Target Malaria Newsletter
Target Malaria
We aim to co-develop and share sustainable genetic technologies to end malaria
Welcome to the latest edition of the Target Malaria newsletter!
Find out what our teams are up to, read our new media coverage and publications,?see our social media highlights and resources.
The Great Exhibition Road Festival
The team at 英国帝国理工学院 took part in the?Great Exhibition Road Festival, an annual celebration of the arts and sciences in London. The event was attended by over 55,000 people, and Target Malaria’s stand showcased a cage of mosquitoes and mosquito larvae in water, the Target Malaria card game?Mozzie Drive, and?a sonification piece?using the 2016 gene drive cage trials. Read more about the Festival?here.
Media Coverage ??
Dr Jonathan Kayondo was?interviewed?in a piece by Nature Outlook on how genetically modified mosquitoes could be used as a potential tool to help eliminate malaria.
Target Malaria was?featured?in a piece by El Periódico de Espa?a , highlighting the 2019 release of non gene drive genetically modified mosquitoes in Burkina Faso.
Lee Phillimore , Senior Research Technician in the 英国帝国理工学院 team was interviewed in a piece for?Imperial College’s news site?for World Insect Week.
Blog round up
What does it mean to be an entomologist??
By Charles Batume
Charles Batume is an entomologist, working at the? Uganda Virus Research Institute , Target Malaria’s partner institution in?Uganda.??
How Target Malaria uses theatre to communicate with communities
Communicating with?communities?involves prioritising the appropriate methods and channels, and in?Burkina Faso, Target Malaria uses theatre as a tool for engagement.
A photographic look at the future based on a rich past?
By Warren Saré
Photography is a passion of mine, from my early youth to the sight of my first camera, the flame was born in me and guided all my decisions and life projects.
My role as a malaria ambassador?
After three years of being a member of the? Global Fund Advocates Network ?(GFAN) Speakers Bureau, I am honoured to have been re-selected to be a part of a cohort of committed speakers spotlighting the? The Global Fund ’s work and encouraging collective engagement and increased funding to aid the fight against malaria.??
Social Media Highlights ??
Our top posts for the first half of the year
Happy #InsectWeek?- 5,854 impressions, 291 engagements?
International Day of Women and Girls in Science?– 4,767 impressions, 192 engagements
领英推荐
Are you an aspiring #PhDstudent interested in mathematical modelling, #statistics & computational methods??- 4,017 impressions, 84 engagements?
Burkina Faso receiving a new strain of genetically modified mosquito eggs?– 3,060 impressions, 46 engagements
"The new rock n roll stars of our time"?– 2,517 impressions, 127 engagements
Congratulatory post for Dr Daniel Ngamije Madandi joining as the new Director of?the WHO?Global Malaria Programme?– 2,030 impressions, 109 engagements
Resources
Check out the new pages on the Target Malaria website, including our?virtual press room?and pages on?science,?stakeholder engagement?and?regulatory affairs.
The?Mozzie Drive?card?game is fast becoming a fun and educational way to explore how gene drive technology works to reduce populations of malaria mosquitoes. We have made the files available and ready for printing.?
It’s available to all!
New publications ??
Ben Bellekom , Lewis OT, Talya Hackett .?Latitudinal and anthropogenic effects on the structuring of networks linking blood-feeding flies and their vertebrate hosts.?Med Vet Entomol. 2023.?https://doi.org/10.1111/mve.12671
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John B. Connolly .?Defining transformation events for gene drive in species complexes.2023. IOBC-WPRS Bulletin 163; 88-95.?https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2806607/v1?https://iobc-wprs.org/product/defining-transformation-events-for-gene-drive-in-species-complexes/
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Hartley, S., Kokotovich, A., Devos, Y., Mumford, J. (2023)?Engagement on risk assessment for gene drive mosquitoes by EFSA and Target Malaria.?Environmental Science & Policy 142, 183-193.?https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-022-05607-x
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Leite LN, Priscila Bascunan , Dotson EM, Benedict MQ.?Anopheles?Larval Rearing.?Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2023 May 9.?doi: 10.1101/pdb.prot108187
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Leite LN, Priscila Bascunan , Dotson EM, Benedict MQ.?Anopheles?Pupa Collection and Sex Identification.?Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2023 May 9.?doi: 10.1101/pdb.prot108189
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Leite LN, Priscila Bascunan , Dotson EM, Benedict MQ.?Anopheles?Egg Collection, Disinfection, and Hatching.?Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2023 May 9.?doi: 10.1101/pdb.prot108186
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Leite LN, Priscila Bascunan , Dotson EM, Benedict MQ.?Considerations for Rearing and Maintaining?Anopheles?in the Laboratory.?Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2023 May 9.?doi: 10.1101/pdb.top107802
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Leite LN, Priscila Bascunan , Dotson EM, Benedict MQ.?Anopheles?Adult Anesthesia, Feeding, and Sex Separation.?Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2023 May 9.?doi: 10.1101/pdb.prot108188
Small ST, Costantini C, Sagnon N, Guelbeogo Moussa , Emrich SJ, Kern AD, Fontaine MC, Besansky NJ.?Standing genetic variation and chromosome differences drove rapid ecotype formation in a major malaria mosquito.?Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Mar 14;120(11):e2219835120.?https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2219835120
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Geoff Turner .?Assessment tools for decision making for area wide malaria vector control using gene-drive approaches – perspectives on socioeconomic considerations.?2023. IOBC-WPRS Bulletin 163; 88-95. Working Group “Modern Biotechnology in Integrated Plant Production”. Proceedings of the ninth Meeting at Berlin (Germany), 28-30 September, 2022. Edited by Michael Meissle, Ulrike Middelhoff, Detlef Bartsch. ISBN 978-92-9067-350-7 [XIV + 116 pp.].?https://iobc-wprs.org/product/assessment-tools-for-decision-making-for-area-wide-malaria-vector-control-using-gene-drive-approaches-perspectives-on-evaluation-of-socio-economic-considerations/
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Matteo Vitale , Liang J, Sharakhov I, Federica Bernardini .?Whole-Mount Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization to Study Spermatogenesis in the Anopheles Mosquito.?J Vis Exp. 2023.?https://doi.org/10.3791/65356
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