Christopher Potter PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
Co-Director of the Neuroscience Training Program
Professor of Neuroscience
Co-Director of the Neuroscience Training Program
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Matinyan, N, Potter, CJ. “Chapter 29: Perspectives on the genetic manipulation of mosquitoes: advancements in studying sensory biology in vector insects” Sensory Ecology of Disease Vectors. Eds. R. Ignell, C.R. Lazzari, M.G. Lorenzo, S.R. Hill. Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2022. 743-771. Link
Raji JI, Potter CJ (2022). Chemosensory Ionotropic Receptors in Human Host-Seeking Mosquitoes. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 54:100967. doi:10.1016/j.cois.2022.100967. Link
Afify A, Potter CJ (2022). Calcium Imaging of Anopheles coluzzii Mosquito Antennae Expressing the Calcium Indicator GCaMP6f. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols doi:10.1101/pdb.prot107918. Link
Afify A, Potter CJ (2022). Genetically Encoded Calcium Indicators for Functional Imaging of Mosquito Olfactory Neurons. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols doi:10.1101/pdb.top107683. Link
Task D, Lin C-C, Vulpe A, Afify A, Ballou S, Brbic M, Schlegel P, Raji J, Jefferis GSXE, Li H, Menuz K, Potter CJ (2022). Chemoreceptor Co-Expression in Drosophila melanogaster Olfactory Neurons. eLife 2022;11:e72599. Link
Maguire SE, Afify A, Goff LA, Potter CJ (2022). Odorant-receptor-mediated regulation of chemosensory gene expression in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Cell Reports, 38:110494. Link
Marr E, Potter CJ (2021). Base Editing of Somatic Cells Using CRISPR-Cas9 in Drosophila. The CRISPR Journal, Nov 23 2021. doi: 10.1089/crispr.2021.0062. Link
Task D, Lin C-C, Vulpe A, Afify A, Ballou S, Brbic M, Schlegel P, Jefferis GSXE, Li H, Menuz K, Potter CJ (2021). Chemoreceptor Co-Expression in Drosophila Olfactory Neurons. bioRxiv, July 28. Link
Potter CJ (2021). Unlocking pan-neuronal expression in mosquitoes. (Preview) Cell Reports Methods, Volume 1, Issue 3, 100051. Link
Raji JI, Potter CJ (2021). The number of neurons in Drosophila and mosquito brains. PLOS ONE 16(5): e0250381. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250381. Link
Task, D, Potter, CJ (2021). Rapid degeneration of Drosophila olfactory neurons in Orco mutant maxillary palps. microPublication Biology. 10.17912/micropub.biology.000398. Link
Konopka JK, Task D, Afify A, Raji J, Deibel K, Maguire S, Lawrence R, Potter CJ (2021). Olfaction in Anopheles mosquitoes. Chemical Senses, bjab021. Link
Melo N, Capek M, Arenas OM, Afify A, Potter CJ, Laminette PJ, Para A, Gallio M, Stensmyr MC (2021). The irritant receptor TRPA1 mediates the mosquito repellent effect of catnip. Current Biology. 2021; 31:1-7. Link
Marr E, Potter CJ (2021). Base editing using CRISPR/Cas9 in Drosophila. bioRxiv 2021.03.24.436868. Link
Task D, Lin C-C, Afify A, Li H, Vulpe A, Menuz M, Potter CJ (2020). Widespread Polymodal Chemosensory Receptor Expression in Drosophila Olfactory Neurons. bioRxiv, Nov 8. Link
Maguire SE, Afify A, Goff LA, Potter CJ (2020). A Feedback Mechanism Regulates Odorant Receptor Expression in the Malaria Mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. bioRxiv, July 24. Link
Afify A and Potter CJ (2020). Insect Repellents Mediate Species-Specific Olfactory Behaviours in Mosquitoes. Malaria Journal. https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12936-020-03206-8.
Afify A, Betz JF, Riabinina O, Lahondère C, Potter CJ (2019). Commonly used insect repellents hide human odors from Anopheles mosquitoes. Current Biology. DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.007. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)31167-4
Maguire SE, Potter CJ (2019) Diet Drugs Trick Mosquitoes into Feeling Full. Trends in Pharmacol Sci S0165-6147(19)30093-8. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165614719300938?via%3Dihub
Potter CJ (2019) Olfaction: Mosquitoes Love your Acid Odors. Current Biology 29(8), R282–R284. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982219303082
Chin SG, Maguire SE, Huoviala P, Jefferis GSXE, Potter CJ (2018) Olfactory Neurons and Brain Centers Directing Oviposition Decisions in Drosophila. Cell Reports 24, 1667-1678 https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(18)31108-2
Potter CJ. (2018) Shining a Light on Olfactory Circuits. Neuron 98, 1061-1063 https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(18)30488-4
Riabinina, O, Task, D, Marr, E, Lin, C-C, Alford R, O'Brochta, DA, Potter, CJ (2016) Organization of Olfactory Centers in the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Nature Communications 7, 1–12. http://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13010
Lin, C-C, Potter, CJ (2016) Non-Mendelian Dominant Maternal Effects Caused by CRISPR/Cas9 Transgenic Components in Drosophila melanogaster. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics Early Online September 16, 2016, doi: 10.1534/g3.116.034884; http://www.g3journal.org/content/6/11/3685.full
Lin, C-C, Potter, CJ (2016) Editing Transgenic DNA Components by Inducible Gene Replacement in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 203(4) 1613-1628; DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.191783; http://www.genetics.org/content/203/4/1613
Lin, C-C, Riabinina, O., Potter, C. J. (2016) Olfactory Behaviors Assayed by Computer Tracking Of Drosophila in a Four-quadrant Olfactometer. J. Vis. Exp. (114), e54346, doi:10.3791/54346 JoVE
Lin, C-C., Prokop-Prigge, KA, Preti, G and Potter CJ (2015) Food odors trigger Drosophila males to deposit a pheromone that guides aggregation and female oviposition decisions. eLife. http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08688
Lin, C-C. and Potter, CJ (2015) Re-classification of Drosophila melanogaster Trichoid and Intermediate Sensilla Using Fluorescence-guided Single Sensillum Recording. PLoS ONE, http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0139675
Riabinina, O., Luginbuhl, D., Marr, E., Liu, S., Wu, M.N., Luo, L., and Potter, C.J (2015) Improved and expanded Q-system reagents for genetic manipulations. Nature Methods, 12:219-222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3250
Potter, CJ (2014) Stop the Biting: Targeting a Mosquito’s Sense of Smell (review). Cell 156:878-881.