PARASITOLOGY SEMINAR SIGN-UP SHEET

Schedule for Spring 2009

This schedule was last updated on April 23, 2009.

Date Presentations
Jan 12
Organizational Meeting Top Seminar Home
 
Jan 26
Marco Vincenti Top Seminar Home
Palacios, G, Druce, J, Du, L, Tran, T, Birch, C, Briese, T, Conlan, S, Quan, P-L, Hui, Jy, Marshall, J, Simons, JF, Egholm, M, Paddock, CD, Shieh, W-J, Goldsmith, CS, Zaki, SR, Catton, M, Lipkin, WI (2008) A New Arenavirus in a Cluster of Fatal Transplant-Associated Diseases. N Engl J Med 358: 991-998.
Jessica Saeger    
Wang, L-D, Chen, H-G, Guo, J-G, Zeng, X-J, Hong, X-L, Xiong, J-J, Wu, X-H, Wang, X-H, Wang, L-Y, Xia, G, Hao, Y, Chin, DP, Zhou, X-N (2009) A Strategy to Control Transmission of Schistosoma japonicum in China. N Engl J Med 360: 121-128.
Wildaliz Nieves    
Keasey SL, Schmid KE, Lee MS, Meegan J, Tomas P, Minto M, Tikhonov AP, Schweitzer B, Ulrich RG (2009) Extensive antibody cross-reactivity among infectious gram-negative bacteria revealed by proteome microarray analysis. Mol Cell Proteomics, in press.
Amina Ahmad    
Ehrlich HJ, Muller M, Oh, HML, Tambyah, PA, Joukhadar C, Montomoli E, Fisher D, Berezuk G, Fritsch S, Low-Baselli A, Vartian N, Bobrovsky R, Pavlova BG, Pollabauer EM, Kistner O, Barrett PN (2008) A Clinical Trial of a Whole-Virus H5N1 Vaccine Derived from Cell Culture. N Engl J Med 358: 2573-2584.
Feb 2
Eva Gougian Top Seminar Home
NG Schwarz, AA Adegnika, LP Breitling, J Gabor, ST Agnandji, RD Newman, B Lell, S Issifou, M Yazdanbakhsh, AJF Luty, PG Kremsner, and MP Grobusch (2008) Placental Malaria Increases Malaria Risk in the First 30 Months of Life. Clinical Infectious Diseases 47: 1017-1025.
Paul Blair    
Zeidner NS, Massung RF, Dolan MC, Dadey E, Gabitzsch E, Dietrich G, Levin ML (2008) A sustained-release formulation of doxycycline hyclate (Atridox) prevents simultaneous infection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi transmitted by tick bite. J Med Microbiol 57: 463-468.
Niki Renner    
TW Geisbert, KM Daddario-DiCaprio, MG Lewis, JB Geisbert, A Grolla, A Leung, J Paragas, L Matthias, MA Smith, SM Jones, LE Hensley, H Feldmann, and PB Jahrling (2008) Vesicular Stomatitis Virus-Based Ebola Vaccine Is Well-Tolerated and Protects Immunocompromised Nonhuman Primates. PLoS Pathog. 4(11): e1000225.
Rita Nwajei    
Akiyoshi DE, Morrison HG, Lei S, Feng X, Zhang Q, et al. 2009 Genomic Survey of the Non-Cultivatable Opportunistic Human Pathogen, Enterocytozoon bieneusi. PLoS Pathogens 5(1): e1000261.
Feb 9
Kristen Merino Top Seminar Home
Cholera R, Brittain NJ, Gillrie MR, Lopera-Mesa TM, Diakité SA, Arie T, Krause MA, Guindo A, Tubman A, Fujioka H, Diallo DA, Doumbo OK, Ho M, Wellems TE, Fairhurst RM (2008) Impaired cytoadherence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes containing sickle hemoglobin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 105 (3):991-6.
Kaylie Tuznik    
Motomura Y, Wang H, Deng Y, El-Sharkawy RT, Verdu EF, Khan WI (2009) Helminth antigen-based strategy to ameliorate inflammation in an experimental model of colitis. Clinical & Experimental Immunology155:88-95.
Nikita Ussin    
Tatfeng YM, Agbonlahor DE, Tchounga KS, Omolu PI, Okodua M, Yah CS, Adeolu A (2008) Chloroquine prophylaxis associated with high prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum pfcrt K76T mutation in people with sickle-cell disease in Benin City, Nigeria. J Vector Borne Dis 45:51-5.
Feb 16
Aklecia McVoy Top Seminar Home
Newton, PN, Hampton, CY, Alter-Hall, K, Teerwarakulpana, Tk, Prakongpan, S, Ruangveerayuth, R, White, NJ, Day, NPJ, Tudino, MB, Mancuso, N, Fernandez, FM (2008) Characterization of "Yaa Chud" Medicine on the Thailand-Myanmar Border: Selecting for Drug-resistant Malaria and Threatening Public Health. Am J Trop Med Hyg 79: 662-669.
Martin Kaba    
Ciglenecki, I.; Glynn, J.R.; Mwinga, A.; Ngwira, B.; Zumla, A.; Fine, P.E.M.; Nunn, A. (2007) Population differences in death rates in HIV-positive patients with tuberculosis. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 11, 1121-1128.
Brittani Leach-Beale    
RM Ned, AE Price, SB Crawford, JG Ayisi, AM van Eijk, JA Otieno, BL Nahlen, RW Steketee, L Slutsker, YP Shi, DE Lanar, and V Udhayakumar (2008) Effect of Placental Malaria and HIV Infection on the Antibody Responses to Plasmodium falciparum in Infants. The Journal of Infectious Diseases 198: 1609-1619.
Mar 2
Jill Peters Top Seminar Home
Hillesland H, Read A, Subhadra B, Hurwitz I, McKelvey R, Ghosh K, Das P, Durvasula R (2008) Identification of Aerobic Gut Bacteria from the Kala Azar Vector, Phlebotomus argentipes: A Platform for Potential Paratransgenic Manipulation of Sand Flies. Am J Trop Med Hyg 79: 881-886.
Talesa Barnes    
PM Lantos, AD Ahouidi, AK Bei, CV Jennings, O Sarr, O. Ndir, DF Wirth, S Mboup and MT Duraisingh (2009) Erythrocyte invasion profiles are associated with a common invasion ligand polymorphism in Senegalese isolates of Plasmodium falciparum. Parasitology 136, 1-9.
Steve Bennett       
Njenga MK, Paweska J, Wanjala R, Rao CY, Weiner M, Omballa V, Luman ET, Mutonga D, Sharif S, Panning M, Drosten C, Feikin DR, Breiman RF (2009) Using Field qRT-PCR Test to Rapidly Identify Highly Viremic Rift Valley Fever Cases. J. Clin. Microbiol. 0: JCM.01905-08.
Mar 9
Kasey Mekonnen Top Seminar Home
SD Hillier, M Booth, L Muhangi, P Nkurunziza, M Khihembo, M Kakande, M Sewankambo, R Kizindo, M Kizza, M Muwanga, and AM Elliott (2008) Plasmodium falciparum and Helminth Coinfection in a Semiurban Population of Pregnant Women in Uganda. The Journal of Infectious Diseases 198, 920-927.
Walter Conner    
Vythilingam I, NoorAzian Y, Huat T, Jiram A, Yusri Y, Azahari A, NorParina I, NoorRain A, LokmanHakim S (2008) Plasmodium knowlesi in humans, macaques and mosquitoes in peninsular Malaysia. Parasites & Vectors 1, 26.
Bradley J. Waffa    
DG Goodin, DE Koch, RD Owen, Y-K Chu, JMS Hutchinson and CB Jonsson (2006) Land cover associated with hantavirus presence in Paraguay. Global Ecology and Biogeography 15, 519-527.
La'Tesha Hinton    
Y Suzuki, T Ichiyama, A Ohsaki, S Hasegawa, M Shiraishi, S Furukawa (2008) Anti-inflammatory effect of 1[alpha],25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 in human coronary arterial endothelial cells: Implication for the treatment of Kawasaki disease. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 113, 134-138.
Mar 16
Stephanie Miles Top Seminar Home
Menéndez C, Romagosa C, Ismail MR, Carrilho C, Saute F, et al. (2008) An Autopsy Study of Maternal Mortality in Mozambique: The Contribution of Infectious Diseases. PLoS Medicine 5, e44.
Mar 30
Damilola Ajayi Seminar Home
Hutchinson KB, Kip KE and Ness RB (2007) Condom Use and its Association With Bacterial Vaginosis and Bacterial Vaginosis-Associated Vaginal Microflora. Epidemiology 18: 701-708.
Anthony Oshnsanya    
C-W Zhang, S-H Xiao, J Utzinger, J Chollet, J Keise3 and M Tanner (2009) Histopathological changes in adult Schistosoma japonicum harbored in mice treated with a single dose of mefloquine. Parasitology Research, published online: 17 February 2009.
Katie Westby    
Ramos MM, Mohammed H, Zielinski-Gutierrez E, Hayden MH, Lopez JLR, Fournier M, Trujillo AR, Burton R, Brunkard JM, Anaya-Lopez L, Banicki AA, Morales PK, Smith B, Munoz JL, Waterman SH, The Dengue Serosurvey Working Group (2008) Epidemic Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever at the Texas-Mexico Border: Results of a Household-based Seroepidemiologic Survey, December 2005. Am J Trop Med Hyg 78: 364-369.
Kara Wilhite    
Nsuami MJ, Taylor SN, Smith BS, Martin DH (2008) Increases in Gonorrhea Among High School Students Following Hurricane Katrina. Sex Transm Infect 2008 0:
Apr 6
Javonne Patterson Top Seminar Home
Moorthy A, Gupta A, Bhosale R, Tripathy S, Sastry J, et al. (2009) Nevirapine Resistance and Breast-Milk HIV Transmission: Effects of Single and Extended-Dose Nevirapine Prophylaxis in Subtype C HIV-Infected Infants. PLoS ONE 4(1): e4096.
Cynthia Brown    
Kissinger P, Amedee A, Clark R, Dumestre J, Theall K, Myers L, Hagensee M, Farley T, Martin D (2009) Trichomonas Vaginalis Treatment Reduces Vaginal HIV-1 Shedding. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 36:11-16.
Itsuko Shiroyani      
K Pfeiffer, F Some, O Müller, A Sie, B Kouyaté, WE Haefeli, A Zoungrana, LL Gustafsson, G Tomson and R Sauerborn (2008) Clinical diagnosis of malaria and the risk of chloroquine self-medication in rural health centres in Burkina Faso. Tropical Medicine & International Health 13, 418-426.
AKM Awal    
Dolecek C, Phi La TT, Rang NN, Phuong LT, Vinh H, et al. (2008) A Multi-Center Randomised Controlled Trial of Gatifloxacin versus Azithromycin for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Typhoid Fever in Children and Adults in Vietnam. PLoS ONE 3(5): e2188.
Apr 20
Shannon Franklin Seminar Home
MA Reynolds, DR Dawson, KF Novak, JL Ebersole, JC Gunsolley, GL Branch-Mays, SC Holt, JA Mattison, DK Ingram, MJ Novak (2009) Effects of caloric restriction on inflammatory periodontal disease. Nutrition 25, 88-97.
Emily Veltus    
Mohammed KA, Haji HJ, Gabrielli A-F, Mubila L, Biswas G, et al. (2008) Triple Co-Administration of Ivermectin, Albendazole and Praziquantel in Zanzibar: A Safety Study. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2(1): e171.
Catherine Pruszynski     
Hu C, Rio RVM, Medlock J, Haines LR, Nayduch D, et al. (2008) Infections with Immunogenic Trypanosomes Reduce Tsetse Reproductive Fitness: Potential Impact of Different Parasite Strains on Vector Population Structure. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2(3): e192.
Whitney Brookins 
 
S Sutcliffe, JF Alderete, C Till, PJ Goodman, AW Hsing, JM Zenilman, AM De Marzo, EA Platz (2008) Trichomonosis and subsequent risk of prostate cancer in the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial. International Journal of Cancer 124, 2082-2087.
Apr 27
Shauna Landsberger
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Mitnick, CD, Shin, SS, Seung, KJ, Rich, ML, Atwood, SS, Furin, JJ, Fitzmaurice, GM, Alcantara V, Felix A, Appleton, SC, Bayona, JN, Bonilla, CA, Chalco, K, Choi, S, Franke, MF, Fraser, HSF, Guerra, D, Hurtado, RM, Jazayeri, D, Joseph, K, Llaro, K, Mestanza, L, Mukherjee, JS, Munoz, M, Palacios, E, Sanchez, E, Sloutsky, A, Becerra, MC (2008) Comprehensive Treatment of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis. N Engl J Med 359: 563-574.
Lonique Moore    
E Cordova, A Boschi, J Ambrosioni, C Cudos, M Corti (2008) Reactivation of Chagas disease with central nervous system involvement in HIV-infected patients in Argentina, 1992-2007. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 12, 587-592.
Kathryne Dieter    
RE Gurtler, LA Ceballos, R Stariolo, U Kitron, R Reithinger (2009) Effects of topical application of fipronil spot-on on dogs against the Chagas disease vector Triatoma infestans. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 103, 298-304.
Violet Yeagar    
E Mushinzimana, C Feng, G Zhou, S Munga, N Minakawa, L Li, L Bian, U Kitron, C Schmidt, L Beck, AK Githeko and G Yan (2006) Landscape determinants and remote sensing of anopheline mosquito larval habitats in the western Kenya highlands. Malaria Journal 5:13.
Jequaya Britton    
E. Pinelli, S. Brandes, J. Dormans, E. Gremmer and H. van Loveren (2007) Infection with the roundworm Toxocara canis leads to exacerbation of experimental allergic airway inflammation. Clinical & Experimental Allergy 38, 649-658.

This schedule was last updated on April 23, 2009.