The UCMI team has published a paper in Malaria Journal. Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-024-05212-6 
Congratulations to all the authors!

VGL Project Scientist, Melina Campos, has been published in Evolutionary Applications. Read her paper here: Patterns of Gene Flow in Anopheles coluzzii Populations From Two African Oceanic Islands. Congratulations to all authors.

Other recent VGL-related publications are below.

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."

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"

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A UCMI paper titled "Practical Application of a Relationship-Based Model to Engagement for Gene-Drive Vector Control Programs" has been published online at AJTMH (ahead of print).  This paper details the engagement work in São Tomé and Príncipe over the last 5 years and describes how we applied the Relationship-Based Model (RBM) to the UCMI program. 

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

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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.

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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.

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.

Check out former lab member, Shaghayegh’s, paper about Aedes aegypti populations in California. Congratulations to Shaghayegh and coauthors! https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-023-09402-5

Undergraduates Ariana Hosseini and Brooke Borgia presented at the UC Davis Undergraduate Research, Scholarship & Creative Activities Conference on April 28 and 29th.

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