ESA North Central Branch Meeting Online Program

Student Competition Papers Ph.D. Session I Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology; Physiology, Biochemistry, and Toxicology

Monday, June 17, 2013: 9:30 AM-11:10 AM
Sylvan I (Best Western Ramkota Rapid City Hotel & Conference Center)
Moderators:
Venkat Chapara
Gary Brewer


9:30 AM
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Effect of various concentrations of the pain medication ibuprofen in reconstituted human blood on feeding and fecundity of bed bugs (Cimex lectularius L.)
Ralph Narain, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ; Shripat Kamble, University of Nebraska - Lincoln ; Nicholas J. Miller, USDA-ARS
9:42 AM
21
Using predicted Anopheles gambiae larval habitat locations to explain heterogeneity in adult An. gambiae spatial distribution
Robert S. McCann, Michigan State University ; Joseph Messina, Michigan State University ; David MacFarlane, Michigan State Universtiy ; M. Nabie Bayoh, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Kenya Medical Research Institute ; John M. Vulule, Kenya Medical Research Institute ; John E. Gimnig, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ; Edward Walker, Michigan State University
9:54 AM
22
Different physiological roles of two dopamine receptors in salivation of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say
Donghun Kim, Kansas State University ; Ladislav Simo, Kansas State University ; Yoonseong Park, Kansas State University
10:06 AM
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Vulnerability of a mixed diet of DDGS with different proportions of flour/yeast and commercial animal feed containing DDGS to T. castaneum infestation.
Mahsa Fardisi, Purdue University ; Linda J. Mason, Purdue University ; Klien Ileleji, Purdue University
10:30 AM
25
(S)-fuscumol and (S)-fuscumol acetate produced by a male Astyleiopus variegatus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
Gabriel P. Hughes, Purdue University ; Yunfan Zou, University of California, Riverside ; Jocelyn G. Millar, University of California, ; Matthew D. Ginzel, Purdue University
10:42 AM
26
RNA interference in the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis: Disappointment and success
Joshua R. Urban, Kansas State University ; Ladislav Simo, Kansas State University ; Yoonseong Park, Kansas State University
10:54 AM
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