7:00–11:00 am        Registration                 Ballroom Foyer

 

8:30–10:00 am        Genomics & Molecular Biology I        Salon II
 

Time (Abstract No.)
† denotes student presentation in the Best Student Presentation Competition

 

Presiding:    D.C. Ghislaine Mayer, Manhattan College
 

8:30 (50) †    Ryne W. Maness, Charles D. Criscione. CHARACTERIZATION OF IMMUNE-RELATED GENES IN THE INVASIVE GEKKONID SPECIES, HEMIDACTYLUS TURCICUS.
 

8:45 (51) †    Chelsea S. Thorn, Charles D. Criscione. DEVELOPMENT OF GENOMIC RESOURCES FOR THE GECKO TAPEWORM, OOCHORISTICA JAVAENSIS.
 

9:00 (52) †    Xuqing Chen, Kimberly Reece, Jeffrey Shields. THE TRANSCRIPTOME PROFILES OF DIFFERENT LIFE HISTORY STAGES OF HEMATODINIUM PEREZI (DINOFLAGELLATA: SYNDINIALES) FROM THE BLUE CRAB (CALLINECTES SAPIDUS).
 

9:15 (53) †    Leah A. Owens, Sagan Friant, Bruno Martorelli Di Genova, Laura J. Knoll, Monica Contreras, Oscar Noya, Maria G. Dominguez-Bello, Tony L. Goldberg. PARASITE ASSEMBLAGE CHARACTERIZATION WITH A NOVEL HOST SIGNAL REDUCTION METHOD AND METABARCODING PIPELINE.
 

9:30 (54) †    Mai Fahmy. ASSESSING BIODIVERSITY IN MADAGASCAR WITH LEECH-DERIVED IDNA: METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS AND ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS.
 

9:45 (55) †    Mia M. Sanchez, Rebecca Schwarz, Emerie Danson, Saraya AlSaffar, Charles Hauser, Daniel A. Gold. ISOLATING DISCRETE LIFE CYCLE STAGES OF A COCKROACH-INFECTING GREGARINE FOR GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS.

 

8:30–9:45 am        Ecology & Evolution II            Salon III
 

Time (Abstract No.)
† denotes student presentation in the Best Student Presentation Competition

 

Presiding:     Anindo Choudhury, St. Norbert College
 

8:30 (56) †    Corinne L. Conlon, Krysten L. Schuler, Christopher M. Whipps.  SURVEILLANCE FOR ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS, AN EMERGING ZOONOTIC PARASITE IN NEW YORK WILD CANID POPULATIONS.
 

8:45 (57)    Colin D. MacLeod, Lien T. Luong. THE FRUIT FLY, DROSOPHILA NIGROSPIRACULA, EXHIBITS THREAT-SPECIFIC NON-CONSUMPTIVE EFFECTS IN RESPONSE TO PARASITE AND PREDATION RISK.
 

9:00 (58) †    Jenna M. Hulke, Charles D. Criscione. DOWNSTREAM EFFECTS OF CHANGING LIFE CYCLE COMPLEXITY: TESTING THE MATING SYSTEM AND INBREEDING DEPRESSION AMONG NATURAL POPULATIONS OF THE TREMATODE ALLOGLOSSIDIUM PROGENETICUM.
 

9:15 (59)    Derek A. Zelmer. PATTERNS OF ASYNCHRONY IN HELMINTH PARASITES OF CENTRARCHIDS IN J. STROM THURMOND LAKE, SOUTH CAROLINA.
 

9:30 (60) †    Gyrhaiss K. Kasembele, Auguste C. Manda, Michiel W. P. Jorissen, Wilmien J. Luus-Powell, Willem J. Smit, Maarten P. M. Vanhove. ASSESSMENT OF ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS ON THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT AND BIODIVERSITY IN THE KATANGESE COPPERBELT AREA (DR CONGO): A PARASITOLOGICAL APPROACH.

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9:45 (46) †        Caroline Liang, Lien T. Luong. HISTORY OF PARASITE INFECTION SHAPES THE EXPRESSION AND MAGNITUDE OF NON-CONSUMPTIVE EFFECTS IN CACTOPHILIC FLIES.
   
10:00–10:30 am        Coffee Break                Ballroom Foyer

 

10:30 am–Noon    Taxonomy, Systematics, & Phylogeny III    Salon II
 

Time (Abstract No.)
† denotes student presentation in the Best Student Presentation Competition

 

Presiding:     Veronica Mantovani Bueno, University of Connecticut
 

10:30 (61) †    Matthew A. Walker, Kurt Neubig, F. Agustín Jiménez. ILLUMINA SEQUENCE DATA AND MORPHOLOGICAL VARIABILITY LEND SUPPORT TO FURTHER DIVERSITY AMONG NORTH AMERICAN GYRINICOLA (NEMATODA: OXYUROIDEA).
 

10:45 (62) †    Haley R. Dutton, Stephen A. Bullard, Anita M. Kelly. SUPPLEMENTAL DESCRIPTION AND PHYLOGENETICS OF DRACOVERMIS OCCIDENTALIS (DIGENEA: LIOLOPIDAE) INFECTING THE INTESTINE OF AN AMERICAN ALLIGATOR, ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS FROM THE MOBILE–TENSAW RIVER DELTA, ALABAMA, USA.
 

11:00 (63) †    Allison Bryant, Matthew Bolek, Gabriel Langford. HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: WHAT CAN ENDOGENOUS DEVELOPMENT AND GENETIC SEQUENCING TELL US ABOUT COCCIDIA DIVERSITY IN LIZARDS?
 

11:15 (64) †    Melody Sly, Debra T. Clopton, Richard E. Clopton. A NEW GREGARINE INFECTING THE DUNE BEETLE, EDROTES VENTRICOSUS, (COLEOPTERA: TENEBRIONIDAE) IN THE MOJAVE DESERT OF CALIFORNIA.
 

11:30 (65) †    Ali Z. Lira-Olguin, Nina Heunis, Sonja Matthee, Conrad A. Matthee, Lance A. Durden, Jessica Light. MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS OF THE ECTOPARASITIC SUCKING LOUSE GENERA HOPLOPLEURA AND POLYPLAX (PHTHIRAPTERA: ANOPLURA, HOPLOPLEURIDAE, AND POLYPLACIDAE).
 

11:45 (66)    Nehemiah M. Rindoria, George N. Morara, Willem J. Smit, Coret van Wyk, Nico J. Smit, and Wilmien J. Luus-Powell. LAMPROGLENA CLEOPATRA (COPEPODA: LERNAEIDAE) FROM LABEO VICTORIANUS (CYPRINIFORMES: CYPRINIDAE) WITH FIRST RIBOSOMAL AND MITOCHONDRIAL GENETIC DATA.  
 
10:30 am–Noon        Host-Parasite Interactions II        Salon III
 

Time (Abstract No.)
† denotes student presentation in the Best Student Presentation Competition

 

Presiding:     Maria G. Castillo, New Mexico State University
 

10:30 (67) †    Jasmine A. Groves, Dana Calhoun, Pieter Johnson, Jeffery Wilcox, John Michael Kinsella. DIVERSITY OF HELMINTHS IN CALIFORNIA BIRDS IN RELATION TO HOST TRAITS
 

10:45 (68)    Marin Milotic, Alan J. Lymbery, Andrew R. C. Thompson, Leighton J. Thomas, Stephanie S. Godfrey.  PARASITE COMMUNITIES OF CRITICALLY ENDANGERED HOSTS ARE INFLUENCED BY DIFFERENT SITES OF TRANSLOCATION AS REVEALED BY METABARCODING.
 

11:00 (69) †    Adriana M. Perrucci, Kristin K. Herrmann, Charles R. Randklev. PARASITES OF FRESHWATER MUSSELS OF TEXAS AND THE EFFECT OF TREMATODE PARTHENITAE ON HOST REPRODUCTION AND MORTALITY.
 

11:15 (70)    Mariel L. Campbell, Teresa J. Mayfield-Meyer, Dusty L. McDonald, Sara V. Brant, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Joseph A. Cook. PARASITES, PATHOGENS, AND THE EXTENDED SPECIMEN.
 

11:30 (71) †    Jackson R. Snyder, John F. Shea, Chantal Nguyen, Ben Hanelt. ALTERATION OF BEHAVIOR IN AQUATIC SNAILS DUE TO LARVAL INFECTIONS OF PARAGORDIUS VARIUS.
 

11:45 (72) †    Cameron Hodinka, Jillian Detwiler. BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES IN POTENTIAL HOST SNAILS (STAGNICOLA ELODES) DEPENDS ON ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC FACTORS.

 

Noon–1:00 pm        Editorial Luncheon            NEW ROOM: Pavillion I

 

1:15–2:30 pm    Genomics & Molecular Biology II & Immunology     Salon II

 

Time (Abstract No.)
† denotes student presentation in the Best Student Presentation Competition

 

Presiding:     Judith Humphries, Lawrence University
 

1:15 (73)    Kaylee S. Herzog, Joseph R. Fauver. BENCHMARKING Q20+ ONT MINION LONG-READ SEQUENCE DATA FOR GENERATING REFERENCE-QUALITY GENOMES FOR PARASITIC nematodes. 
 

1:30 (74)    Elisha Enabulele, Roy N. Platt, Oluwaremilekun G. Ajakaye, Victor S. Njom, Marian Onwude-Agbugui, Christopher R. Pam, Tim Anderson. AN ARRAY OF PCR-RFLP MARKERS FOR DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM AND S. BOVIS IN FIELD SETTINGS. 
 

1:45 (75)    Lijing Bu, Lijun Lu, Martina Laidemitt, Si-Ming Zhang, Martin Mutuku, Gerald Mkoji, Michelle Steinauer, and Eric S. Loker. A GENOME SEQUENCE FOR BIOMPHALARIA PFEIFFERI, THE MAJOR VECTOR SNAIL FOR THE HUMAN-INFECTING PARASITE SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI. 
 

2:00 (76) †    Kayhan Ilbeigi, Dorien Mabille, Mathieu Claes, Carl De Trez, Benoît Stijlemans, David Pérez-Morga, Guy Caljon. THE JOURNEY OF TSETSE TRANSMITTED TRYPANOSOMES: FROM THE SKIN INVASION TO A SYSTEMIC INFECTION.
 

2:15 (77) †    Deblina Misra, Taylor Tuono, Harley Bendzus Mendoza, Matthew Pinch, Immo Hansen, Maria G. Castillo. AN ANALYSIS OF PHOSPHOPROTEOME NETWORKS IN RESISTANT (BS90) AND SUSCEPTIBLE (BB02) SNAILS OF BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA SHOWS IMMUNOREGULATORY PATHWAYS.

 

1:15–2:30 pm        Ecology & Evolution III            Salon III
 

Time (Abstract No.)
† denotes student presentation in the Best Student Presentation Competition

 

Presiding:    Haley R. Dutton, Auburn University
 

1:15 (78) †    Jennifer A. Talbert, F. Agustín Jiménez, Andy W. Jones, Autumn J. Smith-Herron, Kristin K. Herrmann. HELMINTH COMMUNITIES IN MIGRATORY BIRD HOSTS OF THE FAMILY TURDIDAE.
 

1:30 (79)    Jeffrey A. Bell, Laura E. Bell, Tyler J. Achatz, Vasyl V. Tkach.  FEEDING GUILD DETERMINES HAEMOSPORIDIAN INFECTION RISK FOR WATERFOWL IN THE UPPER MIDWEST.
 

1:45 (80)    Gina Magro, Sarah A. Orlofske, Jeffrey A. Bell, Vasyl V. Tkach, Bruce Urben, Robert C. Jadin. HAEMOSPORIDIAN DIVERSITY OF WATERFOWL IN GREEN BAY, WI.
 

2:00 (81)    Florian B. Reyda, Brian Mullin. PECULIAR PATTERNS OF PARASITISM IN THE LAKE ONTARIO BASIN.
 

2:15 (82)    Sara V. Brant, Eric S. Loker, Caitlin R. Babbitt, Martina R. Laidemitt, Erika T. Ebbs.  PARASITES ARE EVERYWHERE, BUT ARE THEY IN MUSEUMS? MOVE FORWARD VOUCHERING PARASITE SPECIMENS IN THE 21ST CENTURY.

 

2:30–3:00 pm        Coffee Break                Ballroom Foyer

 

3:30–4:30 pm        Student Business Meeting        Salon III
 

Presiding:    Sarah Goodnight, Florida Atlantic University

 

6:00–8:00 pm        Poster Session                Salons IA & B

 

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