Joint Early Career Professional Recognition (ECPRS) Symposium

Organizer(s)

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  Lorena Lopez

  Postdoctoral Associate
  Department of Entomology
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Painter, Virginia
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  Matthew Muzzatti

  PhD Candidate
  Department of Biology
  Carleton University
  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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  Carlos Barreto

  PhD
  Department of Biology
  University of Western Ontario
  London, Ontario, Canada

This in-person session will feature peer-selected ECPs, one from each of the ESA sections (MUVE, PBT, P-IE, and SysEB), who will give 30-minute presentations on the work they have accomplished as ECPs. A keynote speaker will introduce the session, followed by the invited presentations, and conclude with a Q&A section.

Presentations:

• 9:00 AM – 9:10 AM PT

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Jessica L. Ware – American Museum of Natural History
• 9:10 AM – 9:40 AM PT

  Developing novel control strategies for the Asian longhorned tick to prevent tick-borne diseases
  

  Presenting Author: Isobel Ronai – Harvard University
• 9:40 AM – 10:10 AM PT

  Flowers: From dirty doorknobs to pharmacies for foraging bees
  

  Presenting Author: Laura L. Figueroa – University of Massachusetts
• 10:10 AM – 10:20 AM PT

  Break
• 10:20 AM – 10:50 AM PT

  An “extension” of One Health: Leveraging collaborations between research and extension to prevent and control vector-borne diseases
  

  Presenting Author: Karen C. Poh – USDA-ARS
• 10:50 AM – 11:20 AM PT

  Cardinium-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in Encarsia parasitoid wasps
  

  Presenting Author: Matthew R. Doremus – University of Kentucky
• 11:20 AM – 11:50 AM PT

  Panel discussion
• 11:50 AM – 11:55 AM PT

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Lorena Lopez – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University