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

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8:20–10:30 am        President’s Symposium        Salons II & III
 

Presiding:     Tamara J. Cook, Sam Houston State University 
Theme: “Parasitology @ PUI’s”.
 

8:20 am        Tamara J. Cook: Introduction
 

8:30 (27)    Ramon A. Carreno. PARASITOLOGY TEACHING AND RESEARCH AT SMALL, UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTIONS: BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES.
 

9:00 (28)    Sarah Orlofske. LEARNING SHOULD BE INFECTIOUS: UNITING TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN PARASITE ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION.
 

9:30 (29)    Florian Reyda. GETTING AND KEEPING STUDENTS HOOKED ON FISH PARASITE RESEARCH. 
 

10:00 (30)    Nancy Smith. RESEARCH FROM DAY ONE: ENGAGING FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS IN RESEARCH @ PUI’S.

 

10:30–11:00 am        Coffee break                Ballroom Foyer

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11:00 am–Noon        President’s Address            Salons II & III

Presiding:     Joanna Cielocha, Rockhurst University
 

11:00 am    Joanna Cielocha, Rockhurst University and Autumn Smith-Herron, Sam Houston State University: Introduction of Tamara J. Cook.
 

11:10 am    Tamara J. Cook. 
“BIG SCIENCE AT SMALL INSTITUTIONS: PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH AT PRIMARILY UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTIONS.”
 

Noon–1:00 pm        Student Lunch Vortex             Rooftop Bar
   

1:00–2:30 pm    Taxonomy, Systematics, & Phylogeny II        Salon II
 

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

 

Presiding:    John H. Brule, Auburn University
 

1:00 (31) †    Katherine M. Hanselman, Kirsten Jensen. FLAPS, SPIKES, AND TENTACLES: DIVERSITY OF LECANICEPHALIDEAN TAPEWORMS PARASITIZING COWTAIL RAYS.
 

1:15 (32) †    Jessica C. Paul, Janine N. Caira. INTERESTING RESULTS FROM THE “HOTEL CALIFORNIA”: ON THE SPECIES OF CAULOBOTHRIUM PARASITIZING STINGRAYS IN THE EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN.
 

1:30 (33) †    Valerie R. Mingrone, Janine N. Caira. MORE THAN JUST A BALL WITH A SKIRT: ADVANCING BALANOBOTHRIUM AND ITS RELATIVES TO A NEW ORDER.
 

1:45 (34) †    Netanya A. Williams, Janine N. Caira. PERSISTENCE PREVAILS: DO ANY GENERA OF CARCHARHINIFORM SHARKS NOT HOST ANTHOBOTHRIUM?
 

2:00 (35)    Altangerel T. Dursahinhan, Scott L Gardner. ENDOPARASITE DIVERSITY OF SUBTERRANEAN RODENTS (RODENTIA: MAMMALIA) AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL HYPOTHESES OF THE GENUS AROSTRILEPIS MAS-COMA & TENORA, 1997 (HYMENOLEPIDIDAE: CYCLOPHYLLIDEA), TAPEWORMS FROM THE HOLARCTIC.
 

2:15 (36) †    René Monzalvo, F. Agustín Jiménez, Kurt M. Neubig. MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF TRICHURIS SPP. (NEMATODA: TRICHURIDAE) FROM RODENTS AND MARSUPIALS FROM THE NEARCTIC AND NEOTROPICAL REGIONS.

 

1:00–2:45 pm        Host-Parasite Interactions I            Salon III
 

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

 

Presiding:    Adriana M. Perrucci, Tarleton State University
 

1:00 (37) †    Brooke A. McPhail, Patrick C. Hanington. A LONGITUDINAL SNAIL-TREMATODE SURVEY AT RECLAIMED WETLANDS IN CENTRAL ALBERTA.
 

1:15 (38)    Matthew Bolek. AMPHIBIAN MYIASIS IN NORTH AMERICA: AN UPDATE ON HOST USE, DISTRIBUTION AND TAXONOMY OF CALLIPHORIDS THAT INFECT AMPHIBIANS.
 

1:30 (39) †    Ryan W. Koch, Giselle C. Ozuna, Matthew G. Bolek. A NOVEL TURTLE DISEASE? HISTOPATHOLOGY OF TURTLES INFECTED WITH ACANTHOCEPHALANS.
 

1:45 (40)    Sarah Pangburn, Janus Borner, Susan Perkins. NICHE EXPANSION OF MALARIA PARASITES IN CARIBBEAN LIZARDS.
 

2:00 (41)    Peter Halvarsson, Frida Martin, Ylva Hedberg Alm, Eva Tydén. STRONGYLE NEMABIOMES IN HORSES: PREVALENCE, ANTHELMINTIC RESISTANCE, AND FACTORS AFFECTING ABUNDANCE.
 

2:15 (42) †    Maaz Saleem, Muhammad Zahid Shah. THE PREVALENCE OF GASTROINTESTINAL PARASITE IN BREEDS OF CATTLE, GOAT AND SHEEP IN NORTHERN PAKISTAN.
 

2:30 (43) †    Kamila Cajiao-Mora, Stephen A. Bullard. FIRST PARASITOLOGICAL SURVEY OF BATS (MAMMALIA: CHIROPTERA) FROM THE AMAZON RIVER IN COLOMBIA.

 

1:00–2:00 pm        Vector Biology                Pavilion I
 

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

 

Presiding:    Jacob A. Shurba, Auburn University
 

1:00 (44) †    Wilfred Ouma Otambo. INFLUENCE OF LANDSCAPE HETEROGENEITY ON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND PARASITOLOGICAL INDICES OF MALARIA IN KISUMU, WESTERN KENYA.
 

1:15 (45) †    Cole J. Meier, Julian F. Hillyer. THE TOXICITY OF PHOTOSENSITIVE INSECTICIDES AGAINST MOSQUITOES IS BIDIRECTIONALLY MODULATED BY THE ABUNDANCE OF LARVAL FOOD.
 

1:30 (46) †    NOTE: This talk was moved to Ecology and Evolution II

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1:45 (47) †    Ashley Aguilar, Megan Wise De Valdez. MOSQUITO ECOLOGY IN ZOOLOGICAL PARKS: IMPLICATIONS FOR ZOONOSES OF MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASES.

 

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

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3:00–5:00 pm     ASP Student Symposium &
                           3rd Annual Palettes and Parasites Contest            Salon II

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Presiding:     Sarah Goodnight, Florida Atlantic University
Theme: "Endless life cycles most beautiful: a celebration of the evolutionary and ecological diversity of parasite life histories". 
 

3:00          Sarah Goodnight: Introduction 
 

3:10 (48)    Scott Gardner. PARASITES AND THE INTERCONNECTED BIOSPHERE. 
 

3:35 (49)    F. Agustín Jiménez. PARASITES WITH AGENCY: DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTION OF MONOXENOUS NEMATODES IN NEW WORLD.
 

4:00–5:00 pm         Parasite Trivia!                 Salon III

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6:00–7:00 pm        Auction Preview                Rooftop Ballroom & Plaza Room 

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7:00–9:00 pm    32nd Annual ASP Student Auction  Rooftop Ballroom & Plaza Room