Crisanti:Benton

Position
Ph.D Research Student Division of Cell and Molecular Biology Sir Alexander Flemming Building

Email:[mailto:jason.benton99@imperial.ac.uk jason.benton99@imperial.ac.uk]

Research Interests

 * Mosquito Trangenic Technology
 * Sterile Insect Technique in Mosquitoes
 * Mosquito Rearing and Maintenance
 * Genetic Transactivation Systems
 * Insect Spermatogenesis Pathway
 * Insect Sex Determination Pathway

Education
2003-2007 Ph.D @ Imperial College London - submitted  "Transgenic Sterile Insect Technique in Anopheles Mosquitoes" . 1999-2003 B.Sc (Hons) Biology with a Year in Industry (Eli Lilly and Company Ltd.) @ Imperial College London.

Publications
Catteruccia, F., Benton, J. P. and Crisanti, A. (2005) An Anopheles transgenic sexing strain for vector control. Nature Biotechnology 23, 1414-1417.

Evans, N. M., Bose, S., Benedetti, G., Zwart, R., Pearson, K. H., McPhie, G. I., Craig, P. J., Benton, J. P., Volsen, S. G., Sher, E. and Broad, L. M. (2003). Expression and functional characterisation of a human chimeric nicotinic receptor with alpha6beta4 properties. European Journal of Pharmacology 466, 31-39.