Where the Wild Things Are: One Health at the Wildlife-Arthropod Interface

Organizer(s)

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  Karen Poh

  Research Entomologist
  Animal Disease Research Unit
  USDA-ARS
  Pullman, Washington
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  Risa Pesapane (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  Veterinary Preventive Medicine
  The Ohio State University
  Columbus, Ohio

Our symposium highlights the diversity of arthropod vectors that can infest wildlife, leading to ecological implications for pathogen transmission and ecosystem health. Our symposium brings together entomologists and wildlife scientists under the One Health concept to discuss the relationships between entomology and wildlife with consequences for human and animal health.

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:35 PM PT

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Karen C. Poh – USDA-ARS
• 1:35 PM – 1:49 PM PT

  Mighty surprising mites: Nasopulmonary mite infestations and implications for marine mammal health
  

  Presenting Author: Risa Pesapane (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University

  Co-author: Ashani Hangawatte – The Ohio State University

  Co-author: Morgan Shields – The Ohio State University

  Co-author: Marissa Young – Monterey Bay Aquarium

  Co-author: Melissa Miller – California Department of Fish and Wildlife
• 1:49 PM – 2:03 PM PT

  A case study in how parasites compromise endangered species recovery - mange and the San Joaquin kit fox
  

  Presenting Author: Janet Foley (she/her/hers) – University of California

  Co-author: Deanna Clifford – California Department of Fish and Wildlife

  Co-author: Patrick Foley – Sacramento State University

  Co-author: Brian Cypher – California State University
• 2:03 PM – 2:17 PM PT

  Using microsatellite markers to identify transmission routes of a fatal sarcoptic mange outbreak in San Joaquin kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis mutica)
  

  Presenting Author: Jaime Rudd (she/her/hers) – California Department of Fish and Wildlife
• 2:17 PM – 2:31 PM PT

  Host presence and abundance as drivers of larval Culicoides communities at the wildlife-livestock interface
  

  Presenting Author: Bethany McGregor – USDA-ARS

  Co-author: Travis Davis – USDA-ARS
• 2:31 PM – 2:45 PM PT

  Cost and consequences of Diptera on moose
  

  Presenting Author: Bridgett M. Benedict – Texas A&M University
• 2:59 PM – 3:13 PM PT

  Using blood meal analysis to study wildlife community-trypanosome-triatomine relationships in anthropogenic landscapes
  

  Presenting Author: Nicole Gottdenker – University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine
• 3:13 PM – 3:18 PM PT

  Break
• 3:18 PM – 3:32 PM PT

  Interpreting wildlife-vector interactions through deep sequencing of vector bloodmeals: the ecology of triatomines and soft ticks in Texas
  

  Presenting Author: Sarah A. Hamer – Texas A&M University
• 3:32 PM – 3:46 PM PT

  Squirreling away the ticks? Tick abundance and distribution on eastern grey squirrels in Mid-Atlantic recreational areas
  

  Presenting Author: Erika T. Machtinger – Pennsylvania State University

  Co-author: Chloe Roberts – Pennsylvania State University

  Co-author: Justin Brown – Pennsylvania State University

  Co-author: Richard Marconi – Virginia Commonwealth University
• 3:46 PM – 4:00 PM PT

  Understanding the role of small mammals in the enzootic cycle of Rickettsia parkeri and Amblyomma maculatum in southeastern Virginia
  

  Presenting Author: Christina Espada – Old Dominion University

  Co-author: Holly Gaff – Old Dominion University
• 4:00 PM – 4:14 PM PT

  The treatment of small mammals with isoxazolines to reduce Lyme disease risk
  

  Presenting Author: Jérôme Pelletier – Université de Montréal

  Co-author: Jean-Philippe Rochealeau – Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe

  Co-author: Cécile Aenishaenslin – Université de Montréal

  Co-author: Nicholas Ogden – Public Health Agency of Canada

  Co-author: Robbin Lindsay – Public Health Agency of Canada

  Co-author: Catherine Bouchard – Public Health Agency of Canada

  Co-author: Patrick A. Leighton – Université de Montréal
• 4:14 PM – 4:28 PM PT

  The effects of prescribed fire on interactions between birds and ticks
  

  Presenting Author: Solny A. Adalsteinsson (she/her/hers) – Washington University in St. Louis

  Co-Author: Elise T. Nishikawa – Harris County Public Health Mosquito and Vector Control Division

  Co-Author: Letícia Soares – Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario

  Co-Author: William L. Nicholson – Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  Co-Author: Bessie H. Lockwood – Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• 4:28 PM – 4:42 PM PT

  Ticks in the city: Investigating the drivers of tick and host distributions in urban yards
  

  Presenting Author: Pilar Fernandez – Washington State University
• 4:42 PM – 4:56 PM PT

  Sun, surf, and tick-borne disease: Tularemia on the California Coast
  

  Presenting Author: Tara M. Roth – San Mateo County Mosquito and Vector Control District

  Co-author: Arielle Crews – San Mateo County Mosquito and Vector Control District

  Co-author: Angie Nakano – San Mateo County Mosquito and Vector Control District
• 4:56 PM – 5:00 PM PT

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Karen C. Poh – USDA-ARS