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Navy Joint REDI-NET Training

Author: Marla Magaña Cansino

In early March, personnel from the Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC), the Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE), and the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) participated in a joint training session. The main objectives of this joint training were to:

  1. Learn the REDI-NET Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for collecting, processing, and testing soil and water samples through practical application
  2. Learn how to enter, analyze, and view data for field and laboratory samples using the custom-designed REDI-NET mobile and web applications
  3. Utilize the REDI-NET Next Generation Sequencing Analysis (NGS) Platform to analyze and interpret sample data as inputs for risk management and Force Health Protection decision-making.

The REDI-NET SOPs used in this training, as well as other REDI-NET SOPs, can be found on protocols.io:

A group of people, including military personnel, gather in an open field as they discuss plans for the field collection of ticks. One military personnel is holding a tick-drag cloth.
NMRC, NHRC, and NECE partners preparing for a tick-dragging exercise.
Four lab personnel, including two men and two women, gather around a fifth female lab personnel inside a lab as she explains laboratory procedures.
NMRC, NHRC, and NECE partners discussing SOPs for REDI-NET sample processing and testing.

 

This work is supported by the US Army Medical Research and Development Command under Contract No.W81XWH-21-C-0001, W81XWH-22-C-0093 and HT9425-23-C-0059. The views, opinions and/or findings contained in this report are those of the author(s) and should not be construed as an official Department of the Army or Navy position, policy or decision unless so designated by other documentation.