10-min: MUVE, Medical and Forensic Entomology

Moderator(s)

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  Karen Vail (she/her/hers)

  Professor and Extension Urban Entomologist
  Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
  University of Tennessee
  Knoxville, Tennessee
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  Barbara Drolet (she/her/hers)

  Research Microbiologist
  Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit
  USDA-ARS
  Manhattan, Kansas

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM – 10:42 AM MST

  Working groups increase understanding of and confidence in working with suspected delusional infestation
  

  Presenting Author: Karen M. Vail (she/her/hers) – University of Tennessee

  Co-Author: Nancy C. Hinkle – University of Georgia
• 10:42 AM – 10:54 AM MST

  Forensic entomology molecular informatics: Current concepts, trends, and challenges
  

  Presenting Author: Yadong Guo (he/him/his) – Central South University

  Co-Author: Yanjie Shang – Central South University
• 10:54 AM – 11:06 AM MST

  Humidity affects oviposition behavior of Phormia regina (Diptera: Calliphoridae)
  

  Presenting Author: Khadija Moctar – Indiana University

  Co-Author: Christine J. Picard – Indiana University
• 11:06 AM – 11:18 AM MST

  Host age preference of the pupal parasitoid, Spalangia Cameroni (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Jimmy B. Pitzer, Jr. – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Sam Curtis – California State University
• 11:18 AM – 11:30 AM MST

  Metagenomic analyses of house fly microbial communities reveals their role as sources, sentinels and disseminators of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance
  

  Presenting Author: Dana Nayduch – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Edward Bird – Kansas State University
• 11:30 AM – 11:42 AM MST

  Potential role of house flies in mechanical transmission of vesicular stomatitis virus
  

  Presenting Author: Barbara S. Drolet (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Lindsey Reister-Hendricks – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Jessica Gutierrez – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Luke Brendel – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Tanya Purvis – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Dana Nayduch – USDA-ARS
• 11:42 AM – 11:54 AM MST

  The kissing bug, Rhodnius prolixus, likely has a single functional photoreceptor in their eyes
  

  Presenting Author: Syeda Farjana Hoque – University of Cincinnati

  Co-Author: Michael Meece – University of Cincinnati

  Co-Author: Shubham Rathore – National Institute of Mental Health

  Co-Author: Elke Buschbeck – University of Cincinnati

  Co-Author: Joshua Benoit – University of Cincinnati