{"id":80,"date":"2016-09-13T09:23:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T13:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/strandlab\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2020-03-10T13:11:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T17:11:56","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/strandlab\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"397\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/strandlab\/files\/2016\/10\/Gut_microscopy_banner-1024x397.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"158\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/strandlab\/files\/2016\/10\/Gut_microscopy_banner.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/strandlab\/gut_microscopy_banner\/\" class=\"wp-image-158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/strandlab\/files\/2016\/10\/Gut_microscopy_banner.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/strandlab\/files\/2016\/10\/Gut_microscopy_banner-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/strandlab\/files\/2016\/10\/Gut_microscopy_banner-768x298.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/strandlab\/files\/2016\/10\/Gut_microscopy_banner-356x138.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2>Current Research Projects:<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Parasitic Wasp Physiology, Immunity and Polydnavirus:<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Many of our projects involve <strong>parasitic wasps<\/strong> (parasitoids) that develop as immatures in or on the bodies of other insects but that are free-living as adults. Parasitoid wasps are among the most species-rich group of organisms on earth. One study area in the lab focuses on understanding how the host&#8217;s immune system protects insects from parasitoid invasion and reciprocally, how parasitoids overcome host defenses. This includes the study of microbial symbionts like&nbsp;<strong>polydnaviruses<\/strong> that are carried by many parasitoids and that play a key role in suppressing the immune system of host insects.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Mosquito Gut Microbiome<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Aphids and Symbiosys<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current Research Projects: Parasitic Wasp Physiology, Immunity and Polydnavirus: Many of our projects involve parasitic wasps (parasitoids) that develop as immatures in or on the bodies of other insects but that are free-living as adults. Parasitoid wasps are among the most species-rich group of organisms on earth. One study area in the lab focuses on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-80","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/strandlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/strandlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/strandlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/strandlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/strandlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/strandlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/strandlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/strandlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}