Poster Titles
Ecology & Evolution | Genetic & Molecular Biology | Host-Parasite Interactions | Life Cycles | Chemotherapy & Drug Resistance | Taxonomy, Systematics, & Phylogeny | Immunology
† denotes student presentation in the Best Student Presentation Competition
ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
83 Janelle Laura J. Gacad, Shoko Tanabe-Hosoi, Natalia I. Yurlova, Misako Urabe. TREMATODE SPECIES DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION BY ENVIRONMENTAL DNA-QPCR ASSAY IN LAKE CHANY, RUSSIA.
84 Katerina Sawickij, Florian Reyda. PARASITES OF THE NORTHERN EVERGLADES, FLORIDA FISHES: BANGHAM, 1940 REVISITED.
85 Hannah Whitcomb, Florian Reyda. A SEARCH FOR THE MISSING FISH PARASITES: A SURVEY OF THE TRIBUTARIES OF ONEIDA LAKE, NEW YORK.
86 Nicholas FitzGerald, Emily Klawiter, John Shea. LINKING HORSEHAIR WORM PRESENCE WITH INSECT DIVERSITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR ECOSYSTEM HEALTH.
87 Gavril L. Ibaan, John Shea. EXTRAPOLATING LARGE SCALE PARASITE DATA FROM PUBLIC REPOSITORIES.
88 Morgan Fleming, Emily Bulmer, Florian Reyda. PARASITES OF COASTAL FISH OF GALVESTON BAY, TEXAS: CHANDLER, 1935 REVISITED.
89 Maggie Bagatta, Ireland Coughlin, Rachel Horejsi, Megan Wettstein, Jennifer E. Smith, Nicolas J. Wheeler. INTESTINAL HELMINTHS OF THE CALIFORNIA GROUND SQUIRREL (OTOSPERMOPHILUS BEECHEYI).
GENOMICS & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
90 † Shabnam Thakur, Abhishek Mewara, J. S. Thakur, Rakesh Sehgal. GENETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF CRYPTOSPORIDIUM TO STUDY TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS IN NORTH INDIA.
91 Katy A. Martin, Andrew P. Jackson, Krysta McMahan, Jeba R. J. Jesudoss Chelladurai, Matthew T. Brewer. TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS TRANSCRIPTOME: COMPARISON OF IN VIVO AND IN VITRO PROFILES.
HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS
92 Merhawi Alemu Birhanu, Girmay Dessalegn Tarekegn, Gessessew Bugssa Hailu. PREVALENCE OF INTESTINAL PARASITES AND ASSOCIATED RISK FACTORS AMONG INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE SUSPECTED PATIENTS IN TIGRAY REGIONAL STATE, NORTHERN ETHIOPIA.
93 † Ester Shimon, Jamie E. Hungerbuhler, Whitney C. Preisser. WHAT’S IN A FISH? A SURVEY OF THE PARASITIC FAUNA OF FOUR FRESHWATER SCULPIN (COTTUS SPP.) IN GEORGIA.
94 † Sarah M. Martin, Tori Guarino, Christina Anaya. TICKS RECOVERED FROM THE NONNATIVE BURMESE PYTHON (PYTHON BIVITTATUS) IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA.
95 Katy A. Martin, Krysta McMahan, Jeba R. J. Jesudoss Chelladurai, Doug E. Jones, Matthew T. Brewer. NOVEL METHODOLOGY FOR THE STUDY OF TOXOCARA CANIS SOMATIC LARVAE.
96 Julie Funchess, Christina Anaya. AGGRESSION IN MALE HOUSE CRICKETS (ACHETA DOMESTICUS) INFECTED WITH HAIRWORMS.
97 D.C. Ghislaine Mayer. MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF HUMAN INTESTINAL PARASITES IN BIVALVES.
98 Victoria C. Farrington, John Shea. VIABILITY OF SNAIL-TO-SNAIL TRANSFER OF PARAGORDIUS VARIUS CYSTS TO CRICKETS.
99 Luke Niemann, Christina Anaya. REPORT OF PARASITES FROM THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT OF CANE TOADS (RHINELLA MARINA) IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA.
100 † Ryan W. Koch, Kyle D. Gustafson, Matthew G. Bolek. OBSERVATIONS ON TURTLE ACANTHOCEPHALAN ABNORMALITIES FROM OKLAHOMA, U.S.A.
101 † Md Khalilur Rahman, Md Hasanuzzaman Talukder, Babul Chandra Roy, Hironmoy Biswas. PREVALENCE AND DIVERSITY OF GASTROINTESTINAL PARASITES ASSOCIATED WITH DIARRHEA IN BUFFALO CALVES UNDER EXTENSIVE BUFFALO FARMING IN BANGLADESH.
102 Thomas B. Hayssen, Noah Takamiya, James Pfaff, John Shea. CHORDODES MORGANI EFFECT ON HOST GROWTH AND ITS DEVELOPMENT TIME IN DIFFERING DIET AND TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS.
103 Peter Halvarsson, Jessica Lernå, Ylva Hedberg Alm, Eva Tydén. RISK FACTORS FOR STRONGYLUS VULGARIS INFECTIONS IN GRAZING HORSES IN SWEDEN.
LIFE CYCLES
104 Taiye Shade Olusegun-Joseph, Daniel Akinsanya Olusegun-Joseph, Muinah Adenike Fowora, Akinlabi Mohammed Rufai, Monsuru A. Adeleke. CASE REPORT: SEVERE INFESTATION WITH TUNGIASIS IN A COASTAL COMMUNITY IN BADAGRY LAGOS, NIGERIA.
105 † Ethan Over, John Shea. ALTERNATIVE DEFINITIVE HOSTS FOR THE HORSEHAIR WORM CHORDODES MORGANI.
106 Roger Ramirez-Barrios, Anne Zajac, Elise O'Connell, Marko Estrada, Andy Plum, Joerg Balzer, Erica Miller, Kim Royar, Alexandra Lombard, Megan Kirchgessner. ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS: IS THE EUROPEAN HAPLOTYPE ENDEMIC IN THE EASTERN US?
107 Gabriel J. Langford, Maria Coppola, Andrea Eways. BIRDS CAN SERVE AS A DISPERSAL AGENT FOR GYRINICOLA BATRACHIENSIS (OXYUROIDEA: PHAYNGODONIDAE) THICK-SHELLED EGGS.
CHEMOTHERAPY & DRUG RESISTANCE
108 † Anandi Goel, Geetika Narang, Jahnvi Jakhan, Vineeta Singh, Monika Matlani. ARTEMISININ BASED COMBINATION THERAPY FAILURE IN COMPLICATED PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM MALARIA WITH CONCURRENT ENTERIC FEVER: A CASE REPORT FROM NORTH INDIA.
TAXONOMY, SYSTEMATICS, & PHYLOGENY
109 Ryan P. Shannon, Matthew G. Bolek. A METHOD FOR ISOLATING AND SEQUENCING TRYPANOSOME CELLS TO INVESTIGATE SPECIES ASSOCIATIONS IN MULTIPLE MORPHOTYPE INFECTIONS.
110 † Zoe S. Von Holten, Tyler J. Achatz, Lynda R. Lafond, Jakson R. Martens, Vasyl V. Tkach. IMPROVING DIAGNOSTICS OF CRASSIPHIALA BULBOGLOSSA, THE TYPE-SPECIES OF CRASSIPHIALA AND A COMMON CAUSATIVE AGENT FOR BLACK SPOT DISEASE IN FISHES.
111 Sabrina C. Sibrava, Mariel Campbell, Joseph A Cook. SYSTEMATICS AND PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF FLEAS IN THE SUBFAMILY DORATOPSYLLINAE (SIPHONAPTERA: HYSTRICHOPSYLLIDAE).
112 George Ezeokeke, Johnson Awoyele, Nicholas J. Negovetich. IMAGING PARASITES USING VARIABLE PRESSURE SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY.
113 † Vincent T. Pickens, Christina Anaya. A COMPARISON OF PARASITES IN THE DIGESTIVE TRACTS OF THE INVASIVE BURMESE PYTHON (PYTHON BIVITTATUS) COMPARED TO NATIVE SNAKES IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA.
114 † Gavin Godley, Kirsten Jensen. RHINEBOTHRIIDEANS OF TWO SPECIES IN THE STINGRAY GENUS HYPANUS.
115 Kayla Grey, Katelyn Amspacher, Clayton Nielsen, F. Agustín Jiménez. OF INTESTINAL HELMINTHS AND MEPHITIS MEPHITIS: THE IMPORTANCE OF DNA BARCODING.
116 Anindo Choudhury, Carson Torhorst. PARASITES OF FISHES IN STREAMS OF SOBERANIA NATIONAL PARK, CHAGRES RIVER DRAINAGE, PANAMA.
117 † Kara M. Heilemann, Janine N. Caira. NO LONGER CHAMBERS OF SECRETS: CHARACTERIZING THE ANATOMY AND MUCOSAL SURFACE OF THE SPIRAL INTESTINES OF BATOID HOSTS BELONGING TO “TETRAPHYLLIDEAN” CESTODE CLADE 4.
IMMUNOLOGY
118 Justine N. Farrell, Melissa K. Stuart. TRICHOMONAS TENAX STIMULATES HL-60 NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS IN VITRO.