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The Carolina Hurricanes brought the Stanley Cup home. 🏒🏆 Our food safety expert explains what happens when thousands celebrate with hockey`s most famous trophy.
@AHSNCState Department Head Ben Chapman is a professor and director of @SafePlatesFSIC (and, of course, an avid Canes fan).
The reemergence of the New World screwworm in the United States has put the livestock industry on high alert. 🪰 To explain the parasite and the technique used to fight it, we talked to one of the world’s premier New World screwworm experts — NC State entomologist Maxwell Scott.
The New World screwworm is a flesh-eating parasite that targets living mammals, laying eggs in open wounds that can quickly turn fatal if left untreated. For decades, populations have successfully been controlled with the sterile insect technique — the release of sterilized males to mate with wild females, which prevents them from reproducing.
The recent identification of the parasite in Texas and New Mexico requires advanced biological solutions, and through U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded research, Scott and his team have developed a male-only line of sterile screwworms that’s now under review with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the name NovoFly.
The male-only strain developed by his lab carries a gene that is lethal to females but is repressed by adding tetracycline to the diet. This allows mass-rearing facilities to efficiently expand populations and produce only sterile males for release by removing tetracycline from the final generation’s diet. Scott’s newest research will focus on the use of new CRISPR-based methods for producing sterile males.
Check out the link in our bio to learn more about the NC State research going on in Scott’s lab to suppress the New World screwworm population.
From NC State to Disney World! ✨ Recent CALS alumna Neva Grace Brescia has spent the past six months sowing magic as a plant science intern at EPCOT`s Living with the Land.
Brescia, who majored in agroecology and sustainable food systems, has been drawn to the beauty and science of horticulture and agriculture since childhood. The opportunity to serve as an intern at Living with the Land, a boat tour of four greenhouses where gardening and agriculture converge, Brescia says, has been a dream come true.
"Through this experience, it has become clear that I not only love working with plants, but I also enjoy educating and working with people. Agriculture is such a connected field, where relationships are built between growers and others in the industry, and this internship has helped me understand that my place in agriculture isn’t just in the field, but also in connecting with and engaging the people around it."
Read about Brescia`s time at Disney World and her plans to pursue a master`s degree this fall at the link in our bio.
