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Fewer Scientists Are Studying Insects. Here ’s Why That’s So Dangerous
In the summer of 2016, Jerome Goddard, a medical entomologist in Mississippi, received an email from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with a desperate ask. The agency was conducting an “urgent” search for insect scientists around the U.S. who could take up to a six-month paid leave from work to help the CDC fight the Zika outbreak in the U.S., and possibly respond to areas with local transmission if needed. “That’s how bad it is—they need to borrow someone,” says Goddard, an extension professor of medical entomology at Mississippi State University. “We can&...
Source: TIME: Health - February 14, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alexandra Sifferlin Tags: Uncategorized healthytime public health Source Type: news

ESA names winners of AFRI student travel grants
(Entomological Society of America) The Entomological Society of America is pleased to announce that ten entomology students are recipients of travel grants awarded by the US Department of Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative. The grants will provide financial support to graduate students for new networking, presentation, and research opportunities at Entomology 2014, the Entomology Society of America's 62nd Annual Meeting this November in Portland, Ore.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - September 10, 2014 Category: Biology Source Type: news

For entomologists, a gender gap remains in academic, government employment
(Entomological Society of America) Despite a healthy pipeline of women graduating from entomology programs in the United States, insect science jobs in academia and government are disproportionately held by men, according to a new study in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America. The study indicates that men exceed women in university and federal entomology jobs by a 3-to-1 ratio, even though women have earned more than 40 percent of doctoral degrees in entomology for the past decade.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - September 5, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

ESA Names Winners of 2014 AFRI Travel Grants
Annapolis, MD; September 10, 2014 -- The Entomological Society of America (ESA) is pleased to announce that ten entomology students are recipients of travel grants awarded by the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI). The grants will provide financial support to graduate students for new networking, presentation, and research opportunities at Entomology 2014, ESA's 62nd Annual Meeting this November in Portland, Oregon. read more
Source: ESA News - September 10, 2014 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research

Collaborations Grow through the Introductory Biology Project
When Elena Bray-Speth, assistant professor of biology at Saint Louis University, presented her case study on the evolution of fur color in mice, little did she know that someone in the audience had developed a case on the very same topic. That person was Jim Smith, principal investigator (PI) of Evo-Ed (http://lbc.msu.edu/evo-ed), a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project that currently houses four evolutionbased case studies. "Elena and I met just after her session and I showed her our cases," said Smith, who is a professor in the Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Entomology at Michigan State University....
Source: Eye on Education - January 23, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: Susan Musante Source Type: news

Spotlight on important agricultural pests
(University of California - Riverside) Hemipteran insects include many important economically damaging pests such as aphids, whiteflies, psyllids, leafhoppers, and thrips. Nearly 150 scientists from 18 states within the United States and 24 other countries will gather at the University of California, Riverside, June 22-25, to discuss these global pests. The 2nd International Hemipteran-Plant Interactions Symposium will bring together scientists, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in entomology, plant biology and plant pathology from all continents in the world, except Antarctica.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - June 19, 2014 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Ig Nobel Awards Flush Out The Year's Weirdest Scientific Studies
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Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 18, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

Global Warming May Affect Pesticide Effectiveness
Annapolis, MD: November 30, 2015 -- The effectiveness of an important mosquito-fighting insecticide may be impaired by global warming, according to a recent study in the Journal of Medical Entomology. Two researchers from Montana State University, graduate student Shavonn Whiten and Dr. Robert Peterson, have shown that permethrin becomes less effective at killing the yellowfever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) as temperatures increase. read more
Source: ESA News - November 30, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research

ESA ICE 2016 Travel Award Winners
Lanham, MD; December 4, 2015 -- ESA's Student and Young Professionals Committee recently sponsored a competition for travel grants to the 2016 International Congress of Entomology (ICE) to be held in Orlando, Florida. The competition was open to ESA members who are undergraduate or graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, or professionals having less than three years’ experience. A total of $50,000 will be distributed for travel awards to ICE 2016 for airfare, meeting registration, and lodging/living costs during travel. read more
Source: ESA News - December 4, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research

ESA STEP ICE 2016 Travel Award Winners
Annapolis, MD; December 4, 2015 -- ESA's Student and Young Professionals Committee recently sponsored a competition for travel grants to the 2016 International Congress of Entomology (ICE) to be held in Orlando, Florida. The competition was open to ESA members who are undergraduate or graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, or professionals having less than three years’ experience. A total of $50,000 will be distributed for travel awards to ICE 2016 for airfare, meeting registration, and lodging/living costs during travel. read more
Source: ESA News - December 4, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research

Conducting international diploma course on malaria program planning and management (1996-2012).
CONCLUSION: This course is providing the skill for decision making, how to combat against malaria in their country and is parallel to the policy of the malaria control for capacity building in malarious areas of the world. PMID: 24409435 [PubMed]
Source: Iranian Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases - December 20, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: J Arthropod Borne Dis Source Type: research

Charles William Lacaillade. Biologist, Parasitologist, Educator, and Mentor
AbstractCharles William Lacaillade (1904 –1978) was an eminent biologist in the middle decades of the twentieth century. He was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts of parents whose ancestors were French Canadians. His father, also named Charles William Lacaillade, was a dentist who graduated from Tufts University School of Dentistry in 1898. His mother, Elodia Eno, came from a family of very successful businessmen. Lacaillade was the third of six children. His two older brothers, Harold Carleton and Hector Eno, both graduated from the University of Louisville, School of Dentistry, while his younger brother, Lawrence, became ...
Source: Journal of Community Health - January 21, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research

Collaborations Grow through the Introductory Biology Project
When Elena Bray-Speth, assistant professor of biology at Saint Louis University, presented her case study on the evolution of fur color in mice, little did she know that someone in the audience had developed a case on the very same topic. That person was Jim Smith, principal investigator (PI) of Evo-Ed (http://lbc.msu.edu/evo-ed), a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project that currently houses four evolutionbased case studies. "Elena and I met just after her session and I showed her our cases," said Smith, who is a professor in the Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Entomology at Michigan State University....
Source: Eye on Education - January 23, 2019 Category: Biology Authors: BioScience Source Type: news

Characterization of α-Glucosidases From Lutzomyia longipalpis Reveals Independent Hydrolysis Systems for Plant or Blood Sugars
In this report, the authors consider that transglycosylation might be an adaptation for the obtention of monosaccharides from sucrose without the increase in osmolarity, as a simple hydrolytic reaction of a 0.7 M sucrose solution (phloem concentration) might result in osmotic shock for the midgut epithelial cells. In this respect, L. longipalpis enzymes might have the same biochemical adaptation. It would be very interesting to observe if this is a common trait of α-glucosidase from insects feeding on nectar or phloem sap, and verify if this is a case of evolutionary divergence or convergence. Two main mechanisms o...
Source: Frontiers in Physiology - April 9, 2019 Category: Physiology Source Type: research