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Disease & Vector Studies III/Larval Control I
Afternoon Session

Disease & Vector Studies III/Larval Control I

Thursday, March 7, 2024
1:45pm – 3:15pm  
Location: A2

Presentations:

  • 1:45pm – 1:55pm  
    Not your grandma’s West Nile: Transmission dynamics of West Nile virus in Richland County, SC do not follow traditional ecology or epidemiology

    Presenter: Kyndall Dye-Braumuller, MS, PhD – University of South Carolina, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

    Co-Author: Melissa S. Nolan, MPH, PhD – University of South Carolina, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

  • 1:55pm – 2:05pm  
    The Impact of Various Doses of Roundup® on the Larval Development of the Southern House Mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae)

    Presenter: Mahmood Nikbakhtzadeh, PhD (he/him/his) – CSU San Bernardino

    Co-Author: Aboulaye Aziz Zerbo, Graduate student – CSU San Bernardino

    Co-Author: Mayra Espinoza, Undergraduate student – CSU San Bernardino

  • 2:05pm – 2:15pm  
    It Taste Like Chicken: The challenges of cannibalism among Sentinel chickens.

    Presenter: Milton Sterling, MPH, CDM – Lee County Mosquito Control District

  • 2:15pm – 2:25pm  
    Sewage effluent changes sexual organs and limits survivorship and larval mosquito feeding rates of Gambusia affinis

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

    Co-Author: Emily Kane, Ph.D. – University of Louisiana at Lafayette

  • 2:25pm – 2:35pm  
    Inhibition of emergence: Field validation of encapsulated methoprene

    Presenter: Michael Riles, n/a – Central Life Sciences

  • 2:35pm – 2:45pm  
    Aligning data streams for (successful) entomological evaluations of larviciding for control of Culex mosquitoes in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota

    Presenter: Joseph McMillan, PhD – Texas Tech University

    Co-Author: Scott Larson, PhD (he/him/his) – Metropolitan Mosquito Control District

  • 2:45pm – 2:55pm  
    Preliminary evaluation of toxicity of essential oils to Aedes taeniorhynchus.

    Presenter: Lawrence J. Hribar, BS, MS, PhD, PHE – Florida Keys Mosquito Control District

  • 2:55pm – 3:05pm  
    Efficacy testing of a residual mosquito larvicide on flood irrigated ranches in Teton County, Wyoming

    Presenter: Kelsey Mitchell, MS – Teton County Weed & Pest District

    Co-Author: Mikenna Smith, M.S. – Teton County Weed & Pest District

  • 3:05pm – 3:15pm  
    Considerations for assessing methoprene bioefficacy in the lab and in the field

    Presenter: Samer Elkashef, Ph.D. – Central Life Sciences