360-x" target="_blank"> Knockout of aminopeptidase N3 confers resistance to low concentrations of <em>Bacillus thuringiensis</em> Cry4Ba protoxin in <em>Aedes aegypti</em></a>."<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.04.709515v2" target="_blank">Optimal spatial release strategies for confined gene drives and <em>Wolbachia</em></a>."<br />
Seminar at Hainan University. Thanks to hosts Rihui Yan, Xianwu Lin, and Zizhen Fan.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">February 2026</span><br />
Seminar at University of Maryland. Thanks to hosts Clarke Alexander Safsten and Abba Gumel.<br />
Paper published in <em>The EMBO Journal</em>: "<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44318-025-00683-y" target="_blank">Assessing target genes for homing suppression gene drive</a>."<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">December 2025</span><br />
Paper published in <em>BMC Biology</em>: "<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-025-02488-1" target="_blank">Strategies to improve the efficiency of homing gene drives with multiplexed gRNAs</a>."<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Yanxiang Wang.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes rotating graduate student Yiyang Duan.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">November 2025</span><br />
The Champer Lab welcomes rotating graduate student Ziyin Yao.<br />
Seminar at University of Hawaii, Manoa. Thanks to hosts Floyd Reed and Matthew Medeiros.<br />
Congratulations to Jie Du, Ruobing Feng, Yingke Wu, and Xinyue Zhang for giving talks at the Entomological Society of America Conference.<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.04.686506v1" target="_blank">Variants in Cas9 and <em>nanos</em> regulatory elements modulate activity and reduce resistance allele formation in homing gene drive</a>."<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">October 2025</span><br />
Paper published in <em>Advanced Science</em>: "<a href="https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202504653" target="_blank">Modeling control of invasive fire ants by gene drive</a>."<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes rotating graduate students Yinuo Zhang and Zihao Zhang.<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.08.681126v1" target="_blank">Finding the perfect promoter: Correlating single-cell transcriptome data with gene drive performance</a>."<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">September 2025</span><br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.20.677490v2" target="_blank">Experimental demonstration of daisy chain gene drive and modelling of daisy suppression systems</a>."<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes rotating graduate students Tianyi Wang, Changtai Hu, and Yuchang Chen.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researchers Yuntian Zhao, Jinyu Ran, Shuo Han, Chan Yu Qian, Zhuoran Lu, and Xinrui Zhang.<br />
Talk at the International Workshop on Chemical Ecology.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">August 2025</span><br />
Congratulations to Jie Du, Jie Yang, and Yiran Liu for giving talks at the International Conference on Insect Science.<br />
Talk at the International Conference on Insect Science.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Xinyi Lyu.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">July 2025</span><br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.16.665070v1" target="_blank">Self-limiting population suppression gene drive in the West Nile vector mosquito, <em>Culex quinquefasciatus</em></a>."<br />
Talk at the Society for Mathematical Biology Meeting.<br />
Seminar at Michigan State University. Thanks to host Weiming Li.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Arjun Suri.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Jingyun (Jane) Liang.<br />
Congratulations to Jiahe (Carol) Li, Weitang Sun, Yuqi Zhang, and Xiaohan Xie for completing their undergraduate thesis work and successfully graduating!<br /> 
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">June 2025</span><br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.28.662113v1" target="_blank">Strategies to improve the efficiency of homing gene drives with multiplexed gRNAs</a>."<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Emma Yao.<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.09.658412v1" target="_blank">A systematic delineation of 3′UTR regulatory elements and their contextual associations</a>."<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.06.658298v1" target="_blank">Investigating multiple types of resistance against a homing gene drive in European populations of <em>Drosophila melanogaster</em></a>."<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">May 2025</span><br />
Congratulations to Xiaozhen Yang for giving a talk at the International Forum for Surveillance and Control of Mosquitoes and Mosquito-borne Diseases.<br />
Talk at the International Forum for Surveillance and Control of Mosquitoes and Mosquito-borne Diseases conference.<br />
Paper published in <em>Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences</em>: "<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00018-025-05722-9" target="_blank"><em>β2-tubulin</em> regulates the development and migration of eupyrene sperm in <em>Spodoptera frugiperda</em></a>."<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Andrea Tan.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">April 2025</span><br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.24.649389v1" target="_blank">Gene drive dynamics in plants: the role of seedbanks</a>."<br />
Seminar at AgriFutures. Thanks to host Olivia Reynolds.<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.16.649134v1" target="_blank">Stronger population suppression by gene drive targeting <em>doublesex</em> from dominant female-sterile resistance alleles</a>."<br />
Paper published in <em>BMC Biology</em>: "<a href="https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-025-02201-2" target="_blank">A self-limiting sterile insect technique alternative for <em>Ceratitis capitata</em></a>."<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">March 2025</span><br />
Seminar at York University. Thanks to hosts Joshua Ang and Luke Alphey.<br />
Seminar at Imperial College London. Thanks to host Angela Meccariello.<br />
Seminar at  University of Oxford. Thanks to hosts Ziqian Xu and Michael Bonsall.<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.07.641997v1" target="_blank"><em>Aedes aegypti</em> aminopeptidase N3 is a functional binding receptor of <em>Bacillus thuringiensis</em> subsp. <em>israelensis</em> Cry4Ba toxin</a>."<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.10.642387v1" target="_blank">A simulation-based deep learning framework for spatially explicit malaria modeling of CRISPR suppression gene drive mosquitoes</a>."<br />
Seminar at Wageningen University and Research. Thanks to hosts Nicky Faber, Bart Pannebakker, Bas Zwaan, and Joost van den Heuvel.<br />
Seminar at the Indian Institute of Science. Thanks to host Saskya Daly Van Nouhuys.<br />
Seminar at National University of Singapore. Thanks to hosts Henry Mok and Cai Yu.<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.04.641467v2" target="_blank">Modeling control of invasive fire ants by gene drive</a>."<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">February 2025</span><br />
Paper published in <em>Molecular Biology and Evolution</em>: "<a href="https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msaf048/8046212" target="_blank"> A comparative assessment of self-limiting genetic control strategies for population suppression</a>."<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">January 2025</span><br />
Paper published in <em>Nature Communications</em>: "<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56290-2" target="_blank">Gene drive-based population suppression in the malaria vector <em>Anopheles stephensi</em></a>."<br />
Seminar at University of Oregon. Thanks to host Peter Ralph.<br />
Seminar at University of Otago. Thanks to host Peter Dearden.<br />
Paper published in <em>Journal of Pest Science</em>: "<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10340-024-01864-0" target="_blank">Assessment of drive efficiency and resistance allele formation of a homing gene drive in the mosquito <em>Aedes aegypti</em></a>."<br />
Seminar at Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. Thanks to hosts Nguyen Thi Dieu Thuy and Do Tien Phat.<br />
Seminar at Vietnam National University. Thanks to host Tran Duc Long.<br />
Seminar at Hanoi University of Science and Technology. Thanks to hosts Truong Quoc Phong and Nguyen Tien Thanh.<br />
Seminar at Ton Duc Thang University. Thanks to host Nguyen Ngoc Tuan.<br />
Seminar at Nong Lam University. Thanks to host Nguyen Bao Quoc.<br />
Seminar at Nguyen Tat Thanh University. Thanks to host Le Minh Bui.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">December 2024</span><br />
Seminar at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (Tokyo). Thanks to host Shinji Kasai.<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.06.627146v2" target="_blank">Assessing target genes for homing suppression gene drive</a>."<br />
Seminar at High School Affiliated to Renmin University. Thanks to host Feng Li.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">November 2024</span><br />
Seminar at Gannan Normal University. Thanks to host Wei Chen.<br />
Seminar at Korea Science Academy of KAIST. Thanks to host Ki Youb Park.<br />
Seminar at Seoul National University. Thanks to host Youngsung Joo.<br />
Talk at the Zhongshan Academic Festival.<br />
Seminar at Zhejiang University. Thanks to host Jia Huang.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">October 2024</span><br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Xiaohan Xie.<br />
Paper published in <em>Methods in Nature Communications</em>: "<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53631-5" target="_blank">Improving the suppressive power of homing gene drive by co-targeting a distant-site female fertility gene</a>."<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes rotating  Yunchen Xia.<br />
Paper published in <em>Methods in Ecology and Evolution</em>: "<a href="https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.14432" target="_blank">Resource-explicit interactions in spatial population models</a>."<br />
Seminar at Chongqing Normal University. Thanks to host Zhengbo He.<br />
Congratulations to Jie Du, Xuejiao Xu, and Yiran Liu for giving talks at the Chinese Entomological Society conference in Chongqing.<br />
Talk at the Chinese Entomological Society conference.<br />
Review published in <em>Annual Review of Entomology</em>: "<a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-ento-012424-011039" target="_blank">Gene drive and symbiont technologies for control of mosquito-borne diseases</a>."<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">September 2024</span><br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.24.614707v1" target="_blank">Assessment of drive efficiency and resistance allele formation of a homing gene drive in the mosquito <em>Aedes aegypti</em></a>."<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.23.614516v1" target="_blank">A comparative assessment of self-limiting genetic control strategies for population suppression</a>."<br />
Paper published in <em>Molecular Ecology</em>: "<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.17530" target="_blank">Deployment of tethered gene drive for confined suppression in continuous space requires avoiding drive wave interference</a>."<br />
Paper published in <em>Nature Communications</em>: "<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52473-5" target="_blank">Population suppression by release of insects carrying a dominant sterile homing gene drive targeting <em>doublesex</em> in <em>Drosophila</em></a>."<br />
Paper published in <em>BMC Biology</em>: "<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-024-02004-x" target="_blank">Population suppression with dominant female-lethal alleles is boosted by homing gene drive</a>."<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Siyan Wu.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes rotating s Xinyi Wang, Ruishan Lyu, Yiming Liu, Jiajun Zhang.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">August 2024</span><br />
Congratulations to Jie Du, Xuejiao Xu, Yiran Liu, Weizhe Chen, Ruobing Feng, Yingke Wu, Xinyue Zhang, Xiaozhen Yang, Yue Han, Jialiang Guo, Jinyu Zhu, Nicky Faber, Jiahe (Carol) Li, Weitang Sun, and Chengwei Shi for giving talks at the International Congress of Entomology meeting in Kyoto.<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.14.607913v1" target="_blank">Population dynamics in spatial suppression gene drive models and the effect of resistance, density dependence, and life history</a>."<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">July 2024</span><br />
Review published in <em>Journal of Insect Science</em>: "<a href="https://academic.oup.com/jinsectscience/article/24/3/25/7697941" target="_blank">Battles between ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a review</a>."<br />
Talk at the Society for Mathematical Biology Meeting.<br />
Congratulations to Yiran Liu, Xinyue Zhang, and Jiahe (Carol) Li for giving talks at the Society for Mathematical Biology Meeting in Seoul.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">June 2024</span><br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Deployment of tethered gene drive for confined suppression in continuous space requires avoiding drive wave interference." (final version published in September 2024)<br />
Paper published in <em>Proceedings B</em>: "<a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2024.0500" target="_blank">Performance characteristics allow for confinement of a CRISPR toxin-antidote gene drive for population suppression in a reaction-diffusion model</a>."<br />
Paper published in <em>Nature Plants</em>: "<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-024-01692-1" target="_blank">Overriding Mendelian inheritance in Arabidopsis with a CRISPR toxin-antidote gene drive that impairs pollen germination</a>."<br />
New Presentation Online at HSTalks: "<a href="https://hstalks.com/t/5638/different-types-of-gene-drives/?biosci">Different types of gene drives</a>."<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Ziyin Yao.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">May 2024</span><br />
Paper published in <em>Nature Communications</em>: "<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48874-1">Germline Cas9 promoters with improved performance for homing gene drive</a>."<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.24.595689v1" target="_blank">Gene drive-based population suppression in the malaria vector <em>Anopheles stephensi</em></a>."<br />
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 <span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">April 2024</span><br />
Paper published in <em>Journal of Genetics and Genomics</em>: "<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1673852724000705">A homing rescue gene drive with multiplexed gRNAs reaches high frequency in cage populations but generates functional resistance</a>."<br />
Paper published in <em>PLoS Genetics</em>: "<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1011226">A small-molecule approach to restore female sterility phenotype targeted by a homing suppression gene drive in the fruit pest <em>Drosophila suzukii</em></a>."<br />
Paper published in <em>International Journal of Biological Macromolecules</em>: "<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0141813024010742">Involvement of miR-8510a-3p in response to Cry1Ac protoxin by regulating <em>PxABCG3</em> in <em>Plutella xylostella</em></a>."<br />
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 <span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">March 2024</span><br />
Talk at the Malaria Vector Control Technologies Conference.<br />
Talk at the Gene Drive Research Forum Meeting.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Peixin Wu.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes high school researcher Xiaokuan Wang.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">February 2024</span><br />
The Champer Lab welcomes lab manager Yang Zhang.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">January 2024</span><br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Resource-explicit interactions in spatial population models." (final version published in October 2024)<br /> 
The Champer Lab welcomes postdoc Christopher Kruger (joint with Bo Zhang's lab).<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">December 2023</span><br />
Postdoc Yuan Hu Allegretti has left the lab for an academic editor position. Her main manuscript from the lab is expected later in 2024.<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.07.570117v1" target="_blank">Improving the suppressive power of homing gene drive by co-targeting a distant-site female fertility gene</a>." (final version published in October 2024)<br /> 
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Population suppression with dominant female-lethal alleles is boosted by homing gene drive." (final version published in September 2024)<br />  
The Champer Lab welcomes rotating  Nan Chen.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">November 2023</span><br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "A homing rescue gene drive with multiplexed gRNAs reaches high frequency in cage populations but generates functional resistance." (final version published in April 2024)<br />      
Paper published in <em>Molecular Ecology Resources</em>: "<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1755-0998.13901">A framework for identifying fertility gene targets for mammalian pest control</a>."<br />
Congratulations to Yuan Hu Allegretti for giving a talk at the BRIN Mathematics of Malaria Transmission Dynamics in College Park, Maryland.<br />
Talk at the BRIN Mathematics of Malaria Transmission Dynamics conference.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes rotating  Kunyu Wang.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">October 2023</span><br />
The Champer Lab welcomes rotating  Hongjun Long.<br />
Congratulations to Jie Du for presenting at the China <em>Drosophila</em> Biology Conference.<br /> 
Congratulations to Xuejiao Xu, Yuan Hu Allegretti, Shibo Hou, Rachel Zhou, and Mollyann Qi for giving talks at the International Conference on Insect Pest Management in Nanjing.<br />
Talk at the International Conference on Insect Pest Management conference.<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Overriding Mendelian inheritance in <em>Arabidopsis</em> with a CRISPR toxin-antidote gene drive that impairs pollen germination." (final version published in June 2024)<br />      
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">September 2023</span><br />
Paper published in <em>Molecular Ecology</em>: "<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.17131" target="_blank">Making waves: Comparative analysis of gene drive spread characteristics in a continuous space model</a>."<br />      
Seminar at Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology. Thanks to host Wenfeng Qian.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes rotating graduate student Yue Han.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">August 2023</span><br />
Congratulations to Weizhe Chen for presenting at the Chinese Entomological Society conference in Kunming.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes postdoc Jie Yang and visiting graduate student Xiaozhen Yang.<br />
Congratulations to Jie Du, Xuejiao Xu, Yuan Hu Allegretti, Yiran Liu, Jingheng Chen, and Mollyann Qi for giving talks at the International Conference on Insect Science in Baoding.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes visiting graduate student Mollyann Qi.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">July 2023</span><br />
Congratulations to Jie Du, Xuejiao Xu, Yiran Liu, Weizhe Chen, and Jiahe (Carol) Li for giving talks at the International Congress of Genetics in Melbourne.<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Population suppression by release of insects carrying a dominant sterile homing gene drive targeting <em>doublesex</em> in <em>Drosophila</em>." (final version published in September 2024)<br />      
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "New germline Cas9 promoters show improved performance for homing gene drive." (final version published in May 2024)<br />      
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">June 2023</span><br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "A framework for identifying fertility gene targets for mammalian pest control." (final version published in November 2023)<br />      
Congratulations to Mingzuyu Pan for completing her undergraduate thesis work and successfully graduating!<br /> 
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">May 2023</span><br />
Paper published in <em>Ecology Letters</em>: "<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.14232" target="_blank">Adversarial interspecies relationships facilitate population suppression by gene drive in spatially explicit models</a>."<br />
Seminar at Nanjing Agricultural University. Thanks to host Shunfan Wu.<br />
Jackson is appointed as a visiting professor at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University.<br />
Seminar at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. Thanks to host Minsheng You.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">April 2023</span><br />
Congratulations to Jie Du for giving a talk at the National Symposium on Green Prevention and Control of Crop Diseases and Pests and Biotechnology.<br /> 
The Champer Lab congratulates Yiran Liu for winning a competitive award to attend the SMBE meiotic drive workship in June.<br /> 
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">March 2023</span><br />
The Champer Lab welcomes volunteer researcher Yuna Cho.<br /> 
The Champer Lab welcomes rotating graduate student Moming Guo.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Ziye Wang.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">February 2023</span><br />
Paper published in <em>ACS Synthetic Biology</em>: "<a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acssynbio.2c00611" target="_blank">Simulations reveal high efficiency and confinement of a population suppression CRISPR toxin-antidote gene drive</a>."<br />
Paper published in <em>Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology</em>: "<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2023.1138702/full" target="_blank">Assessment of distant-site rescue elements for CRISPR toxin-antidote gene drives</a>."<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">January 2023</span><br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Chengwei Shi.<br />
Paper published in <em>PLoS Genetics</em>: "<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1010591" target="_blank">Harnessing <em>Wolbachia</em> cytoplasmic incompatibility alleles for confined gene drive: A modeling study</a>."<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Assessment of distant-site rescue elements for CRISPR toxin-antidote gene drives." (final version published in February 2023)<br />      
The Champer Lab welcomes volunteer researcher Shibo Hou.<br /> 
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">December 2022</span><br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Performance characteristics allow for confinement of a CRISPR toxin-antidote gene drive designed for population suppression in a reaction-diffusion model." (final version published in June 2024)<br />      
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Jialing Fang.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes rotating graduate student Wenqing Tian.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">November 2022</span><br />
The Champer Lab welcomes rotating graduate students Xuqing Feng and Weiwen Yang.<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Making waves: Comparative analysis of gene drive spread characteristics in a continuous space model." (final version published in September 2023)<br />      
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Simulations reveal high efficiency and confinement of a population suppression CRISPR toxin-antidote gene drive." (final version published in February 2023)<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">October 2022</span><br />
The Champer Lab welcomes rotating graduate students Biao Zhang and Cao Yu.<br />
Paper published in <em>eLife</em> (last postdoc paper!): "<a href="https://elifesciences.org/articles/79121" target="_blank"><em>Anopheles</em> homing suppression drive candidates exhibit unexpected performance differences in simulations with spatial structure</a>."<br />
Online seminar at France National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment. Thanks to host Nicolas Rode.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">September 2022</span><br />
Paper published in <em>eLife</em>: "<a href="https://elifesciences.org/articles/71809" target="_blank">Fitness effects of CRISPR endonucleases in <em>Drosophila melanogaster</em> populations</a>."<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes high school researcher Ruizhi (Rachel) Zhou.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Jinyu Zhu.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes rotating graduate students Ruobing Feng and Yinke Wu.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">August 2022</span><br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Harnessing <em>Wolbachia</em> cytoplasmic incompatibility alleles for confined gene drive: a modeling study." (final version published in January 2023)<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">July 2022</span><br />
The Champer Lab welcomes rotating graduate student Xinyue Zhang.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">June 2022</span><br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researchers Weitang Sun and Yuqi Zhang.<br />
Congratulations to Shijie Zhang, WeiJian Teo, Haochen Yang, and Weizhe Chen for completing their undergraduate thesis work and successfully graduating!<br /> 
<br />                 

<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">May 2022</span><br />
Paper published in <em>BMC Biology</em>: "<a href="https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-022-01292-5" target="_blank">Experimental demonstration of tethered gene drive systems for confined population modification or suppression</a>."<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Adversarial interspecies relationships facilitate population suppression by gene drive in spatially explicit models." (final version published in May 2023)<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">April 2022</span><br />
Paper published in <em>Proceedings B</em> (first paper of the new lab!): "<a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.0320" target="_blank">Modelling homing suppression gene drive in haplodiploid organisms</a>." Congratulations, Yiran!<br />
Paper published in <em>G3</em>: "<a href="https://academic.oup.com/g3journal/advance-article/doi/10.1093/g3journal/jkac081/6565321" target="_blank">A homing suppression gene drive with multiplexed gRNAs maintains high drive conversion efficiency and avoids functional resistance alleles</a>."<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">March 2022</span><br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Finding the strongest gene drive: Simulations reveal unexpected performance differences between <em>Anopheles</em> homing suppression drive candidates</a>." (final version published in October 2022)<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Mingzuyu Pan.<br />
Review published in <em>Trends in Genetics</em>: "<a href="https://www.cell.com/trends/genetics/fulltext/S0168-9525(22)00040-3" target="_blank">Symbionts and gene drive: two strategies to combat vector-borne disease</a>."<br />        
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">February 2022</span><br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Xiaozhen Yang.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">December 2021</span><br />
Paper published in <em>PLOS Computational Biology</em>: "<a href="https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009660" target="_blank">Modeling CRISPR gene drives for suppression of invasive rodents</a>."<br />        
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Weizhe Chen.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes volunteer researcher Jingheng Chen.<br /> 
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">November 2021</span><br />
The Champer Lab welcomes volunteer researcher Ziqian Xu.<br />
Review article published in&nbsp;</span><em style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Journal of Great Lakes Research</em><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">:&nbsp;</span><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">"</span><a
        href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0380133021002379" target="_blank">Genetic control of invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes</a>."<br />   
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">October 2021</span><br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Jiahe (Carol) Li.<br />
Talk at the Chinese Entomological Society conference.<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Modeling homing suppression gene drive in haplodiploid organisms." (final version published in April 2022)<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">September 2021</span><br />
The Champer Lab welcomes rotating graduate student Siyang Zhou.<br />
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<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">August 2021</span><br />
Seminar at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Zoology. Thanks to hosts Zhen Zou and Guan-Hong Wang.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researchers Shijie Zhang and WeiJian Teo.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes volunteer reseacher Weiwei Chen.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes lab manager Li (Lily) Yang.<br /><br />
    
<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">July 2021</span><br />
The Champer Lab welcomes postdoc researcher Xuejiao Xu.<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes research technician Xihua Jia.<br /><br />

<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">June 2021</span><br />
Talk at the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Synthetic Gene Drives. "Gene drive for population modification or suppression.”<br />
The Champer Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Yutong Zhu.<br /><br />

<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">May 2021</span><br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Experimental demonstration of tethered gene drive systems for confined population modification or suppression." (final version published in May 2022)<br /> 
The Champer Lab welcomes research technician Yiran Liu.<br /> 
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "A homing suppression gene drive with multiplexed gRNAs maintains high drive conversion efficiency and avoids functional resistance alleles." (final version published in April 2022)<br />
Jackson has arrived at Peking University. Special thanks to new lab members Jie Du (postdoc), Chenyi Chu (researcher), and Haonan Yang (graduate student) for helping to set things up.<br />
New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Fitness effects of CRISPR endonucleases in <em>Drosophila melanogaster</em> populations" (final version published in September 2022)<br />
Participated in the Target Malaria workshop "Plausible Pathways to Potential Harm" <br />
<br />
    <strong>----Start of the Champer Lab at Peking University on 21 May----</strong>
    <br /><br />
   <span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">February 2021</span><br />
Talk at the Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research annual meeting. "Population control of invasive fish using gene drive”<br /><br />

    <span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">January 2021</span><br /><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Paper published in&nbsp;</span><em style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Molecular Ecology</em><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">:&nbsp;</span><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">"</span><a
        href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.15788" target="_blank">Suppression gene drive in continuous space can result in unstable persistence of both drive and wild‐type alleles</a>."<br /><br />

     <span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">December 2020</span><br />
            The Champer Lab welcomes Jie Du, a newly recruited postdoc who will join the lab when it opens in early 2021.<br />&#8203;

        Paper published in&nbsp;</span><em style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Evolutionary Applications</em><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">:&nbsp;</span><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">"</span><a
        href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eva.13180" target="_blank">Design and analysis of CRISPR‐based underdominance toxin‐antidote gene drives
</a>&#8203;"
    </span><br />&#8203;


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    <span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">November 2020</span><br />
</span><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">New paper on&nbsp;</span><em style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">bioRxiv</em><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">: "</span>Modeling CRISPR gene drives for suppression of invasive rodents<span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">"</span> (final version published in December 2021)<br />
Jackson has accepted a faculty position at the <a
        href="http://www.bio.pku.edu.cn/enhomes/index/index.html" target="_blank">School of Life Sciences</a><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">&nbsp;at Peking University and the Peking-Tsinghua&nbsp;</span><a
        href="http://www.cls.edu.cn/english/" target="_blank">Center for Life Sciences</a><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">.<br /><br />
        
        <span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">September 2020</span><br /><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Paper published in&nbsp;</span><em style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">PNAS</em><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">:&nbsp;</span><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">"</span><a
        href="https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/09/11/2004373117" target="_blank">A CRISPR homing gene drive
        targeting a haplolethal gene removes resistance alleles and successfully spreads through a cage
        population</a>&#8203;<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">"</span><br /><br />

<span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">March 2020</span><br />
<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Paper published in&nbsp;</span><em
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">BMC Biology</em><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">: "</span><a
        href="https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-020-0761-2" target="_blank">Performance analysis
        of novel toxin-antidote CRISPR gene drive systems</a><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">"</span><br />
Press:&nbsp;<a
        href="https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2020/03/cornell-researchers-find-safer-approach-to-gene-drives/" target="_blank">Cornell researchers find safer approach to gene drives</a><br />
Press:&nbsp;<a
        href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200303175308.htm" target="_blank">Improved CRISPR gene drive
        solves problems of old tech</a><br />
    Press:&nbsp;<a
        href="https://www.clinicalomics.com/topics/precision-medicine-topic/crispr/tare-may-be-the-future-of-genome-editing-improving-on-crispr-gene-drive/" target="_blank">TARE May Be the Future of Genome Editing, Improving on CRISPR Gene Drive</a><br />
<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Paper published in <em>ACS Synthetic
            Biology</em></span><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">:</span>&nbsp;"<a
        href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssynbio.9b00452" target="_blank">Population dynamics of underdominance
        gene drive systems in continuous space</a>"<br />
An NIH/NIAID K22 grant has been funded for Jackson Champer, which will&nbsp;support
    his future laboratory.<br />
<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Paper
        published in&nbsp;</span><em>Science&nbsp;Advances</em><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">:&nbsp;</span><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">"</span><a href="https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/10/eaaz0525"
        target="_blank">Computational and experimental performance of CRISPR homing gene drive strategies with
        multiplexed gRNAs</a>"<br /><br />

<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:bold">February
        2020</span><br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Paper published in&nbsp;</span><em
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Nature Communications</em><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">:&nbsp;</span>"<a
        href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14960-3" target="_blank">A toxin-antidote CRISPR gene drive
        system for regional population modification</a>"<br /><br />

<span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:bold">December 2019</span><br /><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">New paper on&nbsp;</span><em style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">bioRxiv</em><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">: "</span>Design and analysis of CRISPR-based underdominance toxin-antidote gene drives</a><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">"</span> (final version published in December 2020)<br /><br />

<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:bold">November
        2019</span><br />
        Congratulations to Emily Yang for presenting a talk at the&nbsp;Entomology Society of America</span><em style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">&nbsp;</em><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Conference! "</span>A CRISPR homing gene drive targeting a haplolethal gene with rescue averts resistance<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">"</span><br />
<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Talk at the Entomology Society of America</span><em
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">&nbsp;</em><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Conference. "</span>Experimental
    and computational tests of CRISPR toxin-antidote gene drive strategies<span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">&rdquo;<br />

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<span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:bold">October 2019&#8203;</span><br /><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Congratulations to Emily Yang for receiving a Cornell research grant for our
        experiments!</span><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:bold">September
        2019&#8203;</span><br />

<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>
    
    "Suppression gene drive
        in continuous space can result in unstable persistence of both drive and wild-type alleles" </a><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)"></span> (final version published in January 2021) <br /><br />

<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:700">July
        2019&#8203;</span><br />
<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Talk at the EMBO Vector</span><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">&nbsp;conference.</span><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">&nbsp;"</span>Experimental and computational tests of new gene drive
    strategies<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">&#8203;"</span><br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Talk at the
        Sea Lamprey International Symposium. &ldquo;CRISPR gene drive as a tool for control of the sea
        lamprey&rdquo;</span><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)"><strong>June 2019</strong><br />Seminar at
        the&nbsp;University of Melbourne. &ldquo;Experimental and computational tests of novel CRISPR gene drive
        strategies&rdquo;<br />Participated in the ILSI workshop "</span>Gene Drive Modeling Conference<span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">"<br />New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "</span>Computational and experimental
    performance of CRISPR homing gene drive strategies with multiplexed gRNAs"&nbsp;<span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">(final version published in March 2020)</span><br /><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Talk at the Evolution 2019</span><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">&nbsp;joint
        conference</span><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">. "</span>Computational and experimental tests of new
    CRISPR gene drive strategies<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">&#8203;"<br />Congratulations to Isabel Kim for
        being selected as a member of the&nbsp;</span>Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholars
    Program!<br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:bold">May
        2019&#8203;</span><br />Congratulations to Emily Yang for winning&nbsp;the Cornell Molecular and Cellular
    Biology poster competition! "A CRISPR gene drive eliminates resistance with haplolethal target and rescue
    allele"<br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">New paper on&nbsp;</span><em
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">bioRxiv</em><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">: "</span>Performance analysis of
    novel toxin-antidote CRISPR gene drive systems<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">"&nbsp;(final version published
        in March 2020)</span><br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">New paper on&nbsp;</span><em
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">bioRxiv</em><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">: "</span>A toxin-antidote CRISPR
    gene drive system for regional population modification<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">"&nbsp;(final version
        published in February 2020)</span><br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Participated in the FNIH workshop
        "</span>Data Needs and Assay Design for Decision Making on Gene Drive-Modified Mosquitoes"<br /><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">New paper on&nbsp;</span><em style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">bioRxiv</em><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">: "</span>Resistance is futile: A CRISPR homing gene drive targeting a haplolethal
    gene"&nbsp;<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">(final version published in September
        2020)</span><br />Congratulations to Isabel Kim for presenting a poster at the Great Lakes Evolutionary Genomics
    Symposium! "Suppression gene drives in continuous&nbsp;space can demonstrate unstable long-term population
    dynamics"<br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:bold">April 2019</span><br /><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Congratulations to Jingxian Liu and Zhaoxin Wen for completing their honors thesis
        requirements! These theses were based on their <em>Genetics </em>papers published in January and March of this
        year.<br />Press:&nbsp;</span><a href="https://elifesciences.org/podcast/episode55#782" target="_blank">eLife
        Podcast</a><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:bold">March 2019</span><br /><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Paper published in <em>Genetics</em>: "<a
            href="http://www.genetics.org/content/early/2019/03/27/genetics.119.302037" target="_blank">CRISPR gene
            drive efficiency and resistance rate is highly heritable with no common genetic loci of large
            effect</a>"</span><br />Press:&nbsp;<a
        href="https://elifesciences.org/digests/41439/keeping-gene-drives-in-check" target="_blank">Keeping gene drives
        in check</a><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:bold">January 2019</span><br /><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Paper published in <em>eLife</em>: "</span><a
        href="https://elifesciences.org/articles/41439" target="_blank">Molecular safeguarding of CRISPR gene drive
        experiments</a>"<br />Paper published in <em>Genetics</em>: "<a
        href="http://www.genetics.org/content/211/3/1005" target="_blank">Maximum likelihood estimation of fitness
        components in experimental evolution</a>"<br />Press:&nbsp;<a
        href="https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/6bb67c97/scientists-demonstrate-effective-strategies-for-safeguarding-crispr-gene-drive-experiments"
        target="_blank">Scientists demonstrate effective strategies for safeguarding CRISPR gene-drive
        experiments</a><br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:bold">November 2018</span><br /><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Talk at the </span>Entomological Society of America&nbsp;Joint Annual Meeting<span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">. "</span>Can CRISPR gene drive succeed in natural
    populations?&#8203;"<br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:bold">October 2018</span><br /><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "</span>Population dynamics of underdominance gene
    drive systems in continuous space<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">"&nbsp;(final version published in March
        2020)</span><br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "</span>Multiple loci of
    small effect confer wide variability in efficiency and resistance rate of CRISPR gene drive<span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">"&nbsp;(final version published in March 2019)</span><br /><br /><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:bold">September 2018</span><br />New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>:
    "Molecular safeguarding of CRISPR gene drive experiments"&nbsp;<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">(final version
        published in January 2019)</span><br />Congratulations to Jingxian Liu for receiving a Cornell research grant
    for our experiments!<br /><br /><strong>August 2018</strong><br /><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Congratulations to Zhaoxin Wen for presenting a talk at the Cornell undergraduate
        research symposium! "</span>A genome-wide association study to identify genetic factors affecting CRISPR gene
    drives<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">&#8203;"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold">June
        2018</span><br />New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Maximum likelihood estimation of fitness components in
    experimental evolution"&nbsp;<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">(final version published in January
        2019)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold">May 2018</span><br />Paper published in <em>PNAS</em>:
    "<a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/05/04/1720354115" target="_blank">Reducing resistance allele
        formation in CRISPR gene drive</a>"<br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Poster presentation at the Genetics
        Society of America PEQG Conference. "A genome-wide association study to identify genetic factors affecting
        resistance allele formation in CRISPR gene drives&rdquo;</span><br />Press:&nbsp;<a
        href="https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/68/7/474/5001514" target="_blank">Researchers Hit Roadblocks
        with Gene Drives</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold">April 2018</span><br />Grant awarded: NIH F32
    "Dynamics of gene drives in natural populations"<br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Talk at the Genetics
        Society of America&nbsp;</span><em style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Drosophila</em><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">&nbsp;Research</span><em style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">&nbsp;</em><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Conference. "A genome-wide association study to identify genetic factors affecting
        resistance allele formation in CRISPR gene drives&rdquo;<br />Congratulations to Jingxian Liu for receiving
        the&nbsp;</span>Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Travel Award<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">&nbsp;and
        presenting a talk at the Genetics Society of America&nbsp;</span><em
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Drosophila</em><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">&nbsp;Research</span><em
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">&nbsp;</em><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Conference! "</span>Maximum
    likelihood estimation of sex-dependent fitness costs of a <em>yellow </em>mutant allele in <em>Drosophila
        melanogaster</em>"<br /><br /><strong>November 2017</strong><br /><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Congratulations to Chen Liu and Jingxian Liu for presenting a poster at the Ivy
        League Undergraduate Research Symposium!&nbsp;</span>"Characterization and Improvement of CRISPR Homing Gene
    Drives"<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold">August 2017</span><br />Grant awarded: NIH R21 "Improved CRISPR
    gene drive systems with reduced resistance allele formation"<br />Congratulations to Joan Chung and Chen Liu for
    presenting a talk at the Cornell undergraduate research symposium! "Applications and development of homing gene
    drives"<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold">July 2017</span><br />Paper published in <em>PLOS Genetics</em>:
    "<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1006796" target="_blank">Novel
        CRISPR/Cas9 gene drive constructs reveal insights into mechanisms of resistance allele formation and drive
        efficiency in genetically diverse populations</a>"<br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Talk at the Cold
        Spring Harbor CRISPR</span><em style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">&nbsp;</em><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Conference.&nbsp;"CRISPR gene drives with reduced resistance allele
        formation"</span><br />Public Outreach: <a
        href="https://np.reddit.com/r/science/comments/6wyocb/plos_science_wednesday_hi_reddit_im_jackson_and_i/"
        target="_blank">"Ask Me Anything" on Reddit</a><br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Press:</span><br /><a
        href="https://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/gene-drives-will-need-a-tune-up-to-power-past-resistance/81254691"
        target="_blank">Gene Drives Will Need a Tune-Up to Power Past Resistance</a><br /><a
        href="https://phys.org/news/2017-07-gene-foiled-rapid-resistance.html" target="_blank">Gene drives likely to be
        foiled by rapid rise of resistance</a><br /><a
        href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/resistance-crispr-gene-drives-may-arise-easily"
        target="_blank">Resistance to CRISPR gene drives may arise easily</a><br /><a
        href="https://gizmodo.com/genetically-engineering-nature-will-be-way-more-complic-1797069252"
        target="_blank">Genetically Engineering Nature Will Be Way More Complicated Than We Thought</a><br /><a
        href="https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1006850" target="_blank">The gene
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        <br />&#8203;</a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold">June
        2017</span><br />New paper on <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Reducing resistance allele formation in CRISPR gene drives"
    (final version published in May 2018)<br />&#8203;<br /><strong>April 2017</strong><br />Poster
    presentation&nbsp;at the Genetics Society of America <em>Drosophila</em> Research<em>&nbsp;</em>Conference.&nbsp;<span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">"</span><span
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Resistance allele formation and genetic diversity in&nbsp;</span><em
        style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">Drosophila</em><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">&nbsp;CRISPR/Cas9 gene
        drives"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold">February 2017</span><br />New paper on
    <em>bioRxiv</em>: "Novel CRISPR/Cas9 gene drive constructs in <em>Drosophila</em> reveal insights into mechanisms of
    resistance allele formation and drive efficiency in genetically diverse populations" (final version published in
    July 2017)<br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(42, 42, 42); font-weight:bold">May 2016</span><br />Jackson Champer
    joins the Messer and Clark labs at Cornell University as a postdoc</div>