News:

November 29, 2007 - The World Ecomomic Forum announced Oxitec Ltd. as one of 39 companies selected as Technology Pioneers 2008 - The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

May 2007 - Work from the lab of project researcher Dr. Laura Harrington demonstrates the role of mosquito age, body size, and strain on sperm capacity and potential reproductive fitness.  (Ponlawat A. and Harrington L.C.  Age and body size influence male sperm capacity of the dengue vector Aedes aegypti [Diptera: Culicidae]. J Med Entomol. 2007 May;44(3):422-6.) - This is the first report demonstrating an age-dependent relationship in the number of sperm produced by Ae. aegypti males and suggests that larger and older virgin Ae. aegypti have the greatest reproductive potential.  Further investigations of mosquito mating biology will be especially important for genetic control programs that require an understanding of mosquito reproductive success.

May 18, 2007 - Biologist David Severson helps map yellow fever/dengue mosquito genome (William G. Gilroy -source University of Notre Dame News and Information, Newswire ) -the genome sequence of Aedes aegypti mosquito has been published by scientists led by Vishvanath Nene at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and David Severson at the University of Notre Dame.

May 18, 2007 - Blueprint Proposed for Wiping Out Disease-bearing Mosquitoes - (Ben Pimentel - Stanford Knowledgebase) - Releasing genetically modified male mosquitoes could eliminate the danger of dengue fever and other mosquito-borne diseases within a year, according to new research.

April 1, 2007 - Lethal type of dengue fever hits Mexico (The Seatle Times - -By Mark Stevenson - The Associated Press)

June 30, 2006 - Travel-Associated Dengue - United States, 2005 (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 55 No 25)

March 26, 2006 - Academy adds UCI chemist, biologist—Dr. James is inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. (By Gary Robbins —The Orange County Register)

Announcement of the 14 Grand Challenges in Global Health (Science 17 October 2003: Vol. 302. no. 5644, pp. 398 - 399)

Archived News & Events

Meetings:

October 15-17, 2008 - Second International Conference on Dengue and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever, 2008, Phuket, Thailand