Innovative, Operational Non-Chemical Approaches to Mosquito Control Symposium II

Moderator(s)

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  Mustapha Debboun, PhD (he/him/his)

  General Manager /Medical & Veterinary Entomologist
  Delta Mosquito and Vector Control District
  Visalia, California, United States
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  Rajeev Vaidyanathan, PhD

  Director of U.S. Programs
  Oxitec Ltd
  St Charles, Illinois, United States

Presentations:

• 10:45am – 11:00am  

  Advances in the development of an SIT Program for mosquito control districts to control Aedes aegypti
  

  Presenter: Robert L. Aldridge, PhD – United States Department of Agriculture

  Co-Author: Kenneth Linthicum, PhD – United States Department of Agriculture

  Co-Author: Seth Gibson, PhD – United States Department of Agriculture

  Co-Author: Barbie Bayer, MS (she/her/hers) – United States Department of Agriculture
• 11:00am – 11:15am  

  Application of genetically engineered mosquitoes for malaria elimination
  

  Presenter: Anthony Cornel, Dr. – Kearney Agricultural Field Station

  Co-Author: Gregory Lanzaro, Prof. – University of California at Davis
• 11:15am – 11:30am  

  Autocidal control tools for Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus - Population Suppression using Wolbachia infected males
  

  Presenter: Stephen L. Dobson, PhD – MosquitoMate, Inc
• 11:30am – 11:45am  

  Developing biocontrol technologies for mosquitoes
  

  Presenter: Shih-Che Weng, PhD – University of California, San Diego

  Co-Author: Igor Antoshechkin, PhD – California Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Eric Marois, PhD – Universite de Strasbourg

  Co-Author: Omar S. Akbari, PhD – University of California, San Diego
• 11:45am – 12:00pm  

  Collaborative efforts with Oxitec and Delta Mosquito and Vector Control District in the Central Valley of California
  

  Presenter: Mustapha Debboun, PhD (he/him/his) – Delta Mosquito and Vector Control District
• 12:00pm – 12:15pm  

  Scale-up of Oxitec’s Sustainable, Self-Limiting Solution for Aedes aegypti
  

  Presenter: Rajeev Vaidyanathan, PhD – Oxitec Ltd