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PacVec Fall Seminar Series 2021
Join us via Zoom for our FIRST SEMINAR on September 28, 2021 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM PDT!
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“Understanding the role of veterinary personnel and pet travel in regards to ticks and tick-borne disease in Alaska”
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 Gale Disler, Trainee
University of Alaska Anchorage
Gale Disler has recently completed her Master's degree in public health from the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). Her research interests include circumpolar health, One Health, and infectious disease. Disler hopes to be involved in research that examines the social and environmental factors that contribute to disease exposure.
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 Renate Schlaht, B.S., Trainee
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Renate is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She completed a Bachelor of Science in biology and in environmental science with a minor in peace and justice studies at Regis University, Denver. Schlaht’s current research focus is surveillance for tick establishment in Alaska. She hopes to integrate her medical career with public health and social justice work and wants to return to Alaska after finishing clinicals at Colorado State University to work in the public health sector.
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“Identifying biomarkers of pyrethroid resistance in wild Aedes aegypti from California”
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 Erin "Taylor" Kelly, B.S., Trainee
University of California, Davis
Erin “Taylor” Kelly is a Ph.D. student in vector biology, interested in vector metabolism, reproduction, and mechanisms of insecticide resistance. Kelly completed her Bachelor of Science in biology and minor in chemistry at Santa Clara University. Taylor's long-term goal is to either pursue work as a professor with an appointment that combines teaching and research or work as a vector control biologist.
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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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