“Looking for new ways to kill an old foe…” Sterile Insect Technique Challenge: Sterilize mosquito males without compromising their fitness. Approach: Identify radioprotectors Amino acid transport Challenge: Kill mosquitoes by inhibition of amino acid transport Approach: Characterize insect-specific amino acid transporters and identify inhibitors Mosquito Diuresis Challenge: Causing renal failure in mosquitoes Approach: Identify the regulators of insect diuresis “The Disease Vector Molecular Biology Laboratory” Aedes aegypti Immo A. Hansen (PI), Lisa Drake, David Price, Stacy Rodriguez, Kristina Gonzales, Hannah Drumm, Chelsea Rodriguez, Ana Serna, Florence Schoderbeck, Mark Rollag, Hitoshi Tsujimoto Department of Biology and Institute for Applied Biosciences, NMSU
“Looking for new ways to kill an old foe…”
Feb 24, 2016
“The Disease Vector Molecular Biology Laboratory”. “Looking for new ways to kill an old foe…”. Immo A. Hansen (PI), Lisa Drake, David Price, Stacy Rodriguez, Kristina Gonzales, Hannah Drumm, Chelsea Rodriguez, Ana Serna, Florence Schoderbeck, Mark Rollag , Hitoshi Tsujimoto. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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“Looking for new ways to kill an old
foe…”
Sterile Insect TechniqueChallenge: Sterilize mosquito males without compromising their fitness.Approach: Identify radioprotectors
Amino acid transportChallenge: Kill mosquitoes by inhibition of amino acid transportApproach: Characterize insect-specific amino acid transporters and identify inhibitors
Mosquito DiuresisChallenge: Causing renal failure in mosquitoes Approach: Identify the regulators of insect diuresis
“The Disease Vector Molecular Biology Laboratory”
Aedes aegypti
Immo A. Hansen (PI), Lisa Drake, David Price, Stacy Rodriguez, Kristina Gonzales, Hannah Drumm, Chelsea Rodriguez, Ana Serna, Florence Schoderbeck, Mark Rollag, Hitoshi Tsujimoto
Department of Biology and Institute for Applied Biosciences, NMSU
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