Prizes and Awards
Outstanding Student Paper Award
The Acarological Society of America will hold its 2006 competition for the Outstanding Student Paper Award during the Advances in Acarology Paper Session at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Interested students should contact Dr. Ashley Dowling (address below) for details. Competitors for the award must be current members of the Acarological Society of America.
Recent Awards
1995. Denise Johanowicz. Wolbachia endocytobionts in the phytoseiid Metaseiulus occidentalis and the two spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae. Departmnent of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida. Advisor: Marjorie Hoy.
1996. Kuichun Zhu. Characterization of an anticoagulant in the salivary glands of the lone star tick. Department of Entomolgoy, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma. Advisor: John R. Sauer.
1997. Hugo Aguilar. Tydeidae associated with citrus in Florida (Acari : Prostigmata). Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, Florida. Advisor: Carl Childers.
1998. No Outstanding Paper Award
1999. Katya Ledin. Immunomodulation of BALB/c mice by Amblyomma americanum feeding. Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
2000. C. Marie Newman. Interactions between soil mites and entomopathogenic nematodes. Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University.
2001. Heather Ketchum. Genetic diversity of the Gulf Coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum Koch, a potential vector of heartwater. Department of Entomology, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas.
2002. J. B. Robinson.
The Presence
and Distribution of Rickettsia "midichlorii" in Ixodes scapularis ticks
in
Connecticut. Vector Laboratory, Viral and Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch,
Division
of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention,
1600 Clifton Road, MS G-13, Atlanta, GA 30333
2003. Christopher M.
Ritzi. Site Specificity of Macronyssid mites on two species
of vespertilionid bats in Indiana. Department of
Life Sciences, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809
2004. F.
Michael McAloon. Leptotrombidium (Trombiculidae) and scrub typhus: a
taxonomic review and preliminary phylogeny of vector and non-vector
species. Department
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 N.
Eagleville Rd., Storrs, CT 06269-3043
2005. No Outstanding Paper Award
2007. Anthea Carmichael. Cospeciation between parasitic nasal mites in the Ptilonyssus "sairae" complex (Acari: Rhinonyssidae) and their sparrow and warbler hosts. Department
of Biology, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA 94132
The Acarological Society of America will award one $225 Travel Award to an outstanding graduate student presenting his/her research at the Acarology Submitted Papers Session of the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Interested students should contact Dr. Ashley Dowling (address below) for details. Competitors for the award must be current members of the Acarological Society of America.
Recent Awards
1995. Denise Johanowicz.
Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida,
Gainesville,
Florida
1996. Eric Groth. Deparment of
Entomology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Judy Wells. Entomology Department, University
of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
1997. Shifu Zhao. Division of Plant and Soil Science, West Virginia University, Morgantwon, West Virginia.
1998. No Travel Award
1999. Ashley Dowling. Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
2000. Jennifer Moran. Department of Biology, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York.
2001. Heather Ketchum. Department of Entomology, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas.
2002. J. B. Robinson.
Vector Laboratory, Viral and Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Division of
Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS G-13, Atlanta, GA
2003. Christopher M.
Ritzi. Department of Life Sciences, Indiana State
University, Terre Haute, IN 47809
2004. F.
Michael McAloon. Department of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 N. Eagleville Rd.,
Storrs, CT 06269-3043
2005. No Travel Award
2004. Fabio Akashi Hernandes. University Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Brazil
2007. No Travel Award
For information on either of the above awards, please contact:
Dr. Ashley Dowling
University of Arkansas
Department of Entomology
319 Agriculture Building
Fayetteville, AR, 72701
Telephone 479-575-2482
FAX 479-575-2482
E-mail: adowling@uark.edu
This award is intended to support graduate students interested in research on the systematics of mites and ticks. The fellowship will assist students at the graduate level to attend the Acarology Summer Program at Ohio State University or an equivalent institution where they can obtain training in the systematics of acarines. The award is made annually and the value will depend on the interest earned by the endowment. Click here for details.
Recent Awards
2001. Anibal Ramadan Oliveria. Oliveria is the first recepient of the Camin Award and is a zoology student at the Universidade de Sao Paulo in Brazi. He works with Gilberto de Moraes and is interested in the systematics and ecology of oribatid mites, particularly Plateremaeoidea and Gymnodamaeoidea. He has published nine papers. The fellowship will help finance his participation in the soil acarology workshop at the 2002 Acarology Summer Program at Ohio State University.
2002. Christopher Michael Ritzi is the 2002
recipient of the Joseph H. Camin Fellowship. Christopher did his
masters at Sul Ross State University in Texas and is currently enrolled
as a doctoral student in the Department of Life Sciences at Indiana
State University working with Dr. John O. Whitaker, Jr. For the
last 6 years he has been working on parasitic mites of bats,
specifically on systematics and community structure. So far he
has published eleven papers. The
fellowship will help finance his participation in the introductory
acarology
workshop of the 2003 Acarology Summer Program at Ohio State University.
2003. Renata A. P. Freire is the 2003
recipient of the Joseph H. Camin Fellowship. Renata is a student
in the
Entomology Department at the University of Sao Paulo, Riracicaba,
Brazil.
She is a student of Gilberto J. Moraes and will complete research
for her masters degree in December (Predatory mites of Sao Paulo Sate
with potential for the biocontrol of soil pests). Renata will
then
enter the doctoral program where she will continue her research on soil
Mesostigmata. She has published four papers. The fellowship
will help finance her participation in the soil acarology workshop at
the 2004 Acarology Summer Program at Ohio State University.
2004. Fiaboe Komi is the 2004 recipient of the Joseph H. Camin Fellowship.
Fiaboe is a doctoral student at Kenyatta
University, Nairobi, Kenya, and is currently conducting his thesis work
in Brazil
under the co-supervision of Gilberto J.
Moraes, Department of Entomology, University of Sao Paulo, Riracicaba, Brazil. His research project is entitled: “Studies of
potential
predators of the tomato red spider mite Tetranychus evansi for
possible introduction as biocontrol agents in Africa”. The fellowship will help
finance
his participation in the agriculture acarology workship at the
2005 Acarology Summer Program at Ohio State
University.
2005. Wayne H. Knee is the 2005 recipient of the Joseph H. Camin Fellowship. Wayne is a doctoral student in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta and is conducting his thesis research under the supervision of Dr. Heather Proctor. His research project is centered around the bird associated mites of Canada. The fellowship will help finance his participation in the 2006 Acarology Summer Program at Ohio State University.
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