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American Society for Rickettsiology: Rickettsial Diseases at the Vector-Pathogen Interface 1 2 Meals Posters and Breaks Meeting Room th 30 Meeting of the 3 American Society for Rickettsiology: Rickettsial Diseases at the Vector-Pathogen Interface June 8-11, 2019 El Dorado Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico Oral presentations will be held in the Anasazi Ballroom Poster presentations will be held in the Zia Ballroom Funding for this conference was made possible [in part] by R13 AI126727-01 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. 4 Schedule at a Glance 5 SATURDAY Special Symposium Chair: Janet Foley & Chris Paddock Time: 15:00 - 18:00 Date: 8th June 2019 Location: Anzasazi Ballroom 62 - Missing elements of natural history and ecology in Rickettsiology Janet Foley University of California, Davis, USA 72 - Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and North Asian Tick Typhus: two diseases, the history, geography, diversity of the tick vectors, and common problems in the modern world. Marina Eremeeva Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, USA 65 - What we know and what we don't know about the ecology of Rhipicephalus sanguineus transmitted rickettsias in the Mediterranean area Philippe Parola IHU Méditerranée Infection , Marseille, France 155 - The need for integrative approaches to deal with Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Sonora, Mexico Gerardo Alvarez-Hernandez University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico 96 - Deciphering the ecology of flea-borne spotted fever Kevin Macaluso Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA 151 - The Ecology of Murine Typhus in the United States Lucas Blanton University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA 149 - Ecology of Amblyomma maculatum and Rickettsia parkeri Holly Gaff Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA 6 56 - Changing patterns and perceptions of tick-borne rickettsioses in western North America Christopher Paddock Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA Historical Lecture: Sir Arnold Theiler Chair: Kelly Brayton Time: 18:30 - 19:30 Date: 8th June 2019 Location: Anzasazi Ballroom Kathy Kocan and Ed Blouin Mixer and Cocktails Time: 19:30 - 21:30 Date: 8th June 2019 Location: Presidential Patio 7 SunDAY Breakfast Time: 7:00 - 8:00 Date: 9th June 2019 Location: Cava Session 1: Ticks Chair: Ulrike Munderloh & Susan Noh Time: 8:00 - 9:40 Date: 9th June 2019 Location: Anzasazi Ballroom 153 - Tick Biology Lorenza Beati Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, USA 85 - Under Pressure: Stress Response at the Pathogen-Vector Interface Kristin Rosche, Lindsay Sidak-Loftis, Shannon Allen, Brittany O'Keeffe, Dana Shaw Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, USA 126 - Tick Immunity: Understanding the Rickettsia parkeri infection in Amblyomma maculatum tick interactions through innate immunity and redox signaling pathways. Faizan Tahir University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, USA 135 - Wiring tick signaling circuitry by a rickettsial pathogen Girish Neelakanta Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA 66 - Different features of Amblyomma sculptum and Amblyomma aureolatum midgut delineate their distinct susceptibility to infection with Rickettsia rickettsii Nicolas Schröder1, Flávia Ferreira2, Larissa Martins2, Maria Galletti2,3, Daniel Pavanelo2, José Ribeiro4, Marisa Farber5, Marcelo Labruna2, Sirlei Daffre2, Andrea Fogaça2 1Institute of Biomedical Sciences/University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. 2University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. 3Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA. 4National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, USA. 5National Agricultural Technology Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina 8 Break Time: 9:40 - 10:10 Date: 9th June 2019 Location: Zia Ballroom Coffee Break Session 2: Fleas and Lice Chair: Alison Fedrow & Mike Minnick Time: 10:10 - 12:20 Date: 9th June 2019 Location: Anzasazi Ballroom 140 - Fleas, Blood and Plague! Viveka Vadyvaloo, Benjamin Burrows Washington State University, Pullman, USA 95 - Rickettsia-flea interactions associated with vector infection and transmission Kevin Macaluso Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA 42 - Vector Biology of Parasitic Lice Lance Durden Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, USA 157 - Molecular adaptation of Bartonella quintana to its human and louse niches Henriette Macmillan1, David M. Dranow2,3, Sally Lyons-Abbott2,4,5, Gina M. Borgo1, James W. Fairman2,3,6, Stephanie J. Huezo1, Donald D. Lorimer2,3, Bart L. Staker2,4, Robin Stacy2,4, Stephanie Abromaitis1,7, Michael J. Trnka8, Thomas E. Edwards2,3, Peter J. Myler2,4,9, Jane E. Koehler1 1Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense Program, and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. 2Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease, Seattle, WA, USA. 3Beryllium Discovery Corp, Bainbridge Island, WA, USA. 4Center for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, WA, USA. 5Novo Nordisk Inc, Seattle, WA, USA. 6Roche Sequencing Solutions, Santa Clara, CA, USA. 7California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA, USA. 8Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. 9Departments of Global Health, and Biomedical Informatics & Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Round Table Discussion 9 Lunch on your own Time: 12:20 - 14:00 Date: 9th June 2019 Poster Session 1 Preview Time: 12:20 - 14:00 Date: 9th June 2019 Location: Zia Ballroom Session 3: Microbiome Chair: Jeanne Salje & Irene Newton Time: 14:00 - 15:45 Date: 9th June 2019 Location: Anzasazi Ballroom 158 - Friends or foes? Investigating how ticks navigate diverse microbial communities Seemay Chou University of California, SanFrancisco, SanFrancisco, USA 152 - Microbiome of Leptotrombidium Mite Vectors of Scrub Typhus Loganathan Ponnusamy1, Alexandra Wilcox2, R. Michael Roe1, Silas Davidson3, Anthony Schuster3, Allen Richards4, Steven Meshnick2, Charles Apperson1 1North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA. 2University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. 3Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand. 4Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, USA 156 - Reproductive Parasitism: The Pieces, Players and Shifting Paradigm Joseph Gillespie1, Timothy Driscoll2, Victoria Verhoeve1, Mark Guillotte1, Kristin Rennoll-Bankert1, M. Sayeedur Rahman1, John Beckman3, Darren Hagen4, Christine Elsik5, Kevin Macaluso6, Abdu Azad1 1University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA. 2West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA. 3Auburn University, Auburn, USA. 4Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA. 5University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. 6Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA Round Table Discussion 10 Poster Session 1 Time: 15:45 - 17:30 Date: 9th June 2019 Location: Zia Ballroom 150 - Mechanisms of pathogen entry into tick cells Hanen Baggar1, Jessie Ujczo2, Debra Alperin1, Susan Noh1,2 1Washington State University, Pullman, USA. 2USDA-ARS-Animal Disease Research Unit, Pullman, USA 148 - Sequence of a novel Anaplasma marginale genome determined with next generation PacBio sequencing technology Kyle Hoffman1, Sammuel Shahzad1, Michael Calcutt1, Kelly Brayton2, Mark Foecking1, Roger Stich1 1University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. 2Washington State University, Pullman, USA 147 - Immune intervention targeting a tick vector of Anaplasma marginale Bill Stich1, Kyle Hoffman1, Sammuel Shahzad1, Chelsea Zorn1, Sara Scott1, Sathaporn Jittapalapong2, Gayle Johnson1, Patrick Pithua3, Guoquan Zhang1 1University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. 2Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand. 3Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA 145 - Rickettsial organisms associated with ticks collected from Missouri elk Sammuel Shahzad1, Zhenyu Shen1, Kelly Straka2, , Elizabeth Daugherty1, Dana Thompson1, Michael Zhang1, Jeffery Mitchell1, Shuping Zhang1, Roger Stich1 1University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. 2Missouri Department of Conservation, Columbia, USA 144 - Identification of distinct Anaplasma marginale genotype repertoires in different herds within the same beef cattle operation Tippawan Anantatat, Brandt Skinner, Emily Reppert, Kathryn Reif Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA 142 - OPT4e: a tool for predicting T4SS effector proteins Zhila Esna Ashari, Michael Dodd, Shira Broschat, Kelly Brayton Washington State University, Pullman, USA 141 - Identification of Type IV Secretion System Effectors of Anaplasma phagocytophilum Deirdre Fahy1, Curtis Nelson2, Jason Park1, Michael Dodd1, Nicole Burkhardt2, Lisa Price2, Shira Broschat1, Daniel Voth3, Jonathan Oliver2, Ulrike Munderloh2, Kelly Brayton1 1Washington State University, Pullman, USA. 2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. 3University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA 11 139 - Galleria mellonella infection reveals Coxiella effectors important for control of host tolerance Shawna Reed, Emerson Crabill, David Arteaga, Jorge Meneses, Craig Roy Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA 138 - Ehrlichia chaffeensis transposon mutagenesis library Ying Wang1, Andy Alhassan1,2, Ulrike Munderloh3, Roman Ganta1 1Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Diseases (CEVBD), Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine,
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