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The institute focuses on basic science which helps us understand the principles and processes of living organisms. This type of basic research underscores the applied science that follows and sets the pace of technological progress. With over 750 first and last authored publications in high-caliber journals, the institute’s prodigious publication record is a testament to the new knowledge it generates—critical knowledge utilized by innumerable researchers globally to advance scientific research to control and eliminate malaria. 

PUBLICATIONS | Listed below by year

2023

Nature Scientific Reports
The effectiveness of malaria camps as part of the malaria control program in Odisha India., Jane Carlton

mBio
Plasmodium female gamete surface HSP90 is a key determinant for fertilization, Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena

Research Square (pre-print) AWAITING PUBLICATION
Development of an anti-Pfs230 monoclonal antibody as a Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte blocker, Emilia Cuccurullo

PLOS Glob Public Health
Changes in mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia: Implications for the effectiveness of NPIs in Sub-Saharan Africa, Amy Wesolowski

Malaria Journal
Spatial-temporal vector abundance and malaria transmission dynamics in Nchelenge and Lake Mweru islands, a region with a high burden of malaria in northern Zambia, Doug Norris

Nature Communications
Clinically relevant atovaquone-resistant human malaria parasites fail to transmit by mosquito., Victoria Balta | Theresa Shapiro

Nature Communications
Structure guided mimicry of an essential P. falciparum receptor-ligand complex enhances cross neutralizing antibodies, Prakash Srinivasan

Nature Communications
Aedes aegypti Argonaute 2 controls arbovirus infection and host mortality, Shengzhang Dong | George Dimopoulos

Cold Spring Harb Protoc
Quantification of Anopheles gambiae Olfactory Preferences under Semi-Field Conditions, Diego Giraldo | Conor McMeniman

Cold Spring Harb Protoc
A Behavioral Assay to Quantify Odor-Guided Thermotaxis with Anopheles gambiae under Semi-Field Conditions, Diego Giraldo | Conor McMeniman

Cold Spring Harb Protoc
Quantifying Mosquito Host Preference, Diego Giraldo | Conor McMeniman

Cold Spring Harb Protoc
A Behavioral Assay to Quantify Odor-Guided Thermotaxis with Anopheles gambiae under Semi-Field Conditions, Diego Giraldo | Conor McMeniman

Nature Communications
Novel insights into the role of long non-coding RNA in the human malaria parasite, Plasmodiaum falciparum, Photini Sinnis

Science
Delftia tsuruhatensis TC1 symbiont suppresses malaria transmission by anopheline mosquitoes., Wei Huang | Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena

PLOS Glob Public Health
Novel bioinformatic methods and machine learning approaches reveal candidate biomarkers of the intensity and timing of past exposure to Plasmodium falciparum., Sophie Berube

Medical Research Archives 
The Role of Rural Health Centres in the Detection and Management of Malaria Outbreaks in a Low Transmission Setting of Choma District, Zambia, Clive Shiff

Malaria Journal
Temporal and spatial analysis of Plasmodium falciparum genomics reveals patterns of parasite connectivity in a low-transmission district in Southern Province, Zambia, ICEMR team

American Jounal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The Impact of Household and Community Indoor Residual Spray Coverage with Fludora Fusion in a High Malaria Transmission Setting in Northern Zambia, Ellen Ferriss | William Moss (ICEMR)

PLoS pathogens
Long non-coding RNAs regulate Aedes aegypti vector competence for Zika virus and reproduction, George Dimopoulos

iScience
Neurogenetic identification of mosquito sensory neurons, Joanna Konopka | Chris Potter

Cell Reports
Human scent guides mosquito thermotaxis and host selection under naturalistic conditions, Stephanie Rankin-Turner; Diego Geraldo | Conor McMeniman

eLife
The Plasmodium falciparum apicoplast cysteine desulfurase provides sulfur for both iron-sulfur cluster assembly and tRNA modification, Sean Prigge

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Declining Age-Specific Seroprevalence and Seroconversion Rates in Plasmodium falciparum from 2009 to 2018 Documents Progress toward Malaria Elimination in Southern Zambia., Tamaki Kobayasha, William Moss, Southern and Central Africa ICEMR

Stat Med
A Bayesian hierarchical model for signal extraction from protein microarrays, Sophie Berube

mBio
Chromobacterium Biopesticide Exposure Does Not Select for Resistance in Aedes Mosquitoes, Cecilia Springer Engdahl | George Dimopoulos

Plos One
Transport of antibody into the skin is only partially dependent upon the neonatal Fc-receptor, Photini Sinnis

PNAS
The mitochondrion of Plasmodium falciparum is required for cellular acetyl-CoA metabolism and protein acetylation, Sean Prigge

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygene
Creating and Validating Ligase Primers to Detect Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Associated with Atovaquone Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum, Theresa Shapiro, Sean Prigge, David Sullivan

Trends in Immunology
Malaria: influence of Anopheles mosquito saliva on Plasmodium infection | Opinion, George Dimopoulos, Photini Sinnis

PNAS
RNA interference is essential to modulating the pathogenesis of mosquito-borne viruses in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes Aegypti, Yuemei Dong | George Dimopoulos

Cell Reports
A spatial map of antennal-expressed ionotropic receptors in the malaria mosquito, Joshua Raji | Chris Potter

Book published by Jenny Stanford PPublishing: Mosquito Gene Drives and the Malaria Eradication Agenda
Transgenesis and Paratransgenesis for the Control of Malaria, Marcelo Jacobs Lorena

eBook | Chapter 1: Current Scenario of Malaria and the Transformative Power of Gene Drive-Based Technologie.  Published by Taylor & Francis Group
Mosquito Gene Drives and the Malaria Eradication Agenda | Current Scenario of Malaria and the Transformative Power of Gene Drive-Based Technologies, George Dimopoulos

Fronteirs I Epidemiology
Exploring how space, time, and sampling impact our ability to measure genetic structure across Plasmodium falciparum populations, Amy Wesolowski

bioRxiv
Transmissibility of clinically relevant atovaquone-resistant Plasmodium falciparum by anopheline mosquitoes, Victoria Balta | Theresa Shapiro, Sean Prigge, Sean Prigge

Clinical Infectious Diseases 
Malaria in Refugee Children Resettled to a Holoendemic Area of Sub-Saharan Africa, Matthew Ippolito

Infect Immun
Plasmodium berghei Purified Hemozoin Associated with DNA Strongly Inhibits P. berghei Liver-Stage Development in BALB/c Mice after Intravenous Inoculation, Adriano Franco | Fidel Zavala

2022

Curr Opin in Microbiology
New insights into apicoplast metabolism in blood-stage malaria parasites., Rubayet Elahi | Sean Prigge

Parasite & Vectors
Discovery of novel natural products for mosquito control, George Dimopoulos

BMC Infectious Diseases
Characterizing human movement patterns using GPS data loggers in an area of persistent malaria in Zimbabwe along the Mozambique border., William Moss

Curr Opin Insect Sci (2022 Sept 10)
Chemosensory ionotropic receptors in human host-seeking mosquitoes, Joshua Raji | Chris Potter

mBio
Phage therapy for mosquito larval control: A proof-of-principle study, Chimnay Tikhe | George Dimopoulos

Malaria Journal | Part of Springer Nature
Impact of aerial humidity on seasonal malaria: an ecological study in Zambia, Clive Shiff

Cold Spring Harb Protocol
Calcium Imaging of Anopheles coluzzii Mosquito Antennae Expressing the Calcium Indicator GCaMP6f, Ali Afify | Chris Potter

Cold Spring Harb Protocol
Genetically Encoded Calcium Indicators for Functional Imaging of Mosquito Olfactory Neurons, Ali Afify | Chris Potter

eLIFE
Combining transgenesis with paratransgenesis to fight malaria, Wei Huang | Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena

Analyst
A headspace collection chamber for whole body volatilomics, Stephanie Rankin-Turner | Conor McMeniman

Cell Rep Med
Reducing misclassification bias in severe malaria research, Matthew Ippolito

American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygene
What Heterogeneities in Individual-level Mobility Are Lost During Aggregation? Leveraging GPS Logger Data to Understand Fine-scale and Aggregated Patterns of Mobility, Amy Wesolowski

Cold Spring Harb Protoc.
Overview of Aedes aegypti and Use in Laboratory Studies, Margot Wohl | Conor McMeniman

Cold Spring Harb Protoc.
Single-Pair and Small-Group Crosses of Aedes aegypti, Margot Wohl | Conor McMeniman

Cold Spring Harb Protoc.
Batch Rearing Aedes aegypti, Margot Wohl | Conor McMeniman

Am J Trop Med Hyg
Policy Implications of the Southern and Central Africa International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research: Ten Years of Malaria Control Impact Assessments in Hypo-, Meso-, and Holoendemic Transmission Zones in Zambia and Zimbabwe, Amy Wesolowski | William Moss

Am J Trop Med Hyg
Scientific Findings of the Southern and Central Africa International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research: Ten Years of Malaria Control Impact Assessments in Hypo-, Meso-, and Holoendemic Transmission Zones in Zambia and Zimbabwe, Amy Wesolowski | William Moss

Viruses/MDPI
The Role of Mosquito Hemocytes in Viral Infections, George Dimopoulos

Am J Trop Med Hyg
Temporal and Spatial Differences between Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Malaria Infections in the Chittagong Hill Districts, Bangladesh., Frank Curriero (David Sullivan)

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Screening the Pathogen Box for Inhibition of Plasmodium falciparum Sporozoite Motility Reveals a Critical Role for Kinases in Transmission Stages, Sachie Kanatani | Photini Sinnis

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Trypsin-like Inhibitor Domain (TIL)-Harboring Protein Is Essential for Aedes aegypti Reproduction., Chinmay Vijay Tikhe | George Dimopoulos

Malaria Journal
Expanded geographic distribution and host preference of Anopheles gibbinsi (Anopheles species 6) in northern Zambia, Mary Gebhardt | Douglas Norris

American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygene
The Unmeasured Burden of Febrile, Respiratory, and Diarrheal Illnesses Identified Through Active Household Surveillance in a Low Malaria Transmission Setting in Southern Zambia, William Moss

Plos Biology
The Aedes aegypti siRNA pathway mediates broad-spectrum defense against human pathogenic viruses and modulates antibacterial and antifungal defenses, Yuemei Dong | George Dimopoulos

Microbial Ecology
Malaria in Refugee Children Resettled to a Holoendemic Area of Sub-Saharan Africa, Matthew Ippolito

Nature Communications 
Transgenic Anopheles mosquitoes expressing human PAI-1 impair malaria transmission, Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena & Joel Vega-Rodriguez

Entomological Research
New weapons to fight malaria transmission: A historical view, Wei Huang | Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena

Journal of Biological Chemistry
Metabolic changes accompanying the loss of fumarate hydratase and malate-quinone oxidoreductase in the asexual blood stage of Plasmodium falciparum, Krithika Rajaram | Sean Prigge

eLife
Chemoreceptor co-expression in Drosophila melanogaster olfactory neurons, Darya Task | Chris Potter

Oxford Academic: Clinical Infectious Diseases
Whole blood transfusion for severe malarial anemia in a high Plasmodium falciparum transmission setting, Matt Ippolito | William Moss

Frontiers in Microbiology
The Screen of a Phage Display Library Identifies a Peptide that binds ot the Survace of Trypanosoma cruzi, Sung-Jae Cha

J Cell Bio
Ribbon boosts ribosomal protein gene expression to coordinate organ form and function, R. Loganathan | Deborah Andrew

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Understudied Anophelines Contribute to Malaria Transmission in a Low-Transmission Setting in the Choma District, Southern Province, Zambia, Mary Gebhardt | Doug Norris

npj | vaccines
A vaccine targeting the L9 epitope of the malaria circumsporozoite protein confers protection from blood-stage infection in a mouse challenge model, Fidel Zavala

Cell reports
Odorant-receptor-mediated regulation of chemosensory gene expression in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae, Sarah Maguire | Chris Potter

J of Visual Experiments
Effective Oral RNA Interference (RNAi) Administration to Adult Anophelese gambiae Mosquitoes, Michael Wells

Cell
The RTS, S vaccine--a chance to regain the upper hand against malaria?, Photini Sinnis

mBio
The roles of ferredoxin-dependent proteins in the apicoplast of Plasmodium falciparum parasites, Russell Swift | Sean Prigge

PLoS Biology
C-type lectin 4 regulates broad-spectrum melanization-based refractoriness to malaria parasites, Maria Simoes | George Dimopoulos

mBio
Identification of Key Determinants of Cerebral Malaria Development and Inhibition Pathways, Sung-Jae Cha | Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena

The Journal of Clinical Investigation
RTS, S: the first malaria vaccine, Fidel Zavala

PLoS Biology
C-type lectin 4 regulates broad-spectrum melanization-based refractoriness to malaria parasites, Maria Simoes | George Dimopoulos