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ViewAttendees 12

Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology

Section Symposium

DoD-funded Research to Transform Ideas into Advanced Products for Vector Control and Bite Prevention On-Demand Presentations

On-Demand

On-Demand

    Organizer(s)

  • Gabriela Zollner

    Program Manager
    Deployed Warfighter Protection (DWFP) Program
    Armed Forces Pest Management Board
    Silver Spring, Maryland

  • MC

    Michelle Colacicco-Mayhugh

    Armed Forces Pest Management Board
    Silver Spring, Maryland

This symposium showcases a wide variety of DoD-funded research projects to develop new vector control and bite prevention tools that target mosquitoes, ticks, phlebotomine sand flies, filth flies and bed bugs.  

Presentations:

  • On Demand
    PICTUREE - Predicting Insect Contact and Transmission Using histoRical Entomological and Epidemiological data

    Presenting Author: Lee W. Cohnstaedt – USDA-ARS

    Co-author: Caterina Scoglio – Kansas State University

    Co-author: Aram Vajdi – Kansas State University

    Co-author: Chunlin Yi – Kansas State University

  • On Demand
    Advancing the PIRK, a transfluthrin-based personal repellent kit for tick bite prevention

    Presenting Author: Catherine Hill – Purdue University

    Co-author: JASLEEN KAUR – University of Florida

    Co-author: Maria V. Murgia – Purdue University/Postdoctoral Researcher

    Co-author: Adriana Kleigman – AKA Imagine LLC

    Co-author: Laurie Widder – Widder Brothers, Inc.

  • On Demand
    Baiting strategies against bed bugs

    Presenting Author: Coby Schal – North Carolina State University

    Co-author: Saveer Ahmed – North Carolina State University

  • On Demand
    House fly attractants based on constituents of blackstrap molasses

    Presenting Author: Christopher J. Geden – USDA-ARS-CMAVE

    Co-author: Jerome A. Hogsette – USDA-ARS

  • On Demand
    Identification of candidate repellents and insecticides for field testing and development

    Presenting Author: Kenneth Linthicum, BCE – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Liu Yang – University of Florida

    Co-Author: Edmund Norris – University of Florida

    Co-Author: Gary Richoux – University of Florida

    Co-Author: Ingeborg Cuba – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Jeff Bloomquist – University of Florida

  • On Demand
    Implementation of a tick population multi-model ensemble in six US army bases

    Presenting Author: Daniel Ruiz-Carrascal – Columbia University

    Co-Author: Maria Diuk-Wasser – Columbia University

  • On Demand
    Improving biological control of bed bugs: Entomopathogen discovery and targeting of immune signaling pathways for synergy

    Presenting Author: Jose Pietri – University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine Basic Biomedical Sciences

    Co-author: Rashaun Potts – University of South Dakota

  • On Demand
    Management of an established population of the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum, using 4-poster devices in coastal Connecticut, USA

    Presenting Author: Kirby C. Stafford, III – The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

    Co-author: Scott B. Williams, BCE – DTN

    Co-author: Douglas Brackney – The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

    Co-author: Megan C. Linske – The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

  • On Demand
    RNAi-based attractive targeted sugar baits

    Presenting Author: Molly Duman-Scheel – Indiana University School of Medicine

    Co-Author: Keshava Mysore – Indiana University School of Medicine

  • On Demand
    Sprayable, mechanical insecticide for vector control: The future is now and more

    Presenting Author: R. Michael Roe – North Carolina State University

    Co-author: Michael H. Reiskind – North Carolina State University

    Co-author: Steve Denning – North Carolina State University

    Co-author: Wes Watson – North Carolina State University

    Co-author: J. Marcel Deguenon – North Carolina State University

    Co-Author: Charles Apperson – North Carolina State University

    Co-author: Marian McCord – University of New Hampshire

    Co-author: David Stewart – Imerys S.A.

    Co-author: Kaiying Chen – North Carolina State University

  • On Demand
    The Mobile Pesticide App: Development of the App and key data from the field

    Presenting Author: Seth Britch – USDA-ARS

    Co-author: Kenneth Linthicum, BCE – USDA-ARS

  • On Demand
    Wearable Controlled Release Devices (W-CRDs) as the next generation spatial protection strategy against mosquitoes

    Presenting Author: Noel Elman – GearJump Technologies LLC/ITBA

    Co-author: Sebastian D'hers – Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires

    Co-author: Daniel L. Kline – USDA-ARS

    Co-author: Ulrich R. Bernier – USDA-ARS

    Co-author: Melynda Perry – Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center

  • On Demand
    Whole garment knitting of military clothing with bite protection against mosquitoes and other arthropods

    Presenting Author: Elizabeth Kirkwood – North Carolina State University

    Co-author: Andre West – North Carolina State University

    Co-author: R. Michael Roe – North Carolina State University

    Co-Author: Charles Apperson – North Carolina State University

    Co-author: Emiel Den Hartog – North Carolina State University