Factors Allowing for the Transmission of Vector-Borne Viruses: Vector Competence, Vertebrate Host Competence, and Environmental Factors Symposium

Moderator(s)

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  Michael Turell, PhD.

  Senior Adjunct Arbovirologist
  Anastasia Mosquito Control District
  Frederick, Maryland, United States

  Slides

Presentations:

• 4:06pm – 4:20pm

  What makes a particular species of mosquito a competent vector?
  

  Presenter: Rebekah C. Kading, BS, MS, Phd – Colorado State University
• 4:20pm – 4:34pm

  Lethal and sublethal effects of insecticides: Within species variability of mosquito vector competence
  

  Presenter: Barry W. Alto, BA, MS, PhD (he/him/his) – Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida
• 4:34pm – 4:48pm

  What makes a particular vertebrate an important amplifying host?
  

  Presenter: Jefferson A. Vaughan, PhD – University of North Dakota
• 4:48pm – 5:02pm

  How the presence of other organisms in a viremic vertebrate host may affect the ability of a mosquito feeding on that host to be able to transmit that virus.
  

  Presenter: Michael J. Turell, PhD. – Anastasia Mosquito Control District
• 5:02pm – 5:16pm

  Unraveling the complex influence of environmental temperature on vectorial capacity of mosquitoes for arboviruses
  

  Presenter: Alexander Ciota, Ph.D. – Arbovirus Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, NYS Dept of Health
• 5:16pm – 5:30pm

  The effect of rainfall on the ability of mosquitoes to transmit a virus or parasite and disease occurrence
  

  Presenter: Kenneth Linthicum, PhD – USDA-ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology