The
58th Annual Midwestern Conference of Parasitologists was held on June
8-10, 2006, at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota.
A total of 35 persons registered for the conference.
Dr. Thomas McQuistion of Milikin University was presiding officer, and
Dr. Kimberly Bates of Winona State University made local arrangements and served
as program officer. Dr. Troy
Peino, Dean of Humanities at Winona
State University provided welcoming remarks.
Eleven platform presentations and 4 posters were presented by members.
The C.A. Herrick Award and $300 for outstanding poster was awarded to
Andrew Claxton of Eastern Illinois University for his poster on “Impact of
coal mine effluent on fish parasite assemblages in southern Illinois streams.”
The G.R. LaRue Award and $300 for outstanding platform
presentation was awarded to Kristin Herrmann of Minnesota State University -
Mankato for her talk on “Geographical distribution of Cyanthocotyle
bushiensis and Sphaeridiotrema
globulus in Pool 7 of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife
Refuge”. Lindsey Stillson of Saint Mary’s College received the R.M. Cable
undergraduate award and $100 for her oral presentation on “The effect of
crowding on the intraspecific variation of Echinostoma
caproni in ICR mice.” Honorable
mention awards and $100 were given to Kristin Giglietti of Eastern Illinois
University poster on “The effect of freezing on blood parasites of the wood
frog Rana sylvatica: Analysis of post-emergence infection parameters.”
and Brenda Pracheil of Michigan State University for her talk on “Importance
of lake trophic status and host trophic status as parasite community
determinants in juvenile bluegill, Lepomis
macrochirus, and largemouth bass, Micropterus
salmoides, from two Michigan lakes.” Kristin
Herrmann was chosen as the AMCOP nominee for the American Society of
Parasitologists student travel grant award for 2007.
The symposium on Friday afternoon was presented by Dr. Rebecca Cole of
the National Wildlife Health Center of the United States Geological Survye who
talked on “Recurring Waterbird Mortalities in Wisconsin Due to
Trematodiasis” and Dr. Darwin Wittrock
of the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire whose presentation was ““Host-parasite
relationships of trematodes with their 2nd intermediate hosts,”
The banquet speaker was Dr. Matthew Bolek of the University of Nebraska -
Lincoln whose entertaining multimedia presentation was entitled “Amphibian
parasites: the cool, the bad, and the ugly."
AMCOP
59 will be held in June of 2006 at the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh in
Oshkosh Wisconsin. Additional future
meeting sites as determined by the meeting sites committee are:
AMCOP 60 -
2008: University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, College of Veterinary Medicine
AMCOP 61 – 2009:
Ohio Wesleyan University
,
Delaware
, OH
AMCOP 62 – 2010: Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN
AMCOP 63 – 2011: Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN
At the business meeting, Secretary-Treasurer Woodmansee presented the
minutes of AMCOP 57, and treasurer’s reports for 2005 and early 2006 that were
approved. Committee reports were
received and approved as follows: Auditing
(Omer Larson and Jeff Laursen), Symposium (Shelly Michalski and Trudy Aebig),
Meeting Sites (James Coggins and Tim Yoshino), Nominating (Kim Bates and Matt
Bolek), and Resolutions (Tom Platt and Bob Sorensen).
A silent auction of texts and monographs was held.
Officers elected for 2007 were: Dr.
Jason Curtis of Purdue University – North Central as presiding officer, Dr.
Shelly Michalski of the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh as program officer,
and Dr. Douglas Woodmansee of
Wilmington
College
as secretary-treasurer.
Submitted June 15, 2006 by:
Douglas B. Woodmansee
AMCOP Secretary-Treasurer
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