Provisional Scientific Program

Sunday - October 1, 2017

14:00 - 18:00 Registration

16:00 - 18:00 Board Meeting

Monday - October 2, 2017

Moderator-Bülent Alten

8:00 – 09:20 Opening of the Congress-Norbert Becker

Scientific Program-Bülent Alten

Welcome Address-Miguel Ángel Miranda

Awards-Bülent Alten

Presidential Address-Michael Kaufman

Announcements-Major Dhillon

09:20 - 10:00 Vectors in a changing world, what might we expect? Keynote Speaker: Willy Wint, william.wint@zoo.ox.ac.uk, Oxford University, UK

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:30 Symposium 1. Molecular Strategies for the Control/Eradication of Mosquito-Borne Diseases

Organizers: Greg Lanzaro, gclanzaro@ucdavis.edu Andrea Crisanti, a.drcrisanti@imperial.ac.uk

10:30 - 10:50 Role of population modification in the malaria eradication agenda

Anthony James, aajames@uci.edu, UC Irvine

10:50 - 11:10 Modified mosquitoes for malaria control-requirements for success and a step-wise approach for getting there

Delphine Thizy, d.thizy@imperial.ac.uk, Imperial College London

11:10 - 11:30 A gene drive system to spread extreme male bias in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae

Andrew Hammond, andrew.hammond08@imperial.ac.uk, Imperial College of London

11:30 - 11:50 Applications of gene-drive technology to vector control

Ethan Bier, ebier@ucsd.edu , UC San Diego

11:50 - 12:10 Designing field trials for the evaluation of genetically engineered malaria vectors

Greg Lanzaro, gclanzaro@ucdavis.edu , UC Davis

12:10 - 12:30 Exploiting gene drive technology for population suppression in the human malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae

Andrea Crisanti, a.drcrisanti@imperial.ac.uk, Imperial College London

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:10 Symposium 2. Old Diseases, New Diseases and New Technology

Organizers: Ben Beard, cbeard@cdc.gov Paulo Pimenta, pfppimenta@gmail.com

13:30 - 13:45 An update on the status of Aedes aegypti transmitted viral pathogens in the Americas

Ben Beard, cbeard@cdc.gov, CDC

13:45 – 14:00 Vector competence and viral interference in Brazilian Aedes aegypti mosquitoes co-infected with Dengue and Zika viruses: potential of simultaneous delivery by single bite

Paulo Pimenta, pfppimenta@gmail.com, FIOCRUZ

14:00 - 14:20 Wolbachia for reducing populations of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus

Stephen Dobson, sdobson@uky.edu , University of Kentucky

14:20 - 14:40 Self-limiting genetic approach for controlling Aedes vectors of dengue and Zika

Simon Warner, Simon.Warner@oxitec.com, Oxitec

14:40 - 15:00 More recent outbreaks of arboviruses in wildlife and humans in South Africa

Anton Cornel, ajcornel@ucanr.edu, UC Davis

15:00-15:10 Mosquito abundance and control during the emergence of Zika virus along the Texas-Mexico border

Gabriel Hamer, ghamer@tamu.edu, UC Davis

15:10 - 15:40 Coffee Break

15:40 - 18:00 Symposium 3. Insecticides and Repellents

Organizers: Mustapha Debboun, mdebboun@hcphes.org Ulrich Bernier, uli.bernier@ars.usda.gov

15:40 - 15:55 ABC Transporter targets for improved mosquitocide efficacy Troy Anderson, tanderson44@unl.edu, University of Nebraska

15:55 - 16:10 Potassium Ion Channels: an emerging target for arthropod-vectored pathogens

Daniel Swale, Dswale@agcenter.lsu.edu , Louisiana State University

16:10 - 16:25 Leveraging synergistic interactions for enhanced chemical control of disease-vectoring arthropods

Jeffrey R. Bloomquist, jbquist@epi.ufl.edu , University of Florida

16:25 - 16:40 Next generation non-pyrethroid repellents Joel R Coats, jcoats@iastate.edu, Iowa State University

16:40 - 16:55 Laboratory evaluations of new formulations and application of natural repellents

Rui-De Xue, xueamcd@gmail.com, Anastasia MCD, St. Augustine, Fl

16:55 - 17:10 Paints, reduced risk insecticide and attractants: robust inexpensive vector control tool

Kamlesh R. Chauhan, kamal.chauhan@ars.usda.gov , USDA-ARS

17:10 - 17:25 Overview of repellent research in China Tong-Yan Zhao, tongyanzhao@126.com , Beijing Institute of

Microbiology

17:25 - 17:40 Novel non-human methods for testing mosquito repellents Thomas Mascari, TMMascar@scj.com , SC Johnson, Racine, WI

17:40 - 18:00 Insect repellent mixtures and insecticides Mustapha Debboun, mdebboun@hcphes.org, Harris County Public

Health

18:00 - 19:00 Symposium 4. Role of Arthropod Vector Saliva in the

Transmission of Human Pathogens

Organizers: Nathalie Boulanger, nboulanger@unistra.fr Adriana Costero-Saint Denis, acostero@niaid.nih.gov

18:00 - 18:15 The skin as delivery site for trypanosomes and tsetse salivary factors Guy Caljon, Guy.Caljon@uantwerpen.be, University of Antwerp, Belgium

18:15 - 18:30 Tick cement proteins as vaccine candidates: effects on transmission of TBEV and Borrelia afzelii

Maria Kazimirova, maria.kazimirova@savba.sk, Slovak Academy of

Sciences

18:30 - 18:45 Immune response against sand fly salivary proteins as epidemiological tools in human and animal leishmaniasis

Aldina Barral, abarral@bahia.fiocruz.br , Fiocruz, Brazil

18:45 - 19:00 Aedes aegypti saliva modulates West Nile virus replication and innate immunity in human primary keratinocytes

Magali Garcia, magali.garcia@chu-poitiers.fr , University of Poitiers, France

19:30 - 21:00 Reception and Poster Session

Tuesday - October 3, 2017

08:30 - 09:10 Arthropod-borne viruses in the era of high throughput sequencing: current findings and potential implications

Keynote Speaker: Koray Ergunay, korayergunay@gmail.com, Hacettepe University, Turkey

09:10 – 11:40 Symposium 5. Integrated Vector Management

Organizers: Robert Novak, rnovak@health.usf.edu Norbert Becker, NorbertFBecker@web.de

09:10 - 09:30 Do we need an intelligent approach to IVM? Bob Novak, rnovak@health.usf.edu, University of South Florida

09:30 - 09:50 Remote sensing, a new tool for surveillance and monitoring Benjamin Jacob, bjacob1@health.usf.edu, University of South Florida

09:50 - 10:10 Creating the fundamental framework for an operational IVM system in Papoli, Uganda

Ryan Tokarz, rtokarz@health.usf.edu, University of South Florida

10:10 - 10:30 Integrated Vector Control: Have proven methods turned into academic theory?

Manuel Lluberis, lluberas@hdhudson.com, Hudson Inc

10:30 - 10:50 IVM : Ever evolving ever sensible

Ashwani Kumar, ashwani07@gmail.com, National Institute of Malaria Research, India

10:50 - 11:10 Integrated black fly suppression through targeted applications of Bti-based larvicides

Elmer Gray, ewgray@uga.edu, University of Georgia

11:10 - 11:30 A new approach for IVM strategies based on mosquito blood meal analysis and pathogen screening: the case of the urban zoo of Barcelona, Spain

J. Martínez-de la Puente, jmp@ebd.cisc.es, Estación Biológica de Donana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain

11:30 – 11:40 Open Discussion for Symposium 5

11:40 - 12:10 Coffee Break

12:10 – 14:00 Symposium 6. Advances in Ecology of Ticks and their Pathogens

Organizers: Marieta Braks, marieta.braks@rivm.nl Jolyon Medlock, jolyon.medlock@phe.gov.uk

12:10 - 12:30 Ecology of Lyme borreliosis in Europe Hein Sprong, hein.sprong@rivm.nl, NIPH&E, Netherlands

12:30 - 12:50 Biological control of ticks Elyes Zhioua, elyes.zhioua@pasteur.rns.tn, Institute Pasteur, Tunisia

12:50 - 13:10 Tick symbiont interactions Yuval Gottleib, gottlieb.yuval@mail.huji.ac.il , Hebrew University of

Jerusalem, Israel

13:10 - 13:30 Pan European tick maps, VectorNet Jolyon Medlock, jolyon.medlock@phe.gov.uk, Public Health England

13:30 - 13:50 A Roadmap for tick-Flavivirus research in the “Omics” era

Cate Hill, hillca@purdue.edu, Purdue University

13:50 -14:00 Open Discussion for Symposium 6

14:00 – 15:00 Lunch

15:00 – 16:15 Symposium 7. Kiss of Death: Triatomines and Trypanosoma cruzi

Organizers: Melissa Nolan, mnolan@bcm.edu

Silvia Moriana

15:00 - 15:15 Food, parasites and manners: what can the ecology of kissing bugs in the United States tell us about Chagas transmission risk?

Patricia Dorn, dorn@loyno.edu, Loyola University

15:15 - 15:30 Chagas disease ecology near its northern edge of endemicity Sarah Hamer, shamer@cvm.tamu.edu, Texas A&M

15:30 – 15:45 Paratransgenic approaches to vector-borne diseases

Ravi Durvasula, rdurvasula@salud.unm.edu, University of New Mexico

15:45 - 16:00 Ecohealth interventions, parasite genomics, and vector spatial transmission risk analysis

Carlota Monroy, mcarlotamonroy@gmail.com, University of Guatemala

16:00 – 16:15 Ecoepidemiology and control of Brazilian triatomines

Dra. Lileia Gonçalves Diotaiuti, diotaiut@minas.fiocruz.br, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil

16:15 - 16:45 Coffee Break

16:45 - 18:35 Symposium 8. Malaria: Can it be Eradicated in the Next 20 Years?

Organizers: Dan Strickman, Dan.Strickman@gatesfoundation.org Carles Aranda, caranda@elbaixllobregat.cat

16:45 – 17:05 The global vector control response

Raman Velayudhan, Velayudhanr@who.int, Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva

17:05 - 17:25 Old Plasmodium DNA from Spain hints at parasite origins Carles Aranda, caranda@elbaixllobregat.cat, Mosquito Control Service,

Baix Llobregat Council, Barcelona

17:25 - 17:45 Good Laboratory Practice for entomological testing in Africa

David Malone, david.malone@ivcc.com, Innovative Vector Control Consortium

17:45 – 18:05 New surveillance and monitoring tools to reduce the risk of malaria transmission

Robert Novak, rnovak@health.usf.edu, University of South Florida

18:05 - 18:25 Malaria eradication: optimism, innovation, rigor, and collaboration

Dan Strickman, Dan.Strickman@gatesfoundation.org,

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

18:25 - 18:35 Open Discussion for Symposium 8

Wednesday - October 4, 2017

FIELD ECOLOGY DAY

Thursday - October 5, 2017

08:30 - 10:00 Symposium 9. Student Presentations

Organizers: Casey Parker, caseyparker@ufl.edu Bethany McGregor, bmcgreg@ufl.edu

08:30 - 08:40 Distribution and insecticide susceptibility status of Florida Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus populations

Casey Parker, caseyparker@ufl.edu, University of Florida

08:40 - 08:50 Effect of trap height on Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) abundance, physiological status, and species composition at a

big game preserve in Florida, USA

Bethany McGregor, bmcgreg@ufl.edu, University of Florida, USA

08:50 - 09:00 Plant oils are capable of enhancing diverse insecticides against susceptible and resistant strains of mosquitoes

Edmund Norris, ejnorris@iastate.edu, Iowa State, USA

09:00 - 09:10 Mosquito sperm ultrastructural and motility changes while in storage

Ethan C. Degner, ecd77@cornell.edu, Cornell, USA

09:10 - 09:20 Landscape and socio-economic drivers of Aedes albopictus ecology in New York State

Talya G. Shragai, tshragai@gmail.com, Cornell, USA

09:20 - 09:30 Comparison of two predictive models: Flavivirus and West Nile virus and mosquito surveillance in Lubbock, Texas

Steven T. Peper, steve.peper@ttu.edu, Texas Tech, USA

09:30 - 09:40 Suburban development and its consequences for vector diversity

Meredith R. Spence Beaulieu, meredithspence@gmail.com, NC State USA

09:40 - 09:50 Field demonstration of remote wingbeat sensors for the identification of pestiferous insects

Levi Zahn, levi.zahn@ucr.edu, UC Riverside, USA

09:50 - 10:00 Evaluation of the feeding preference of house flies (Musca domestica L.) selected for behavioral resistance to the neonicotinoid: Imidacloprid

Caleb Hubbard, chubb001@ucr.edu, UC Riverside, USA

10:00 - 11:30 Symposium 10. Student Presentations

Organizers: Gizem Oguz, gizemoguz90@gmail.com Carlos Barceló, carlos.barcelo@uib.es

10:00 - 10:10 Implementation of an entomological surveillance plan for the study of mosquitoes in La Rioja, Spain

Ignacio Ruiz, iruizarr@gmail.com, CIBIR, Spain

10:10 - 10:20 Distribution and genetic studies of Aedes albopictus in Spain

Sarah Delacour, delacour@unizar.es, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

10:20 - 10:30 Population dynamics of (pre-) alpine biting midges (Ceratopogonidae, Culicoides spp.) and their vector competence for bluetongue virus

Anca Paslaru, ancaiona.paslaru@uzh.ch, University of Zurich, Switzerland

10:30 - 10:40 Dispersal dynamics of the Asian tiger mosquito

Laura Vavassori, l.vavassori@unibas.ch, Swiss Tropical and Public Health institute, Switzerland

10:40 – 10:50 Longitudinal monitoring of Culicoides in Belgium between 2007-2011.Analysis of local variation in abundance, species composition, seasonality and vector free period

Charlotte Sohier, charlotte.sohier@coda-cerva.be, CODA-CERVA, Belgium

10:50 - 11:00 Variations in wing morphology of a natural population of Phlebotomus tobbi Adler and Theodor 1930, the proven vector of Leishmania infantum in Turkey

Gizem Oguz, gizemoguz90@gmail.com, Hacettepe University, Turkey

11:00 - 11:10 From egg to adult. How do Culicoides early stages live under laboratory conditions?

Carlos Barceló, carlos.barcelo@uib.es, UIB, Spain

11:10 - 11:20 MALDI-TOF MS on the track of blood meal sources in phlebotomine sand flies

Kristyna Hlavackova, hlavackova.k@centrum.cz, Charles University, Czech Republic

11:20 - 11:30 Prevalence, diversity and interactions of a densovirus with their host (Culex pipiens s. l.)- symbiont (Wolbachia) system

Mine Altinli, altinlimine@gmail.com, Montpellier University, France

11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 - 13:30 Symposium 11. Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Mosquitoes Organizers: Francis Schaffner, fschaffner.consult@gmail.com

Yvonne-Marie Linton, linton.yvonne3@gmail.com

12:00 - 12:20 From specimen identification to species and higher taxa: the quadrature on the circle illustrated in mosquito taxonomy

Vincent Robert, vincent.robert@ird.fr, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

12:20 - 12:40 Stabilizing Aedini: Balancing Utility with current knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships

Richard C. Wilkerson, wilkersonr@si.edu, Smithsonian Institution (NMNH)

12:40 - 13:00 A genomic approach to understand diversity in Aedes aegypti

Andrea Gloria-Soria, andrea.gloria-soria@yale.edu, Yale University

13:00 - 13:20 From morphospecies to populations-the rise and fall of typological thinking in vector analysis and control

Carlo Costantini, carlo.costantini@ird.fr, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

13:20 - 13:30 Open Discussion for Symposium 11

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 12. Vector Projects in the World

Organizer: Veerle Versteirt, vversteirt@avia-gis.com

14:30 - 14:50 The Infravec2 Horizon 2020 Project: Research infrastructures for the control of vector-borne diseases

Ken Vernick, kvernick@pasteur.fr, Institut Pasteur

14:50 - 15:10 Vector behavior in transmission ecology research coordination network (VectorBite)

Matthew Watts, m.watts@imperial.ac.uk, Imperial College London

15:10 - 15:30 MediLabSecure: One health network for the prevention of vector-borne diseases around the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions

Kathleen Victoir, IRD

15:30 - 15:50 The European Network for neglected vectors and vector-borne infections (EURNEGVEC) cost action

Bülent Alten, kaynas@hacettepe.edu.tr, Hacettepe University

15:50 - 16:10 VectorNet: A pan-European approach towards a standardized data collection on distribution and abundance vectors of medical and veterinary importance

Veerle Versteirt, vversteirt@avia-gis.com, Avia-GIS

16:10 - 16:30 The WIN Initiative: A global network to combat insecticide resistance in arbovirus vectors

Claire Durot, Claire.durot@ird.fr, IRD, CNRS 16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 – 19:00 Symposium 13. Novel Approaches Towards Species Identification of Parasitic Arthropods

Organizers: Vit Dvorak, icejumper@seznam.cz Claudia Paredes-Esquivel, claudia.paredes@uib.es

17:00 - 17:20 Vector Soup: benefits, limits and real world applications of sand fly metabarcoding

Arthur Kocher, arthur.kocher@gmail.com, French National Centre for Scientific Research

17:20 - 17:40 Mosquito identification by morphology versus molecular tools: from rivalry to symbiosis

Francis Schaffner, fschaffner.consult@gmail.com , University of Zurich

17:40 – 18:00 DNA-barcoding to uncover hidden diversity and phenotypic plasticity in Mediterranean mosquitoes

Claudia Paredes-Esquivel, claudia.paredes@uib.es, University of the Balearic Islands

18:00 - 18:20 Easy identification of arthropod vectors by mass spectrometry: we are getting real

Alexander Mathis, alexander.mathis@uzh.ch, University of Zurich

18:20 - 18:40 MALDI-TOF protein profiling-a tool of choice for sand fly species identification

Petr Halada, halada@biomed.cas.cz, Czech Academy of Sciences

18:40 – 19:00 TBD

Pie Mueller, pie.mueller@swisstph.ch, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Switzerland

*09:00 – 12:30 Symposium 14. Brokerage Event

Bilateral meeting

Friday - October 6, 2017

08:30 - 10:00 Symposium 15. Vector Control Strategies Against Mosquitoes and Biting Flies: Attract and Kill Technologies, Barrier Treatments and Space Sprays

Organizers: Dan Kline, dan.kline@ars.usda.gov Alexandra Chaskopoulou, achaskopoulou@ars-ebcl.org

08:30 - 08:45 Biting midge population control measures

Lee Cohnstaedt, lee.cohnstaedt@ars.usda.gov, USDA-ARS

08:45 - 09:00 TBD

TBD

09:00 - 09:15 Attractive targeted sugar baits (ATSB) against mosquito populations

Gunter Muller, guntercmuller@hotmail.com, Hebrew University

09:15 - 09:30 Trap placement in animal exhibits at zoos increases the stable fly catch

Jerry Hogsette, jerry.hogsette@ars.usda.gov, USDA-ARS

09:30 - 09:45 Utilization of traps and attractants to understand the ecology of Tabanidae and develop management strategies

Dan Kline, dan.kline@ars.usda.gov, USDA-ARS

09:45 - 10:00 Night time aerial sprays, will they control crepuscular biting midge spp?

Mark Breidenbaugh, mark.breidenbaugh@youngstown.af.mil, USAF

10:00 - 12:00 Symposium 16. Focus on Sand Flies-Saliva, Microbiome and Vector Competence

Organizers: Fabiano Oliviera, loliveira@niaid.nih.gov

Petr Volf, volf@cesnet.cz

10:00 - 10:20 Recombinant salivary proteins as markers of host exposure to sand flies

Tatiana Spitzova, tatiana.spitzova@gmail.com, Charles University, Prague

10:20 - 10:40 The influence of midgut microbiota of the sand fly vector on the development and virulence of Leishmania infantum

Mary Wilson, mary-wilson@uiowa.edu, University of Iowa

10:40 – 11:00 Priming with a salivary protein from visceral leishmaniasis vector enhances antigenicity of parasite antigens in the context of vaccination

Anabela Cordiero da Silva, cordeiro@ibmc.up.pt, IBMC; 13S

11:00 - 11:20 Lutzomyia longipalpis vectorial competence of different species of

Leishmania

Nagila Secundino, secundinon@gmail.com, FIOCRUZ

11:20 - 11:40 Sand fly salivary proteins drive neutrophil recruitment and exacerbateLeishmania infection

Fabiano Oliveira, loliveira@niaid.nih.gov, NIH

11:40 - 12:00 Oviposition ecology of Phlebotomus papatasi: effect of larval substrate conditioning, attraction to microbial and conspecific materials, effect of visual cues and circadian rhythm

Gideon Wasserberg, g_wasser@uncg.edu, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

12:00 - 12:30 Coffee Break

12:30 - 14:00 Symposium 17. Global Research on Culicoides Biology and Control

Organizers: Miguel Ángel Miranda, ma.miranda@uib.es Alec Gerry, alec.gerry@ucr.edu

12:30 – 12:45 Vector capacity of pre-alpine Culicoides and Bluetongue virus

Eva Veronesi, eva.veronesi@uzh.ch, University of Zurich

12:45 - 13:00 Predicting and managing impacts of midge-borne infections in changing environments: Why vector host ecology matters

Beth Purse, beth@ceh.ac.uk, NERC CEH

13:00 - 13:15 Where do they come from? Where do they go? Population genetics studies on Culicoides biting midges

Karine Huber, karine.huber@cirad.fr, INRA

13:15 – 13:30 Culicoides eggs: What do we know and why should we care?

Bradley Mullens, mullens@mail.ucr.edu, UC Riverside

13:30 – 13:45 Flight behavior of Culicoides imicola at controlled temperatures

and humidity conditions

Gert Venter, VenterG@arc.agric.za , Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute

13:45 - 14:00 The gnatwork: A network of development of skills in the study of biting midges, sand flies, and black flies

Simon Carpenter, simon.carpenter@iah.ac.uk, Pirbright Institute

14:00 Closing of Congress