Omar Akbari

In December of 2008, Omar S. Akbari received his Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Nevada, Reno where he studied the role cis-regulatory modules play in cellular identity along the anterio-posterior axis in developing Drosophila melanogaster embryos.  In May of 2009, he joined the laboratory of professor Bruce A. Hay at the California Institute of Technology as a post-doctoral scholar to innovate synthetic biology of disease vectors. In summer of 2015, he became an Assistant Professor of Entomology at the University of California, Riverside.