Omar S. Akbari

8.8k total citations
118 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Omar S. Akbari is a scholar working on Insect Science, Molecular Biology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Omar S. Akbari has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Insect Science, 82 papers in Molecular Biology and 44 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Omar S. Akbari's work include Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (73 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (67 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (42 papers). Omar S. Akbari is often cited by papers focused on Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (73 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (67 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (42 papers). Omar S. Akbari collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Omar S. Akbari's co-authors include John M. Marshall, Anna Buchman, Ming Li, Jackson Champer, Igor Antoshechkin, Bruce A. Hay, Ting Yang, Nikolay P. Kandul, Héctor M. Sánchez C. and Robyn Raban and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Omar S. Akbari

113 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Peers

Omar S. Akbari

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Zhijian Tu United States

Tony Nolan United Kingdom

Nijole Jasinskiene United States

Igor V. Sharakhov United States

Éric Marois France

Gregory C. Lanzaro United States

Monique M. van Oers Netherlands

Peter W. Atkinson United States

Zach N. Adelman United States

Nikolai Windbichler United Kingdom

Zhijian Tu United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Omar S. Akbari

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20 of 20 papers shown

Brogan, Daniel J., et al.. (2025). CRISPR RNA binding drives structural ordering that primes Cas7-11 for target cleavage. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(7). 2 indexed citations

Raban, Robyn, Héctor M. Sánchez C., Andrea L. Smidler, et al.. (2025). Evaluating the cost of malaria elimination by Anopheles gambiae precision guided SIT in the Upper River region, The Gambia. PLOS Global Public Health. 5(7). e0004903–e0004903. 1 indexed citations

Coutinho-Abreu, Iliano V., et al.. (2024). Engineered skin microbiome reduces mosquito attraction to mice. PNAS Nexus. 3(7). pgae267–pgae267. 3 indexed citations

Weng, Shih‐Che, et al.. (2024). Establishing a dominant early larval sex-selection strain in the Asian malaria vector Anopheles stephensi. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 13(1). 83–83. 5 indexed citations

Li, Ming, Nikolay P. Kandul, Ting Yang, et al.. (2024). Targeting sex determination to suppress mosquito populations. eLife. 12. 9 indexed citations

Smidler, Andrea L., et al.. (2024). Eliminating malaria vectors with precision-guided sterile males. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(27). e2312456121–e2312456121. 15 indexed citations

James, Stephanie L., et al.. (2023). A gene drive is a gene drive: the debate over lumping or splitting definitions. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1749–1749. 6 indexed citations

Olmo, Roenick Proveti, Rémy Beugnon, Albin Fontaine, et al.. (2023). Combining two genetic sexing strains allows sorting of non-transgenic males for Aedes genetic control. Communications Biology. 6(1). 646–646. 17 indexed citations

Li, Ming, Nikolay P. Kandul, Ting Yang, et al.. (2023). Targeting sex determination to suppress mosquito populations. eLife. 12. 17 indexed citations

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Li, Ming, et al.. (2022). CRISPR-Mediated Genome Engineering in Aedes aegypti. Methods in molecular biology. 2509. 23–51. 5 indexed citations

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Kandul, Nikolay P., Junru Liu, Jared B. Bennett, John M. Marshall, & Omar S. Akbari. (2021). A confinable home-and-rescue gene drive for population modification. eLife. 10. 33 indexed citations

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Alphey, Luke, et al.. (2020). Standardizing the definition of gene drive. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(49). 30864–30867. 75 indexed citations

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Gamez, Stephanie, Igor Antoshechkin, Stelia C. Méndez‐Sánchez, & Omar S. Akbari. (2020). The Developmental Transcriptome of Aedes albopictus , a Major Worldwide Human Disease Vector. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(3). 1051–1062. 23 indexed citations

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Flis, Ilona, Michelle A. E. Anderson, Philippa C. Hawes, et al.. (2020). Targeting female flight for genetic control of mosquitoes. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 14(12). e0008876–e0008876. 16 indexed citations

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Li, Ming, Ting Yang, Nikolay P. Kandul, et al.. (2020). Development of a confinable gene drive system in the human disease vector Aedes aegypti. eLife. 9. 146 indexed citations

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Kandul, Nikolay P., Junru Liu, Anna Buchman, et al.. (2019). Assessment of a Split Homing Based Gene Drive for Efficient Knockout of Multiple Genes. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(2). 827–837. 53 indexed citations

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Lahondère, Chloé, et al.. (2019). The olfactory basis of orchid pollination by mosquitoes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(1). 708–716. 97 indexed citations

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Buchman, Anna, Stephanie Gamez, Ming Li, et al.. (2019). Engineered resistance to Zika virus in transgenic Aedes aegypti expressing a polycistronic cluster of synthetic small RNAs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(9). 3656–3661. 69 indexed citations

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Buchman, Anna, et al.. (2018). Synthetically engineered Medea gene drive system in the worldwide crop pest Drosophila suzukii. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(18). 4725–4730. 83 indexed citations

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Li, Ming, et al.. (2017). Germline Cas9 expression yields highly efficient genome engineering in a major worldwide disease vector, Aedes aegypti. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(49). E10540–E10549. 134 indexed citations

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