Primary Department: Public Health Services
Primary Department Head/Elected Official: Leah Barton - Executive Director
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Regular or Supplemental RCA: Regular RCA
Type of Request: Contract - Award
Project ID (if applicable): N/A
Vendor/Entity Legal Name (if applicable): Texas A&M AgriLife Research
MWBE Contracted Goal (if applicable): N/A
MWBE Current Participation (if applicable): N/A
Justification for 0% MWBE Participation Goal: N/A - Goal not applicable to request
Grant Indirect Costs Rate (if applicable): N/A
Justification for 0% Grant Indirect Costs Rate (if applicable): N/A - Not a grant item
Request Summary (Agenda Caption):
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Request for approval of a Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) with Texas A&M AgriLife Research for the study of pesticides, and experimental, candidate pesticidal molecules, and pesticide resistance on vectors.
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Background and Discussion:
Field cage tests and bottle bioassays are used to measure insecticide resistance in mosquitoes. Collecting mosquitoes from areas that have more frequent pesticide application, rearing them, and completing these tests requires a great deal of time and effort. Once testing is complete, eggs, live adults, dead adults, and other life stages remain. These remaining specimens have already served their purpose in resistance study and are normally discarded. Using them for other research makes use of material that has already been collected instead of letting it go to waste.
Collecting mosquitoes for resistance testing is labor-intensive and can take weeks or months to complete. Reusing the specimens that remain after testing is a practical way to get more value from that work.
The remaining eggs, live adults, dead adults, and other life stages can be used in future research studies without affecting the original resistance results. This approach also reduces the need to collect additional mosquitoes from the field and avoid...
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