Anthony A. James

Anthony A. James

Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine (UCI)

Affiliated withUniversity of California, Irvine (UCI)University of California, IrvineUniversity of California

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Biography

Anthony A. James, PhD is Donald Bren Professor and Distinguished Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics (School of Medicine) and Molecular Biology & Biochemistry (School of Biological Sciences) at the University of California, Irvine. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences USA. His research group uses genetics as the basis for synthetic approaches to prevent transmission of mosquito-borne diseases. Contributions include the development of mosquito transgenesis procedures, engineered genes that interfere with malaria parasite or dengue virus development in mosquitoes, a population-suppression strain based on flightless female mosquitoes and gene-drive systems to spread beneficial genes quickly through mosquito populations.

Dr. James received his Bachelor of Science and PhD degrees at UCI. He went to Boston in 1979 for postdoctoral work (Harvard Medical School and Brandeis University) and joined the faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1985. He returned to his alma mater in 1989, where he is today. Active and past support include multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health (USA), the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the W.M. Keck Foundation. In addition to being elected to the National Academy of Sciences (USA) in 2006, he received numerous other awards including the Nan-Yao Su (2009) Award for Innovation and Creativity in Entomology from the Entomological Society of America, was a co-recipient of the Premio de Investgación Médica Dr. Jorge Rosenkranz (2008), a recipient of the Burroughs-Wellcome New Initiatives in Malaria Award (2000) and the Burroughs-Wellcome Scholar Award in Molecular Parasitology (1994). He was named a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London (1992), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1994), Fellow of the Society, Entomological Society of America (2011) and Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2012). In 2009, he was awarded the UCI Medal. He has published over 200 papers, reviews and policy documents and has provided guidance to 34 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. He was a founding editor of the journal Insect Molecular Biology and has served on the editorial boards of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Experimental Parasitology and Entomological Research. He is a member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, American Committee on Vector Entomology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Parasitology, Royal Entomological Society, Entomological Society of America, Genetics Society of America and Society of Vector Ecology.

JoVE Journal Publications

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Injection of dsRNA into Female A. aegypti Mosquitos
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Other Publications

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Year

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 9520437

1998

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 9520438

1998

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 9990055

1999

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 10557332

Parassitologia| PubMed ID: 10697903

1999

Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR| PubMed ID: 10704476

2000

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 10908672

2000

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 11005862

2000

Parasitology today (Personal ed.)| PubMed ID: 11121841

2000

Molecular and biochemical parasitology| PubMed ID: 11985858

2002

Advances in genetics| PubMed ID: 12000097

2002

Methods in molecular medicine| PubMed ID: 12125125

2002

Insect biochemistry and molecular biology| PubMed ID: 12225922

2002

Science (New York, N.Y.)| PubMed ID: 12364786

2002

Insect biochemistry and molecular biology| PubMed ID: 12459201

2003

Trends in parasitology| PubMed ID: 12957511

2003

The Journal of experimental biology| PubMed ID: 14506217

2003

The Journal of experimental biology| PubMed ID: 14506218

2003

Nucleic acids research| PubMed ID: 14602940

2003

BMC bioinformatics| PubMed ID: 15222903

2004

Insect biochemistry and molecular biology| PubMed ID: 15242701

2004

Transgenic research| PubMed ID: 15587266

2004

Genome / National Research Council Canada = Génome / Conseil national de recherches Canada| PubMed ID: 15644964

2004

Trends in parasitology| PubMed ID: 15664528

2005

Insect biochemistry and molecular biology| PubMed ID: 15894194

2005

Gene| PubMed ID: 16137842

2005

The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene| PubMed ID: 16172495

2005

EMBO reports| PubMed ID: 16485025

2006

Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part B, Biochemistry & molecular biology| PubMed ID: 16524752

2006

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 16537508

2006

Molecular and biochemical parasitology| PubMed ID: 16697061

2006

Platelets| PubMed ID: 16702045

2006

BMC genomics| PubMed ID: 16707020

2006

Insect biochemistry and molecular biology| PubMed ID: 16935218

2006

Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology| PubMed ID: 17212352

2007

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 17548819

2007

The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene| PubMed ID: 17556613

2007

The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene| PubMed ID: 17556621

2007

Cell host & microbe| PubMed ID: 18996342

2008

Advances in genetics| PubMed ID: 19161831

2008

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 19211788

2009

PLoS neglected tropical diseases| PubMed ID: 19333394

2009

Journal of insect science (Online)| PubMed ID: 19537968

2006

Insect molecular biology| PubMed ID: 19754743

Malaria journal| PubMed ID: 19852802

2009

Insect molecular biology| PubMed ID: 20113372

2010

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 20176967

2010

PLoS neglected tropical diseases| PubMed ID: 20186276

2010

Trends in parasitology| PubMed ID: 20299285

2010

Journal of insect physiology| PubMed ID: 20433845

2010

Malaria journal| PubMed ID: 20470395

2010

Insect molecular biology| PubMed ID: 20738425

The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene| PubMed ID: 20810836

2010

BMC research notes| PubMed ID: 20920356

2010

PloS one| PubMed ID: 20967211

2010

Science (New York, N.Y.)| PubMed ID: 21273469

2011

BMC genomics| PubMed ID: 21276245

2011

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 21383140

2011

Insect molecular biology| PubMed ID: 21496127

2011

PLoS pathogens| PubMed ID: 21533066

2011

JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association| PubMed ID: 21610238

2011

Trends in parasitology| PubMed ID: 21659002

2011

Insect molecular biology| PubMed ID: 21699593

Science (New York, N.Y.)| PubMed ID: 22076370

2011

G3 (Bethesda, Md.)| PubMed ID: 22384387

2012

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 22689959

2012

PloS one| PubMed ID: 23209765

2012

PLoS neglected tropical diseases| PubMed ID: 23350003

2013

The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene| PubMed ID: 23468357

2013

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 23584017

2013

Malaria journal| PubMed ID: 23622561

2013

Nature| PubMed ID: 23719379

2013

PloS one| PubMed ID: 23840875

2013

Trends in parasitology| PubMed ID: 23916878

2013

PloS one| PubMed ID: 23935894

2013

PloS one| PubMed ID: 23936017

2013

BMC genomics| PubMed ID: 24168143

2013

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 24297936

2013

Parasites & vectors| PubMed ID: 24367904

2013

PLoS neglected tropical diseases| PubMed ID: 24626164

2014

Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.)| PubMed ID: 24689963

2014

BMC developmental biology| PubMed ID: 24707823

2014

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 24778255

2014

PLoS neglected tropical diseases| PubMed ID: 24810399

2014

PLoS neglected tropical diseases| PubMed ID: 25033462

2014

Insect molecular biology| PubMed ID: 25125145

2014

Genome biology| PubMed ID: 25244985

2014

Insect biochemistry and molecular biology| PubMed ID: 25460511

2014

G3 (Bethesda, Md.)| PubMed ID: 25480960

2015

Malaria journal| PubMed ID: 25884875

2015

Experimental parasitology| PubMed ID: 26008612

2015

RNA biology| PubMed ID: 26037405

2015

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 26483478

2015

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 26598698

2015

Malaria journal| PubMed ID: 26964736

2016

Insect biochemistry and molecular biology| PubMed ID: 27318252

2016

Parasites & vectors| PubMed ID: 27350348

2016

Insect biochemistry and molecular biology| PubMed ID: 27867075

2017

PLoS genetics| PubMed ID: 28103247

2017

Journal of virology| PubMed ID: 28122981

2017

PloS one| PubMed ID: 28604779

2017

Insect biochemistry and molecular biology| PubMed ID: 28676355

2017

Nature biotechnology| PubMed ID: 28787415

2017

Pathogens and global health| PubMed ID: 29385893

2017

PLoS genetics| PubMed ID: 29474354

2018

The Journal of biological chemistry| PubMed ID: 29685890

2018

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 30104361

2018

Nature ecology & evolution| PubMed ID: 30532047

2019

Insect biochemistry and molecular biology| PubMed ID: 31541694

2020

PLoS genetics| PubMed ID: 31856182

2019

BioTechniques| PubMed ID: 32040336

2020

G3 (Bethesda, Md.)| PubMed ID: 32122959

2020

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 32839345

2020

International journal of molecular sciences| PubMed ID: 33053895

2020

Nature communications| PubMed ID: 33144570

2020

The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene| PubMed ID: 33350374

2020