The Sterile Insect Technique: Innovations, Challenges, and Future Directions

Organizer(s)

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  Marion Le Gall (she/her/hers)

  Supervisory Entomologist
  M3 Agriculture Technologies
  Tempe, Arizona

The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) symposium seeks global collaboration on mass-rearing challenges and innovative sterilization approaches. Emphasizing an inclusive and diverse perspective, we invite speakers and attendees from academia, industry, and government to contribute to a special collection titled “Innovations, Challenges, and Future Directions for SIT”.

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:05 AM MST

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Marion Le Gall (she/her/hers) – M3 Agriculture Technologies
• 8:05 AM – 8:23 AM MST

  A history of SIT: From Knippling to CRISPR
  

  Presenting Author: Lisa G. Neven (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS
• 8:23 AM – 8:41 AM MST

  Measuring success: Assessing the influence of mass-rearing quality parameters on screwworm mating performance
  

  Presenting Author: Alex Arp – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Paul Vincent Hickner – USDA-ARS
• 8:41 AM – 8:59 AM MST

  How to integrate nutritional geometry principles to optimize insect diets: A new framework for insect rearing using the intake target concept
  

  Presenting Author: Marion Le Gall (she/her/hers) – M3 Agriculture Technologies

  Co-Author: Carolyn Huynh (she/her/hers) – M3 Agriculture Technologies

  Co-Author: Allen Cohen – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Nathan Moses-Gonzales – M3 Agriculture Technologies
• 8:59 AM – 9:17 AM MST

  Resilience and recovery of gut microbiomes in mass reared fruit flies
  

  Presenting Author: Charles Mason – USDA-ARS
• 9:17 AM – 9:28 AM MST

  Break
• 9:46 AM – 10:04 AM MST

  Soft X-ray irradiation for sterile insect technique
  

  Presenting Author: Ron Haff (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Peishih Liang (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS
• 10:04 AM – 10:22 AM MST

  New, highly reliable X-ray systems with temperature control for adult insect X-ray SIT
  

  Presenting Author: William McLaughlin – Precision X-Ray Inc.

  Co-Author: Jiaqi Lyu – Precision X-Ray Inc.

  Co-Author: Andrew Parker – International Atomic Energy Agency

  Co-Author: Hanano Yamada – International Atomic Energy Agency
• 10:22 AM – 10:40 AM MST

  X-ray can be an alternative to gamma radiation for the sterile insect technique for sterilization of Aedes aegypti
  

  Presenting Author: Chao Chen – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Daniel Hahn – University of Florida
• 10:40 AM – 10:51 AM MST

  Break
• 10:51 AM – 11:09 AM MST

  Lab-reared Aedes aegypti adults can quickly achieve similar cold hardiness to wild populations with 3 days of outdoor acclimation: Implications for mosquito release programs
  

  Presenting Author: Daniel Hahn – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Dylan Alexander Tussey (he/him/his) – USDA-APHIS

  Co-Author: Chao Chen – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Hunter Martin – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Estelle Martin (she/her/hers) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Rudy Xue – Anastasia Mosquito Control District of St. Johns County
• 11:09 AM – 11:27 AM MST

  Advances and challenges in the sterile insect technique: From insect sperm to prototypes
  

  Presenting Author: Diana Pérez-Staples (she/her/hers) – Universidad Veracruzana

  Co-Author: Yeudiel Gomez-Simuta – SAGARPA-SENASICA

  Co-Author: José Meza – SAGARPA-SENASICA

  Co-Author: Jorge Toledo – El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
• 11:27 AM – 11:45 AM MST

  Progress in developing genetic SIT for management of the cotton pest Lygus hesperus (Knight)
  

  Presenting Author: Chan C. Heu – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Roni J. Gross – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Dannialle M. LeRoy – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Inana X. Schutze (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Daniel Langhorst – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Colin S. Brent (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Joe Hull – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Jeffrey A. Fabrick (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS
• 11:45 AM – 11:55 AM MST

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Marion Le Gall (she/her/hers) – M3 Agriculture Technologies