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Sunday, December 9, 2007: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM |
Royal Palm Salon Six, Royal Palm Ballroom, First Floor (Town & Country) |
Symposium: Molecular Insights into Bed Bug (Cimex lectularius) Biology |
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| Organizer(s): | James Austin, jwaustin@ag.tamu.edu
A. L. Szalanski, aszalan@uark.edu
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| 8:30 AM | | | | Introductory Remarks |
| 8:40 AM |  | 0070 | | Phylogenetic characterization of Wolbachia symbionts infecting Cimex lectularius L. and Oeciacus vicarius Horvath (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)
Jason L. Rasgon, jrasgon@jhsph.edu |
| 9:05 AM | | 0071 | | Molecular forensic anlaysis of bed bug Cimex lectularius L (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) bloodmeals
Jackie Mckern, jmckern@uark.edu, Allen Szalanski, aszalan@uark.edu |
| 9:30 AM | | | | Break |
| 9:45 AM | | 0072 | | Phylogeography and population genetics of bed bugs Cimex lectularius L (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) from North America
Allen Szalanski, aszalan@uark.edu |
| 10:10 AM | | 0073 | | Bed bugs and poultry: Insecticide resistance and genetics
Dayton Steelman, dsteelm@uark.edu, Rebecca Trout, rtrout@uark.edu, Jackie Mckern, jmckern@uark.edu, A. L. Szalanski, aszalan@uark.edu |
| 10:35 AM | | 0074 | | Molecular identification of hosts of Cimex lectularius L (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) from undigested blood-meals
James Austin, jwaustin@ag.tamu.edu |
| 11:00 AM | | 0075 | | The persistence of the hepatitis B viral genome in bed bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)
Jamie Blow, jamie.blow@osd.army.mil |
| 11:25 AM | | | | Concluding Remarks |
