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SBE Seminar Series: Daniel Laughlin, University of Wyoming

Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions Norman Smith Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

Daniel Laughlin, University of Wyoming. Plant strategies and the path to understanding in ecology. Plant strategies are phenotypes that evolved to increase demographic persistence in the environments to which their traits aremost adapted. Few topics have both captured the imagination and furrowed the brows of ecologists than plant strategies, yet notopic is more important for understanding […]

Targeting Highest-Risk Populations for Sustainable Public Health Entomology: Studies from Vietnam and Western Massachusetts

Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions Norman Smith Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

This talk will focus on two sets of studies of vector-borne infections: The first will discuss the ZAIVE trial (Zooprophylaxis-aided ivermectin-based vector elimination) which assessed the use of ivermectin (a broad-spectrum antiparasitic drug) for anopheline vector control by mass treatment of cattle. A combination of insectary studies and a communityrandomized trial were used together, to […]

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