Tuesday, December 11, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Pacific Salon Six, Golden Pacific Ballroom, Second Floor (Town & Country)

Symposium: Diagnostic Tools/Protocols to Detect Arthropod Associated Pathogens

Organizer(s): Alec Gerry, alec.gerry@ucr.edu
Seemanti Chakrabarti, seemanti@ucr.edu
1:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:35 PM0982Molecular detection of pathogens associated with filth flies
Carrie Owens, cbowens@cityofno.com, Allen Szalanski, aszalan@uark.edu
2:05 PMISCA Smart Traps: Autonomous Disease Detection
Agenor Mafra-Neto, agenor1@iscatech.com, Reginald Coler, rcoler@iscatech.com, Anna Getchell, esa@confex.com
2:25 PM 0983Molecular epidemiology of human enteropathogens transmitted by non-biting flies
Thaddeus Graczyk, tgraczyk@jhsph.edu
2:55 PM 0984Rapid pathogen detection using dipstick assays
Adeline Chan
3:25 PM Break
3:40 PM0985Exotic Newcastle disease virus isolation using embryonated chicken eggs
Seemanti Chakrabarti, seemanti@ucr.edu
4:10 PM0986Multiplex PCR assays: New applications for detection of arboviruses
Raymond Lenhoff, lenhoff2@llnl.gov
4:40 PM0987Xenodiagnosis of Ixodes scapularis-borne pathogens
Durland Fish, durland.fish@yale.edu
5:10 PM Concluding Remarks

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