Mosquito Lightning Symposium

Moderator(s)

• AF

  Ary Faraji, PhD

  SLCMAD
  Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Presentations:

• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  Where to publish? An entomologists journey to becoming an expert cardiologist, gerontologist, oncologist and more…
  

  Presenter: Ary Faraji, PhD – SLCMAD
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  Scatology Meets Arbovirology: Can Testing Wastewater Augment Traditional West Nile Virus Surveillance?
  

  Presenter: Lyle Petersen, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – CDC
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  The host associations of Uranotaenia sapphirina
  

  Presenter: Lawrence Reeves, PhD – University of Florida
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  Quick tour of Anastasia Mosquito Control District’s new Vector-borne Disease Education and Research Center
  

  Presenter: Whitney Qualls, PHD – Anastasia Mosquito Control District

  Co-Author: Richard Weaver, n/a – Anastasia Mosquito Control District
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  To what end?
  

  Presenter: Brian Byrd, PhD, MSPH – Western Carolina University
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  Revealing cryptic bloodmeals through metabarcoding: from triatomines to soft ticks to mosquitoes.
  

  Presenter: Gabriel Hamer, PhD (he/him/his) – Texas A&M University
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  Back to the Future: Quantifying Wing Wear as a Method to Measure the Age Structure of Mosquito Populations
  

  Presenter: Brian Foy, PhD – Colorado State University
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  Harvesting insects from naturally abundant areas for animal feed and pathogen surveillance
  

  Presenter: Lee Cohnstaedt, n/a – USDA-ARS-NBAF
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  An interesting journey for a peer-reivewed manuscript
  

  Presenter: Neil Vickers, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Utah
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  Baculoviruses: Master Manipulators of Moths
  

  Presenter: Nathaniel Byers, PhD – SLCMAD
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  Malaria in Africa: A Global Call to Action
  

  Presenter: Silas Majambere, PhD – Valent Biosciences

  Co-Author: Beth Ranson – Valent BioSciences
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  Treating outside the box, using spatial models to define adulticide treatment surfaces
  

  Presenter: Kevin A. Caillouet, PhD – St. Tammany Parish Mosquito Abatement

  Co-Author: Hieu Duong, Ph.D. – St. Tammany Parish Mosquito Abatement
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  Guess who’s coming to dinner: A novel approach to blood-feeding mosquito colonies
  

  Presenter: Taylor Taylor, n/a – Pasco County Mosquito Control District
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  A Connecticut Yankee in a mosquito's court: mapping mosquito and arbovirus activity in Connecticut
  

  Presenter: Joseph McMillan, PhD – Texas Tech University
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  Plugged-in: male Anopheles have it all figured out
  

  Presenter: Laura C. Harrington, PhD – Cornell University Department of Entomology
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  Antibody responses against salivary proteins of Ae. albopictus and Cx. quinquefasciatus in Northern Cardinals in Louisiana
  

  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
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  The First Tick Surveillance Program in Wyoming, Oh What We Have to Learn
  

  Presenter: Mikenna Smith, M.S. – Teton County Weed & Pest District
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  Culex antillummagnorum: dogma smasher
  

  Presenter: Donald A. Yee, n/a – The University of Southern Mississippi
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  Empowering a community with a paper clip and a plastic cup
  

  Presenter: Rebecca Trout Fryxell, PhD – University of Tennessee
• 1:45pm – 3:15pm  

  How to shed 40 pounds in one day: Converting traps to lithium batteries.
  

  Presenter: Gregory Williams, PhD – Hudson Regional Health Commission