Grad MUVE: Vector Biology and Management

Moderator(s)

• GB

  Grayson Brown

  Executive Director
  Puerto Rico Science, Technology, and Research Trust
  San Juan, Puerto Rico
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  Michael Cavallaro

  Manager
  Pest Abatement
  Bullhead City Pest Abatement District
  Bullhead City, Arizona

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM - 10:42 AM MT

  Analysis of five Amblyomma americanum putative immune genes reveals differential expression patterns during gram-positive and gram-negative bacterial infections
  

  Presenting Author: Jacklyn V. Thompson – Stephen F. Austin State University

  Co-Author: Michael D. Stanford – Stephen F. Austin State University

  Co-Author: Kathy J. Li – Stephen F. Austin State University

  Co-Author: Jacquelyn T. May – Stephen F. Austin State University

  Co-Author: Lindsay Porter – Stephen F. Austin State University
• 10:42 AM - 10:54 AM MT

  Evaluation of TRAF as a putatively immune-related gene in Amblyomma americanum
  

  Presenting Author: Jacquelyn T. May – Stephen F. Austin State University

  Co-Author: Lindsay Porter – Stephen F. Austin State University
• 10:54 AM - 11:06 AM MT

  Food preference behavior of adult house flies (Musca domestica L.)
  

  Presenting Author: Brandon L. Hall – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Brianna Davis – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Grant M. Brooke – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Kayla Ewell – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Victoria Pickens – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Saraswoti Neupane – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Dana Nayduch – USDA-ARS
• 11:06 AM - 11:18 AM MT

  Impacts of urban land cover on the distribution of emerald ash borer associated parasitoids
  

  Presenting Author: Timothy Morris – SUNY-ESF

  Co-Author: Juli R. Gould – USDA-APHIS

  Co-Author: Melissa K. Fierke – SUNY-ESF
• 11:30 AM - 11:42 AM MT

  Prevalence and Transmission of Bird Malaria in Turtle Mountains, North Dakota
  

  Presenting Author: Kelsey J. Morin – University of North Dakota

  Co-Author: Jefferson Vaughan – University of North Dakota
• 11:42 AM - 11:54 AM MT

  Simulation of Rhipicephalus sanguineus phenology in residential environments using an individual-based model
  

  Presenting Author: Yuexun Tian – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Phillip E. Kaufman – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Austin Henneberg – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Cynthia C. Lord – University of Florida
• 11:54 AM - 12:06 PM MT

  Spray and pour-on acaricides killed Tennessee (U.S.A.) field-collected Haemaphysalis longicornis nymphs Neumann (Acari: Ixodidae) in laboratory bioassays
  

  Presenting Author: R. A. A. Butler – University of Tennessee

  Co-Author: J. G. Chandler – University of Tennessee

  Co-Author: K. M. M. Vail – University of Tennessee

  Co-Author: C. J. Holderman – Central Life Sciences

  Co-Author: R. T. T. Trout Fryxell – University of Tennessee
• 12:06 PM - 12:18 PM MT

  Within-host fitness of vesicular stomatitis virus and Culicoides sonorensis midges
  

  Presenting Author: Paula Rozo-Lopez – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Yoonseong Park – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Barbara S. Drolet – USDA-ARS
• 12:18 PM - 12:30 PM MT

  Mosquito diversity in stormwater ponds and constructed wetlands
  

  Presenting Author: James N. Radl – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Deirdre Wetmore – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Andrew Tirpak – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Ryan J. Winston – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Sarah M. Short – The Ohio State University