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

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

Tuesday, November 18, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Room A3, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Organizers:

Albert Mulenga
Deborah C. Jaworski

1:30 PM

Introductory Remarks

1:35 PM

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

Jose Ribeiro, NIAID, NIH

2:15 PM

Tick genome organization and evolution: Insights from the Ixodes scapularis genome

Janice Pagel Van Zee, Purdue University

2:45 PM

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

3:15 PM

Break

3:30 PM

Manipulation of tick membrane transport pathways by intracellular pathogen

Shahid Karim, The University of Southern Mississippi

4:00 PM

Functional genomics of tick-host-Anaplasma interactions and vaccine development

Jose de la Fuente, Oklahoma State University

4:30 PM

Using tick genomics to disrupt feeding, development, reproduction, behavior and innate immunity in tick vectors of disease

Daniel Sonenshine, Old Dominion University

5:00 PM

Concluding Remarks

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