The Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease had a great turn out at the annual Illinois Mosquito and Vector Control Association meeting. PIs, students and staff from across the Midwest traveled to Champaign, IL to connect and share their research. Students competed in a research presentation competition and attendees heard from researchers and professionals from Minnesota to Maryland!
Presentations from MCEVBD members
Seth Arnold, UW-Madison
Impacts of ULV Application of Novel Triple-Action Adulticide on Culex pipiens and
Culex restuans Abundance and WNV Infection Rate in Chicago Suburbs
Alex Carter, Indiana University
Assessing North Shore, Chicago Community Preferences for New Larvicide
Technologies via the Diffusion of Innovation Model
Lyric Bartholomay, PhD, UW-Madison, MCEVBD
Collaborations in applied and operational medical entomology in the Upper Midwest
Becky Smith, DVM, MS, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Tick-borne Diseases in Illinois: A Retrospective Case Analysis on the Edge of Range
Expansion
Kristina Lopez, PhD, NSMAD
Investigating Resistance to S-methoprene and Pyriproxyfen in Culex pipiens
Akilah Stewart, PhD, Indiana University
Utilizing RNAi-Expressing Yeast in Different Application Settings for Mosquito
Control
Justin Harbison, PhD, Loyola University
Stacking Spinosad and Pyriproxyfen in Chicago Catch Basins
Patrick Irwin, PhD, NWMAD
The Basin Battle: Spinosad vs. Mosquito Larvae
Zoe Narvaez, PhD, UW-Madison, MCEVBD
What’s That Smell? Developing Strategies for the Evaluation of Essential Oil-Based
Vector Control Products.
Suman Bhomick, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
A Mathematical Model of Culex Population Abundance and the Impact of Vector
Control Interventions in a Patchy Environment
Seth Arnold, Alex Carter
Suman Bhomick, Zoe Narvaez