Twenty-two representatives from the Eck Institute for Global Health are contributing to the premier forum for tropical medicine and global health this week. Eleven faculty members, six graduate students, one undergraduate student, and four technical staff are represented on nine presentations at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting in Atlanta, Georgia from November 3-7, 2010. In addition, Frank Collins, professor of biological sciences, is a member of the prestigious faculty invited to teach the basic science pre-meeting course, Recent Advances in the Biology of Invertebrate Vectors and Implications for the Control of Tropical Diseases. The faculty and student researchers are commended for their contribution to global health research.
GENOME-BASED MICROSATELLITE DEVELOPMENT IN CULEX
QUINQUEFASCIATUS WITH BROAD APPLICATION TO THE CX.
PIPIENS COMPLEX
Paul V. Hickner1, Becky deBruyn1, Diane D. Lovin1, Akio Mori1,
Robert Pinger2, David W. Severson1
1Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN,
United States, 2Department of Physiology and Health Science, Ball State
University, Muncie, IN, United States
GLOBAL CROSS-TALK OF GENES IN RESPONSE TO DENGUE
VIRUS INFECTION IN THE MOSQUITO AEDES AEGYPTI
Susanta K. Behura, David W. Severson
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
AEDES AEGYPTI: AN EMERGING MODEL FOR THE STUDY OF
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY IN VECTOR MOSQUITOES
Ellen Flannery1, Anthony Clemons1, Morgan Haugen1, Kristopher
Kast1, David Severson1, Molly Duman-Scheel2
1University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, United States, 2Indiana
University School of Medicine-South Bend at Notre Dame, South Bend, IN,
United States
BEHAVIOURAL PATTERN OF THE MALARIA VECTORS AND
VECTOR CONTROL INTERVENTIONS IN LUANGWA VALLEY,
SOUTHEAST ZAMBIA
Aklilu Seyoum1, Chadwick Sikaala2, Javan Chanda2, Dingani
Chinula2, Neil Lobo3, Frank Collins3, Gerry F. Killeen4
1Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom,
2National Malaria Control Centre, Lusaka, Zambia, 3University of Notre
Dame, South Bend, IN, United States, 4Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es
Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania
EXAMINING THE FINE SCALE STRUCTURE OF THE
CROSSOVER LANDSCAPE IN PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM BY
HIGH-THROUGHPUT ALLELE SCANNING
Upeka Samarakoon, Allison Regier, Asako Tan, Scott J. Emrich,
Michael T. Ferdig
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
INFLUENCE OF 2LA CHROMOSOMAL INVERSION ON
DESICCATION RESISTANCE OF ANOPHELES GAMBIAE S.S.
FROM CAMEROON
Caroline Fouet1, Emilie Gray2, Nora J. Besansky2, Carlo
Costantini1
1Organisation de Coordination pour la lutte contre les Endémies en
Afrique Centrale, Yaoundé, Cameroon, 2Eck Institute for Global Health,
Department of Biological Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States
SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT CHARACTERIZATION AND
DYNAMICS OF ANOPHELES GAMBIAE MOLECULAR FORMS
LARVAL BIOTOPES ALONG AN URBANIZATION GRADIENT IN
THE CITY OF YAOUNDÉ, CAMEROON
Billy F. Tene1, Christophe N. Antonio2, Colince Kamdem2, Philippe
Bousses3, Didier Fontenille3, Nora J. Besansky4, Carlo Costantini1
1IRD-UR016/OCEAC, Yaoundé, Cameroon, 2LRP-OCEAC, Yaoundé,
Cameroon, 3IRD-UR016, Montpellier, France, 4University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, IN, United States
A HYDROCELECTOMY PROGRAM FOR LYMPHATIC
FILARIASIS IN LÉOGANE, HAITI: CLINICAL INFORMATION
AND SURGICAL OUTCOMES
Nicole Kosacz1, Melanie Strahm1, Yves Laurissaint2, Luccene
Desir2, Jacquelin Roberts3, David Addiss4, Thomas Streit5, LeAnne
Fox3
1Emory Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, United States,
2Lymphatic Filariasis Program, Hospital Sainte Croix, Leogane, Haiti,
3Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States,
4The Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, 5The University of
Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
OPTIMIZED SNP GENOTYPING AND STRUCTURAL VARIANT DISCOVERY WITH MICROARRAYS IN PLASMODIUM FACLCIPARUM
John C. Tan1, Becky A. Miller1, Asako Tan1, Jigar J. Patel1,2, Ian H. Cheeseman3, Tim J. Anderson3, Magnus Manske4, Gareth Maslen4, Dominic P. Kwiatkowski4, Michael T. Ferdig1; www.nd.edu/~genomics
1 The Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 2Roche NimbleGen Inc., Madison, WI
3 Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, TX 4Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom