Merry Christmas!

Amazing PhD opportunity to work on cutting edge biocontrol of cane toads in the NT with an incredible team!

Our work demonstrating CRISPR in cane toads is now published in The CRISPR Journal! doi.org/10.1177/257315992513…

Our latest preprint on Cas9 in Cane Toads is out. Congrats to postdoc Michael Clark driving this excellent work! lnkd.in/gGDq92bJ

Super excited that our paper demonstrating that animals can be engineered for methylmercury bioremediation is out. Congrats to @Dr__Tepper for an amazing job! nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Our Toxic Male Technique (TMT) paper is finally out! TMT males produce insecticidal semen to eliminate the female population. It's the first example of intragenerational genetic biocontrol. Use in mosquitoes could dramatically reduce bloodmeals. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Predatory mites like Transeius montdorensis are important tools for integrated pest management. Check out our latest preprint where we improve their diet for mass rearing and lab research. Great work by PhD student Hung Nguyen! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Insects are great sources of protein for animal feed, but can we make them even better? Yes! Check out our preprint demonstrating the production of a functional phytase enzyme in Drosophila as a proof of principle biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Check out our Allele Sail paper - a simple method to use genome editors for modification of wild populations. Applications include genetic rescue of threatened species, reducing the ability of vectors to spread disease, and making cane toads less toxic. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Reduce, reuse, reflycle! Check out our perspective on how transgenic black soldier flies can transform waste management and biomanufacturing. Great job @Dr__Tepper ! rdcu.be/dONok