Advances, Strategies and Challenges to Tick Control

Organizer(s)

• 

  Susan Paskewitz

  Professor
  Department of Entomology
  University of Wisconsin
  Madison, Wisconsin
• 

  Kirby Stafford, III

  Chief Scientist/State Entomologist
  Department of Entomology
  The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
  New Haven, Connecticut

View our on-demand presentations, then join us in-person for live presentations and discussion.

Presentations:

• 3:00 PM – 3:05 PM MT

  Introductory remarks
• 3:05 PM – 3:20 PM MT

  Evaluation of three recently developed repellents against the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis
  

  Presenting Author: Xia Lee – University of Wisconsin

  Co-Author: Colin R. Wong – Iowa State University

  Co-author: Joel R. Coats – Iowa State University

  Co-author: Susan M. Paskewitz – University of Wisconsin
• 3:20 PM – 3:35 PM MT

  Development of a novel reservoir-targeted vaccine against Lyme disease
  

  Presenting Author: Jordan Mandli – University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Co-author: Jorge Osorio – University of Wisconsin
• 3:35 PM – 3:50 PM MT

  Peridomestic prevention of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases using an integrated tick management approach
  

  Presenting Author: Neeta P. Connally – Western Connecticut State University

  Co-author: Thomas N. Mather, Ph.D. – University of Rhode Island
• 3:50 PM – 4:10 PM MT

  Discussion
• 4:10 PM – 4:15 PM MT

  Closing remarks