Disease/Vector Studies I

Moderator(s)

• GW

  Greg White, PhD

  Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District
  Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Presentations:

• 1:45pm – 1:55pm

  Optimizing Trap Placement to Predict West Nile Virus Cases
  

  Presenter: Rebecca L. Smith, DVM MS PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois
• 1:55pm – 2:05pm

  Development of Mosquito Surveillance System with Artificial Intelligence (AI) Techniques
  

  Presenter: HEEIL LEE, Dr. – Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
• 2:05pm – 2:15pm

  Designing an Artificial Blood Meal (ABM) for the Feeding of Aedes aegypti
  

  Presenter: Alexander R. Weaver (he/him/his) – University of Florida

  Presenter: Nagarajan Ramasamy Rajagopal, MS (he/him/his) – University of Florida
• 2:15pm – 2:25pm

  The Dance of Two Agencies: Local Mosquito Abatement Program and Local Health Department’s response to Potential Imported and Locally Acquired Mosquito-borne Disease Cases.
  

  Presenter: Milton Sterling, MPH, CDM – Lee County Mosquito Control District
• 2:25pm – 2:35pm

  West Nile Virus Surveillance in Sentinel Chickens and Mosquitoes in Panama City Beach, Florida, from 2014 To 2020
  

  Presenter: Michael Riles, n/a – Central Life Sciences
• 2:35pm – 2:45pm

  Aging Field-Collected Aedes aegypti from the Florida Keys
  

  Presenter: Catherine A. Pruszynski, BCE, MSPH – Florida Keys Mosquito Control District
• 2:45pm – 2:55pm

  Microplastic ingestion alters the bacterial microbiota of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus
  

  Presenter: Corey L. Brelsfoard, n/a – Texas Tech University
• 2:55pm – 3:05pm

  West Nile Virus in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana: Past and Present Mosquito Activity
  

  Presenter: Colby Colona, M.S. – M-F 7:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
• 3:05pm – 3:15pm

  Dirofilaria immitis in invasive Aedes and native Culiseta species from Orange County, California
  

  Presenter: Daisy Rangel, PhD – Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District