{"id":32832,"date":"2015-03-11T10:32:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=32832"},"modified":"2015-03-11T12:05:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T17:05:40","slug":"brock-biological-sciences-department-to-be-featured-on-cbc-this-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/03\/brock-biological-sciences-department-to-be-featured-on-cbc-this-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Biological Sciences department to be featured on CBC this Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/brock-mosquitoes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32844\" title=\"brock-mosquitoes\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/brock-mosquitoes.jpg\" alt=\"brock-mosquitoes\" width=\"495\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine putting your arm in a live colony of mosquitoes on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s everyday life for Bryan Giordano, a Biotechnology student here at Brock University.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan, and the department of <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/mathematics-science\/departments-and-centres\/biology\">Biological Sciences<\/a>,\u00a0will be featured this Friday on CBC&#8217;s Marketplace after agreeing to test a new product that could potentially keep what some refer to as the &#8220;nasty critters&#8221; away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were very excited and surprised when first contacted by CBC who<br \/>\nheard of our laboratory and research through Dr. (Fiona) Hunter&#8217;s appearance on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/natureofthings\/\">The Nature of Things<\/a>, as well as our last broadcast with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovery.ca\/\">Discovery Channel<\/a>,&#8221; Giordano said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We gladly accepted their proposal to test a new mosquito<br \/>\nrepellant product as we thought this would be a great way to showcase<br \/>\nour research and our beautiful new lab here at Brock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And as for using his own arm as feed for the mosquitoes, Giordano knows it&#8217;s all for the greater good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I tell\u00a0people that I maintain, and sometimes arm feed, a live colony of<br \/>\nmosquitoes people often wonder why I would feed and care for insects<br \/>\nthat cause such a nuisance?<\/p>\n<p>This program is a great example of the unique experiments we are able to perform using our mosquitoes. I also hope that by doing so we are able to raise awareness of mosquito-borne disease, and emphasize the importance of protecting yourself when going outdoors during peak mosquito feeding times,&#8221; Giordano added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/marketplace\/\">Marketplace<\/a> airs this Friday, March 13, at 8 p.m on CBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan and the department of Biological Sciences will be featured this Friday on CBC&#8217;s Marketplace after agreeing to test a new product that could potentially keep what some refer to as the &#8220;nasty critters&#8221; away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":32844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[49,345,450,1356,320,743],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32832"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32856,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32832\/revisions\/32856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}