Sunday, December 10, 2006: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Room 116 (Convention Center)

Symposium: A Multinational Examination of the Strategies Used and the Factors that Influence the Fight against the Southern Cattle Tick, Boophilus microplus

Organizer(s): Robert John Miller, robert.miller@ars.usda.gov
Ronald B. Davey, ronald.davey@ars.usda.gov
1:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:50 PM0138Impact of Boophilus microplus on cattle production and human nutrition in the tropical and subtropical world  [ Recorded presentation ]
Robert John Miller, robert.miller@ars.usda.gov
2:10 PM0139The Australian model: How culture, environment, and economics shaped the control of Boophilus microplus in Australia  [ Recorded presentation ]
Nicholas Jonsson, n.jonsson@uq.edu.au
2:30 PM0140The New Caledonian model: How culture, environment, and economics shaped the control of Boophilus microplus in New Caledonia  [ Recorded presentation ]
Nicolas Barré, barre@iac.nc
2:50 PM0141The Brazilian model: How culture, environment, and economics shaped the control of Boophilus microplus in Brazil  [ Recorded presentation ]
Edson Bordin, edson.bordin@merial.com
3:10 PM0142The Mexican model: How culture, environment, and economics shaped the control of Boophilus microplus in Mexico  [ Recorded presentation ]
Hugo Fragoso, dir.cen@senasica.sagarpa.gob.mx
3:30 PMBreak
3:40 PM0143The United States of America model: How culture, environment, and economics shaped the control of Boophilus microplus in the USA  [ Recorded presentation ]
John George, john.george@ars.usda.gov
4:00 PM0144The problem of alternative hosts: The wildlife complication in the control and eradication of Boophilus microplus  [ Recorded presentation ]
Mat Pound, mat.pound@ars.usda.gov
4:20 PM0146The problem pesticide resistance presents for the control and eradication of Boophilus microplus
Andrew Li, andrew.li@ars.usda.gov
4:40 PM0147New control methodologies: The promise of proteomics and genomics for the control of Boophilus microplus
Felix Guerrero, felix.guerrero@ars.usda.gov, Minghua Wang, minghua.wang@yahoo.com, Anna Rachinsky, Anna.Rachinsky@ars.usda.gov
5:00 PMConcluding Remarks

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