Grad 10-min Competition: MUVE, Molecular Biology

Moderator(s)

• TJ

  Tammi Johnson

  Associate Professor of Wildlife Disease Ecology
  AgriLife Research
  Texas A&M University
  Uvalde, Texas
• 

  Paul Ayayee (he/him/his)

  Assistant Professor
  Biology
  University of Omaha
  Omaha, Nebraska

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM - 8:12 AM Pacific

  Antisense insights across symbiotic boundaries: Evidence for a proviral Wolbachia gene function in Aedes aegypti
  

  Presenting Author: Quinn M. Hankinson – Pennsylvania State University

  Co-Author: Matthew J. Jones – Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University

  Co-Author: Elizabeth A. McGraw – Biology Department and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Penn State University
• 8:12 AM - 8:24 AM Pacific

  Asia to Africa: Containing the spread of an urban malaria vector
  

  Presenting Author: John Ohiolei (he/him/his) – Curtin University

  Co-Author: Ben Phillips – Curtin University

  Co-Author: Nick Golding – University of Western Australia
• 8:24 AM - 8:36 AM Pacific

  Investigating the role of the ribosomal P-stalk proteins in mosquito reproduction
  

  Presenting Author: Hailey Luker – New Mexico State University
• 8:48 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific

  Molecular characterization and immune function of phospholipase A2 in the lone star tick
  

  Presenting Author: Bo Lyu (he/him/his) – University of Missouri

  Co-Author: Qisheng Song – University Of Missouri

  Co-Author: Xuyuan Gao – University of Missouri
• 9:00 AM - 9:12 AM Pacific

  Phosphoproteomic analysis of the Aedes aegypti midgut before and after blood-feeding
  

  Presenting Author: Paola Najera (she/her/hers) – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Zach Adelman – Texas A&M University
• 9:12 AM - 9:24 AM Pacific

  Physiological functions of dopamine/octopamine receptors during cuticle expansion of the Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis
  

  Presenting Author: Seoyul Hwang – Kyungpook National University

  Co-Author: Donghun Kim – Kyungpook National University
• 9:24 AM - 9:36 AM Pacific

  The impact of nutrition on insecticide resistance and gene expression in Aedes aegypti
  

  Presenting Author: Esmeralda Rosas – University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

  Co-Author: Sarah Maestas, Professor – University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

  Co-Author: Jason Tidwell – United States Department of Agriculture

  Co-Author: Christopher Vitek – University of Texas