It's #WorldMalariaDay #Malaria took over 600k lives last year, and in Africa, nearly 80% of those deaths were children under 5 Insecticide resistance & climate chance may make malaria more challenging to eradicate 🧵 on what Imperial College London researchers are doing about it:

Imperial is also home to Transmission Zero (transmissionzero), a collaboration between our researchers and our partners in Tanzania 🇹🇿 It focuses on modifying mosquitos so they're no longer able to transmit malaria – and it's recently made big strides 👇 imperial.ac.uk/news/249474/mo…

Hear from the Transmission Zero team this World Malaria Day: Read the profile below via the Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research on Transmission Zero member Tibebu Habtewold Tibebu Habtewold (PhD). #WorldMalariaDay2024

Hear from Transmission Zero's Aayushi A. Sharma Aayushi Ashok Sharma this World Malaria Day: Read the profile below via the Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research. #WorldMalariaDay2024

🚨Great Postdoc opportunity @vigiLab transmissionzero Imperial College London. Join us to work on molecular parasitology and malaria transmission biology towards vector gene drive for malaria control. Apply now imperial.ac.uk/jobs/ Ref NAT01740 #MalariaResearch #Plasmodium #Postdoc

Come join the Transmission Zero team at Imperial College London! Two PostDoc positions open: Parasitology and Malaria Transmission Biology: bit.ly/3QSbNk3 Disease Modelling: bit.ly/3UTLpYz Join us in the fight to stop malaria!

Back to London after a great #GRC conference on genetic biocontrol in #Barcelona. Feeling more optimistic than ever about the future of #genedrive and our #TransmissionZero project transmissionzero Imperial College London #malariaresearch

Join us transmissionzero to work with world experts Imperial College London and Institute for Disease Modeling to construct #genedrive models for #malariaelimination #diseasemodeling! Apply now: bit.ly/3UTLpYz!

IMBB Alumni George Dimopoulos (George Dimopoulos ), Laurence J. Zwiebel, George Christophides , and Gareth Lycett (gareth lycett ) were the key note speakers at the international workshop “#Vector_Control: #Insecticides and Beyond” organized at IMBB 11-12 July.

Tomorrow is #WorldMosquitoDay. At Transmission Zero, our research focusses on preventing #mosquitoes from transmitting #malaria to humans. Here’s why malaria is such a deadly disease 👇 Stay tuned and follow us for more!

For #WorldMosquitoDay2024, let’s raise awareness about #malaria ! Stay tuned throughout the day for more information on how Transmission Zero is utilizing Gene Drive technology to help stop malaria transmission.

Curious about how Transmission Zero are working to help the fight against malaria? We are developing new tools to stop malaria transmission by modifying mosquitoes so that they can no longer transmit the disease. Find out more in the thread below (1/7) 🧵 #WorldMosquitoDay2024

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Today marks #WorldMosquitoDay which highlights the importance of raising awareness on mosquito-borne diseases. We also want to use this as an opportunity to thank all our colleagues and partners (tagged) who make our research towards creating a malaria free world possible!

Transmission Zero team members, alongside UCMI and Target Malaria spoke to ELPAÍS PlanetaFuturo EL PAÍS España in advance of #WorldMosquitoDay on the revolutionary impact Gene Drive could have to one day achieve malaria elimination: bit.ly/3Xb4hV8

Hear from Transmission Zero's Felista S. Tarimo and Justina Mosha on empowering communities and advancing research in the blog post below, via Ifakara Health Institute #WorldMosquitoDay

Imperial College London has just announced that our Transmission Zero Investigator, Dr Dina Vlachou, has earned an academic promotion to Senior Research Fellow (Associate Professor in Research)! This is a remarkable achievement, and we couldn’t be prouder. Congratulations, Dr Vlachou!

"Nothing in vector biology makes sense except in the light of VectorBase... and now the lights are going out. 💡🔌 #SaveVectorBase

⁦VEuPathDB⁩ and ⁦VectorBase⁩ go dark over the weekend after more than 20 years of continuous service to their scientific communities. science.org/content/articl…

My commentary on the closure of VectorBase. Join me in rallying for its sustainable continuation. Comment, repost, and circulate. Let’s ensure this vital resource remains accessible for our global #VectorBiology research community.