Kent State University at Stark
2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE
Biology
The Ingestion of Fluorescent, Magnetic Nanoparticles for Determining Fluid-uptake Abilities in Insects
Matthew S. Lehnert 1, Kristen E. Reiter 1, Andrew Bennett 1, Patrick D. Gerard 2, Qi-Huo Wei 3, Miranda Byler 1, Huan Yan 3, Wah-Keat Lee 4
1Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University at Stark, 2Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, 3Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, 4Brookhaven National Laboratory
Fluid-feeding insects have the ability to acquire minute quantities of liquids from porous surfaces. This protocol describes a method to directly determine the ability for insects to ingest liquids from porous surfaces using feeding solutions with fluorescent, magnetic nanoparticles.
Biology
IR-TEx: An Open Source Data Integration Tool for Big Data Transcriptomics Designed for the Malaria Vector Anopheles gambiae
Victoria A. Ingham 1, Andrew Bennett 2, Duo Peng 3, Simon C. Wagstaff 2, Hilary Ranson 1
1Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 2Research Computing Unit, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 3Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
IR-TEx explores insecticide resistance-related transcriptional profiles in the species Anopheles gambiae. Provided here are full instructions for using the application, modifications for exploring multiple transcriptomic datasets, and using the framework to build an interactive database for collections of transcriptomic data from any organism, generated in any platform.
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