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ESA Receives CDC Award to Build, Diversify Public Health Entomology Workforce
Annapolis, MD; August 30, 2021 —The Entomological Society of America will play a leading role in strengthening the nation’s capacity in public health entomology, thanks to a new $500,000 cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The funding will support programs to expand and diversify the pipeline of students and professionals entering public health entomology careers.
Source: ESA News - August 30, 2021 Category: Biology Authors: jrominiecki Source Type: research
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
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
The Latest Report On Bees Is A Total Buzzkill
Bees, the earth's most important pollinators, took another devastating hit last year, despite increased efforts to reverse the decline.
U.S beekeepers lost 44 percent of their total colonies from April 2015 to March 2016, an increase of 3.5 percentage points over the previous year, according to the findings of an annual survey released Tuesday.
Colony loss during winter jumped to 28.1 percent, from 22.3 percent a year earlier. In addition, beekeepers experienced a second straight year in which summer loss rates rivaled those of the colder months, which typically are more extreme.
The summer losses, in particular,...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 11, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Trump's Hiring Freeze Could Imperil Breakthrough Discovery On Bees
Julia Fine was all set for the next chapter. She’d packed her bags and moved out of her apartment, and was days away from making the drive from Pennsylvania to Utah, where she planned to start work as a postdoctoral scholar with the Agricultural Research Service, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s research agency.
“I had made all the plans,” said Fine, a bee researcher who recently completed her doctorate in entomology at Pennsylvania State University. “I was supposed to start as soon as possible.”
But on Jan. 23, just three days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration,...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 6, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
Entomologist at UC Riverside named a Pew scholar
(University of California - Riverside) Naoki Yamanaka, an assistant professor of entomology at the University of California, Riverside, has been named a Pew scholar in the biomedical sciences. Along with 21 other exceptional early-career researchers named as Pew scholars by The Pew Charitable Trusts, he will receive four years of flexible funding to pursue foundational research.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - June 15, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
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Representative Frank Lucas (R-OK) will serve as Ranking Member of the House Science Committee next year. "As the Democrats retake control of the House, I look forward to leading my Republican colleagues in holding the new majority accountable and promoting a conservative agenda," he said. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) is expected to serve as the Chair of the committee.
Representative Kay Granger (R-TX) won GOP support to serve as the top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee. She will likely serve alongside Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY), who is expected to be the next Chair and the first woman...
Source: Public Policy Reports - December 10, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
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
Bacterial Community Succession, Transmigration, and Differential Gene Transcription in a Controlled Vertebrate Decomposition Model
This study is one of the first to provide data of expressed bacterial community genes, alongside transmigration and structural changes of microbial species during laboratory controlled vertebrate decomposition. This is an important dataset for studying the effects of the environment on bacterial communities in an effort to determine which bacterial species and which bacterial functional pathways, such as amino acid metabolism, provide key changes during stages of decomposition that relate to the PMI. Finding unique PMI species or functions can be useful for determining time since death in forensic investigations.
In...
Source: Frontiers in Microbiology - April 17, 2019 Category: Microbiology Source Type: research
Amino Acid Utilization May Explain Why Bemisia tabaci Q and B Differ in Their Performance on Plants Infected by the Tomato yellow leaf curl virus
Discussion
Research has shown that vectored viruses can alter host plant phenotypes so as to change interactions with other organisms, including interactions between plants, viruses, and insect vectors of viruses (Mauck et al., 2012, 2018; Casteel and Falk, 2016; Eigenbrode and Bosque-Perez, 2016; Mauck, 2016). Insect-vectored viruses can alter many host plant factors, including odors, induced defenses, visual and tactile characteristics, sugars, free amino acids, and secondary metabolites (Bosque-Perez and Eigenbrode, 2011; Casteel et al., 2014; Mauck et al., 2014a,b). In our study, TYLCV significantly altered the free a...
Source: Frontiers in Physiology - April 30, 2019 Category: Physiology Source Type: research
Dealing with Food Insecurity, on a Longer Term
Longer term investments are needed to enable the over 500 million small holder farmers in developing countries to grow more food, thus increasing their incomes and resilience. Credit: Miriam Gahtigah/IPS By Esther NgumbiILLINOIS, United States, Jul 16 2020 (IPS) African countries are beginning to reopen borders, and this is finally enabling many citizens to resume their normal life. However, there is still an urgent need for African countries to prioritize agriculture to tackle food insecurity issues that have been exacerbated by COVID and will continue to be an issue into the near future. According to the latest estimates...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 16, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Esther Ngumbi Tags: Africa Food & Agriculture Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Why Scientists Want You to Kill Spotted Lanternflies
As invasive spotted lanternflies continue moving through the United States, local agricultural agencies have launched “If you see it, kill it” campaigns urging people to kill the bugs in order to prevent any further spread across the U.S.
In response to the proliferating insect, earlier this week Senator Chuck Schumer (D., NY) called for $22 million more in funding for a U.S. Department of Agriculture program that targets invasive species; these are species that aren’t native to an area and can quickly become overpopulated, wreaking havoc on their new environment. “We need to stomp out this bug bef...
Source: TIME: Science - August 19, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Simmone Shah Tags: Uncategorized animals healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
The battle against malaria in Africa has stalled. Can research in Mozambique explain why?
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Moisés Mapanga, a burly man of 49, is the bait. At 6 p.m. on a mid-April evening, he climbs into an orange tent outside his one-room house in Matutuíne, a hot, swampy district near Maputo, the cap...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - September 8, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
