Abstract:
Mosquitoes are vectors of many human pathogens including dengue virus, Zika virus, chikungunya virus, yellow fever virus, West Nile virus, Mayaro virus, and malaria. Roughly half of the world’s population is at risk of these diseases, with the highest burden falling on socially and economically disadvantaged populations. Dengue incidence has increased over 30-fold in the past 50 years, currently resulting in over 400 million new infections per year. The group uses genomics as the main method, based on genomics, gene editing, microbial isolation and screening, aseptic system, and other approaches to explore the interactions between host and microbiota, and develop new technologies using microbiome and genome editing for mosquito control.
Speaker: Prof. GuanHong Wang
Affiliation: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Time: 14:30 AM, Friday, April 3, 2026
Venue: Offline: The Conference Hall in XTBG
Online: Tencent Meeting ID: 720 326 257
