Session: Metamorphosis Through Mentoring in Medical and Veterinary Entomology---Highlights from the Career of R.C. Axtell (2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008)

Metamorphosis Through Mentoring in Medical and Veterinary Entomology---Highlights from the Career of R.C. Axtell

Tuesday, November 18, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Room D4/D5, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Organizer:

Donald A. Rutz

1:30 PM

Welcoming Remarks

1:40 PM

Richard Axtell's medical and veterinary entomology legacy

Dan Kline, CMAVE, ARS, USDA

Audio File Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

Tick-host interactions: What do we know? What should we know?

Lewis Coons, The University of Memphis

Audio File Recorded presentation

2:20 PM

Biting fly research in North Carolina, Tennessee and Florida: A part of Dick Axtell's legacy

Reid R. Gerhardt, University of Tennessee

Audio File Recorded presentation

2:40 PM

The Axtell influence on using parasitoids in fly IPM programs

Donald A. Rutz, Cornell University

Audio File Recorded presentation

3:00 PM

3:05 PM

Reflections on manure, macrochelids and mentoring

Christopher Geden, USDA-ARS-CMAVE

Audio File Recorded presentation

3:25 PM

Dr. Axtell's influence on fly sampling and monitoring

Timothy J. Lysyk, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

3:45 PM

From fruit flies to mosquitoes: Building on the research mentorship of Dick Axtell

Laura C. Harrington, Cornell University

Audio File Recorded presentation

4:05 PM

Concluding Remarks

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