MVCAC Annual Conference

MONDAY – AFTERNOON PLENARY SESSION

William C. Reeves New Investigator Award Competition

January 14, 2008 – 2:55 p.m. – 5:35 p.m.

Location: Catalina/Madera, Wyndham Palm Springs, Palm Springs, CA

• Effects of Larval Diet on Life History Characters of Culex
  Anita Gordillo, M.S., UC Riverside


• Effects of Vegetation on the Efficacy of Larval Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Control by a Native Larvivorous Fish
  Jennifer Henke, Ph.D. student, UC Riverside


• The Development of RNA Interference (RNAi) Technologies in Culex
  Amandeep Kahlon, Ph.D. student, UC Riverside


• Establishing the Origin of Individual Field-Collected Mosquitoes by DNA Fingerprinting
  Yoosook Lee, Ph.D., UC Davis


• The Impact of Dissociation on Transposon-mediated Disease Control Strategies
  John Marshall, Ph.D. student, UC Los Angeles


• The Effect of Bacterial Quality and Density on Growth and Whole Body Stoichiometry of Culex quinquefasciatus and Culex tarsalis (Diptera: Culicidae)
  George Peck, Ph.D., Northwest MVCD


• The Influence of Water Quality and Vegetation on Mosquitofish in Mosquito Control Programs in Wastewater Wetlands
  David Alexander Popko, M.S., UC Riverside


• Spatial and Temporal Ecology of West Nile virus in Los Angeles, California; Implications for Sporadic Persistence
  Jennifer Wilson, Ph.D. student, UC Davis