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Daniel E. Neafsey

Daniel E. Neafsey

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Genetics

D-Index
59
Citations
12948
World Ranking
3238
National Ranking
1406

Overview

Daniel E. Neafsey is affiliated with the Broad Institute in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Molecular Biology, Insect Science, Parasitology, and Genetics.

The scientist's research spans several main topics with a notable emphasis on Malaria Research and Control, Mosquito-borne diseases and control, Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, Insect Resistance and Genetics, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Vector-borne infectious diseases, and Parasites and Host Interactions.

Frequently publishing in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Wellcome Open Research, PLoS Pathogens, Nature Communications, and Molecular Ecology Resources, the research covers a diverse array of infectious disease and vector biology topics.

Neafsey's recent publications include:

  • Local emergence in Amazonia of Plasmodium falciparum k13 C580Y mutants associated with in vitro artemisinin resistance, 2020, eLife
  • Advances and opportunities in malaria population genomics, 2021, Nature Reviews Genetics
  • Subcutaneous Administration of a Monoclonal Antibody to Prevent Malaria, 2024, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Design and implementation of multiplexed amplicon sequencing panels to serve genomic epidemiology of infectious disease: A malaria case study, 2022, Molecular Ecology Resources
  • A population genomic unveiling of a new cryptic mosquito taxon within the malaria-transmitting Anopheles gambiae complex, 2020, Molecular Ecology

Coauthor collaboration has been frequent with Angela M. Early, Caroline O. Buckee, Philipp Schwabl, Mara Lawniczak, and Harriet F. Johnson. These partnerships indicate interdisciplinary engagement within and beyond the fields of malaria and vector biology.

Best Publications

  • Genomic architecture and introgression shape a butterfly radiation

    Nathaniel B. Edelman;Paul B. Frandsen;Paul B. Frandsen;Michael Miyagi;Bernardo Clavijo

  • Improved reference genome of Aedes aegypti informs arbovirus vector control

    Benjamin J. Matthews;Benjamin J. Matthews;Olga Dudchenko;Olga Dudchenko;Sarah B. Kingan;Sergey Koren

  • Extensive introgression in a malaria vector species complex revealed by phylogenomics

    Michael C. Fontaine;James B. Pease;Aaron Steele;Robert M. Waterhouse

  • Highly evolvable malaria vectors: The genomes of 16 Anopheles mosquitoes

    Daniel E. Neafsey;Robert M. Waterhouse;Mohammad R. Abai;Sergey S. Aganezov

  • Genetic diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae.

    Alistair Miles;Alistair Miles;Nicholas J. Harding;Giordano Bottà;Giordano Bottà;Chris S. Clarkson;Chris S. Clarkson

  • Genetic Diversity and Protective Efficacy of the RTS,S/AS01 Malaria Vaccine

    Daniel E Neafsey;Michal Juraska;Trevor Bedford;David Benkeser

  • A genome-wide map of diversity in Plasmodium falciparum.

    Sarah K Volkman;Pardis C Sabeti;David DeCaprio;Daniel E Neafsey

  • Comparative genomic analyses of the human fungal pathogens Coccidioides and their relatives

    Thomas J. Sharpton;Jason E. Stajich;Steven D. Rounsley;Malcolm J. Gardner

  • Stepwise acquisition of pyrimethamine resistance in the malaria parasite

    Elena Lozovsky;Thanat Chookajorn;Kyle M. Brown;Mallika Imwong

  • The malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax exhibits greater genetic diversity than Plasmodium falciparum

    Daniel E Neafsey;Kevin Galinsky;Rays H Y Jiang;Lauren Young

  • Chromerid genomes reveal the evolutionary path from photosynthetic algae to obligate intracellular parasites

    Yong H Woo;Hifzur Ansari;Thomas D Otto;Christen M Klinger

  • A general SNP-based molecular barcode for Plasmodium falciparum identification and tracking

    Rachel Daniels;Sarah K Volkman;Sarah K Volkman;Danny A Milner;Danny A Milner;Nira Mahesh

  • Diversity-oriented synthesis yields novel multistage antimalarial inhibitors

    Nobutaka Kato;Eamon Comer;Tomoyo Sakata-Kato;Arvind Sharma

  • Population genomics studies identify signatures of global dispersal and drug resistance in Plasmodium vivax

    Daniel N Hupalo;Zunping Luo;Alexandre Melnikov;Patrick L Sutton

  • Population genomic sequencing of Coccidioides fungi reveals recent hybridization and transposon control

    Daniel E. Neafsey;Bridget M. Barker;Thomas J. Sharpton;Jason E. Stajich

  • Modeling malaria genomics reveals transmission decline and rebound in Senegal

    Rachel F. Daniels;Stephen F. Schaffner;Edward A. Wenger;Joshua L. Proctor

  • SNP genotyping defines complex gene-flow boundaries among African malaria vector mosquitoes.

    D. E. Neafsey;M. K. N. Lawniczak;D. J. Park;S. N. Redmond

  • Cross-kingdom patterns of alternative splicing and splice recognition.

    Abigail M McGuire;Matthew D Pearson;Daniel Edward Neafsey;James E Galagan

  • hmmIBD: software to infer pairwise identity by descent between haploid genotypes.

    Stephen F. Schaffner;Stephen F. Schaffner;Aimee R. Taylor;Aimee R. Taylor;Wesley Wong;Dyann F. Wirth;Dyann F. Wirth

  • Author response: Chromerid genomes reveal the evolutionary path from photosynthetic algae to obligate intracellular parasites

    Yong H Woo;Hifzur Ansari;Thomas D Otto;Christen M Klinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah K. Volkman
Sarah K. Volkman Harvard University
Dyann F. Wirth
Dyann F. Wirth Harvard University
Stephen F. Schaffner
Stephen F. Schaffner Broad Institute
Daniel L. Hartl
Daniel L. Hartl Harvard University
Pardis C. Sabeti
Pardis C. Sabeti Harvard University
Marc A. T. Muskavitch
Marc A. T. Muskavitch Biogen (United States)
Bruce W. Birren
Bruce W. Birren Broad Institute
Bronwyn MacInnis
Bronwyn MacInnis Broad Institute
François Nosten
François Nosten MORU Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit
Julius Lukeš
Julius Lukeš Czech Academy of Sciences

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