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Title and Presenter |
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - First Session |
1:30 P.M. |
Opening Remarks, AMCA Washington Day - Natasha Agramonte; Spring Workshop Wrap-up - Elmer Gray |
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1:50 P.M. |
Assessment of Ornithophilic Mosquito Attraction to Bird-Scented Baited Traps—Nalany Richardson |
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2:10 P.M. |
The History of Mosquito Control in Georgia - Rosmarie Kelly |
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3:15 P.M. |
Overwintering in Mosquitoes—Mike Riles |
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3:35 P.M. |
Pesticide Resistance and Testing Methods—Katie Williams |
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4:15 P.M. |
Responding to Locally Acquired Malaria: A Mosquito Population Surveillance Perspective—Natalie Barber |
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4:35 P.M. |
Avoiding the Reappearance of the New World Screwworm in the Southeast - Nancy Hinkle |
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Thursday, October 16, 2025 - Second Session |
9:00 A.M. |
Emerging Tick-Borne Viruses—Arabella Terpin-Lewis |
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9:20 A.M. |
Fulton County Mosquito Control Overview—Caroline Efstathion |
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9:40 A.M. |
Uncovering Interactions Between Invasive Wild Pigs and Vector Mosquitoes and their Synergistic Threats to Human and Other Animal Health - Mary Beard |
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10:00 A.M. |
Georgia Vector Surveillance State Report, 2025—Tiffany Nguyen |
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10:35 A.M. |
Assessing Behavioral Resistance to Targeted Insecticide Spraying in Acapulco in Mexico—David C Jimenez-Vallejo |
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10:55 A.M. |
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT - AMVAC; Clarke |
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11:10 A.M. |
From Air to Ground: Aerial Application in IMM—Kevin Card |
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Thursday, October 16, 2025 - Third Session |
1:30 P.M. |
Developing Mosquito-Based Detection Methods for Invasive Brown Tree Snakes in Guam—Lawrence Reeves |
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2:00 P.M. |
In2Care, A Newer Approach in Mosquito Control—Kris Hamby |
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2:25 P.M. |
From Surveillance to Suppression: Glynn County’s Integrated WNV Response Strategy—Samuel Harrod |
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2:45 P.M. |
Kissing Bugs at UGA: Georgia and Beyond—Kevin Vogel |
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3:15 P.M. |
South Health District’s Mosquito Surveillance Program—Austin Haney & Blake Lowery |
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3:55 P.M. |
Mosquito IPM in a Zoo Environment - Dan Killingsworth |
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4:25 P.M. |
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT - Central Life Sciences; Veseris |
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4:40 P.M. |
POSTER - Toxicological Effects of Nano- and Microplastics on Aedes albopictus |
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POSTER - Engaging Undergraduate Researchers in Mosquito Surveillance Activities |
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BANQUET |
Natural History of Mosquitoes - Lawrence Reeves |
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Friday, October 17, 2025 - Fourth Session |
9:00 A.M. |
Introduction of the New Entomology Department Head—Sonia Altizer |
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9:30 A.M. |
Mosquito Service and Trends in the Structural Pest World—Billy Blasingame |
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10:00 A.M. |
Development of a Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Assay for Detecting the Infective Stage of Dirofilaria immitis in Mosquitoes—Eric Chambers |
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10:35 A.M. |
Pesticide Regulations and Inspections—Nicholas Sumner |
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10:55 A.M. |
Operational Mosquito Control in DeKalb County—Natasha Agramonte |
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11:15 A.M. |
Mosquito Pollination - Skyler Nichols |
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