Vector Encounter Schedule | Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute

WELCOME to the 27th VECTOR ENCOUNTER

THURSDAY, JUNE 6 | SCHEDULE

EVENT: W1214 Sheldon Hall | Note: No beverages or food inside

8:30 - 09:00........ Registration and light breakfast – Anna Baetjer (W1030)

9:05 - 09:15......... Introduction to the Encounter - W1214 Sheldon Hall (1^st Floor)

9:15 - 09:45........ Carolina Barillas Mury (NIH) | Midgut antiplasmodial and antiviral immunity

9:45 - 10:15....... Joao Pedra (UMD) | Resource allocation and immunometabolism in tick-microbe interactions

10:15 - 11:00....... Coffee Break– Room W1030 (Anna Baetjer Room)

11:00 - 11:30........ Kerri Coon (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | The microbiome and mosquito vectorial capacity: rich potential for discovery and translation

11:30 - 12:00......... George Dimopoulos (JHU) |Overview of projects in the Dimopoulos lab

GROUP PHOTO | GALLERY OUTSIDE OF SHELDON HALL

12:00 - 01:30........ LUNCH– Anna Baetjer (W1030) | SEATING: Additional seating is available on the 1st and 2nd floors in and around the Daily Grind coffee shop.

INSECTARY TOUR: TOUR OFFERED DURING LUNCHTIME (leaves from W1030 at ~12:50 PM)

1:30 - 2:00......... Sachie Kanatani (JHU) | Transmission dynamics of Plasmodium parasites

2:00 - 2:30.........Joel Vega-Rodriguez (NIH) | Anopheles humoral proteome reveals new interactions during Plasmodium transmission

2:30 - 3:00........ Coffee Break– Anna Baetjer (W1030)

3:00 - 5:00........ Small-Group Presentations (See Short Talk Program at the end of this program for Room Allocations)

5:15 - 6:00 ........ DEPART for Captain James Crab House | Address: 2127 Boston Street, Baltimore, MD 21231 and Phone: 410-675-1819

6:00 - 8:00 pm…Crab Feast at Captain James Crab House

FRIDAY, JUNE 7 | SCHEDULE

EVENT: W1214 Sheldon Hall | Note: No beverages or food inside

8:30 - 09:00........ Light breakfast – Anna Baetjer (W1030)

9:00 - 09:30........ Tiago D. Serafim (NIH) |The impact of a sand fly blood meal on Leishmania biology

9:30 - 10:00........ Krystal Maya Maldonado (JHU) | Same same but different: Translating knowledge from new candidate genes in Drosophila into insect vectors

10:00 - 10:30........ Vipin Rana (UMD) | Infection biology and prevention of Lyme Borreliosis

10:30 – 11:00........Coffee Break – Anna Baetjer (W1030)

11:00 - 11:30........ Christopher Potter (JHU) | Identifying the olfactory targets for mosquito repellents in Anopheles mosquitoes

11:30 – 12:00........ Marten Edwards (Muhlenberg College) | Tick and pathogen surveillance in Eastern Pennsylvania

12:00 - 1:30........ LUNCH– Anna Baetjer (W1030)

1:30 - 2:00........ Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena (JHU) | Fighting malaria with mosquito-associated bacteria

2:00 - 2:30........ Abhai Tripathi (JHU) | New tools for Plasmodium falciparum transmission studies

2:30 - 3:00........ Break – Anna Baetjer (W1030)

3:00 - 3:30........ Available Slot

3:30 - 3:50......... Conor McMeniman (JHU) | Chemosensory Biology of Malaria Transmission

3:50 - 4:00........ Closing remarks – Drawing for Gift Certificate

4:00 - 6:00.........Casual Mixer

SHORT TALKS – Thursday, June 6, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm

GROUP 1 (Room W5030) - CHEMOSENSORY BIOLOGY

Luis Martinez (Vanderbilt): Development and characterization of next-generation insect spatial repellents targeting the orco olfactory co-receptor

Huiruo Zeng (Drexel): Chemosensory neural basis of Anopheles mosquito oviposition

Joshua Raji (JHU): A genetic toolkit for dissecting olfactory ionotropic receptor functions

Margot Wohl (JHU): The genetic and chemical basis of gravid Aedes aegypti attraction to fermenting hay infusion

Diego Giraldo (JHU): Neurogenetic approaches to unravel the neural basis of mosquito olfaction

Lan Lou (Virginia Tech): Aedes aegypti's circadian clock mediates mosquitoes' synchronization to daily variations in the host body odor

GROUP 2 (Room W2015) – PHYSIOLOGY, IMMUNITY AND EVOLUTION

Arnab Ashrafi (JHU): The energy behind sporozoite motility

Lindsay Martin (Vanderbilt): Higher temperature accelerates the aging-dependent weakening of the antimicrobial immune response of infected mosquitoes

Delis Mattei-Lopez (JHU): Blood meal analysis of field-collected anophelines from Nchelenge, Zambia in 2020

Jordyn Barr (Vanderbilt): Warmer temperature alters how older mosquitoes respond to infection

Patrick Huffcutt (NIH): Understanding leishmaniasis transmission through analysis of single blood fed sand flies

Soha Usmani (JHU): Complete mitogenome barcoding of the Anopheles coustani complex

Renee Ali (JHU): Mitochondrial sequences of Trinidad Haemagogus mosquitoes reveals shared lineages with species endemic to the Amazon

GROUP 3 (Room W2008) – HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS I

Asher Kantor (NIH): Identification of a putative receptor of dengue virus E protein in Aedes aegypti

Caire Barreto (JHU): Antimicrobial peptides in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae

Rachel Lipman (UMD): Structure-function analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi BB0664

Mary Kefi (JHU): Unraveling a novel regulator of parasite development in the mosquito midgut

Banhisikha Saha (NIH): Role of immune signaling cascades in Anopheles gambiae hemocyte differentiation

Francis Monique De Souza Saraiva (NIH): The protective role of mammal hemopexin for hematophagous insects and their transmitted parasites

Bibek Bhattachan (UMD): Rabies virus vector based vaccine against Lyme disease

GROUP 4 (Room W4030) – HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS II

Stephanie Serafim de Carvalho (NIH): Atlas of the Anopheles gambiae fat body at single nuclei resolution: Unveiling cell-specific responses to blood feeding and infection.

Sally Saab (JHU): Anopheles melanization-based refractoriness to Plasmodium

Kruthi Vavilikolanu (UMD): A novel genetic knockout mice model to study Lyme Borreliosis

Victor Cardoso-Jaime (JHU): Revealing functions of hemocytes affecting Plasmodium falciparum infection in Anopheles gambiae

Heather Kudyba (NIH): Studying P. falciparum gene function in mosquito midguts using the glmS ribozyme knockdown system

Yuxuan Zhao (JHU): Exploring the antiviral function of Vago in Aedes aegypti

Simone Parn (UMD): Characterization of transcription factors in Ixodes scapularis and their role in regulating tick hematophagy and development

This event is generously supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.

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