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PacVec Fall Seminar Series 2021
Join us via Zoom for our SECOND SEMINAR on October 12, 2021 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM PDT!
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“Tortoises, ticks, and tick-borne pathogens of the Mojave Desert”
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 Molly Bechtel, M.Sc., Trainee
Northern Arizona University
Molly Bechtel worked as a desert tortoise biologist at United States Geological Survey (USGS). Ms. Bechtel graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) with a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in animal science. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student at Northern Arizona University (NAU) studying tick-borne disease in desert tortoises and how ticks and disease interact with the Mojave Desert burrow ecosystem and potentially, public health. Her current work has led her to become increasingly interested in how vector-borne disease and wildlife populations relate to public health and she plans to continue research in vector-borne disease interactions in wildlife and potential relationships to human populations. In her free time she founded and volunteers with the Northern Arizona Association for Women in STEM, which advocates for equal representation of women in the sciences.
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"The association between socioeconomic and weather variables and Aedes aegypti abundance in Maricopa County, Arizona"
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 Whitney Holeva-Eklund, B.S., Trainee
Northern Arizona University
Whitney Holeva-Eklund is a candidate in the Interdisciplinary Health Ph.D. program at Northern Arizona University (NAU). Holeva-Eklund’s work in Dr. Crystal Hepp’s lab is focused on understanding the relationship between health equity and the invasive mosquito vector Aedes aegypti in Maricopa County, Arizona. She hopes that these projects will directly inform mosquito control practices in Maricopa County and potentially in other desert regions by creating a better understanding of how this mosquito is surviving in arid environments. Holeva-Eklund defended her prospectus in October 2020, and she plans to defend her dissertation by the spring of 2023. After completing her Ph.D., she hopes to apply and get accepted into the Epidemic Intelligence Service Fellowship through CDC.
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Every second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 12:00 - 1:00 PM PDT/PST:
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Gale Disler (University of Alaska Anchorage) & Renate Schlaht (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
"Understanding the role of veterinary personnel in regards to ticks and tick-borne disease in Alaska"
Erin “Taylor” Kelly (University of California, Davis)
"Identifying biomarkers of pyrethroid resistance in wild Aedes aegypti from California"
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Molly Bechtel (Northern Arizona University)
"Ticks, tick-borne pathogens, and tortoises in the Mojave Desert"
Whitney Holeva-Eklund (Northern Arizona University)
"The association between socioeconomic and weather variables and Aedes aegypti abundance in Maricopa County, Arizona"
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Kirsten Meredith (University of Utah)
"Orientation behavior of the western treehole mosquito"
Nathan Sy (University of California, Riverside)
"Pyrethroid contamination in California underground storm drain systems"
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Matthew Ward (USRA at NASA Ames Research Center)
"Using space based high resolution remote sensing data to forecast WNV in the Coachella Valley, CA"
Chandler Roe (Northern Arizona University)
"Improving public health surveillance of Onchocerca lupi through increased host and vector screening"
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Vincent Mai (San Francisco State University)
“Identifying potential amplifying hosts for Rickettsia 364D, an emerging tick-borne pathogen in California”
Jeremiah Reyes (University of Nevada, Reno)
"Population genetic structure of the western blacklegged tick, Ixodes pacificus, throughout the state of California"
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Adam Vorsino (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
"Comparative genomics of Aedes albopictus in Kwajalein Atoll for developing arbovirus vector dispersal models"
Kyle Yomogida (University of California, Davis)
"Surveillance of human flea-borne typhus cases in California, 2011-2019"
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