Ethan Bier's guest appearances

Ethan Bier

Saturday Morning

Genetics (Video)

UC San Diego (Video)

Genetics (Audio)

UC San Diego (Audio)

Rosemary Gillespie

Oliver Ryder

Freja Ekman

Rosa Bacchetta

Jennifer Puck

Don Kohn

Tippi Mackenzie

Mark Walters

Herman Pontzer

Brenna Henn

Arnold Kriegstein

Fred Gage

Alysson Muotri

Don Cleveland

Kenneth Kidd

OwlTail

Genetically engineered mosquitoes could be the key to winning the war against malaria, a disease that affects more than 200 million people every year and kills more than 400,000 - many of whom are children. Ethan Bier is a distinguished professor in the section of Cell and Developmental Biology at UC San Diego, and is the head of the Bier Lab - where they focus research on active genetics, developmental patterning, and human disease mechanics.

Prof Ethan Bier: using mutated mosquitoes to control disease

Osher UC San Diego

Can scientists genetically engineer mosquitos to eliminate malaria? Professor Ethan Bier from UC San Diego believes they can. In this talk at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, he discusses various ways in which self-copying—or active—genetic elements can be used to bias inheritance of beneficial characteristics. Such active genetic elements can be used to confer resistance to transmission of pathogens, re-sensitize pesticide-resistant insect pests and disease-vector populations to insecticides, restore natural ecosystems, or combine multiple favorable traits to create animal models for human disease or optimized agricultural strains of plants. Series: "Osher UC San Diego Distinguished Lecture Series" [Science] [Show ID: 34753]

Engineering Mosquitos to Fight Malaria with Ethan Bier -- Osher UC San Diego