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Research
Latest papers
Resistance to pyrethroids in Aedes aegypti: Insights into transcriptomic response to different insecticide concentrations.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026
Fate of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, in bed bugs after oral ingestion or intrathoracic injection.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025
Long-Term Exposure to Lambda-Cyhalothrin Reveals Novel Genes Potentially Involved in Aedes aegypti Insecticide Resistance.
Insects · 2025
Latest funding
- $120,000
Untangling the complex molecular interplay in vector-pathogen interactions using bioinformatics, gene silencing, and gene editing.
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $348,000
Untangling the complex molecular interplay in vector-pathogen interactions using bioinformatics, gene silencing, and gene editing.
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $150,000
X-ray Generator for Macromolecular Crystallography
NSERC · 2015 · Co-investigator
37 publications.
Resistance to pyrethroids in Aedes aegypti: Insights into transcriptomic response to different insecticide concentrations.
Muñoz AM, Mejía-Jaramillo AM, Lowenberger C, Saavedra-Rodríguez K, Triana-Chávez O
Fate of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, in bed bugs after oral ingestion or intrathoracic injection.
Meraj S, Phung P, Gries R, Lowenberger C, Gries G
Long-Term Exposure to Lambda-Cyhalothrin Reveals Novel Genes Potentially Involved in Aedes aegypti Insecticide Resistance.
Mejía A, Mejía-Jaramillo AM, Fernandez GJ, Granada Y, Lowenberger C, Triana-Chávez O
Exploring novel pyrethroid resistance mechanisms through RNA-seq in Triatoma dimidiata from Colombia.
Zuluaga S, Fernandez GJ, Mejía-Jaramillo AM, Lowenberger C, Triana-Chavez O
Common Bed Bugs: Non-Viable Hosts for Trypanosoma rangeli Parasites.
Meraj S, Phung P, Lau K, Lowenberger C, Gries G
Multigenerational expression of antimicrobial peptides in Aedes aegypti exposed to Metarhizium anisopliae: Is trans-generational immune priming involved?
de Oliveira Barbosa Bitencourt R, Azevedo Santos H, Salcedo-Porras N, Lowenberger C, Alves de Senne N, Silva Gôlo P, Rita Elias Pinheiro Bittencourt V, da Costa Angelo I
A novel prolixicin identified in common bed bugs with activity against both bacteria and parasites.
Meraj S, Dhari AS, Mohr E, Lowenberger C, Gries G
Activation of immune pathways in common bed bugs, Cimex lectularius, in response to bacterial immune challenges - a transcriptomics analysis.
Meraj S, Salcedo-Porras N, Lowenberger C, Gries G
Profiling lipidomic changes in dengue-resistant and dengue-susceptible strains of Colombian Aedes aegypti after dengue virus challenge.
Elliott K, Caicedo PA, Haunerland NH, Lowenberger C
A Novel Model of Pathogenesis of Metarhizium anisopliae Propagules through the Midguts of Aedes aegypti Larvae.
Bitencourt ROB, Santos-Mallet JRD, Lowenberger C, Ventura A, Gôlo PS, Bittencourt VREP, Angelo IDC
Untangling the complex molecular interplay in vector-pathogen interactions using bioinformatics, gene silencing, and gene editing.
Principal investigators: Lowenberger, Carl
Untangling the complex molecular interplay in vector-pathogen interactions using bioinformatics, gene silencing, and gene editing.
Principal investigators: Lowenberger, Carl
Keywords: CrisprCas; dengue virus development in mosquitoes; Gene knockdown; Genetic manipulation of insects; IMD pathway in Rhodnius prolixus; innate immunity; parasite-host interactions; RNAi; using RNAi and CRISPR-Cas to understand the role of genes
X-ray Generator for Macromolecular Crystallography
Principal investigators: Paetzel, Mark
Digital polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and high-capacity multiplex PCR for next-generation sequencing
Principal investigators: Morin, Ryan
Understanding innate immune responses of insect vectors to intracellular pathogens.
Principal investigators: Lowenberger, Carl
Immune interactions between insects and parasites
Principal investigators: Lowenberger, Carl
Upgrade of existing light microscope to provide epifluorescence capacity
Principal investigators: Moore, Margo
Canada Research Chair in the Biology of Parasites and Disease Vectors
Principal investigators: Lowenberger, Carl
Keywords: CRC
Characterization of the innate immune response in Rhodnius prolixus
Principal investigators: Lowenberger, Carl
Canada Research Chair in Biology of Parasites and Disease Vectors
Principal investigators: Lowenberger, Carl
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Carl Lowenberger and Gerhard Gries: 6 shared papers
- Fiona Brinkman and Carl Lowenberger: 1 shared paper
- Mark Skinner and Carl Lowenberger: 1 shared paper
- Biological Sciences
- Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
- Department of Archaeology
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