Bell

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Biology Instructor- Tenured: Northland Community and Technical College. August 2008 to present Adjunct Professor: Math, Science and Technology Department, University of Minnesota - Crookston. Spring 2008. Zoology Instructor - Field Courses: Center for Science and Math Education, North Dakota State University. Summers 2000 -2007 Temporary Instructor: Northland Community and Technical College. Spring 2003. Graduate Teaching Assistant: Department of Zoology, North Dakota State University. 1999-2002. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Dissertation Research: Phylogeny of Haematozoan parasites of Amazonian birds Dept. of Biology, University of North Dakota. 2013 to present Researcher: Dept. of Natural Resources, University of Minnesota - Crookston. Operating a MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) bird banding station. 2012 to present. Consultant: Grand Forks Mosquito Control Program - GF Public Health Dept. 2006-2008. Research Specialist: Dept. of Biology, University of North Dakota. May 2003 to August 2008 Master\'s Thesis Research: Comparison of Two Acoustical Signals in Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers. Dept. of Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University. 1999-2002. Research Assistant: Dept. of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. 1998-1999. PUBLICATIONS Tkach, V.V., Curran, S.S., Bell, J.A., and Overstreet, R.M. 2013. A new species of Crepidostomum (Digenea: Allocreadiidae) from Hidon tergisus in Mississippi and molecular comparison with three congeners. Journal of Parasitilogy (in review). Vaughan, J.A., Mehus, J.O., Brewer, C.M., Kvasager, D.K., Bauer, S.,Vaughan, J.L., Hassan, H.K., Unnasch, T.R., and Bell, J.A. 2012. Theoretical potential of passerine filariasis to enhance the enzootic transmission of West Nile virus. Journal of Medical Entomology 49(6):1430-1441. Kuzim, Y., Tkach, V.V., Synder, S.D, and Bell, J.A. 2011. Camallanus Railliet et Henry, 1915 (Nematoda, Camallanidae) from Australian freshwater turtles with descriptions of two new species and molecular differentiation of know taxa. Acta Parasitiologica Ica 56:213-226. Bell, L.E. and Bell, J.A. 2007. Yellow-breasted Chat in Polk County. The Loon 79:118. Vaughan, J.A., Bell, J.A., Turell, M.J., and Chadee, D.D. 2007. Passage of ingested Mansonella ozzardi microfilariae through the midgut of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 44:111-16. Bell, J.A., Brewer, C.B., Mickelson, N.J., Garmin,G.W., and Vaughan, J.A. 2006. West Nile virus epizootiology, central Red River Valley, North Dakota and Minnesota, 2002 - 2005. Emerging Infectious Diseases 12:1245-1247. Zollner, G.E., Ponsa, N., Garmin, G.W., Poudel,S., Bell, J.A., Sattabongkot, J. Sattabongkot, R.E. Coleman, R.E and Vaughan, J.A. 2006. Population dynamics of sporogony for Plasmodium vivax parasites from western Thailand developing within three species of colonized Anopheles mosquitoes. Malaria Journal. 5:68. Bell, J.A, Mickelson, N.J., and Vaughan, J.A. 2005. West Nile virus in host-seeking mosquitoes within a residential neighborhood in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Vector Borne and Zoonotic Disease. 5:373-382.