Monday, November 17, 2008: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Room E1, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section SVPHS2. Structural, Veterinary, and Public Health Systems

Moderator(s): Carl J. Jones
Nancy C. Hinkle
8:30 AM Introductory Remarks
8:35 AM 0574Integration of irradiation and cytoplasmic incompatibility to facilitate a lymphatic filariasis vector elimination approach
Corey L. Brelsfoard, Ali Soleimani-Meigooni, William St. Clair, Stephen Dobson
8:47 AM0575The effect of long and short-distance lures in the attraction of the blood-sucking bugs Triatoma dimidiata and Rhodnius prolixus (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)
Marc Milne, Philipp Kirsch, Daniel E. Sonenshine, Elizabeth Ross
8:59 AM0576Characterization of life-shortening Wolbachia infection in Aedes albopictus (Asian tiger mosquito)
Eunho Suh, Yuqing Fu, David R. Mercer, Stephen L. Dobson
9:11 AM0577Range expansion of the sand fly, Lutzomyia shannoni (Dyar) (Diptera: Psychodidae): Climate change, and a heat unit accumulation model
Logan M. Minter, G. C. Brown
9:23 AM0578Pattern classification of movement behaviors of indicator specimens using permutation entropy after treatments with Diazinon
Mu Qiao, Yuedan Liu, Young-Hae Do, Hun Ki Baek, Yongkuk Kim, Tae-Soo Chon
9:35 AM 0579Seasonal host switching by mosquitoes may drive arbovirus epizootics
Nathan Burkett-Cadena, Micky D. Eubanks, Hassan Hassan, Thomas R Unnasch
9:47 AM Break
9:59 AM 0580Genetic identification and environmental modeling of Borrelia pathogens isolated from Arkansas ticks and mammals
Rebecca T Trout, Dayton Steelman, Allen Szalanski, Kenneth Kvamme, Phillip Williamson
10:11 AM0581Assessing the impact of density-dependence on a natural population of Aedes aegypti larvae
Rachael Sarah Katz, Luca Facchinelli, Janine Ramsey Willoquet, J. Guillermo Bond Compeán, Fred Gould
10:23 AM 0582Using incidence rates and spatial analyses to identify areas for targeted interventions of La Crosse encephalitis in West Virginia, 2003 – 2007
Andrew D. Haddow, Carl J. Jones, Reid R. Gerhardt, Humbert Zappia, Agricola Odoi
10:35 AM0583Water agitation: A stimulus for egg hatching of Anopheles gambiae
Babak Ebrahimi, WA. Foster
10:47 AM0584Larval rearing temperature affects susceptibility of Aedes albopictus to chikungunya virus
Catherine J. Westbrook, Michael H. Reiskind, Kendra N. Pesko, Krystle Greene, L. Philip Lounibos
10:59 AM0585Olfactory conditioning of Anopheles dirus (Peyton & Harrison 1979) (Diptera: Culicidae) to a sugar-meal
Michelle R. Sanford, Pradya Somboon, Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Jimmy K. Olson

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