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Vector Behavior: Implications for the Transmission and Spread of Plant and Animal Pathogens

Tuesday, December 14, 2010: 8:15 AM-12:00 PM
Royal Palm, Salon 3 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Organizers:
Matthew Daugherty
Rodrigo Almeida
8:15 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:25 AM
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Feeding behavior in sharpshooter leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellinae):  Does within-host feeding site preference influence vector transmission efficiency?
Arash Rashed, Texas A&M University; Matthew Daugherty, University of California; Rodrigo P. P. Almeida, University of California Berkeley
8:50 AM
0202
Modeling effects of vector preference for healthy or infected plants on pathogen spread
Mark Sisterson, USDA - ARS
9:15 AM
0203
Aphid behavioral responses to virus-infected host plants:  Variability among luteovirus pathosystems
Sanford D. Eigenbrode, University of Idaho; Nilsa Bosque-Pérez, University of Idaho
9:40 AM
0204
Disease spread: interactive effects of vector preference and host resistance versus tolerance
Matthew Daugherty, University of California; Arash Rashed, Texas A&M University; Thomas M. Perring, University of California - Riverside; Rodrigo P. P. Almeida, University of California Berkeley
10:05 AM
Break
10:15 AM
0205
Filth fly attraction to honeydew increases risk of pathogen contaminated food crops
Alec Gerry, University of California
10:40 AM
0206
Tick host preferences in biodiverse communities help maintain enzootic disease
Janet E. Foley, University of California Davis
11:05 AM
0207
Mosquito host selection and West nile virus transmission
Gabe Hamer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:30 AM
0208
Semiochemical mediated aggregation behaviour of sand fly vectors of leishmaniasis and implications for control
Gordon Hamilton, Keele University
11:55 AM
Concluding Remarks
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