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  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
    Location: Dallas BC
    Moderator: Ary Faraji, PhD – SLCMAD
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    4 - Where to publish? An entomologists journey to becoming an expert cardiologist, gerontologist, oncologist and more…
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Ary Faraji, PhD – SLCMAD
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    5 - Scatology Meets Arbovirology: Can Testing Wastewater Augment Traditional West Nile Virus Surveillance?
    Location: Dallas BC
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    6 - The host associations of Uranotaenia sapphirina
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Lawrence Reeves, PhD – University of Florida
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    7 - Quick tour of Anastasia Mosquito Control District’s new Vector-borne Disease Education and Research Center
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Whitney Qualls, PHD – Anastasia Mosquito Control District
    Co-Author: Richard Weaver, n/a – Anastasia Mosquito Control District
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    8 - To what end?
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Brian Byrd, PhD, MSPH – Western Carolina University
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    9 - Revealing cryptic bloodmeals through metabarcoding: from triatomines to soft ticks to mosquitoes.
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Gabriel Hamer, PhD (he/him/his) – Texas A&M University
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    10 - Back to the Future: Quantifying Wing Wear as a Method to Measure the Age Structure of Mosquito Populations
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Brian Foy, PhD – Colorado State University
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    11 - Harvesting insects from naturally abundant areas for animal feed and pathogen surveillance
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Lee Cohnstaedt, n/a – USDA-ARS-NBAF
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    12 - An interesting journey for a peer-reivewed manuscript
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Neil Vickers, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Utah
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    13 - Baculoviruses: Master Manipulators of Moths
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Nathaniel Byers, PhD – SLCMAD
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    14 - Malaria in Africa: A Global Call to Action
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Silas Majambere, PhD – Valent Biosciences
    Co-Author: Beth Ranson – Valent BioSciences
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    15 - Treating outside the box, using spatial models to define adulticide treatment surfaces
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Kevin A. Caillouet, PhD – St. Tammany Parish Mosquito Abatement
    Co-Author: Hieu Duong, Ph.D. – St. Tammany Parish Mosquito Abatement
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    16 - Guess who’s coming to dinner: A novel approach to blood-feeding mosquito colonies
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Taylor Taylor, n/a – Pasco County Mosquito Control District
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    17 - A Connecticut Yankee in a mosquito's court: mapping mosquito and arbovirus activity in Connecticut
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Joseph McMillan, PhD – Texas Tech University
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    18 - Plugged-in: male Anopheles have it all figured out
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Laura C. Harrington, PhD – Cornell University Department of Entomology
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    19 - Antibody responses against salivary proteins of Ae. albopictus and Cx. quinquefasciatus in Northern Cardinals in Louisiana
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Berlin Londono-Renteria, PhD – Tulane University
    Co-Author: Kevin A. Caillouet, PhD – St. Tammany Parish Mosquito Abatement
    Co-Author: Alyssa Schwinn
    Co-Author: Sara Harris
    Co-Author: Zoe Jacobs
    Co-Author: Matt Duckworth
    Co-Author: Jane de Verges
    Co-Author: Sam Jameson
    Co-Author: Dawn Wesson
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    20 - The First Tick Surveillance Program in Wyoming, Oh What We Have to Learn
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Mikenna Smith, M.S. – Teton County Weed & Pest District
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    21 - Culex antillummagnorum: dogma smasher
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Donald A. Yee, n/a – The University of Southern Mississippi
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    22 - Empowering a community with a paper clip and a plastic cup
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Rebecca Trout Fryxell, PhD – University of Tennessee
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium
  • Tuesday, Mar 5th
    1:45pm – 3:15pm  
    23 - How to shed 40 pounds in one day: Converting traps to lithium batteries.
    Location: Dallas BC
    Presenter: Gregory Williams, PhD – Hudson Regional Health Commission
    Mosquito Lightning Symposium