Current Advances in Acarology

Organizer(s)

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  Monica Farfan

  School of Global Environmental Sustainability
  Colorado State University
  Fort Collins, Colorado
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  Lorena Lopez

  Department of Entomology
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Painter, Virginia

The Current Advances in Acarology symposium highlights presenters from all over the world whose research focuses on mites and ticks. Student researchers are a large component of the invited speakers, and all speakers present innovative applied and/or theoretical acarological research. This symposium organized by the Acarological Society of America.

Presentations:

• Injury to southern highbush blueberries by Oligonychus ilicis (Acari: Tetranychidae) and management using various miticides
  

  Presenting Author: Lorena Lopez – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  Co-Author: Oscar E. Liburd – University of Florida
• Predatory mites, free living and plant parasitic nematodes: Association and predation mechanism
  

  Presenting Author: Gary R. Bauchan – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Ronald Ochoa – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Joseph Mowery – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Lynn Carta – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Diana Rueda-Ramírez – Universidad Nacional de Colombia

  Co-Author: Monica Young – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

  Co-Author: Eric Palevsky – Agricultural Research ORganization

  Co-Author: Jandir Cruz-Santos – University of Guelf
• Addition of polypropylene and polyester in soil shows no effects on microarthropod communities, but affects decomposition rates
  

  Presenting Author: Carlos Barreto – University of Western Ontario

  Co-Author: Matthias Rillig – Freie Universität

  Co-Author: Zoë Lindo – University of Western Ontario
• A new look to the Chigger's collection in the USA
  

  Presenting Author: Cal Welbourn – Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

  Co-Author: Ricardo Bassini-Silva – Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias-UNESP

  Co-Author: Fernando de Castro Jacinavicius – Insttuto Butantan

  Co-Author: Ronald Ochoa – USDA - ARS

  Co-Author: Darci Moraes Barros-Battesti – Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias-UNESP
• Potential use of phoretic mites to control wood boring pests
  

  Presenting Author: Marielle de Moraes Berto – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Daniel Carrillo – University of Florida
• Tick-borne bacterial and protozoan animal pathogens shape the native microbiome within Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum and Rhipicephalus microplus tick vectors
  

  Presenting Author: Abdulsalam Adegoke, DVM – University of Southern Mississippi

  Co-Author: Deepak Kumar – The University of Southern Mississippi

  Co-Author: Muhammad Imran Rashid – University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

  Co-Author: Aneela Zameer Durrani – University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

  Co-Author: Muhammad Sohail Sajid – University of Agriculture

  Co-Author: Shahid Karim – The University of Southern Mississippi
• Mitigation strategies against Brevipalpus yothersi in preparation for a potential incursion of citrus leprosis
  

  Presenting Author: Daniel Carrillo – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Poliane Sa Argolo – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Alexandra Margarita Revynthi – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Maria-Alejandra Canon – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Marielle de Moraes Berto – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Woodward Bailey – USDA-APHIS

  Co-Author: Ronald Ochoa – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Amy L. Roda – USDA APHIS
• Suppression of Tetranychus urticae Koch egg hatchability using UVC in open-field strawberries
  

  Presenting Author: Joseph Montemayor – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Sriyanka Lahiri – University of Florida
• Tick bite induced Alpha-Gal Syndrome: an update on emerging epidemic of late-night anaphylaxis
  

  Presenting Author: Shahid Karim – The University of Southern Mississippi

  Co-Author: Gary Crispell – University of Southern Mississippi

  Co-Author: Surendra Sharma – University of Southern Mississippi

  Co-Author: Ahmed Mohamed – The University of Southern Mississippi

  Co-Author: Shailesh Choudhary – University of North Carolina

  Co-Author: Scott Commins – University of North Carolina
• Detecting twospotted spider mite and mite eggs under strawberry leaf using deep learning
  

  Presenting Author: Congliang Zhou – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Won Suk Lee – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Ikbal Aygün – Ege University

  Co-Author: Oscar E. Liburd – University of Florida
• Tracking red palm mite damage in the Western Hemisphere invasion with Landsat
  

  Presenting Author: Jose Carlos Verle Rodrigues – University of Puerto Rico

  Co-Author: Michael Cosh – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: E. Raymond Hunt – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Gilberto José Moraes – Universidade de São Paulo (ESALQ/USP)

  Co-Author: Ronald Ochoa – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Geovanny Barroso – University of São Paulo

  Co-Author: William Alex White