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Video ItemLet's Go: Shajaesza Diggs , video
Take a behind the scenes look at how Shajaesza conducts research on mosquitos.
Date: Jan 17, 2024 -
Video ItemFinding new ways to control mosquitoes through sleep-deprivation , video
Diseases spread by mosquitoes cause hundreds of thousands of deaths every year. Assistant professor of biochemistry, Clément Vinauger, is researching how sleep-deprivation in mosquitoes could help control the spread of these diseases.
Date: Sep 08, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech researchers find potential roadmap to removing mosquitoes’ ability to transmit malaria , articleCollege of Agriculture and Life Sciences researchers are the first to study three-dimensional genome organization – particularly how the genome can be folded and still accessed by enzymes for transcription purposes – in mosquitoes.
Date: Jun 10, 2022 -
Video ItemMapping the genetic structure of mosquitos to better understand the spread of malaria and other infectious diseases , video
Igor Sharakov, a professor of the Department of Entomology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is researching a way to create a three dimensional map of the genomic structure of mosquitos that carry and transmit malaria. Sharakov is in collaboration with Varvara Lukyanchikova, a Fulbright Scholar with the Novosibirsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Using this roadway of five different species of mosquitos, the hope is to find a way to eliminate the spread of malaria as well as other infectious diseases.
Date: Jun 02, 2022 -
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Researcher receives three grants from the National Institutes of Health to combat mosquito-borne viruses , articleNisha Duggal, an assistant professor of biomedical sciences and pathobiology in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, received three R21 grants from the National Institutes of Health totaling $825,000 to combat the transmission of multiple mosquito-borne viruses, develop therapeutics, and predict future disease in humans.
Date: Mar 22, 2022 -
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Breaking the deadly cycle: Drug researchers tackle the malaria parasite at multiple life stages , articleResearchers have received a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to begin further testing of two inexpensive and effective antimalarial drug candidates that can kill Plasmodium parasites at three stages of their development.
Date: Aug 30, 2021 -
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Revolutionary mosquito researchers receive $2.7 million grant , articleFunded by a $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, researchers at Virginia Tech are now investigating how mosquitoes adjust their smelling rhythms in response to changes in our own daily activity.
Date: Jul 15, 2021 -
Video ItemUnderstanding Mosquito Behavior to Prevent Disease Spread , video
<div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Researchers in the Fralin Life Sciences Institute study the granular details of how mosquito brains work in hopes of solving one of the biggest problems facing mankind: how to prevent the transmission of mosquito-borne viral diseases.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
Date: Jun 23, 2021 -
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Human blood is cappuccino for mosquitoes — stimulating and hot, but not too hot , articleVirginia Tech School of Neuroscience Assistant Professor Lina Ni is researching one of the mosquito’s more lab-friendly and less dangerous colleagues, the fruit fly. Her hope: cut the rate of malaria cases.
Date: Apr 26, 2021 -
Video ItemResearching the 'deadliest' animals on earth , video
Given their ability to carry and spread disease to humans, mosquitoes cause millions of deaths every year. Clément Vinauger, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry, and Gretchen Pickerel, class of 2020, are among those at Virginia Tech studying the fine-scale mechanisms, that they might leverage those mechanisms to help prevent mosquitoes from finding and biting people.
Date: Nov 05, 2019 -
Video ItemResearchers Discover New Mosquito 'Burst Mode' , video
Using the X-ray facilities at Argonne National Lab's Advanced Photon Source, researchers discovered a new “burst mode” of drinking in mosquitoes, which could have implications for future research on mosquito-borne disease transmission and microfluidics. Researcher Jake Socha in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics explains the team’s findings.
Date: Aug 02, 2018