Session: Student Competition for the President's Prize Display Presentations, Section SVPHS2. Structural, Veterinary, and Public Health Systems (2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008)

Monday, November 17, 2008: 7:00 AM-6:00 PM

Exhibit Hall 3, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

The risk of arbovirus transmission increases as mosquito infection rates increase: Using simple models to evaluate this assumption

Dulce M. Bustamante, University of Florida ; Cynthia Lord, University of Florida

D0149

Utilizing Luminex technology for high-throughput identification of mosquito blood meals

Tara C. Thiemann, University of California, Davis ; Aaron C. Brault, University of California Davis ; William K. Reisen, University of California Davis

D0150

Sequence, secondary structure, and phylogenetic analyses of the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) in the Orthopodomyia signifera group (Diptera: Culicidae)

Brian Byrd, Western Carolina University ; Dawn M. Wesson, Tulane University

D0151

Mosquito vision: Molecular evolution and functional characterization of the opsins in Anopheles gambiae and Aedes aegypti

Gloria I. Giraldo-Calderón, Purdue University ; Janice P. Van Zee, Purdue University ; Jason M. Meyer, Purdue University ; Michael J. Zanis, Purdue University ; Catherine A. Hill, Purdue University

D0152

Dilemma of the traveling mosquito (Aedes aegypti): To fly or not to fly?

Kavitha Damal, Illinois State University ; Sabine Loew, Illinois State University ; Steven Juliano, Illinois State University

D0153

Toxicity of highly selective carbamates towards the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae

James M Mutunga, Virginia Tech ; Troy D. Anderson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ; Brian T. Jackson, Virginia Tech ; Joshua A Hartsel, Virginia Tech ; Sally L. Paulson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ; Paul R. Carlier, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ; Jeffrey R. Bloomquist, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

D0154

Environmental variables associated with larval mosquito habitats in South Carolina zoos

Holly Tuten, Clemson University

D0155

Efficacy of arroyo chub (Gila orcutti) as a mosquito control agent in newly renovated constructed treatment wetlands

Adena M. Why, University of California, Riverside ; Bonnie Nash, Orange County Water District ; Richard Zembel, Orange County Water District ; Kerwin Russell, Riverside Corona Resource Conservation District ; William Walton, University of California, Riverside

D0156

Antennal sensilla of the generalist parasitoid, Cotesia marginiventris (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): Sexual differences in the abundance and distribution of putative chemosensilla

Prithwiraj Das, Auburn University ; Li Chen, Auburn University ; Henry Y. Fadamiro, Auburn University

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