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Section Symposium

Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology

Born to Be Wild: Investigating Wildlife-Arthropod Vector Interactions in a One Health Context

Tuesday, November 11, 2025
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific
Location: Oregon Convention Center, Portland Ballroom 255, OCC

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Our symposium highlights the diversity of arthropod vectors that can infest wildlife, leading to ecological implications for pathogen transmission and ecosystem health. Our symposium brings together entomologists and wildlife scientists under the One Health concept to discuss the relationships between entomology and wildlife with consequences for human and animal health.

Presentations:

  • 10:00 AM - 10:05 AM Pacific
    Introductory remarks

    Presenting Author: Karen Poh (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS

  • 10:05 AM - 10:10 AM Pacific
    Host associations of Haemaphysalis longicornis (Acari: Ixodidae) in the United States

    Presenting Author: Karen Poh (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Denise Bonilla – USDA-APHIS

  • 10:10 AM - 10:15 AM Pacific
    Burrow boarders: Mapping woodchuck (Marmota monax) ectoparasites within our shared health ecosystem

    Presenting Author: Erika Machtinger – Pennsylvania State University

  • 10:15 AM - 10:20 AM Pacific
    Bite-sized evidence: Tick bite exposure assay to detect previous Dermacentor tick infestation in Peromyscus mice

    Presenting Author: Jesse Evans – Washington State University

    Co-Author: Mitzi Aguilar – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Elis Fisk – Washington State University

    Co-Author: Dana K. Shaw – Washington State University

    Co-Author: Jeb Owen – Washington State University

    Co-Author: Pilar Fernandez – Washington State University

    Co-Author: Karen Poh (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS

  • 10:20 AM - 10:25 AM Pacific
    Advancing the systemic treatment of rodent hosts to reduce blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) parasitism

    Presenting Author: Jessica Brown – Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

    Co-Author: Megan Linske – Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

    Co-Author: Scott Williams – Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

  • 10:25 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific
    Parasites, pathogens, and populations: A multidimensional study of nasal mite infestations in a threatened marine mammal

    Presenting Author: Ashani Hangawatte – The Ohio State University

    Co-Author: Melissa Miller – California Department of Fish and Wildlife

    Co-Author: Francesca Batac – California Department of Fish and Wildlife

    Co-Author: Michael Murray – Monterey Bay Aquarium

    Co-Author: Marisa Young – Monterey Bay Aquarium

    Co-Author: Anna Wepprich – Oregon Coast Aquarium

    Co-Author: Carrie Goertz – Alaska SeaLife Center

    Co-Author: Emilee Milton – Alaska SeaLife Center

    Co-Author: Cody Warren – The Ohio State University

    Co-Author: Risa Pesapane – The Ohio State University

  • 10:30 AM - 10:35 AM Pacific
    Triatomine host preference in an experimental cafeteria: The impact of Trypanosoma cruzi infections

    Presenting Author: Jordan Salomon – Texas A&M University

    Co-Author: Jeffery K. Tomberlin, PhD, D-ABFE (he/him/his) – Texas A&M University

    Co-Author: Keswick Killets – Texas A&M University

    Co-Author: Dorcas Abiara – University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School

    Co-Author: Hojun Song – Texas A&M University

    Co-Author: Gabriel Hamer (he/him/his) – Texas A&M University

    Co-Author: Sarah Hamer – Texas A&M University

  • 10:35 AM - 10:40 AM Pacific
    Determining host selection of the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans (Linnaeus 1758), through bloodmeal analysis at a Texas wildlife park

    Presenting Author: Lauren Beebe – Texas A&M University

    Co-Author: Pia Olafson – USDA/ARS

    Co-Author: Phillip Kaufman, PhD (he/him/his) – Texas A&M University

  • 10:40 AM - 10:45 AM Pacific
    Filth flies as environmental sentinels of zoonotic pathogens: A case study using filth flies to detect Giardia duodenales and Cryptosporidium parvum

    Presenting Author: Samantha Sawyer – University of New Haven

  • 10:45 AM - 10:50 AM Pacific
    A South Carolina surveillance study of avian louse flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) and host related pathogens

    Presenting Author: Katherine Brown, MPH – University of South Carolina

    Co-Author: Martha Weber, DVM – Riverbanks Zoo & Garden

    Co-Author: Kia Zellars – University of South Carolina

    Co-Author: Madeleine Mayer – University of South Carolina

    Co-Author: Michael Skvarla – Pennsylvania State University

    Co-Author: Melissa Nolan, PhD, MPH – Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina

  • 10:50 AM - 10:55 AM Pacific
    Using participatory epidemiology to understand differences in tick-borne disease perceptions from homeowners in the Ohio River Valley

    Presenting Author: Emily Bache – University of Pittsburgh

    Co-Author: Paulina Matzkin – University of Pittsburgh

    Co-Author: Jessica Fleming – The Ohio State University

    Co-Author: Risa Pesapane – The Ohio State University

    Co-Author: Danielle Tufts (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh

  • 10:55 AM - 11:05 AM Pacific
    Break
  • 11:05 AM - 11:55 AM Pacific
    Poster session
  • 11:55 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific
    Closing remarks

    Presenting Author: Karen Poh (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS