The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Immunology and Infection

Detection of Infectious Virus from Field-collected Mosquitoes by Vero Cell Culture Assay

Philip M. Armstrong¹, Theodore G. Andreadis¹, Shannon L. Finan¹, John J. Shepard¹, Michael C. Thomas¹

¹Center for Vector Biology and Zoonotic Diseases, Department of Environmental Sciences, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

We describe a method to process and screen field-collected mosquitoes for a diversity of viruses by Vero cell culture assay. By employing this technique, we have detected 9 different viruses from 4 taxonomic families in mosquitoes collected in Connecticut.

Neuroscience

Base Recording: A Technique for Analyzing Responses of Taste Neurons in Drosophila

Hany K. M. Dweck^1,2, John R. Carlson¹

¹Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, ²Department of Entomology, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

A rarely used method of electrophysiological recording, base recording, allows analysis of features of taste coding that cannot be examined by conventional recording methods. Base recording also allows the analysis of taste responses to hydrophobic stimuli that cannot be studied using traditional electrophysiological methods.