PENNSYLVANIA VECTOR CONTROL ASSOCIATION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 8, 2020 (8am-5pm)
TENTATIVE AGENDA
8:00 a.m. – 8:05 a.m. Opening Remarks
Ray Delaney, PVCA President
8:05 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne
Diseases
Emily Mader, NEVBD
Session 1 (Moderator: Leah Lamonte)
8:15 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. 2020 Update on PA’s Mosquito-Borne Disease Program
Matt Helwig, PA DEP Vector Management
8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. 2020 Update on PA’s Black Fly Suppression Program
Doug Orr, PA DEP Vector Management
8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. 2020 Update on PA’s Tick Program
Christian Boyer, PA DEP Vector Management
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. 2020 Update on NJ’s Mosquito-Borne Disease Program
Scott Crans, NJDEP Office of Mosquito Control Coordination
9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Lessons Learned in a Career in DOD Vector Control
Stan Cope, PhD, Catchmaster & Past President of AMCA
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. How Covid has Changed our Jobs
Scott Crans, NJDEP Office of Mosquito Control Coordination
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. DEET Education Program
Judi Anderson, DEET Education Program
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Ticks of Pennsylvania
Michael Skvarla, PhD, Penn State University
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Break
Session 2 (Moderator: Mary Vibostok)
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Suddenly meatless: How tick bites and reactions to red meat are changing the paradigm of food allergy
Scott Commins MD, PhD, University of North Carolina
12:30 p.m. – 12:50 p.m. Segmented Flavivirus Infections in the United States
Kurt Vandergrift MS, PhD, Penn State University
12:50 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. Amblyomma americanum habit study
JR Stewart PhD, Shippensburg University
1:10 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you: Range expansion of the Gulf Coast tick
Holly Gaff PhD, Old Dominion University
1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Introduction of the NIH/NIAID supported Black Fly Research and Resource Center
Elmer Gray PhD, University of Georgia
1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Effects of temperature regime on Simulium vittatum
Sophie Racey, University of Georgia
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Temperature and hydrology improve the prediction of West Nile virus in New York and Connecticut
Alex “Sasha” Keyel PhD, University at Albany ES317
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Mosquito/Stormwater Management
Nathaniel Nagle, Prince William County Public Works
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Update on EEE virus: an Emerging Mosquito-borne Virus of Public Health Concern
Philip M. Armstrong, ScD, Department of Environmental Sciences, New Haven, CT
3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Entomological Society of America/PHE Certification
Willet Hossfeld, Entomological Society of America
3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. AMCA 2020 Update
Ary Faraji, PhD, BCE, Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. CDC Arboviral Disease Update
Roxanne Connelly, PhD, BCE, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO
4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. TBD
4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks
Ray Delaney, PVCA President