INFECTIOUS DISEASE SEMINAR PRESENTATION SCHEDULE

Schedule for Fall 2023

This schedule was last updated on November 13, 2023.

Date Presentations
Aug 22
Organizational Meeting Top Seminar Home
 
Aug 29
No Class  Top Seminar Home
 
Sep 5
Kerlly Bernabe Top Seminar Home
Physician Knowlege of Chagas Disease in New Orleans, Louisiana 
Sep 12
McKenna Devlin  Top Seminar Home
E. Anderson C, Tong J, Zambrana W, B. Boehm A, K. Wolfe M. Investigating the Efficacy of Various Handwashing Methods against Enveloped and Non-Enveloped Viruses. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2023;108(4):820-828. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.22-0287 
Sep 19
McKenna Howell  Top Seminar Home
Yilmaz B, Portugal S, Tran TM, . . . Silveira H, Soares MP (2014) Gut microbiota elicits a protective immune response against malaria transmission. Cell 159(6):1277-89. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.10.053 
Sep 26
Olayinka Olajiga  Top Seminar Home
Gebreegziabher E, Dah C, Coulibaly B, et al. (2023) The Association between Malnutrition and Malaria Infection in Children under 5 Years in Burkina Faso: A Longitudinal Study. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 108(3):561-568. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.22-0573 
Jacob Ford     
G Mwaanga, J Ford, J Yukich, et al. Residual bioefficacy of attractive targeted sugar bait stations targeting malaria vectors during seasonal deployment in western province of Zambia. Malaria Journal, submitted. 
Oct 3
Faculty Retreat -- No Class  Seminar Home
 
Oct 10
Rachel Clear  Top Seminar Home
Van der Auwera G, Davidsson L, Buffet P ... and LeishMan Surveillance network, Surveillance of leishmaniasis cases from 15 European centres, 2014 to 2019: a retrospective analysis, Eurosurveillance, 27, 2002028 (2022), https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.4.2002028  
Oct 17
Zoe Jacobs  Top Seminar Home
Wei CJ, Bu W, Nguyen LA, Batchelor JD, Kim J, Pittaluga S, Fuller JR, Nguyen H, Chou TH, Cohen JI, Nabel GJ (2022) A bivalent Epstein-Barr virus vaccine induces neutralizing antibodies that block infection and confer immunity in humanized mice. Sci Transl Med 14(643):eabf3685. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abf3685.  
Oct 24
Lizzie Heilmann  Top Seminar Home
Neyer PJ, Kabore B, Nakas CT et al. Exploring the host factors affecting asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infection: insights from a rural Burkina Faso study. Malar J 22, 252 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-023-04686-0 
Mason Yonge     
Lynn GE, Cerny J, Kurokawa C, Diktaş H, Matias J, Sajid A, Arora G, DePonte K, Narasimhan S, Fikrig E (2022) Immunization of guinea pigs with cement extract induces resistance against Ixodes scapularis ticks. Ticks Tick Borne Dis 13(6):102017. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.102017.  
Oct 31
Jingyang Liang  Seminar Home
Traeger MW, Mayer KH, Krakower DS, Gitin S, Jenness SM, & Marcus JL (2023) Potential impact of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis prescribing strategies on incidence of bacterial sexually transmitted infections. Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciad488. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciad488 
Refilwe Karabo      
Salim YM and Cavallaro FL (2023) Promptness of health-seeking behaviour among children under five years with fever in Malawi: evidence from the 2017 Malawi Malaria Indicator Survey. Journal of Global Health Reports 7,e2023032. doi: 10.29392/001c.77882  
Nov 7
Alyssa Schwinn  Seminar Home
PJ Gwynne ... AR Marques, LT Hu (2022) Antiphospholipid autoantibodies in Lyme disease arise after scavenging of host phospholipids by Borrelia burgdorferi. J Clin Invest. 32(6):e152506. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI152506 
Ryan Campbell     
PREVAC Study Team; Kieh M, . . . Yazdanpanah Y (2022) Randomized Trial of Vaccines for Zaire Ebola Virus Disease. N Engl J Med 387(26):2411-2424. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2200072.  
Nov 14
Carlo Castillo  Seminar Home
Ferraccioli F, Riccetti N, Fasano A, et al. Effects of climatic and environmental factors on mosquito population inferred from West Nile virus surveillance in Greece. Sci Rep 13, 18803 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45666-3 
Nov 21
Thanksgiving -- No Class Seminar Home
 
Nov 28
Will Eaton  Seminar Home
Exploration of secondary vectors of malaria transmission and evaluation of malaria interventions in Grand’Anse, Haiti 
Dec 5
Leah Kimbrough Top Seminar Home
Schmoele-Thoma B, Zareba AM, Jiang Q, Maddur MS, Danaf R, Mann A, Eze K, Fok-Seang J, Kabir G, Catchpole A, Scott DA, Gurtman AC, Jansen KU, Gruber WC, Dormitzer PR, Swanson KA. Vaccine Efficacy in Adults in a Respiratory Syncytial Virus Challenge Study. N Engl J Med. 2022 Jun 23;386(25):2377-2386. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2116154.
Dec 12
Scheduled Final Exam Top Seminar Home
Will be used for presentations if necessary

This schedule was last updated on November 13, 2023.