2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008: Tick Genomics and Beyond—New Advances in Tick-borne Disease Systems

Tick Genomics and Beyond—New Advances in Tick-borne Disease Systems

Organizers:

Albert Mulenga and Deborah C Jaworski

Introductory Remarks

A guide for the perplexed: A rabbi's alternative to Bacon, and the challenges of post-genomic research
Jose Ribeiro, NIAID, NIH

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Tick genome organization and evolution: Insights from the Ixodes scapularis genome
Janice Pagel Van Zee, Purdue University

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Can neuropeptide GPCRs be useful acaricide targets?: Endocrinology and the road to validate the kinin receptor from tick Rhipicephalus microplus
Patricia V Pietrantonio, Texas A&M University

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Break

Manipulation of tick membrane transport pathways by intracellular pathogen
Shahid Karim, University of Rhode Island

Functional genomics of tick-host-Anaplasma interactions and vaccine development
Jose de la Fuente, Oklahoma State University

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Using tick genomics to disrupt feeding, development, reproduction, behavior and innate immunity in tick vectors of disease
Daniel Sonenshine, Old Dominion University

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Concluding Remarks

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