September 26, 2026
The Lopez del Amo lab has published a new paper, titled CRISPR-based gene drive systems alter the transcriptome in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, which can be read on Communications Biology.
August 3, 2026
The Lopez del Amo lab has moved to the new UTHealth Houston - School of Public Health building, located on Old Spanish Trail. Our flies and mosquitoes have been doing well during the transition, and we thank the new building for giving us a much bigger lab space to continue our insectarium lab work!
Jan 30, 2026
Today is Tayo's last day in the Lopez del Amo lab, and we would like to thank him for his help with our research. The Lopez del Amo lab will be seeking a new post-doc to fill Tayo's position.
November 3, 2025
The Lopez del Amo Lab published our 4th research paper, A temperature-sensitive CRISPR-Cas12a system for sterile insect technique, in Nature Communications! This is our 2nd paper in Nature Communications and Christina's first-author paper. Special thanks to Tayo and other authors for helping us complete this project! Additionally, we would also like to welcome our new lab technician, Ola, to the lab! Ola is a mosquito expert who can assist us with mosquito-related projects.
Jan 1, 2025
We want to welcome our new lab member, Tayo, to the Lopez del Amo lab! He is a post-doc with expertise in mosquitoes.
September 12, 2024
The Lopez del Amo lab had just published another research paper, Expanding the CRISPR base editing toolbox in Drosophila melanogaster, in Communications Biology!
March 28, 2024
The Lopez del Amo lab made a video introducing the insectarium and what we do in this lab. You can watch the video below.
October 12, 2023
The Lopez del Amo lab have just published our first paper in Nature Communications! The title of the paper is "Next-generation CRISPR gene-drive systems using Cas12a nuclease".
September 22, 2023
The Lopez del Amo lab received mosquitoes a few weeks ago and is now working to maintaining the lines that will be used in future experiments.
April 26, 2023
Our team member Suha will be leaving the Lopez del Amo lab and we wish her the best! We will be having breakfast this Friday before she leaves. As of Suha's departure, we will be opening a new lab technician position for the Lopez del Amo lab.
December 22, 2022
Our final breakfast of the Lopez del Amo lab 2022! Our lab successfully cloned many plasmids since we started and here, we are not only celebrating the accomplishments, but also the winter holiday season!
October 7, 2022
Our first breakfast together of the Lopez del Amo lab to celebrate our first successful plasmid construct! We will be doing a monthly breakfast that will occur on the first Friday of each month.
September 21, 2022
Our first PCR in the Lopez del Amo lab! This image shows the DNA bands in the gel. The first and fifth lanes are the DNA ladders. The second, third, and fourth lanes are the PCR amplicons to build our first construct.
We are sorry for the quality of the image. We will be back soon with better and new gel images.
We are sorry for the quality of the image. We will be back soon with better and new gel images.