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Student Competition I
Afternoon Session

Student Competition I

Tuesday, March 5, 2024
1:45pm – 3:15pm  
Location: A1

Presentations:

  • 1:45pm – 1:55pm  
    Adapting standard mosquito research methods for monitoring insecticide susceptibility and resistance in Culicoides biting midges

    Presenter: Vilma Montenegro, MS – University of Florida Florida Medical Entomology Lab

    Co-Author: Nathan Burkett-Cadena, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Florida

    Co-Author: Eva Buckner, PhD – University of Florida

  • 1:55pm – 2:05pm  
    Effects of Elevated Ambient Temperature on Response of a Mosquito Citronellal Receptor: Implications for the Efficacy of Mosquito Repellents

    Presenter: Yeaeun Park, MS (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University

    Co-Author: Peter M. Piermarini, Ph.D. in Zoology, University of Florida, 2002; B.S. in Biology, James Madison University, 1995 – Ohio State University

  • 2:05pm – 2:15pm  
    Evaluation of silver nanoparticles as a control tool against adult mosquito vectors

    Presenter: Kai Blore – Anastasia Mosquito Control District

  • 2:25pm – 2:35pm  
    A Comprehensive Mosquito Species Richness Study in Southern Indiana show the Establishment of Medically Important and Invasive Species

    Presenter: Sajjad Khan – Indiana University

  • 2:35pm – 2:45pm  
    An assessment of adult mosquito trapping methods and molecular identification of blood meals in Cameron Park Zoo, Waco Tx.

    Presenter: Dhivya Rajamanickam, PhD (she/her/hers) – Baylor university

    Co-Author: Jason Pitts – Baylor University

  • 2:45pm – 2:55pm  
    Characterizing Wolbachia prevalence across mosquito host genomes over a latitudinal gradient

    Presenter: Rebecca (Becky) E. Cloud, BS (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Co-Author: Patrick Irwin, MS and PhD (he/him/his) – Northwest Mosquito Abatement District

    Co-Author: Carla Cáceres, Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Co-Author: Ephantus J. Muturi

  • 2:55pm – 3:05pm  
    Incriminating vectors of deer malaria (Plasmodium odocoilei) in a Florida deer farm

    Presenter: Morgan N. Rockwell, B.A. (she/her/hers) – Florida Medical Entomology (University of Florida