Grad MUVE: Vector Biology and Management 2

Moderator(s)

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  Christopher Vitek

  Associate Professor
  Biology
  University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  Edinburg, Texas
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  Karen Poh

  Research Entomologist
  Animal Disease Research Unit
  USDA-ARS
  Pullman, Washington

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM – 10:42 AM PT

  A "tail" of two rodents: Investigating connections between host behavior and tick attachment
  

  Presenting Author: Jessica E. Brown (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University
• 10:42 AM – 10:54 AM PT

  An assessment of life history strategies for Asian longhorned tick (Haemaphysalis longicornis) on farms in eastern Tennessee
  

  Presenting Author: Rebecca A. Butler – University of Tennessee

  Co-Author: L. Muller – University of Tennessee

  Co-Author: David Paulsen – University of Tennessee

  Co-Author: Jennifer Chandler – University of Tennessee

  Co-Author: Rebecca T. Trout Fryxell (she/her/hers) – University of Tennessee
• 10:54 AM – 11:06 AM PT

  An evaluation of contact and topical toxicity of fluralaner on culicoides biting midges
  

  Presenting Author: Blythe E. Lawson – University of Arkansas

  Co-Author: Emily Gray McDermott – University of Arkansas
• 11:06 AM – 11:18 AM PT

  Direct and indirect selection pressures of insecticide resistance development in Anopheles and Culex mosquitoes
  

  Presenting Author: Do Eun Lee – Seoul National University

  Co-Author: Ju Hyeon Kim – Seoul National University College of Medicine

  Co-Author: Si Hyeock Lee – Seoul National University
• 11:18 AM – 11:30 AM PT

  Sexually dimorphic flicker fusion and wing flash frequencies in stable flies and horn flies: A potential basis for augmenting light traps
  

  Presenting Author: Emmanuel Hung – Simon Fraser University

  Co-Author: Gunisha Sanghera – Simon Fraser University

  Co-Author: Adam J. Blake – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Megan MacGregor – Simon Fraser University

  Co-Author: Gerhard Gries – Simon Fraser University
• 11:30 AM – 11:42 AM PT

  Hot and bothered: Tick attachment and white-footed mouse stress in a burned landscape
  

  Presenting Author: Jesse R. Evans – Pennsylvania State University

  Co-Author: Erika T. Machtinger – Pennsylvania State University
• 11:54 AM – 12:06 PM PT

  Stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans (Linnaeus 1758), host blood meal identifications from an exotic wildlife park in Texas
  

  Presenting Author: Lauren Beebe – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Pia Olafson – USDA-ARS

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