Mite-y Women in Acarology: Current Research from a Historical Perspective

Organizer(s)

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  Monica Farfan

  School of Global Environmental Sustainability
  Colorado State University
  Fort Collins, Colorado
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  Emilie Demard

  Department of Entomology and Nematology
  University of Florida
  Lake Alfred, Florida
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  Emily Durkin

  Biology
  University of Tampa
  Tampa, Florida

This symposium focuses on the contributions of active researchers in applied fields and systematics within acarology placed in the context of the pivotal research of female acarologists in history. Presentations range from student and early-career to later-career researchers.

Presentations:

• A brief history of women in acarology
  

  Presenting Author: Monica A. Farfan – Colorado State University
• Parasitic personalities: Consistent individual differences in behavior in a facultatively parasitic mite
  

  Presenting Author: Emily Shea Durkin – University of Tampa

  Co-Author: Carl N. Keiser – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Allison Roth – University of Florida
• Ticks in museum collections: Reptiles specimens are an untapped resource
  

  Presenting Author: Carrie Elizabeth De Jesus, BCE-Intern – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Samantha M. Wisely – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Coleman Sheehy – Florida Museum of Natural History

  Co-Author: David Blackburn – Florida Museum of Natural History
• Determining spatial scales for ant-associated mite neighborhoods
  

  Presenting Author: Kaitlin U. Campbell (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina at Pembroke

  Co-Author: Thomas Crist – Miami University
• Dispersal of predatory mites reared on alternative hosts: A case study on low tunnel strawberry
  

  Presenting Author: Samantha A. Willden (she/her/hers) – Purdue University

  Co-Author: Gregory M. Loeb – Cornell University
• The lychee erinose mite: Two years after its detection in Florida
  

  Presenting Author: Alexandra Margarita Revynthi – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Luisa F. Cruz – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Teresa Narvaez – USDA-ARS

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

  Co-Author: Elena Schnell – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Catharine M. Mannion – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Nurhayat Tabanca – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Paul E. E. Kendra – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Daniel Carrillo – University of Florida
• The potential for incorporating erythritol into pear IPM: Non-target effects on mites
  

  Presenting Author: Rebecca Schmidt-Jeffris (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Elizabeth H. Beers – Washington State University
• The effects of habitat type and pathogen infection on tick host-seeking behavior
  

  Presenting Author: Elise Richardson – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Carl N. Keiser – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Caitlin E. Taylor – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Estelle Martin (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
• From taxonomy to biological control: The case of Phytoseiidae mites
  

  Presenting Author: Marie-Stéphane Tixier – Institut Agro-Montpellier SupAgro
• Look before you leap: A cautionary tale of tick control in an era of population expansions
  

  Presenting Author: Erika T. Machtinger (she/her/hers) – Penn State University

  Co-Author: Robyn Nadolny – US Army

  Co-Author: Loretta Bowman – US Army

  Co-Author: Cory Casal – US Army

  Co-Author: Matthew Milholland – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Andrew Y. Li – USDA ARS IIBBL
• The clock is still ticking: Current research to control south Texas’s oldest tick problem
  

  Presenting Author: Kimberly H. Lohmeyer – USDA-ARS
• Palp Fiction: Molecular phylogeny and palp morphology of the predatory mite family Cunaxidae
  

  Presenting Author: Marla Schwarzfeld – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

  Co-Author: Victoria Nowell – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

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