July 28, 2016
K-Staters present at international scientific meeting
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Eight scientists in the Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Diseases in the diagnostic medicine and pathobiology department in theCollege of Veterinary Medicine gave four oral and three poster presentations at the 28th meeting of the American Society for Rickettsiology,June 11-14, in Big Sky, Montana.
The attending scientists include four facultymembers, Roman 1xbet sports betting , Jodi McGill, Katie Rief and Ram Raghavan; threepostdoctoral scientists, Huitao Liu, Laxmi Jakkula and Ying Wang; andgraduate student, Lanjing Wei.
McGill, Rief, Wang and Wei also received American Society for Rickettsiologytravel awards. The meeting's organizers have been hosted at K-State in since 2006, when 1xbet sports betting served as the secretary/treasurer of the society.
Oral presentations included:
• "Metabolic and biosynthetic activity of Ehrlichia chaffeensis in a host cell-free medium." Vijay Eedunuri, Anders Omsland, and Roman R. 1xbet sports betting .
• "Targeted mutagenesis in Ehrlichia chaffeensis by homologous recombination." Ying Wang, Chuanmin Cheng, and Roman R. 1xbet sports betting .
• "Monovalent cation/sodium:proton antiporter proteins of Ehrlichia chaffeensis." Lanjing Wei, Huitao Liu, and Roman R. 1xbet sports betting .
• "A candidate vaccine induces cellular and humoral immunity and protects from tick-transmitted Ehrlichia chaffeensis infection in a canine host." Jodi McGill, Arathy D. S. Nair, Chuanmin Cheng, Rachel A. Rusk, Deborah C. Jaworski, and Roman R. 1xbet sports betting .
Poster presentations included:
• "EcxR is a global gene regular in Ehrlichia chaffeensis." Laxmi U. M. Jakkula, Huitao Liu, Ying Wang, and Roman 1xbet sports betting .
• "Consistencies in spatio-temporal trends, and climatic and other geospatial risk factors for rickettsial diseases in the central midwestern United States." Ram K. Raghavan, Gary A. Anderson, Doug. G. Goodin, and Roman R. 1xbet sports betting .
&1xbet sports betting ; "Examination of Tick Vectorial Capacity Factors during Tick-borne Bacterial Infection." Kathryn E. Reif, Jessica K. Ujzco, Deb C. Alprin, and Susan M. Noh.
• "Protein Aggregation in Ehrlichia chaffeensis during Macrophage Infection." Dorota Kuczynska-Wisnik, Michal Zolkiewski, and Roman R. 1xbet sports betting .