Jarvi Lab

Research Topic Areas

Contact Information

Office: Interim Facility C (COP-C), Room 111
Office Phone: (808) 932-7701
Fax Phone: (808) 932-8117
Email: jarvi@hawaii.edu

Current Funding

• Isolation of the 31kDa protein from Angiostrongylus cantonensis from Hawaiʻi and comparative diagnostic efficacy with the Thailand 31 kDa A. cantonensis protein. Hawaiʻi Community Foundation Medical Research. $50,000
• Introducing integrated pest management strategies to Hawaiʻi School Garden Projects to advance rat lungworm disease education and control invasive mollusks, carriers of rat lungworm parasites. Hawaiʻi Invasive Species Council. $65,634.
• Hawaiʻi state legislature line item in budget, $300,000/year 2018-present (2020-2021 $270,000 due to 10% across the board budget reduction). Total to date $1,770,000. Recurring funds.
• Revolving funds from laboratory diagnostic charges: $25/sample for testing slugs, other invertebrates, and biological material, and $50/sample for Veterinary Research Samples. (Running balance ~$12,000) Total since 2013 ~$120,000.

Representative Publications

• Jarvi SI, Howe K, Macomber P. 2018. Angiostrongyliasis or Rat Lungworm Disease: A Perspective from Hawaiʻi. Journal: Current Tropical Medicine Reports. DOI: 10.1007/s40475-018-0132-z
• Howe K, and Jarvi SI. 2017. Angiostrongyliasis (Rat Lungworm Disease): Viewpoints from Hawaiʻi Island. ACS Chemical Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.7b00299. Jarvi SI, Bianchi KR, Farias MEM, Txakeeyang A, McFarland T, Belcaid M, & Asano A. 2016. Characterization of class II β chain major histocompatibility complex genes in a family of Hawaiian honeycreepers: ‘amakihi (Hemignathus virens). Immunogenetics DOI 10.1007/s00251-016-0908-z
• Jarvi, S.I., Pitt WC, Farias MEM, Shiels L, Severino M, Howe K, Jacquier S, Shiels AB, Amano K, Luiz B, Maher D, Allison M, Holtquist Z, Scheibelhut N. 2015. Detection of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in the blood and peripheral tissues of wild Hawaiian rats (Rattus rattus) by a quantitative PCR (qPCR) assay. PLOS ONE DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0123064 April 24, 2015
• Atkinson, C. T., Saili, K. S., Utzurrum, R.B., and S. I. Jarvi. Experimental Evidence for Evolved Tolerance to Avian Malaria 3 in a Wild Population of Low Elevation Hawaiʻi ‘Amakihi 4 (Hemignathus virens). Ecohealth. EcoHealth (2014) 10:366-375 DOI 10.1007/s10393-013-0899-2
• S. I . Jarvi, U. K. Herold, M. E. Farias, and C. T. Atkinson. 2013 Cryptic mtDNA diversity of Plasmodium relictum in the Hawaiian Islands. Parasitology 3 Dec;140(14):1741-50 doi:10.1017/S0031182013000905 [2.852]
• Hollingsworth, R.G., Howe, K. Jarvi, S.I. 2013. Control measures for slug and snail hosts of Angiostrongylus cantonensis, with special reference to the semi-slug Parmarion martensi. Hawaii Journal of Medicine and Public Health. June 2013, Volume 72, No. 6, Supplement 2, ISSN 2165-8218 p 75-80
• Jarvi S.I., Farias, M.E.M., Howe, K., Jacquier, S., Hollingsworth, R. & Pitt, W. 2012. Quantitative PCR estimates Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection levels in semi-slugs (Parmarion martensi). Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 185: 174-176. [2.859]
• Farias, M.E.M. C.T. Atkinson, and S.I. Jarvi. 2012 Distribution of trap alleles of Plasmodium relictum in infected hatch-year ʻamakihi (Hemignathus virens) on the east side of Hawaii Island. Malaria Journal, 11:305 http://www.malariajournal.com/content/11/1/305 [3.4]
• Jarvi S.I., D. Hu, K. Misajon, B.A. Coller, T. Wong, M. Lieberman 2013.Vaccination of captive Nene against West Nile Virus using a protein-based vaccine (WN-80E). J of Wildlife Diseases, 49(1) DOI 10.7569/2011-12-363. [1.415]
• Atkinson, C.T., K.C. Wiegand, D. Triglia, and S.I. Jarvi. 2012. Reversion to virulence and efficacy of an attenuated canarypox vaccine in Hawaiʻi ʻamakihi (Hemignathus virens). J of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 43(4):807-818 DOI.
• Atkinson, C.T., K.C. Wiegand, D. Triglia, and S.I. Jarvi. 2011. Efficacy of a commercial canarypox vaccine for protecting Hawaiʻi ʻamakihi from field isolates of Avipoxvirus. Hawaiʻi Cooperative Studies Unit Technical Report HCSU-019. University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. https://hilo.hawaii.edu/hcsu/documents/TRHCSU-019Atkinson_Avian_Pox.pdf
• Farias, MEM . DA LaPointe, CT Atkinson, C Czerwonka, R Shrestha, SI. Jarvi. (2010) Taqman Real-Time PCR detects Avipoxvirus DNA in blood of Hawaii ʻamakihi (Hemignathus virens). PLoS ONE 5(5): e10745. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010745 [4.351]
• Farias, M.E.M., and Jarvi ,S.I., (2009) A nucleotide-constrained single base extension method for improved detection of minority alleles in Plasmodium. Molecular & Biochemical Parasitology 163:114-118.[2.873]
• Jarvi ,S.I., Farias M.E.M. and Atkinson CT. (2008) Genetic characterization of Hawaiian isolates of Plasmodium relictum reveals mixed-genotype infections. Biology Direct 3:25. [3.32]
• Jarvi, S.I.,Triglia, D., Giannoulis, A., Farias, M.E.M., Bianchi, K., & Atkinson, C.T. (2008) Diversity, origins and virulence of Avipoxviruses in Hawaiian Forest Birds. Conservation Genetics, 9, 339-348. [1.849]
• Jarvi ,S.I., Lieberman, M.M., Hofmeister, E., Nerkurkar, V.R., Wong, T., & Weeks-Levy, C. (2008) Protective efficacy of a recombinant subunit West Nile virus vaccine in Domestic geese (Anser anser). Vaccine Oct 26, 42. 5338-44.[3.508]