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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

2024

Trends in Parasitology 
Exploiting integrative metabolomics to study host-parasite interactions in Plasmodium infections(link is external), Maria Nikulkova | Jane Carlton

Malaria Journal
Community and health worker perspectives on malaria in Meghalaya, India: covering the last mile of elimination by 2030(link is external), Jane Carlton

PLOS Glob Public Health
Characterizing mobility patterns and malaria risk factors in semi-nomadic populations of Northern Kenya(link is external), Amy Wesolowski 

Cell Rep Methods
An expanded neurogenetic toolkit to decode olfaction in the African malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae(link is external), Diego Giraldo | Conor McMeniman

Genome Biology & Evolution
The genome of Plasmodium gonderi: Insights into the evolution of human malaria parasites(link is external), Jane Carlton

mBio
Plasmodium female gamete surface HSP90 is a key determinant for fertilization(link is external), Marcel Jacobs-Lorena

NPJ Vaccines
Establishing RTS,S/AS01 as a benchmark for comparison to next-generation malaria vaccines in a mouse model(link is external), Yevel Flores-Garcia | Fidel Zavala

Nature Communications
Revisiting the Plasmodium sporozoite inoculum and elucidating the efficiency with which malaria parasites progress through the mosquito(link is external), Sachie Kanatani | Photini Sinnis

Nature Medicine
A candidate antibody drug for prevention of malaria(link is external), Yevel Garcia-Flores | Fidel Zavala

BMC Genomics
mosGILT controls innate immunity and germ cell development in Anopheles gambiae(link is external), George Dimopoulos

2023

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

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

Research Square (pre-print) AWAITING PUBLICATION
Development of an anti-Pfs230 monoclonal antibody as a Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte blocker(link is external), 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(link is external), 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(link is external), Doug Norris

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

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

Nature Communications
Aedes aegypti Argonaute 2 controls arbovirus infection and host mortality(link is external), Shengzhang Dong | George Dimopoulos

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

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

Cold Spring Harb Protoc
Quantifying Mosquito Host Preference(link is external), Diego Giraldo | Conor McMeniman

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

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

Science
Delftia tsuruhatensis TC1 symbiont suppresses malaria transmission by anopheline mosquitoes.(link is external), 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.(link is external), 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(link is external), 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(link is external), 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(link is external), Ellen Ferriss | William Moss (ICEMR)

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

iScience
Neurogenetic identification of mosquito sensory neurons(link is external), Joanna Konopka | Chris Potter

Cell Reports
Human scent guides mosquito thermotaxis and host selection under naturalistic conditions(link is external), 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(link is external), 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.(link is external), Tamaki Kobayasha, William Moss, Southern and Central Africa ICEMR

Stat Med
A Bayesian hierarchical model for signal extraction from protein microarrays(link is external), 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(link is external), Photini Sinnis

PNAS
The mitochondrion of Plasmodium falciparum is required for cellular acetyl-CoA metabolism and protein acetylation(link is external), 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(link is external), Theresa Shapiro, Sean Prigge, David Sullivan

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

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

Cell Reports
A spatial map of antennal-expressed ionotropic receptors in the malaria mosquito(link is external), 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(link is external), 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(link is external), George Dimopoulos

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

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

Clinical Infectious Diseases 
Malaria in Refugee Children Resettled to a Holoendemic Area of Sub-Saharan Africa(link is external), 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(link is external), Adriano Franco | Fidel Zavala

2022

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

Parasite & Vectors
Discovery of novel natural products for mosquito control(link is external), 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.(link is external), William Moss

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

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

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

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

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

eLIFE
Combining transgenesis with paratransgenesis to fight malaria(link is external), Wei Huang | Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena

Analyst
A headspace collection chamber for whole body volatilomics(link is external), Stephanie Rankin-Turner | Conor McMeniman

Cell Rep Med
Reducing misclassification bias in severe malaria research(link is external), 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(link is external), Amy Wesolowski

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

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

Cold Spring Harb Protoc.
Batch Rearing Aedes aegypti(link is external), 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(link is external), 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(link is external), Amy Wesolowski | William Moss

Viruses/MDPI
The Role of Mosquito Hemocytes in Viral Infections(link is external), George Dimopoulos

Am J Trop Med Hyg
Temporal and Spatial Differences between Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Malaria Infections in the Chittagong Hill Districts, Bangladesh.(link is external), 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(link is external), Sachie Kanatani | Photini Sinnis

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

Malaria Journal
Expanded geographic distribution and host preference of Anopheles gibbinsi (Anopheles species 6) in northern Zambia(link is external), 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(link is external), William Moss

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

Microbial Ecology
Malaria in Refugee Children Resettled to a Holoendemic Area of Sub-Saharan Africa(link is external), Matthew Ippolito

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

Entomological Research
New weapons to fight malaria transmission: A historical view(link is external), 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(link is external), Krithika Rajaram | Sean Prigge

eLife
Chemoreceptor co-expression in Drosophila melanogaster olfactory neurons(link is external), Darya Task | Chris Potter

Oxford Academic: Clinical Infectious Diseases
Whole blood transfusion for severe malarial anemia in a high Plasmodium falciparum transmission setting(link is external), 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(link is external), Sung-Jae Cha

J Cell Bio
Ribbon boosts ribosomal protein gene expression to coordinate organ form and function(link is external), 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(link is external), 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(link is external), Fidel Zavala

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

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

Cell
The RTS, S vaccine--a chance to regain the upper hand against malaria?(link is external), Photini Sinnis

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

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

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

The Journal of Clinical Investigation
RTS, S: the first malaria vaccine(link is external), Fidel Zavala

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