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We collaborated
with two zoological gardens

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and with another PhD student.

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So it was impossible for
me to do all the work,

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or to be everywhere, or
to do everything alone.

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It was simply impossible.

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It was too much work.

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The aims of our research started
to be simple at the beginning,

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but because our research
started to become

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more and more important,
more people were involved.

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So at the beginning it was
just the vets in the zoo.

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So it was easy to communicate
with them, to transfer them

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our ideas and our objectives.

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But then, the animal keepers
were involved, the gardeners,

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and other teams in the
zoos were involved.

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Because we were collecting
mosquitoes in the zoos,

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we have basic
information about them

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that we store in a database.

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But the mosquitoes
themselves were

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stored in the freezers
in the university.

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So it was very important
for us to have them there

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in perfect order.

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So, for example, we have
collections every week.

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So we have to label
every mosquito

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with a specific code that tell
us when it was collected,

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where it was collected,
and where it was stored.

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And all this information was
transferred to the database.

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And, of course, the database
became more and more important.

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So we had the
database secure in one

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of the computers
of the university.

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And I was the only one
accessing that database.

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It was important to keep
that information secure.

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I shared this information
and database

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with the students that worked
with us, with my collaborators.

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But there were an updated
version for them.

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It was not the full thing, it
was just what they needed to,

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because if something went
wrong, the data could be missed.

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And that was a big risk
because, as I was saying,

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it was too much information
in a single place.

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So it's important to
have the data in the lab,

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and in the computer,
secure all the time.

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For our research, we had to
comply with the university

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ethical improvement.

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So I had to write all the
information needed for that.

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So that took some time,
and I wasn't concerned

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that it would take so much.

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So it's good to have these
things in mind beforehand

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to start the research when
it's supposed to start.

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In our case, it worked
fantastically.

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But then, we collaborated
with zoological gardens.

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And they also have
their procedure,

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they also have their approvals.

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So we had to submit another
ethical approval to them,

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as well as risk assessments.

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So I had to put all this
information about them,

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through their
process and they have

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to assess it, and approve
it, before we could start.

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So it was important
to consider that we

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have to do all these things,
as part of the research,

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in order for us to start.

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Otherwise, we could
never have done it.