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Latest News

VGL at SOVE

Two VGL members, Melina Campos and Claire Egan, presented posters at the annual Society for Vector Ecology (SOVE) meeting in Fort Collins, CO. Melina's poster was titled "Population structure, hybridization, and local adaptation of Aedes aegypti in California" and Claire's "Assessing the impact of genetically engineered mosquito ingestion by several mosquito predators."

VGL at Vector Kolymbari Meeting

Greg and Ana will be attending the 2024 Vector Kolymbari meeting next week. Greg will be presenting in session III about "Entomological aspects in the design of field trials for gene drives." Ana will present in the same session on "Stakeholder engagement considerations for gene drive field trials"

Conference Award

Congratulations to Sureni on receiving the "Best Paper Overall" award at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Modeling & Simulation.

New VGL Publication

A UCMI risk assessment paper was published in Frontiers today. This paper describes the preliminary independent risk assessment that we participated in in 2020 to evaluate our GEM. Congrats to all authors.

Read the paper here.

New VGL Press

The VGL was featured in a New York Times article by Stephanie Nolan who joined the team on their latest Mark-Release-Recapture trip in Príncipe. Read the article here.

VGL at PAMCA

Greg, Ana, and Danspaid will be attending the 2023 PAMCA conference in September. Greg and Danspaid will be presenting about UCMI work and Ana will host a symposium titled "Field Trials of Malaria Vectors
Engineered with Gene-Drive: If Not Now, When?" Greg will also teach at the Gene Drive Short Course pre-conference event. Greg, Ana and Danspaid will be joined at the conference by UCMI contractors Lodney Nazaré and Adionilde Pires.

World Malaria Day

April 25 is World Malaria Day. A day that reminds us of the importance of the work we are doing.