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Philippos-Aris Papathanos

Position

PostDoc

Division of Cell and Molecular Biology
Sir Alexander Fleming Building
I have been a member of the Crisanti Lab at Imperial College, since October 2005.

Email: p.papathanos@imperial.ac.uk

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Research Interests

• Gene driving systems for population genetic engineering of the malarial vector Anopheles gambiae
• Mobile intronic genetic elements, selfish genes, homing endonucleases
• Germline Promoters

Education

BSc (Hons) Molecular Biology and Genetics, Royal Holloway, University of London
PhD Imperial College on the "Development of a gene drive system for genetic engineering of natural populations of the African malaria mosquito"

Publications

1. Papathanos PA, Windbichler N, Menichelli M, Burt A, and Crisanti A. The vasa regulatory region mediates germline expression and maternal transmission of proteins in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae: a versatile tool for genetic control strategies. BMC Mol Biol. 2009 Jul 2;10:65. DOI:10.1186/1471-2199-10-65 |
2. Windbichler N, Papathanos PA, and Crisanti A. Targeting the X chromosome during spermatogenesis induces Y chromosome transmission ratio distortion and early dominant embryo lethality in Anopheles gambiae. PLoS Genet. 2008 Dec;4(12):e1000291. DOI:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000291 |
3. Windbichler N, Papathanos PA, Catteruccia F, Ranson H, Burt A, and Crisanti A. Homing endonuclease mediated gene targeting in Anopheles gambiae cells and embryos. Nucleic Acids Res. 2007;35(17):5922-33. DOI:10.1093/nar/gkm632 |