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Jason Benton

Position

Ph.D Research Student

Division of Cell and Molecular Biology
Sir Alexander Flemming Building

Email:jason.benton99@imperial.ac.uk

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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.