Jan. 9, 2008 Workshop Agenda ~ Panel Members
See Photos from Jan. 16 (Powerpoint)
DAVIS —
The UC Davis Department of Entomology will host the 42nd annual U.S.-Japan Parasitic Diseases Panel Meeting, Wednesday through Friday, Jan. 16-18 in the Walter A. Buehler Alumni and Visitors’ Center. Some 100 scientists from throughout the world will participate.
The event will include two parts: a panel session and a vector biology workshop on “Emerging Barriers to the Management of Vector-borne Infectious Diseases,” said conference chairman and panel member Thomas Scott, professor and vice chair of the Department of Entomology and director of the Mosquito Research Laboratory.
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Thomas Scott |
Scott and Neal Van Alfen, dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, will welcome the guests. The conference opens at 8 a.m., Wednesday.
The parasitic disease joint-panel members include six U.S. scientists and five Japanese scientists (see below). The panel sessions, with some 40 scientific presentations, will be from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 16 and from 8 a.m. to noon on Thursday, Jan. 17.
The vector biology workshop, to include presentations by 22 scientists, will begin at 1 p.m., Thursday and continue through 6 p.m., Friday.
“The workshop is intended to develop a cross-cutting perspective on what the priorities should be for future research on arthropod vectors of disease,” Scott said.
Parasitic diseases include the mosquito-borne malaria; schistosomiasis, caused by several species of flatworms; amebiasis, contracted by ingesting water or food contaminated with amoebic cysts; leishmaniasis, transmitted by sand flies; and lymphatic filariasis, caused by nematode worms.
At the vector biology workshops, eight UC Davis scientists, including Scott and Walter Leal, professor and chair of the Department of Entomology, will give presentations.
Other UC Davis researchers speaking will be:
- Bruce Hammock, distinguished professor of entomology and member of the National Academy of Science
- Anthony Cornel, associate professor of entomology
- William Reisen, adjunct professor in the Center for Vectorborne Diseases, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and a member of the Entomology Graduate Program
- Shirley Luckhart, assistant professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, UC Davis School of Medicine, and a member of the Entomology Graduate Program
- Greg Lanzaro, professor in Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology (PMI), School of Veterinary Medicine, and a member of the Entomology Graduate Program
- Aaron Brault, associate professor, PMI, School of Veterinary Medicine.
The event is affiliated with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, U.S. Department of State, and three Japanese entities: Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare; and Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
James Kazura of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, is the U.S. Panel chair and Kenji Hirayama of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagaski University, chairs the Japanese Panel.
Further information on the conference is available from research administrator Leslie Sandberg of the Scott lab, at (530)754-6209.
| WORKSHOP AGENDA |
The agenda for the “Emerging Barriers to the Management of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases Workshop” includes:
Thursday, Jan. 17
1 p.m.
Introduction, Thomas W. Scott, host, UC Davis
1:10 p.m.
National Institutes of Health Vector Program, Adriana Costero, vector biology program officer,
Parasitology and International Programs Branch, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAD)
1:30 p.m.
Editor’s Perspective, James Kazura, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
1:50 p.m.
Vector Biology Overview, Barry Beaty, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2:10 p.m.
Round Table Discussion
2:40 p.m.
Break
3 p.m.
Sand Flies, Gregory Lanzaro, UC Davis
3:20 p.m.
Reduviids, Celia Cordon-Rosales, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
3:40 p.m.
Lymphatic filariasis, Moses Bockarie, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, visiting professor, Case Western Reserve University
4 p.m.
Ticks, Robert Lane, UC Berkeley
4:30 p.m.
Round table discussion
Friday, Jan. 18
7 a.m.
Morning break
8 a.m.
Insect immunity, Shirley Luckhart, UC Davis
8:30 a.m.
Vector genetics, Kenneth Vernick, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
8:40 a.m.
Mosquito-virus interactions, Aaron Brault, UC Davis
9 a.m.
Molecular entomology and transgenics, Anthony James, UC Irvine
9:30 a.m.
Round-table discussion
9:50 a.m.
Break
10:10 a.m.
Physiology, Walter Leal, UC Davis (time change)
10:30 a.m.
Biocontrol and semifield, Bart Knols, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands
10:50 a.m.
Behavior, Willem Takken, Wageningen University and Research Centre
11:10 a.m.
Insecticide resistance, Bruce Hammock, UC Davis (time change)
11:30 a.m.
Round table discussion
Noon
Lunch
1 p.m.
Ecology and climate, William Reisen, UC Davis
1:30 p.m.
Population biology, Anthony Cornel, UC Davis
1:40 p.m.
Longitudinal studies, Thomas Scott, UC Davis
2 p.m.
Field research in DEC, Steve Lindsay, Durham University, UK
2:20 p.m.
Break
2:30 p.m.
Quantitative analyses, Uriel Kitron, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2:50 p.m.
Modeling, Cynthia Lord, University of Florida, Vero Beach
3 p.m.
Modeling, David L. Smith, University of Florida
3:30 p.m.
Round table discussion
4 p.m.
Break
4:30 p.m.
Establish priorities
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| PANEL MEMBERS |
U. S. Panel Members |
Japanese Panel Members |
James Kazura, Chairman
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio |
Kenji Hirayama, Chairman
Nagasaki University
Nagasaki, Japan |
Thomas W. Scott
University of California, Davis
Davis, California |
Kiyoshi Kita
The University of Tokyo School of Medicine
Tokyo, Japan |
Daniel Colley
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia |
Shigeyuki Kano
International Medical Center of Japan
Tokyo, Japan |
William Petri
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia |
Takafumi Tsuboi
Ehime University
Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan |
Malla Rao, US Secretariat
Parasitology and International Programs Branch
Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health |
Tomoyoshi Nozaki
Gunma University
Maebashi, Gunma, Japan |
Stephanie James
Member of US Delegation of the U. S. Japanese Cooperative Medical Science Program
Associate Director of Science
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Md. |
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UC Davis Department of Entomology
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