SVPHS2 Ten-Minute Papers, Structural, Veterinary, and Public Health Systems

Tuesday, November 18, 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room A2, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Moderators:
Karen M. Kester
Will K Reeves
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM
Attraction of Lutzomyia spp. (Diptera: Psychodidae) to olfactory attractants
Rajinder S. Mann, University of Florida; Phillip E. Kaufman, University of Florida; J F Butler, University of Florida
8:17 AM
Control of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) by means of vertical fine-mesh barriers
Roy Faiman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Ruben Cunio, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Alon Warburg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
8:29 AM
Emerging cutaneous leishmaniasis in Israel
Alon Warburg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Roy Faiman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Ibrahim Abbasi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Abedelmajeed Nasereddin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Lionel F. Schnur, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Ruben Cunio, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Petr Volf, Charles University; Milena Svobodova, Charles University; Jan Votypka, Charles University; Charles L. Jaffe, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
8:41 AM
Passive surveillance: Continental or cosmopolitan? Amblyomma spp. ticks submitted to the USDA NVSL
Joel Hutcheson, USDA - APHIS; James, W. Mertins, National Veterinary Services Laboratories; Jeffery T. Alfred, National Veterinary Services Laboratories; Jack L. Schlater, National Veterinary Services Laboratories
8:53 AM
House fly attraction to and survival on homopteran honeydews
Seemanti Chakrabarti, University of California - Riverside; Alec Gerry, University of California
9:05 AM
Repellent pesticides for the control of Culicoides sonorensis on sheep
Will K Reeves, USDA-ARS; J E Lloyd, University of Wyoming; Robert Stobart, University of Wyoming; Gregory Johnson, Montana State University; Charles Stith, USDA-ARS; Kristine Bennett, USDA-ARS; Myrna M Miller, USDA-ARS
9:17 AM
Association of stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans (Diptera: Muscidae), with West Nile virus-infected American white pelicans in Montana
Gregory Johnson, Montana State University; Nicholas Panella, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Nicholas Komar, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
9:29 AM
Break
9:41 AM
Insect recovery of environmental human DNA
Karen M. Kester, Virginia Commonwealth University; Mary H Toothman, Virginia Commonwealth University; Bonnie L. Brown, Virginia Commonwealth University
9:53 AM
Feeding, defecation and development times of Triatoma lecticularia (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) under laboratory conditions
José A. Martínez-Ibarra, Universidad de Guadalajara; Rafael Bustos-Saldaña, Universidad de Guadalajara; Alfonso Barajas-Martínez, Universidad de Guadalajara; Benjamín Nogueda-Torres, Instituto Politécnico Nacional
10:05 AM
Can pesticides affect invasion by exotic species?: Examples from a container community
Banugopan Kesavaraju, Rutgers University; Ali Afify, Rutgers University; Randy Gaugler, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
10:17 AM
Excitatory effects of ULV droplets of Duet and its components on mosquitoes in a wind tunnel
Miriam F. Cooperband, USDA-APHIS-PPQ-CPHST; Sandra A. Allan, USDA - ARS; Gary G. Clark, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; William Jany, Clarke Mosquito Control
10:29 AM
Fungus-based biological control of adult Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes
Nancy E Beckage, University of California-Riverside; Anita R. Gordillo, University of California-Riverside
10:41 AM
The evolutionary genetics of immunity genes in the Anopheles gambiae complex
Michel A Slotman, Texas A&M University; Aristeidis Parmakelis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Nikolaos Poulakakis, University of Crete; Kirstin B Dion, Yale University; Adalgisa Caccone, Yale University; Jeffrey R. Powell, Yale University
10:53 AM
Concluding Remarks