ARS and DWFP: The Virtual Laboratory

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ARS and DWFP The Virtual Laboratory

• Dan Strickman
• National Program Leader
• Veterinary, Medical, and Urban Entomology
• USDA Agricultural Research Service

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What ARS is

• Intramural research program of USDA
• Oriented toward solving problems
• Dedicated to science and impact
• Natural resources, crops, human nutrition,
  livestock

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What DWFP wants

• Deployed warfighter
• Disease pathogen carrying arthropods
• Protection as net result
• Innovative products
• Toxicants
• Personal protection
• Application technique

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What ARS has to give

• Discovery
• Innovative
• Chemistry infrastructure
• Engineering
• Evaluation
• Bioassay based on biology
• New targets
• Broad insect culture capability
• Development
• Intellectual property
• Industrial relations
• Focus on the market

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Thanks!for the confidence in us to help defend
the Nation