Immunology for All

Organizer(s)

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  Yan Yan

  Department of Biological Sciences
  Vanderbilt University
  Nashville, Tennessee
• MS

  Michael Strand

  Entomology
  University of Georgia
  Athens, Georgia

The immune system of diverse arthropods including mosquitoes, fleas, wasps, bees, moths, butterflies, and ticks.

Presentations:

• Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Yan Yan – Vanderbilt University

  Co-Author: Michael R. Strand – University of Georgia
• The immune and circulatory systems interact to fight infection throughout the insect lineage
  

  Presenting Author: Yan Yan – Vanderbilt University

  Co-Author: Julian F. Hillyer – Vanderbilt University
• Hemolymph protease-5 (HP5) links the melanization and toll immune pathways in the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta
  

  Presenting Author: Haobo Jiang – Oklahoma State University

  Co-Author: Yang Wang – Oklahoma State University

  Co-Author: Fan Yang – Oklahoma State University

  Co-Author: Xiaolong Cao – Oklahoma State University

  Co-Author: Zhen Zou – Oklahoma State University

  Co-Author: Zhiqiang Lu – Oklahoma State University

  Co-Author: Michael R. Kanost – Kansas State University
• Neuroinflammation in the insect brain: A tool for parasitic manipulation of host behaviour?
  

  Presenting Author: Shelley A. Adamo – Dalhousie University
• When and how much does the immune response matter?
  

  Presenting Author: Angela M. Smilanich – University of Nevada

  Co-Author: Deane Bowers – University of Colorado

  Co-Author: Nadya D. Muchoney – University of Nevada

  Co-Author: Heather Slinn – University of Guelph

  Co-Author: Lee Dyer – University of Nevada

  Co-Author: Adrian L. Carper – University of Colorado

  Co-Author: Justine Resnik
• The interplay between immunity, medicine and microbes in monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) disease resistance
  

  Presenting Author: Nicole Gerardo – Emory University

  Co-Author: Jaap de Roode – Emory University

  Co-Author: Wen-Hao Tan

  Co-Author: Erica Harris
• Fleas, blood-feeding and plague!
  

  Presenting Author: Viveka Vadyvaloo, PhD

  Co-Author: Benjamin Burrows, PhD – Washington State University

  Co-Author: Kiara Held
• Development of an infection model to study gut immunity in cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis)
  

  Presenting Author: Lisa D. Brown – Georgia Southern University
• Vector response to Rickettsia and the variables driving pathogen transmission
  

  Presenting Author: Kevin R. Macaluso

  Co-Author: Monika Danchenko, PhD – University of South Alabama College of Medicine

  Co-Author: Hanna Laukaitis, MS – University of South Alabama College of Medicine

  Co-Author: Chanida Fongsaran, PhD – Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine

  Co-Author: Victoria Verhoeve, PhD – University of Maryland School of Medicine
• Hemocyte produced nitric oxide modulates mosquito heart physiology
  

  Presenting Author: Julian F. Hillyer – Vanderbilt University

  Co-Author: Tania Y. Estevez-Lao – Vanderbilt University
• Regulation and function of anticipatory immune responses in mosquitoes
  

  Presenting Author: Michael R. Strand – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Ellen O. Martinson – University of New Mexico