Tick IPM Special Session Announced

The IPM Institute of North America’s Tick IPM Working Group, in collaboration with the TickEncounter Resource Center and One Health Lessons, will be hosting a virtual event on Dec. 10.


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Published October 27, 2020

The IPM Institute of North America’s Tick IPM Working Group, in collaboration with the TickEncounter Resource Center and One Health Lessons, will be hosting a virtual Tick IPM Special Session Dec. 10, from 1 p.m.  to 2:30 p.m. (CDT). 

During this virtual event, participants will learn from and be able to ask questions of world-class experts about tick IPM during the COVID era and natural repellants – do they actually work?

 
Natural Products for Blacklegged Tick Control: How Effective?
Thomas Mather, PhD and Megan Dyer, MS
The University of Rhode Island Center for Vector-borne Disease, Kingston, RI
Dr. Thomas Mather is a professor of Public Health Entomology at the University of Rhode Island and director of URI's Center for Vector-Borne Disease and its TickEncounter Resource Center. His research focus is on tick ecology, area-wide tick control strategies, tick-bite protection and tick-borne disease prevention.
With more ticks in more places, who wouldn’t want to use green (natural) products for tick control -- but do they deliver? Using a novel small plot testing method, a number of commercially available and experimental minimal risk natural products were compared for their knockdown and residual effect against nymphal blacklegged ticks under field conditions. Results and limitations of the screening program will be discussed.

 

How the Pandemic has Led to Wide-spread Health Education for Children and the Public
Deborah Thomson, DVM One Health Lessons
Dr. Deborah Thomson is a veterinarian, a science policy advisor, a first responder, an award-winning public speaker and musician, and an overall One Health advocate. She develops One Health lessons for children ages 6 to 18 so that they can understand the inextricable connection between human health and the health of animals, plants and the environment. Her lessons cover various One Health topics: vector-borne diseases, water-borne diseases, food safety, climate change and more. She is passionate about the science field and has taught her One Health lessons in underserved public schools and online. Based on teacher feedback, she has inspired over 2,000 children to consider a future in science.

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