publications

Small mosquitoes: large implications— effects of larval crowding and starvation on locomotor activity, adult biting frequency, and insecticide resistance in two strains of Aedes aegypti. Anjali Karki, Hailey A. Luker, Keyla R. Salas and Immo A. Hansen. Parasites and Vectors 18:244

Radiation exposure induces genome-wide alternative splicing events in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Harley Bendzus-Mendoza, Amanda Rodriguez, Tathagata Debnath, C Donovan Bailey, Hailey A Luker, Immo A Hansen. Scientific Reports 15 (1), 10057

Repellency of Essential Oils and Plant-Derived Compounds Against Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes. AD Lopez, S Whyms, HA Luker, CJ Galvan, FO Holguin, IA Hansen. Insects 16 (1), 51

Target site mutations and metabolic detoxification of insecticides in continental populations of Cimex lectularius and Cimex hemipterus (Hemiptera: Cimicidae). Julián Felipe Porras-Villamil, Immo A Hansen, Lee A Uranga, Matthew Pinch, Coby Schal, Sandra Sáez-Durán, Rubén Bueno-Marí, María Trelis, Màrius V Fuentes, Sudip Gaire, Alvaro Romero. Journal of Medical Entomology 62 (1), 130-145

Esmaeili D, Salas KR, Luker HA, Mitra S, Galvan CJ, Holguin OF, Whyms S, Hansen IA. Rancid rumors or Native wisdom: Evaluating the efficacy of animal fats as insect repellents attributed to historic-period Native Americans. PloS ONE. 2024

Lamasal M, Luker HA, Pinch M, Hansen IA. RNAi-Mediated Knockdown of Acidic Ribosomal Stalk Protein P1 Arrests Egg Development in Adult Female Yellow Fever Mosquitoes, Aedes aegypti. Insects. 2024

Julián Felipe Porras-Villamil, Immo A Hansen, Lee A Uranga, Matthew Pinch, Coby Schal, Sandra Sáez-Durán, Rubén Bueno-Marí, María Trelis, Màrius V Fuentes, Sudip Gaire, Alvaro Romero, Target site mutations and metabolic detoxification of insecticides in continental populations of Cimex lectularius and Cimex hemipterus (Hemiptera: Cimicidae), Journal of Medical Entomology, 2024

April D. Lopez, Tathagata Debnath, Matthew Pinch, Immo A. Hansen, Phosphoproteomics analyses of Aedes aegypti fat body reveals blood meal-induced signaling and metabolic pathways, Heliyon, 2024

Luker HA, Salas KR, Esmaeili D, Holguin OF, Bendzus-Mendoza H, Hansen IA. Repellent efficacy of 20 essential oils on Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and Ixodes scapularis ticks in contact-repellency assays. Scientific Reports. 2023

Pinch M, Bendzus-Mendoza H, Hansen IA. Transcriptomics analysis of ethanol treatment of male Aedes aegypti reveals a small set of putative radioprotective genes. Frontiers in Physiology. 2023

Martinez N, Pinch M, Kandel Y, Hansen IA. Knockdown of the Sodium/Potassium ATPase Subunit Beta 2 Reduces Egg Production in the Dengue Vector, Aedes aegypti. Insects. 2023

Pinch M, Muka T, Kandel Y, Lamsal M, Martinez N, Teixeira M, Boudko DY, Hansen IA. General control nonderepressible 1 interacts with cationic amino acid transporter 1 and affects Aedes aegypti fecundity. Parasites and Vectors. 2022

Kandel Y, Pinch M, Lamsal M, Martinez N, Hansen IA. Exploratory phosphoproteomics profiling of Aedes aegypti Malpighian tubules during blood meal processing reveals dramatic transition in function. PloS ONE. 2022

Luker HA, Rodriguez S, Kandel Y, Vulcan J, Hansen IA. A novel Tick Carousel Assay for testing efficacy of repellents on Amblyomma americanum L. PeerJ. 2021

Mitra S, Pinch M, Kandel Y, Li Y, Rodriguez S, Hansen IA. Olfaction-Related Gene Expression in the Antennae of Female Mosquitoes From Common Aedes aegypti Laboratory Strains. 2021

Pinch M, Mitra S, Rodriguez SD, Li Y, Kandel Y, Dungan B, Holguin FO, Attardo GM, Hansen IA. Fat and happy: profiling mosquito fat body lipid storage and composition post-blood meal. Frontiers in Insect Science. 2021

Soumi Mitra, Stacy D Rodriguez, Julia Vulcan, Joel Cordova, Hae-Na Chung, Emily Moore, Yashoda Kandel, Immo A Hansen, Efficacy of Active Ingredients From the EPA 25(B) List in Reducing Attraction of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) to Humans, Journal of Medical Entomology, Volume 57, Issue 2, March 2020

Pinch M, Rodriguez SD, Mitra S, Kandel Y, Moore E, Hansen IA. Low Levels of Pyrethroid Resistance in Hybrid Offspring of a Highly Resistant and a More Susceptible Mosquito Strain. Journal of Insect Science, Volume 20, Issue 4, July 2020.

Kandel Y, Mitra S, Jimenez X, Rodriguez SD, Romero A, Blakely BN, Cho SY, Pelzman C, Hansen IA. Long-Term Mosquito culture with SkitoSnack, an artificial blood meal replacement. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 2020.

Lino de Souza D, Serrao JE, Hansen, I.A. Aquaporin Expression in the Alimentary Canal of the Honeybee Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and Functional Characterization of Am_Eglp 1. PloS ONE 2020.

Mitra S, et al. (2019) Efficacy of Active Ingredients From the EPA 25(B) List in Reducing Attraction of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) to Humans. Journal of Medical Entomology, XX(X), 2019, 1–8. https://doi: 10.1093/jme/tjz178

Kandel Y, Vulcan J, Rodriguez SD, Moore E, Chung H-N, Mitra S, et al. (2019) Widespread insecticide resistance in Aedes aegypti L. from New Mexico, U.S.A.. PLoS ONE 14(2): e0212693. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212693

Chung, H. N., Rodriguez, S. D., Gonzales, K. K., Vulcan, J., Cordova, J. J., Mitra, S., Adams, C. G., Moses-Gonzales, N., Tam, N., Cluck, J. W., Attardo, G. M., … Hansen, I. A. (2018). Toward Implementation of Mosquito Sterile Insect Technique: The Effect of Storage Conditions on Survival of Male Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) During Transport. Journal of insect science (Online), 18(6), 2. doi:10.1093/jisesa/iey103

Gonzales, K. K., Rodriguez, S. D., Chung, H.-N., Kowalski, M., Vulcan, J., Moore, E. L., … Hansen, I. A. (2018). The Effect of SkitoSnack, an Artificial Blood Meal Replacement, on Aedes aegypti Life History Traits and Gut Microbiota. Scientific Reports, 8, 11023. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29415-5

Moore, E. L., Scott, M. A., Rodriguez, S. D., Mitra, S., Vulcan, J., Cordova, J. J., … Hansen, I. A. (2018). An online survey of personal mosquito-repellent strategies. PeerJ, 6, e5151. http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5151

Chung, H. N., Rodriguez, S. D., Carpenter, V. K., Vulcan, J., Bailey, C. D., Nageswara-Rao, M., et al. Fat Body Organ Culture System in Aedes Aegypti, a Vector of Zika Virus. J. Vis. Exp. (126), e55508, doi:10.3791/55508 (2017).

Li, Y., Piermarini, P. M., Esquivel, C. J., Drumm, H. E., Schilkey, F. D., & Hansen, I. A. (2017). RNA-Seq Comparison of Larval and Adult Malpighian Tubules of the Yellow Fever Mosquito Aedes aegypti Reveals Life Stage-Specific Changes in Renal Function. Frontiers in Physiology, 8, 283. http://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2017.00283

Rodriguez, SD., Chung, H., Gonzales, KK., Vulcan, J., Li, Y., Ahumada, JA., Romero, HM., De La Torre, M., Shu, F., Hansen, IA. Efficacy of Some Wearable Devices Compared with Spray-On Insect Repellents for the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae) International Journal of Insect Science. 2017.

Tsujimoto, H., Hanley, KA., Sundararajan, A., Devitt, NP., Schilkey, FD., Hansen, IA. Dengue virus serotype 2 infection alters midgut and carcass gene expression in the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus. PLOS One. 2017.

Gonzales KK, Hansen IA. Artificial Diets for Mosquitoes. Linser PJ, ed. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2017.

Chaturvedi, P., Rodriguez, S. D., Vlassiouk, I., Hansen, I. A., & Smirnov, S. N. (2016). Simple and Versatile Detection of Viruses Using Anodized Alumina Membranes. ACS Sensors, 1(5), 488–492. http://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.6b00003

Pavan Chaturvedi, Stacy D. Rodriguez, Ivan Vlassiouk, Immo A. Hansen, and Sergei N. Smirnov. Simple and Versatile Detection of Viruses Using Anodized Alumina Membranes ACS Sensors . 2016

Boudko DY, Tsujimoto H, Rodriguez SD, Meleshkevitch EA, Price DP, Drake LL, Hansen IA. Substrate specificity and transport mechanism of amino-acid transceptor Slimfast from Aedes aegypti. Nat Commun. 2015

Rodriguez SD, Drake LL, Price DP, Hammond JI, Hansen IA. The Efficacy of Some Commercially Available Insect Repellents for Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae). J Insect Sci. 2015.

Gonzales KK, Tsujimoto H, Hansen IA. Blood serum and BSA, but neither red blood cells nor hemoglobin can support vitellogenesis and egg production in the dengue vector Aedes aegypti. PeerJ. 2015.

Price DP, Schilkey FD, Ulanov A, and Hansen IA. Small mosquitoes, large implications: crowding and starvation affects gene expression and nutrient accumulation in Aedes aegypti. Parasites and Vectors, 2015.

Drake LL, Rodriguez SD, and Hansen IA. "Functional characterization of aquaporins and aquaglyceroporins ofthe yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti". Scientific Reports. 2015 Jan 15.

Neafsey DE, multiple authors, Price DP, multiple authors, Hansen IA, multiple authors, Besansky NJ. "Highly evolvable malaria vectors: the genomes of 16 Anopheles mosquitoes". Science. 2015 Jan 2.

Hansen IA, Rodriguez SD, Drake LL, Price DP, Blakely BN, Hammond JI, Tsujimoto H, Monroy EY, Maio WA, Romero A."The Odorant Receptor Co-Receptor from the Bed Bug, Cimex lectularius L.". PLoS One. 2014 Nov 20.

Benoit JB, Hansen IA, Szuter EM, Drake LL, Burnett DL, Attardo GM. “Emerging roles of aquaporins in relation to the physiology of blood-feeding arthropods”. J Comp Physiol B. 2014 Jun 19.

International Glossina Genome Initiative. “Genome sequence of the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans): vector of African trypanosomiasis”. Science. 2014 ;344(6182):380-6.

Benoit JB, Hansen IA, Attardo GM, Michalková V, Mireji PO, Bargul JL, Drake LL, Masiga DK, Aksoy S. “Aquaporins Are Critical for Provision of Water during Lactation and Intrauterine Progeny Hydration to Maintain Tsetse Fly Reproductive Success”. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014 Apr 24;8(4):e2517.

Hansen IA, Attardo GM, Rodriguez SD, Drake LL. “Four-way regulation of mosquito yolk protein precursor genes by juvenile hormone-, ecdysone-, nutrient-, and insulin-like peptide signaling pathways” Review, Front. Physiol. - Invertebrate Physiology, March 2014.

Cho SY, Briscoe JL, Hansen IA, Smith JK, Chang Y, Brener I. “Label-free plasmonic immunosensing for Plasmodium in whole blood”. Sensors, 2013 IEEE.2013.

Rodriguez SD, Brar RK, Drake LL, Drumm HE, Price DP, Hammond JI, Urquidi J, Hansen IA. 2013 The effect of the radio-protective agents ethanol, trimethylglycine, and beer on survival of X-ray-sterilized male Aedes aegypti.Parasit Vectors. 2013 Jul 18;6:211.

Drake LL, Price DP, Aguirre SE, Hansen IA. 2012. RNAi-mediated Gene Knockdown and In Vivo Diuresis Assay in Adult Female Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes. JoVE. Jul 14;(65):e3479.

Hansen IA, Dawe AL, and Bailey CD. 2012 Hands-on Molecular Biology Research in the Undergraduate Curriculum. Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching Proceedings of the Association for Biology Laboratory EducationVol. 33, 265-276.

Carpenter, VK.; Drake, LL.; Aguirre, SE; Price, DP; Rodriguez, SD; Hansen, IA, 2012. SLC7 amino acid transporters of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti and their role in fat body TOR signaling and reproduction. J Insect Physiol. 2012 Apr; 58 (4): 513-22.

Price DP, Nagarajan V, Churbanov A, Houde P, Milligan B, Drake LL, Gustafson JE, Hansen IA. The fat body transcriptomes of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti, pre- and post- blood meal. PLoS One. 2011;6 (7):e22573.

Hansen IA, Boudko DY, Shiao SH, Voronov DA, Meleshkevitch EA, Drake LL, Aguirre SE, Fox J, Attardo GM, Raikhel AS. 2011. AaCAT1 of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti: A novel histidine-specific Amino Acid Transporter from the SLC7 family. J Biol Chem. 286, 10803-13.

Drake LL, Boudko DY, Marinotti O, Carpenter VK, Dawe AL, Hansen IA. 2010 The Aquaporin gene family of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. PLoS One. 5(12):e15578.