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Dr. NORIEGA CV
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EDUCATION

 

1981 | University of La Plata Argentina
Licenciado en Zoología

 

 

1987 | University of La Plata Argentina
Ph.D Zoology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Professor | 2012-Present | Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University

 

 

Associate Professor | 2007-2012 | Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University

Assistant Professor (2004-2007) Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University

Adjunct Associate Professor (2003-present) College of Natural Sciences, University of La Plata. Argentina

Research Associate Professor (2002-2003) Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona

Research Assistant Professor (1994-2002) Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona.

Visiting Scientist (1994) Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.

Research Associate (1992-1994) Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona.

Research Associate (1989-1992) Center for Insect Science, University of Arizona.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (1989) National Council of Scientific Research. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.

Laboratory Teaching Assistant Chief in Animal Physiology, University of La Plata, 1980-1983, 1988-1989.

Graduate Fellow (1981-1988) Center for Parasites and Vectors Studies, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.

 

HONORS AND GRANTS

 

 

RO1 NIH grant award (PI) Regulation of Juvenile Hormone levels in mosquitoes (2015-2020). Total Cost: $2,561,000

RO1 NIH grant award (PI) Regulation of Juvenile Hormone levels in mosquitoes (2010-2015). Total Cost: $2,385,000

RO1 NIH grant award (PI) Regulation of Juvenile Hormone levels in mosquitoes (2005-2010). Total Cost: $1,844,038

RO1 NIH grant award (PI) Regulation of Juvenile Hormone levels in mosquitoes (2001-2004). Total Cost: $ 888,399

Distinguish Visiting Professor Award. Mexico-United States Foundation for Sciences. University of La Paz, Mexico (2001).

RO1 NIH grant award (coPI) . Blood digestion in Vectors 1996-2001
Total cost $1,237,432.

Biomedical Research Abroad (BRAVO-NIH) award, Visiting Scientist. University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic (1994).

Fullbright Foundation Travel Grant Award (1989).

National Council of Scientific Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Argentina) (1989).

Competitive Research Grant Award Third World Association for the Advance of the Science (Trieste, Italy)(1989).

Research Grant Award from S.P.I.D.E.R. (Ecological Research Development Program) University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1987)

National Council of Scientific Research Fellowship (Argentina)(1981-1988).

 

INVITED SPEAKER

 

· Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, 1994, 1999.

·Department of Zoology, University of Stockholm, Sweden, 1994.

·Department of Natural Sciences, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 1995, 2000, 2003.

·Campomar Institute of Biochemical Research, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1995.

·National Institute of Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1997, 2001.

·CINVESTAD, Center of Advanced Studied, Mexico DF, Mexico, 1997, 2001.

·Department of Zoology, University of Mar del Plata, Argentina, 1998.

·Department of Entomology Seminar Series. University of Arizona, April, 1999.

·Imperial College, London, England, 1999.

·Institute of Virology, University of Oxford, England, 1999.

·University of Keele, England, 1999.

·University of Wales, Bangor, Wales, 1999.

·University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 1999.

·Norwestern Research Center (CIBNOR), La Paz, BCS, Mexico, 2000, 2001.

·Department of Parasitology, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2000.

·Department of Biochemistry, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina, 2000.

·Department of Parasitology, Naresuan University, Pitsanulok, Thailand, 2001.

·Max Plank Institute, Goettingen, Germany, 2001.

·Invited speaker symposium: Arthropod adaptations for hematophagy Meeting of the Society of Vector Ecologists, Albuquerque, USA, 2002.

·Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. 2002.

·Boston College, USA , January 2003.

·Kansas State University, USA, February 2003.

·Florida International University, USA, March 2003.

·University of Almeria, Spain, August 2003.

·Center for Biological Research, Madrid. Spain. September 2003.

·Molecular Biology Institute, Barcelona. Spain. September 2003.

·Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bariloche, Argentina. November 2003

·Invited speaker International Symposium on Genetic Resources and Functional Studies in Insects. Tsukuba, Japan. March 2005.

·University of Riverside, February 2006.

·University of Georgia, February 2006.

·University of Almeria, Spain. July 2006.

·CICYTTP, Argentina, May 2007.

·Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bariloche, Argentina. May 2007.

·Center for genomic Studies, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, May 2007.

·Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, July 2007.

·Department of Biology. MIT. Boston. May 2008.

·Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) October 2008.

·Invited Speaker, Brazilian congress of Parasitology. October 2008.

·University of Florida, Department of Entomology, March 2009.

National Institute of Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico, December 2010

Invited speaker, Symposium on Biological Research. Center of Biological Research. University of Antioquia. Colombia, November 2010.

Invited speaker, Symposium on Science Salutation, University of El Rosario. Bogota. Colombia, November 2010.

Invited speaker Seminar series Fralin Life Science Institute, Virginia Tech University, September 2010.

Invited Seminar, Northwestern Research Center (CIBNOR), La Paz, BCS, Mexico, August, 2010.

IInvited speaker, 6th International Symposium on Molecular Insect Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. October 2011.

Invited speaker, International Conference on Tropical Medicine. Miami, June 2011.

Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2011.

Center of Genomic Studies, University of La Plata, Argentina, May 2011.

Invited speaker, International Symposium on Arthropod and Helminth Science, Ilha Grande, Brazil. August 2012.

Invited Seminar HHMI, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, September 2012

Invited speaker EMBO meeting Molecular and population biology of disease  vectors, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, July 2013.

Invited speaker China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, July 2014.

Invited speaker Shanghai institute of plany physiology and pathology, Shanghai, China,July 2014.

Invited speaker, Biotech Insect Conference, Niagara, Canada, June 2015.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE IN
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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

 

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Vectors (Director). Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina, 2000.

Proteases in Invertebrates (Director). Norwestern Research Center (CIBNOR), La Paz, BCS, Mexico, 2001.

International Course on Biology of Disease Vectors, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, 2001. sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR).

Post-graduate course: New approaches in Insect research: functional genomic and proteomic studies. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, 2002.

International Course on Biology of Disease Vectors, Cuernavaca, Mexico, June 14-29, 2003. sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR).

International course on Insect Molecular and Cellular Biology. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, 2004.

Summer School on Vector Biology, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, June 20-25, 2005.

International Course on Biology of Disease Vectors, Manaus, Brazil, June 3-16, 2007. sponsored by FioCruz and the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR).

International Course on Biology of Disease Vectors, Macae, Brazil, July 2012.

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 Villalobos-Sambucaro MJ., Lorenzo-Figueiras, AN., Riccillo, FL., Diambra, LA., Noriega, FG., Ronderos, JR (2015). Allatotropin modulates myostimulatory and cardioacceleratory activities in Rhodnius prolixus (Stal). PLoS One. 2015 Apr 21;10(4):e0124131. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124131

 

1.     Lee, SS., Ding Y., Karapetians N., Rivera-Perez, C., Noriega FG., Adams ME. (2017). Hormonal Signaling Cascade During an Early Adult Critical Period Required for Courtship Memory Retention in Drosophila. Current Biology, 2017 Sep 7. pii: S0960-9822(17)31026-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.017

Wen, D., Rivera-Perez, C., Abdou, M., Jia, Q., He, Q., Zyaan, O., Bendena, WB., Tobe, SS., Noriega, FG., Palli, SR., Wang, J., Li, S. (2015) Methyl Farnesoate Plays a Dual Role in Regulating Drosophila Metamorphosis. PLoS Genet 11(3): e1005038. doi:10.1371/journal. pgen.1005038

 

De Loof, A., Marchal, E., Rivera-Perez, C., Noriega, F.G., Schoofs, L. (2015) Farnesol-like endogenous sesquiterpenoids in vertebrates: the probable but overlooked functional "inbrome" anti-aging counterpart of juvenile hormone of insects?  Frontiers in Endocrinology. 2015 Jan 6;5:222. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2014.00222.

 

Nouzova, M., Rivera-Perez, C and Noriega FG (2015) Allatostatin-C reversibly blocks the transport of citrate out of the mitochondria and inhibits juvenile hormone synthesis in mosquitoes. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 57: 20-26.

 

Hernandez-Martinez, S., Rivera-Perez, C., Nouzova M., and Noriega. FG (2015) Coordinated changes in JH biosynthesis and JH hemolymph titers in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. J. Insect Physiology. 72: 22-27.

 

Rivera-Perez, C., Nouzova, M and Noriega, FG. (2014) New Approaches to Study Juvenile Hormone Biosynthesis in Insects. In: Short Views on Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Chapter 7. 185-216.

 

Chandrasekar, R., Brintha, PG.,.Park, EY., Pelsoi, P., Liu, F., Goldsmith, M., Ejiofor, A., Pittendrigh, BR., Han, YS., Noriega, FG., Sugumaran, M., Tyagi, BK., Zheng, Z., Zhu, GF., Patnaik, BB and Michailova, P. (2014) Introduction to Insect Molecular Biology.  In: Short Views on Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Chapter 1. 3-56.

 

Areiza, M., Nouzova, M., Rivera-Perez, C., and Noriega FG (2014). Ecdysis triggering hormone ensures proper timing of juvenile hormone biosynthesis in pharate adult mosquitoes. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 54: 98-105.

Noriega, F.G. (2014). Juvenile hormone biosynthesis in insects: What is new, what do we know, what questions remain? ISRN. Volume 2014, Article ID 967361, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/967361.

 

Perez, M., and Noriega, FG. (2014). The sub-lethal larval metal stress response of the Dengue Fever Mosquito. Physiological Entomology. 39(2):111-119.

 

 

Rivera- Perez, C., Nouzova, M., Lamboglia, I. and Noriega FG. (2014) Metabolomics Reveals Changes in the Mevalonate and Juvenile Hormone Synthesis Pathways. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 51: 1-9.

 

 

Clifton, M.E., Correa S, Rivera-Perez, C., Nouzova, M and Noriega, FG. (2014). Male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes use JH III transferred during copulation to influence previtellogenic ovary physiology and affect the reproductive output of female mosquitoes. J Insect Physiology. 64: 40-47.

 

Perez-Hedo,  M., Rivera-Perez, C. and Noriega, FG. (2014) Starvation increases insulin sensitivity and reduces juvenile hormone synthesis in mosquitoes. PLoS One 9:e86183

Alzugaray, ME., Adami, ML., Diambra L., Hernandez-Martinez, S., Damborenea, C., Noriega, FG., Ronderos, JR. (2013). Allatotropin: an ancestral myotropic neuropeptide involved in feeding. PLoS ONE 8(10): e77520. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0077520

Nyati, P., Nouzova, M., Rivera-Perez, C., Clifton, ME., Majoral, JG., and Noriega FG.(2013). Farnesyl phosphatase, a corpora allata enzyme involved in juvenile hormone synthesis in Aedes aegypti. PLoS ONE 8(8):e71967.

Rivera-Perez, C., Nouzova, M., Clifton, ME., Martin Garcia, E., LeBlanc, E., and Noriega, FG. (2013) Aldehyde Dehydrogenase 3 Converts Farnesal into Farnesoic Acid in the Corpora Allata of Mosquitoes. Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol. 43: 675-682

Perez-Hedo, M., Rivera-Perez, C. and Noriega, FG. (2013) The Insulin/TOR signal transduction pathway is involved in the nutritional regulation of juvenile hormone synthesis in Aedes aegypti. Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol. 43:495-500

Perez M., and Noriega, FG. (2013)  Aedes aegypti pharate 1st instar quiescence: A case for anticipatory reproductive plasticity. Journal of Insect Physiology. 59:318-324.

.Mayoral, JG., Leonard, KT., Defelipe, LA., Turjansksi, AG. and Noriega, FG. (2013). Functional Analysis of a Mosquito Short Chain Dehydrogenase Cluster. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology. 82:96-115.

Rivera-Perez, C., Nouzova, M and Noriega, FG. (2012) A quantitative assay for juvenile hormones and their precursors using fluorescent tags. PLoS One 7(8): e43784.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043784.

Diaz, M., Mayoral, JM., Priestap, H., Nouzova, M., Rivera-Perez, C., Noriega, FG. (2012). Characterization of an Isopentenyl Diphosphate Isomerase involved in the Juvenile Hormone pathway in Aedes aegypti. Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol. 42: 751-757.

Clifton M.E. and Noriega, FG. (2012). The fate of follicles after a blood meal is dependent on previtellogenic nutrition and juvenile hormone in Aedes aegypti. Journal of Insect Physiology 58: 1007ñ1019.

Perez M., and Noriega, FG (2012).  Aedes aegypti pharate 1st instar quiescence affects larval fitness and metal tolerance. Journal of Insect Physiology. 58: 824-829.

Nouzova, M., Mayoral, J.M, Brockhoff, A Goodwin, M., Meyerhof, W. and Noriega F.G (2012).  Functional characterization of an allatotropin receptor expressed in the corpora allata of mosquitoes. Peptides. 34:201-208.

Sanborn AF, Heath, JE, Phillips PK, Heath MS, and Noriega FG (2011) Thermal adaptation and diversity in tropical ecosystems: Evidence from Cicadas (Hemiptera, Cicadidae). PLoS One. 6 (12) :e29368. Epub 2011 Dec 29.

Clifton M.E. and Noriega, FG. (2011) Nutrient limitation results in juvenile hormone-mediated resorption of previtellogenic ovarian follicles in mosquitoes. Journal of Insect Physiology 57: 1274-1281.

Nouzova, M., Edwards M., Mayoral J.M., Noriega, FG (2011) A coordinated expression of biosynthetic enzymes controls the flux of juvenile hormone precursors in the corpora allata of mosquitoes. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 41: 660-669.

Defelipe, L.A, Dolghih E, Roitberg A.E., Nouzova M., Mayoral J.G, Noriega F.G and Turjanski, A.G. (2011). Juvenile Hormone Synthesis: ìesterify then epoxidizeî or ìepoxidize then esterifyî? Insights from the Structural Characterization of Juvenile Hormone Acid Methyltransferase. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 41: 228-235.

Navare A., Mayoral, J.G., Nouzova, M., Noriega, F.G., Fern·ndez, F.M.  (2010) Rapid Direct Analysis in Real-Time (DART) Mass Spectrometric Detection of Juvenile Hormone (JH) III and its Terpene Precursors. Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry. 398:3005-3013.    

Jaime G. Mayoral, Francisco J. AlarcÛn, Tom·s F. MartÌnez, Pablo Barranco, F.G. Noriega (2010) An improved End-Point Fluorimetric Procedure for the Determination of Low Amounts of Trypsin Activity in Biological Samples Using Rhodamine-110-Based Substrates. Applied Biochem Biotechnology. 160:1-8

Mayoral, JG, Nouzova M, Navare, A and Noriega FG (2009) NADP+-dependent farnesol dehydrogenase, a corpora allata enzyme involved in juvenile hormone synthesis PNAS, 106:,21091-21096.


Mayoral, JG., Nouzova, M., Brockhoff, A., Goodwin, M., Hernandez-Martinez , S., Richter, D., Meyerhof, W and Noriega, FG. (2010). Allatostatin-C receptors in mosquitoes. Peptides,  31,442-450


Navare, A., Nouzova, M., Noriega, F.G., Martinez-Hernandez, S., Menzel, C. and Fernandez, F.M. (2009) On-Chip Solid-phase Extraction Preconcentration/Focusing Substrates Coupled to Atmospheric Pressure Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry for High Sensitivity biomolecule analysis. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 23:447-486.

Jaime G. Mayoral, Marcela Nouzova, Michiyo Yoshiyama, Tetsuro Shinoda, Salvador Hernandez-Martinez, Elena Dolghih, Adrian G. Turjanski, Adrian E. Roitberg, Horacio Priestap, Mario Perez, Lucy Mackenzie, Yiping Li,and Fernando G. Noriega (2009) Molecular and functional characterization of a juvenile hormone acid methyltransferase expressed in the corpora allata of mosquitoes. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
39:31-37.


Berry, J.P., Gantar, M., Perez, M.H., Berry, G., and Noriega F.G. (2008) Cyanobacterial Toxins as Allelochemicals with Potential as Algaecides, Herbicides and Insecticides. Marine drugs 6: 117-146.

Navare, A., Zhou, M., McDonald, J., Noriega, F.G., Sullards, C. and Fernandez, F.M. (2008) Serum Biomarker Profiling by Solid-Phase Extraction with Particle-Embedded Micro Tips and Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 22:997-1008.

Martinez-Hernandez, S., Mayoral, J.G., Li, Y. and Noriega, F.G. (2007). Role of Juvenile hormone and allatotropin on nutrient allocation, ovarian development and survivorship in mosquitoes. J. Insect Physiology 53: 230-234

Li, Y., Martinez-Hernandez, S., Fernandez, F., Mayoral, J.G., Topalis, P., Priestap, H., Perez, M., Navarete, A., and Noriega, F.G. (2006).Biochemical, molecular and functional characterization of PISCF-allatostatin, a regulator of juvenile hormone biosynthesis in the mosquito Aedes aegypti. J. Biological Chemistry, 281(45), 34048-34055.

Telang, A., Li, Y., Noriega F.G., and Brown M.R. (2006) Effects of larval nutrition on the endocrinology of mosquito egg development. J. Experimental Biology 209, 645-655.

Noriega, F.G., Ribeiro, J.M.C., Koener, J.F.,Valenzuela, J.G., Hernandez-Martinez, S., Pham, V.M and Feyereisen, R. (2006) Comparative genomics of insect juvenile hormone biosynthesis. Insect Biochem.Molec. Biology. 36: 366-374

Martinez-Hernandez, S., Li, Y., Rodriguez, M.H., Lanz-Mendoza H. and Noriega, F.G. (2005). Allatotropin and PISCF- and YXFGL-amide-allatostatins distribution in Aedes aegypti and Anopheles albimanus mosquitoes. Cell Tissue Research 321:105-113.

Sanborn, A.F., Heath, M.S., Heath, J.E., Noriega, F.G. and Polly, P.K. (2004) Convergence and Parallelism Among Cicadas of Argentina and the Southwestern United States (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea). Journal of Zoology of the Linnean Society 83: 281-288

Isoe, J, Noriega, F. G. and Wells, M. A. (2004) Genomics and Gene Expression in Vectors in (Marquardt WC, Black WC, Freier J, Hagedorn H, Hemingway J, Higgs S, James AA and Kondratieff, Eds.) “Biology of Disease Vectors”, 2nd ed., Elsevier, 551-563.

Noriega, F.G (2004) Mini review: Nutritional regulation of JH synthesis: a mechanism to control reproductive maturation in mosquitoes? Insect Biochem Molec. Biol. 34:687-693.

Caroci, A., Li, Y. and Noriega, F.G. (2004). Reduced juvenile hormone synthesis in mosquitoes with low teneral reserves prevents ovarian previtellogenic development in Aedes aegypti. J. Experimental Biology 207:2685-2690

Li, Y., Martinez-Hernandez, S. and Noriega, F.G. (2004) Inhibition of juvenile hormone biosynthesis in mosquitoes: effect of allatostatic head-factors, PISCF- and YXFGL-amide-allatostatins. Regulatory peptides. 118: 175-182.

Li, Y.; Unnithan, C.;Martinez-Hernandez, S., Feyereisen, R. and Noriega, F.G. (2003) Activity of the corpora allata of adult female Aedes aegypti: effects of mating and feeding. Insect Biochem Molec. Biol. 33: 1307-1315.

Li, Y., Kuwano, E. and Noriega F.G. (2003) 1,5-disubstituted imidazoles inhibit juvenile hormone biosynthesis by the corpora allata of the mosquito Aedes aegypti. J. Insect Physiology 49: 1005-1011.

Li, Y.; Unnithan, C.; Veenstra J., Feyereisen, R. and Noriega, F.G. (2003) Stimulation of Juvinile hormone biosynthesis by the corpora allata of adult Aedes aegypti in vitro: effect of farnesoic acid and Aedes allatotropin. J. Experiemental Biology, 206

Caroci, A. and Noriega, F.G. (2003) Free amino acids are important for the retention of protein and non-protein meals by the midgut of Aedes aegypti females. Journal of Insect Physiology 49: 839-844.

Sanborn, A.F., Noriega, F.G. and Phillips, P.K (2002) Thermoregulation in the cicada Platypedia putnami variety lutea (Homoptera: Tibicinidae) and a test of a crepitation hypothesis. J. Thermal Biology 27(5): 365-369.

FG .Noriega, Edgar, K.A., Bechet, R. and Wells, M.A. (2002) Midgut exopeptidase activities in Aedes aegypti are induced by blood feeding. J. Insect Physiology 48: 65-72.

F.G Noriega, K. A. Edgar, D. K. Shah and M. A. Wells. (2001) Neuroendocrine factors affecting the steady state levels of early trypsin mRNA in Aedes aegypti . J. Insect Physiology. 47, 515-522

M.J. Edwards, L.A. Moskalyk, M. Donelly-Doman, M. Vlaskova, F. G. Noriega, V.K.Walker and M. Jacobs-Lorena. (2000) Characterization of a carboxypeptidase A gene from the mosquito, Aedes aegypti Insect Molec. Biol. 9, 33-38

K. Edgar, F.G. Noriega, B. C. Bonning and M. A. Wells (2000). Recombinant juvenile hormone esterase, an effective tool to modify juvenile hormone-dependent expression of the early trypsin gene in mosquitoes. Insect Molec. Biol. 9, 27-31.

F.G. Noriega and M. A. Wells (1999). A molecular view of protein-meal digestion in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti J. Insect Physiol. 45, 613-620.

F. G. Noriega, A. E. Colonna and M. A. Wells (1999). Increase in the size of the amino acid pool is sufficient to activate translation of early trypsin mRNA in Aedes aegypti midgut. Insect Biochem Molec. Biol. 29, 243-247.

J.A. Veenstra, F.G. Noriega, R. Graf and Feyereisen R. (1997) Identification of three allatostatins and their cDNA from the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Peptides. 18:937-942

Q. Jiang, M. Hall, F.G. Noriega and M. Wells (1997) Adult female-specific Aedes aegypti midgut chymotrypsin: cDNA cloning and pattern of expression. Insect Biochemistry and Molec. Biol. 27: 283-289

F.G. Noriega, D. Shaa and M. Wells (1997) Juvenile Hormone regulates early trypsin gene expression. Insect Molecular Biology 6: 63-66.

F.G. Noriega, X-Y. Wang, J. E. Pennington, C. Barillas-Mury, and M. Wells (1996). Early trypsin, a female-specific midgut protease in Aedes aegypti: isolation, amino-terminal sequence determination, and cloning and sequencing of the gene. Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol. 26:119-126.

F.G. Noriega, J. E Pennington, C. Barillas-Mury, X-Y. Wang and M. Wells (1996). Early trypsin, an Aedes aegypti female specific protease, is post-transcriptionally regulated by the blood meal. Insect Molec. Biol. 5:25-29.

A.F. Sanborn, M.S. Heath, J.E. Heath and F.G. Noriega (1995) Diurnal activity, Temperature responses and Endothermy in three South American cicadas (Homoptera : Cicadidae: Dorisiana bonaerensis, Quesada gigas and Fidicina mannifera). J. Therm. Biol. 20:451-460.

A.F. Sanborn, J.E. Heath, M.S. Heath and F.G. Noriega (1995). Thermoregulation by endogenous heat production in two south american grass dwelling cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae: Proarna). Florida Entomologist 78: 319-328.

Barillas-Mury, F.G. Noriega and M. Wells (1995). Early trypsin activity is part of the signal transduction that activates transcription of late trypsin in the midgut of the mosquito A. aegypti. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 25:241-246.

F.G. Noriega, C. Barillas-Mury and M. Wells (1994). Dietary control of late-trypsin gene transcription in Aedes aegypti. Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol. 24(6): 627-631.

F.G. Noriega and M. Wells (1993). A comparison of three methods to isolate RNA from mosquitoes. Insect Molecular Biology. 2(1): 21-24.

F.G. Noriega and M. Wells (1992). Oxygen-Carrying Perfluorochemicals Emulsions Improve Fat Body Culture Performance. Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol. 22:6, 585-590.

F.G. Noriega (1992). Autogeny in three species of Triatominae: Rhodnius prolixus, Triatoma rubrovaria and Triatoma infestans. J. Med. Entomology 29(2):273-277.

F.G. Noriega (1990). Ecdysteroid Metabolism and Titre in Triatominae. Invertebrate Reprod.Devel.18:1-2,123.

Stoka, D. Salomon and F.G. Noriega (1987). Reproductive Physiology of Triatominae in Chagas Disease Vectors, Ed. R.R. Brenner, CRC press Florida. 110-124.

Stoka and F.G. Noriega (1982).Ecdysteroids: Biochemical mechanism of 20-OH-ecdysone inactivation in Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera,Reduviidae),
Acta Physiol. Latinoam.;32,321-329.