Sunday, December 10, 2006: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Room 210 (Convention Center)

Symposium: Current Advances in Acarology: Genomic and Proteomic Research

Organizer(s): Quentin Q. Fang, qfang@GeorgiaSouthern.edu
Amanda D. Loftis, aloftis@cdc.gov
8:30 AMWelcoming Remarks  [ Recorded presentation ]
8:40 AM0995Historical perspective on working toward understanding the Ixodes scapularis genome  [ Recorded presentation ]
Joseph Piesman, jpiesman@cdc.gov, Amy Ullman
9:05 AM0996Overview of tick genomics  [ Recorded presentation ]
Catherine A. Hill, hillca@purdue.edu, S. K. Wikel, N. S. Geraci, J. Pagel Vanzee, J. Walling, Jeffrey J. Stuart, Felix Guerrero, felix.guerrero@ars.usda.gov
9:30 AM0997Tick genomics: Coding versus non-coding DNA  [ Recorded presentation ]
Vishvanath Nene, nene@tigr.org, Catherine A. Hill, hillca@purdue.edu, D. Knowles, R Bishop, Felix Guerrero, felix.guerrero@ars.usda.gov
9:55 AM0998The mitochondrial genome of the phytoseiid Metaseiulus occidentalis (Nesbitt)
Ayyamperumal Jeyaprakash, margret@ufl.edu, Marjorie A. Hoy, mahoy@ifas.ufl.edu
10:20 AMBreak
10:50 AM0999Microbial interactions within and with ticks  [ Recorded presentation ]
Keith Clay, clay@indiana.edu, Clay Fuqua, Nate Grindle, James Ford, Olga Klyachko, Curt Lively, Mike Wade, Robert Pinger
11:15 AM1000The tick transcriptome: In the context of pathogen transmission  [ Recorded presentation ]
Sukanya Narasimhan, sn7@email.med.yale.edu, Fred Kantor, Erol Fikrig
11:40 AM1001The search for tick salivary antigens inducing cellular immunity using reverse antigen screening
Jennifer M. Anderson, jenanderson@niaid.nih.gov, Nathan Miller, David Reynoso, Thomas N. Mather, Jesus G. Valenzuela
12:05 PMDiscussion
12:25 PMConcluding Remarks

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