{"id":89669,"date":"2019-01-17T14:20:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T00:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=89669"},"modified":"2019-01-17T16:37:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T02:37:29","slug":"biotechnology-methods-mosquitoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/17\/biotechnology-methods-mosquitoes\/","title":{"rendered":"糖心Vlog官方 Hilo students use biotechnology methods to study invasive mosquitoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_79327\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/01TBNKKt5_o?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"糖心Vlog官方 Hilo Mosquito Project\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo<\/a>, biologist <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/jolenesutton\/\"><strong>Jolene Sutton<\/strong><\/a> and her students are developing genetic technologies, that work as mosquito birth control, to help control invasive mosquitoes in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The project that they\u2019re working on right now is starting the process to evaluate and also develop new emerging technologies for controlling invasive mosquitoes here in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>,&rdquo; said Sutton. &ldquo;My undergraduate students in our class are learning how to genetically engineer or genetically modify mosquitoes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jared Nishimoto<\/strong>, a graduate student in the tropical conservation biology and environmental science program who is training undergraduates, explains that students conduct the process by lining up mosquito eggs on a microscope slide for microinjections.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88107\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hilo-jolene-sutton.jpg\" alt=\"picture of Jolene Sutton\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hilo-jolene-sutton.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hilo-jolene-sutton-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jolene Sutton.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;We have a very small, almost microscopic needle where we pierce the eggs and inject a solution with a certain gene of interest that we want to be integrated and expressed into the mosquitoes,&rdquo; said Nishimoto.<\/p>\n<p>Mosquito vector diseases are not something that native species in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> have ever experienced in their evolutionary histories.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And so particularly our native bird species have never had any selective pressures, they\u2019ve never had any opportunities to develop an immune response to the types of diseases that mosquitoes vector,&rdquo; said Sutton.<\/p>\n<p>Students are excited because they are learning new cutting-edge technologies that can help them get jobs in fields like biotechnology and conservation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But our students are also really excited about this type of research because of the impacts that it could have to the local community here in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>,&rdquo; said Sutton.<\/p>\n<p><em>The video was produced by <strong>Leah Sherwood<\/strong>, a graduate student in the tropical conservation biology and environmental science program at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo. The videographer is <strong>Raiatea Arcuri<\/strong>, a professional photographer majoring in business at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2019\/01\/16\/uh-hilo-researchers-genetic-techniques-mosquitoes\/\">For more go to <em><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students are learning new cutting-edge technologies that can help them get jobs in fields like biotechnology and conservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[254,1050,232,14,907,56],"class_list":["post-89669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-biology","tag-genetics","tag-tropical-conservation-biology-and-environmental-science","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-hilo-stories","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89669"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89698,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89669\/revisions\/89698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}