Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, MUVE-1

Bernier, Ulrich R.

ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, MUVE-1

Monday, November 14, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Room A1, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Moderators:

Ulrich R. Bernier
Glen A. Scoles

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:03 AM

0366

Ultrastructure and genetic evidence of “Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae” within the Gulf Coast tick

Flavia A. Girao, Mississippi State University; Andrea Varela-Stokes, Mississippi State University; Christopher Paddock, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Jerome Goddard, Mississippi State University

8:15 AM

0367

Seasonality and disease potential of the black-legged deer tick, Ixodes scapularis Say, in Mississippi

Lauren R. Goltz, Mississippi State University; Andrea Varela-Stokes, Mississippi State University; Jerome Goddard, Mississippi State University

8:27 AM

0368

Comparison of the humoral and cellular immune responses between body and head lice following bacterial challenge

Ju Hyeon Kim, Seoul National University; Jee Sun Min, Seoul National University; Jae Soon Kang, Seoul National University; Deok Ho Kwon, Seoul National University; Kyong Sup Yoon, University of Massachusetts; Joseph Strycharz, University of Massachusetts; Young Ho Koh, Hallym University; Barry R. Pittendrigh, University of Illinois; John M. Clark, University of Massachusetts; Si Hyeock Lee, Seoul National University

8:39 AM

0369

Transmission of Rickettsia parkeri by the gulf coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum Koch

Gail Miriam Moraru, Mississippi State University; Christopher Paddock, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Andrea Varela-Stokes, Mississippi State University; Jerome Goddard, Mississippi State University

8:51 AM

0370

Patterns of antibody responses against Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) among cattle herds in the northwestern United States

Cami R. Jones, Washington State University; Glen A. Scoles, USDA - ARS; Jeb Owen, Washington State University

9:03 AM

0371

Transport of ticks infected with Ehrlichia chaffeensis in USA by migratory song-birds

Rachel Truhett, University of Southern Mississippi; Michael Sellers, University of Southern Mississippi; Frank Moore, University of Southern Mississippi; Shahid Karim, The University of Southern Mississippi

9:15 AM

0373

Investigating the role of the piRNA pathway in transposon control within the human disease vector Aedes aegytpi.

Jennifer Alicia Wright, University of California, Riverside; Robert Hice, University of California; Peter Arensburger, University of California, Riverside; Peter Atkinson, University of California

9:27 AM

0372

Withdrawn

9:39 AM

Break

9:51 AM

0374

Preliminary investigation of aggregation dynamics and mating pheromones associated with Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)

Emad El-Din Y. Fawaz, US Naval Medical Research Unit #3; Sandra A. Allan, USDA - ARS; Ulrich R. Bernier, USDA - ARS; Peter J. Obenauer, Head, Vector Biology Research Program

10:03 AM

0376

Melanization in defense against Plasmodium yoelii in Anopheles gambiae

Phanidhar Kukutla, New Mexico State University; Mattew Steritz, New Mexico State University; Jiannong Xu, New Mexico State University

10:15 AM

0375

Withdrawn

10:27 AM

0377

Specificity of avian host and mosquito vector infections of avian Plasmodium in riparian southwest Fresno County

Jenny S. Carlson, University of California; Rebecca Trout-Fryxell, University of California, Davis; Erika Walther, San Francisco State University; Ravinder N. M. Sehgal, San Francisco State University; Anthony J. Cornel, University of California, Davis

10:39 AM

0378

Model development for predicting the movement and concentrations of ultra-low-volume insecticides used for adult mosquito management

Jerome J. Schleier, Montana State University

10:51 AM

0379

Carbohydrate feeding increases male mosquito fitness through multiple mechanisms

Alexandra Villiard, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

11:03 AM

0380

Ovipositional responses of mosquitoes to kairomones produced from aquatic taxa in different guilds

Adena M. Why, University of California, Riverside; William E. Walton, University of California