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Project properties |
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| Title | Genetically engineer insects to make the wasp HULK |
| Group | Entomology, Laboratory of |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 36 |
| Supervisor(s) | Eveline Verhulst , Saminathan |
| Examiner(s) | Marcel Dicke |
| Contact info | saminathan.sm@wur.nl
https://www.evelineverhulst.nl/ |
| Begin date | 2023/06/01 |
| End date | 2023/12/31 |
| Description | Diapause is an amazing adaptation to survive harsh weather conditions. We will perform experiments to artificially induce diapause. We will also see the transcriptome for differences in gene expression levels.
fundamental genetics and evolutionary biology-related questions will be answered via this project. Nasonia has haploid males. we can silence the same gene that induces diapause to produce triploid males Send me an email, if you have good skills, starting date is flexible saminathan.sm@wur.nl RNAi,qPCR, micro injection, |
| Used skills | RNAi, behavior experiments, and RNAseq |
| Requirements | For doing a MSc-thesis or internship at Entomology, the following requirements apply: ENT-30806 + a second ENT-course (preferably ENT-30306 or ENT-50806 or ENT-53806). As an alternative for the second ENT-course, PHP-30806 or BHE-30306 can be selected. |