Grad MUVE and PBT: Behavior and Ecology

Moderator(s)

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  Rizana Mahroof

  National Program Leader
  NIFA
  USDA-NIFA
  Lexington, South Carolina
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  Benjamin Matthews (he/him/his)

  Assistant Professor
  Zoology
  The University of British Columbia
  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM – 10:42 AM PT

  Aedes aegypti preference between canines and humans volatile skin compounds
  

  Presenting Author: Melissa B. Rosalez (she/her/hers) – University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

  Co-Author: Christopher J. Vitek – University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

  Co-Author: Rupesh Kariyat – University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
• 10:42 AM – 10:54 AM PT

  Attraction of horn flies,Haematobia irritans, to cattle host semiochemicals
  

  Presenting Author: Emma M. Kovacs (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University

  Co-Author: Sophie Su – Simon Fraser University

  Co-Author: Regine Gries – Simon Fraser University

  Co-Author: Gerhard Gries – Simon Fraser University
• 10:54 AM – 11:06 AM PT

  Behavioral evidence for unicoloniality in Pheidole megacephala (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on O'ahu, Hawai'i
  

  Presenting Author: John A. Lawrence – University of Hawai'i

  Co-Author: Jia-Wei Tay – University of Hawai'i
• 11:06 AM – 11:18 AM PT

  Blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis, sense and avoid ant-frequented areas
  

  Presenting Author: Claire E. Gooding (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University

  Co-Author: Regine Gries – Simon Fraser University

  Co-Author: Gerhard Gries – Simon Fraser University
• 11:18 AM – 11:30 AM PT

  Microbe-mediated attraction of stable flies to host cattle
  

  Presenting Author: Saif A. Nayani – Simon Fraser University

  Co-Author: Sam Meraj – Simon Fraser University

  Co-Author: Emerson Mohr – Simon Fraser University

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

  Old widows lie about their age – sexual conflict and mate-choice manipulation in false black widow spiders
  

  Presenting Author: Andreas Fischer – Simon Fraser University

  Co-Author: Camilla Roman-Torres – Simon Fraser University

  Co-Author: Beatrice Chee – Simon Fraser University

  Co-Author: Gerhard Gries – Simon Fraser University
• 11:42 AM – 11:54 AM PT

  Targeted RNA sequencing to investigate the neurobiological and molecular basis of Aedes aegypti smell and taste
  

  Presenting Author: Leisl I. Brewster – The University of British Columbia

  Co-Author: Benjamin Matthews (he/him/his) – The University of British Columbia
• 11:54 AM – 12:06 PM PT

  The neural basis of taste processing in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
  

  Presenting Author: Elsa Cyr – The University of British Columbia

  Co-Author: Benjamin Matthews (he/him/his) – The University of British Columbia

  Co-Author: Michael Gordon – The University of British Columbia
• 12:06 PM – 12:18 PM PT

  The relationship between Aedes albopictus host preference and feeding patterns around the world
  

  Presenting Author: Kara M. Fikrig – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Noah Rose – Princeton University

  Co-Author: Nathan Burkett-Cadena – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Basile Kamgang – The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases

  Co-Author: Paul T. Leisnham – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Alongkot Ponlawat – Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences

  Co-Author: Sarah Rothman (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Tanise Stenn – Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory

  Co-Author: Lindy McBride – Princeton University

  Co-Author: Laura C. C. Harrington – Cornell University
• 12:18 PM – 12:30 PM PT

  The search for the aldehyde receptor: Understanding the preference for biting humans in the mosquito Aedes aegypti
  

  Presenting Author: Timothy W. Schwanitz – Princeton University

  Co-Author: Lindy McBride – Princeton University