7:00 am–5:00 pm        Registration                    Ballroom Foyer

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8:00 am–Noon        ASP Council Meeting            Pavilion I

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1:00–2:30 pm    Life Cycles & Epidemiology        Salon II
 

Time (Abstract No.)

† denotes student presentation in the Best Student Presentation Competition

 

Presiding:         Egie Elisha Enabulele, Texas Biomedical Research Institute

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1:00 (1)            Charles T. Faulkner, Crystal LeRoy. MICROFILAREMIA IN SHELTERED CANINES INFECTED WITH DIROFILARIA IMMITIS IN THE CUMBERLAND GAP REGION OF TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY, AND VIRGINIA.

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1:15 (2)            Stephen S. Curran, John H. Brule, Steven P. Ksepka, Triet N. Truong, Micah B. Warren, Stephen A. Bullard. INVESTIGATING DIGENEAN DIVERSITY IN AN ESTUARINE POND ADJACENT TO THE GULF OF MEXICO ON THE FORT MORGAN PENINSULA, ALABAMA.

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1:30 (3)            Elliott A. Zieman, Barbara S. Carlward, Sofiane Aiche, Alexa Howard, Natalie Mitlyng, Harper Nerbergall, Kacey Newhart, Faith Nuss, Esther Onuselogu, Ryan Pulliam, Cassandra Strehl. SARCOCYSTIS IN WILDLIFE FROM THE MIDWESTERN US.

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1:45 (4)            Kinfu Yazachew Geremew. PREVALENCE OF MALARIA AND ITS ASSOCIATED RISK FACTORS IN SELECTED MALARIOUS KEBELES OF GINDEBERET DISTRICT, WESTERN ETHIOPIA: COMMUNITY BASED CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY.

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2:00 (5) †          Tanveer Amhad, Muhammad Mudasser Nazir, Muhammad Abubakar Siddique. PREVALENCE OF NEOSPORA CANINUM ANTIBODIES IN PAKISTANI CAMEL BREEDS (CAMELUS DROMEDARIUS) AND ITS EFFECT ON THE ABORTIVE HISTORY OF ANIMALS.

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2:15 (6) †          Muhammad Mudasser Nazir, Ayesha Sarwar, Tanveer Ahmad, Muhammad Mazhar Ayaz. ELISA BASED DETECTION AND PREVALENCE OF IGG ANTIBODIES TO TOXOPLASMA GONDII INFECTION IN CLINICALLY HEALTHY PET DOGS FROM SOUTH REGION OF PUNJAB, PAKISTAN.

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1:00–2:30 pm        Ecology & Evolution I            Salon III
 

Time (Abstract No.)

† denotes student presentation in the Best Student Presentation Competition

 

Presiding:         Whitney C. Preisser, Kennesaw State University

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1:15 (7) †          Sidney C. Mann, Jillian T. Detwiler. ELUCIDATING THE INFLUENCES OF MICROHABITAT ON GASTROPODS TO PREDICT HOTSPOTS OF BRAINWORM (PARELAPHOSTRONGYLUS TENUIS) TRANSMISSION.

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1:30 (8)            Daniel C. G. Metz, Ryan F. Hechinger. THE MOST EXTREME TREMATODE SOLDIER CASTE OCCURS IN A HUMAN-INFECTIOUS, INVASIVE FRESHWATER SPECIES.

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1:45 (9)            Colin D. MacLeod, Christopher D. G. Harley. A WIDESPREAD HOST-PARASITE ASSOCIATION IN THE STRAIT OF GEORGIA PROVIDES A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON PARASITISM IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT.

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2:00 (10) †        Alexandria P. Nelson, Emily C. Oven, Zachary Gajewski, Trey Jeffers, James Flowers, Jeff Beane, Kenzie Pereira, Skylar R. Hopkins. PARASITE BIODIVERSITY IN SNAKES FROM THE U.S. AND CANADA.

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2:15 (11)           Sarah Goodnight, Michael McCoy, Ellen Titus. WORMS GOT YOUR TONGUE? ORAL PARASITES ALTER MALE ADVERTISEMENT CALLS AND DISRUPT EXPECTED RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MALE TRAITS AND FEMALE CHOICE IN GREEN TREE FROGS.

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

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3:00–5:00 pm    Taxonomy, Systematics, & Phylogeny I    Salon II
 

Time (Abstract No.)

† denotes student presentation in the Best Student Presentation Competition

 

Presiding:         Kaylee Herzog, University of Nebraska Medical Center

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3:00 (12) †        John H. Brule, Micah B. Warren, Haley R. Dutton, Triet N. Truong, Steven P. Ksepka, Stephen S. Curran, Jacob A. Shurba, Justin D. Krol, Stephen A. Bullard. FIRST TAXONOMICALLY CONFIRMED RECORD OF A GYRODACTYLID, GYRODACTYLUS CICHLIDARUM PAPERNA, 1968 (MONOGENOIDEA) INFECTING FARMED NILE TILAPIA, OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS (LINNAEUS, 1758) (CICHLIFORMES: CICHLIDAE) IN THE UNITED STATES.

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3:15 (13) †        Jacob A. Shurba, Matthew L. Horton, Paul D. Johnson, Micah B. Warren, John H. Brule, Triet N. Truong, Stephen S. Curran, Haley R. Dutton, Steven P. Ksepka, Justin D. Krol, Stephen A. Bullard. PARASITOLOGICAL SURVEY OF TWO NEWLY DISCOVERED POPULATIONS OF EXOTIC INVASIVE MYSTERY SNAILS (CIPANGOPALUDINA: VIVIPARIDAE: BELLAMYINAE) IN ALABAMA AND ARKANSAS.

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3:30 (14)           Oluwaremilekun Grace Ajakaye, Egie Elisha Enabulele. A NEW LINEAGE OF ECHINOSTOMA IN THE "REVOLUTION GROUP" SPECIES COMPLEX TRANSMITTED BY BULINUS SNAIL IN NIGERIA.

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3:45 (15) †        Triet N. Truong, Nathan V. Whelan, Paul D. Johnson, Michael L. Buntin, Stephen A. Bullard. MORPHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION, LIFE CYCLE, AND PHYLOGENETICS OF A NEW SPECIES OF PROTEROMETRA (DIGENEA: AZYGIIDAE) FROM THE CAHABA RIVER, ALABAMA, U.S.A.

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4:00 (16) †        Micah B. Warren, Haley R. Dutton, Stephen A. Bullard. NOMASANGUINICOLA DENTATA (PAPERNA, 1964) WARREN AND BULLARD, 2023 (DIGENEA: SANGUINICOLIDAE POCHE, 1926) INFECTING AFRICAN SHARPTOOTH CATFISH, CLARIAS GARIEPINUS (BURCHELL, 1822) TEUGLES, 1982 (SILURIFORMES: CLARIIDAE) FROM THE OKAVANGO RIVER, NAMIBIA: SUPPLEMENTAL DESCRIPTION AND PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS.

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4:15 (17) †        Zoe S. Von Holten, Tyler J. Achatz, Alan Fecchio, Stephen E. Greiman, Vasyl V. Tkach. REVEALING DIVERSITY OF THE DIPLOSTOMIDAE (DIGENEA) PARASITIC IN KINGFISHERS.

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4:30 (18) †        Steven P. Ksepka, Triet N. Truong, Stephen A. Bullard. A NEW SPECIES OF ELLIPSOMYXA KØIE, 2003 (BIVALVULIDA: CERATOMYXIDAE) INFECTING THE GALL BLADDER OF PANGASIUS MACRONEMA BLEEKER, 1850 (SILURIFORMES: PANGASIIDAE) FROM THE MEKONG DELTA, VIETNAM.

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4:45 (19) †        Logan S. Elkin, Jay Bowerman, Michael L. Kent, Anindo Choudhury. MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR DESCRIPTION OF A CREPIDOSTOMUM SP. (TREMATODA: ALLOCREADIIDAE) AND THE DIVERSITY OF CREPIDOSTOMUM FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.

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3:00–5:00 pm        Chemotherapy & Drug Resistance     Salon III    
 

Time (Abstract No.)

† denotes student presentation in the Best Student Presentation Competition

 

Presiding:         Daniel J. Sprague, Medical College of Wisconsin

                          Kayhan Ilbeigi, University of Antwerp

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3:00 (20) †        Homa Nath Sharma, Jonathan Catrett, Ogochea Destine, Audrey Napier, Boakai K.  Robertson, Daniel A. Abugri. IN VITRO ACTIVITY AND MECHANISMS OF ACTIONS OF METHANOLIC EXTRACT OF TRAMETES VERSICOLOR (TURKEY-TAIL) MUSHROOM AGAINST TOXOPLASMA GONDII.

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3:15 (21)           Daniel J. Sprague, Sang-Kyu Park, Claudia M. Rohr, Jonathan S. Marchant. THE ANTHELMINTIC ACTIVITY OF PRAZIQUANTEL ANALOGS CORRELATES WITH DIFFERENT STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS AT TRPMPZQ ORTHOLOGS.

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3:30 (22) †        Claudia M. Rohr, Daniel J. Sprague, Sang-Kyu Park, Nicholas J. Malcolm, Jonathan S. Marchant. NATURAL VARIATION IN A PARASITIC FLATWORM ION CHANNEL UNDERPINS DIFFERENTIAL SENSITIVITY OF PARASITES TO PRAZIQUANTEL.

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3:45 (23) †        Kayhan Ilbeigi, Dorien Mabille, An Matheeussen, Rik Hendrickx, Nick Van Reet, Birgit Mertens, Roel Anthonissen, Fabian Hulpia, Louis Maes, Clement Regnault, Phil Whitfield, Marzuq A. Ungogo, Harry P. De Koning, Serge Van Calenbergh, Guy Caljon. DISCOVERY OF A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC CANDIDATE AGAINST ANIMAL TRYPANOSOMIASIS.

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4:00 (24)           Elise L. McKean, Emilia T. Grill, Damien O'Halloran, John M. Hawdon. ALTERED ACTIVATION RESPONSE ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE IN THE CANINE HOOKWORM ANCYLOSTOMA CANINUM.

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4:15 (25) †        Bernard B. A. Efa, Homa Nath Sharma, Boakai K. Robertson, Audrey Napier, Daniel A. Abugri. CAFFEIC ACID POTENTIATES PYRIMETHAMINE ACTIVITY IN VITRO.

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4:30 (26)         Nkiru Charity Eberemu, Nasiru Abullahi. PERSISTENCE OF ANTIGENS OF HISTIDINE RICH PROTEIN II AND III AFTER TREATMENT WITH MALARIA DRUGS.

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6:00–9:00 pm        Welcome Reception             Rooftop Ballroom & Plaza Room