Monday, December 10, 2001: 1:00 PM-3:30 PM

Windsor(Conference Center, East Side, Level 1)

Student Competition Ten-Minute Papers, Section D. Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Moderator(s): Reid Gerhardt
Bradley A. Mullens
1:00 PM0401Assessing resistance in southern California house fly populations to methomyl-treated baits
Jonathan M. Darbro, Bradley A. Mullens, Jocelyn G. Millar
1:12 PM0402Behavioral time budgets for larvae of the Simulium jenningsi and the Simulium tuberosum species groups (Diptera: Simuliidae) in the laboratory
Craig Stoops, P. H. Adler
1:24 PM0403Incorporating hormetic responses in the determination of postmortem intervals (PMI)
Marc Nascarella
1:36 PM0404Aedes aegypti (yellow fever mosquito) saliva modulates murine splenocyte proliferation and cytokine expression
Heather Wasserman, Donald Champagne
1:48 PM0405Active water uptake in the cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis
Tara C. Thiemann, Laura J. Fielden
2:00 PM0406West Nile virus surveillance in Arkansas
Rebekah Jean Crockett, Max V. Meisch, Laurie D. Lacer
2:12 PMBreak
2:24 PM0407The use of heat and chemical cues in orientation by the northern fowl mite
Jeb P. Owen, Bradley A. Mullens, Ring T. Cardé, Kristine A Justus
2:36 PM0408Odor-mediated orientation of female Aedes aegypti differs between CO2 and skin odor
Teun Dekker, Ring T. Carde
2:48 PM0409Paper Withdrawn
3:00 PM0410Epidemiological importance of mosquito mortality patterns
Linda M. Styer, James R. Carey, Thomas W. Scott
3:12 PM0411Morphological and molecular analysis of Borrelia colonies grown on solid BSK medium
Thien N. Sam, Timothy J. Kurtti

The ESA 2001 Annual Meeting - 2001: An Entomological Odyssey of ESA