2008 Annual Mosquito Research Program Grant Proposal Presentation Day: April 14, 2008

Location: Alpha Gamma Rho (AGR) room, Buehler Alumni and Visitor Center, UC Davis, CA

Sixteen proposals were submitted this year to the office of the UC Mosquito Research Program (UC MRP) for funding consideration. Thirteen investigators from UC Davis and UC Riverside will be presenting their research proposals on Monday April 14, 2008. The agenda will be as follows:

• 9:00am Opening remarks
  Gregory Lanzaro, Director, UC MRP


• 9:15am Importance of avian chronic infection in the overwintering of West Nile virus in California
  William Reisen, UC Davis


• 9:30am Mosquito mitochondria: an untapped resource for the development of aging biomarkers
  Shirley Luckhart, UC Davis


• 9:45am Characterization of a mosquitofish kairomone that reduces oviposition by Culex tarsalis
  William Walton, UC Riverside


• 10:00am Effects of nutrient enrichment on important mosquito vectors of West Nile virus and associated wetland invertebrate communities
  William Walton, UC Riverside


• 10:20-10:40am Break
  


• 10:45am Chemoattractants for Culex larvae: an attractant-and-kill strategy
  Anandasankar Ray, UC Riverside


• 11:00am Attractants for Culex pipiens complex mosquitoes
  Ring Cardé, UC Riverside


• 11:15am Efficacy of fungal pathogens as biological controls of adult Culex mosquitoes
  Nancy Beckage, UC Riverside


• 11:30am Distribution and prevalence of a Kamiti River-like flavivirus in California Culex spp. mosquitoes: Potential applications on transmission dynamics of West Nile virus
  Aaron Brault, UC Davis


• Noon-2:00pm Lunch Break
  


• 2:15pm Mosquitocidal toxicity of Clostridium bifermentas toxins
  Sarjeet Gill, UC Riverside


• 2:30pm Development of California roach (Hesperoleucus symmetricus) as a native fish for use in mosquito control
  Sharon Lawler, UC Davis


• 2:45pm Field evaluation of a re-formulated larvicide for mosquito control
  Sharon Lawler, UC Davis


• 3:00pm Develop single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to compare urban vs rural genotypes of Culex pipiens s.l. members in California
  Anthony Cornel, UC Davis


• 3:15-3:30pm Break
  


• 3:30pm Spatial distribution of Culex tarsalis in rice fields: 1987 data set revisited
  Eliska Rejmankova, UC Davis


• 3:45pm Impacts of West Nile Virus on body condition and survivorship in house finches
  Holly Ernest, UC Davis


• 4:00pm Development of a high throughput assay for carboxylesterase- and GST-mediated pyrethroid resistance in Cx pipiens sensu lato
  Bruce Hammock, UC Davis



Peter Atkinson, from UC Riverside, will not be able to present his proposal entitled "High frequency Culex transformation".


The Grants Review Committee will meet on Tuesday April 15, 2008 in 1006 Haring Hall to discuss the proposals.