Symposium “Tick microbiome and genomics”
Date: Friday September 6th
Place: Room Internacional II, Meliá Internacional Varadero
Chairman
PhD. Ana Gonçalves Domingos , IHMT, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
| Schedule | Activity |
|---|---|
| 11:30-11:50 | Alicja (Ala) Elzbieta Tabor The University of Queensland, Australia Title: Internal organ metagenomics of adult semi engorged Rhipicephalus australis female ticks. |
| 11:50-12:10 | Natasa Knap University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Title: RNA Virome of Ixodes ricinus in Slovenia |
| 12:10-12:30 | Mia White UKHSA, UK Title: A multiplex, amplicon based nanopore sequencing assay for characterisation of UK tick species, their microbiomes and bloodmeal origin |
| 12:30-12:50 | Gregory A. Dasch CDC, USA Title: Metagenomic analysis of Rickettsia plasmid sequences obtained directly from ticks |
| 12:50-13:10 | Kosta Mumcuoglu The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Title: Bacterial microbiota of ticks infesting humans in the Yozgat province of Türkiye |
| 13:10-13:30 | Abdul Ghafar University of Melbourne, Australia Title: Microbiome of the bush tick (Haemaphysalis longicornis): the current state of play revisited |
| 13:30-15:00 | Lunch |
| Posters (17:00-18:00) Important Note: Posters of all symposia will be presented on Monday September 2nd and Tuesday September 3th in the room Cetro of the Meliá Cohiba hotel. They assembled on Sunday, September 1st | |
| 17:00-18:00 | Ana Laura Cano Argüelles (PhD Student) Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Salamanca (IRNASA), Spain Title: Investigating the role of miRNAs in the salivary glands of the soft ticks Ornithodoros moubata and Ornithodoros erraticus |
| 17:00-18:00 | Javier Alfonso Garza Hernández Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico Title: Detection of multiple novel viruses in hard and soft ticks in Mexico |
| 17:00-18:00 | Katie Dillon (PhD Student) University of Georgia, USA Title: Tick genomics – Progress towards tick genome assembly and annotation best practices |
| 17:00-18:00 | Ronel Pienaar ARC-Ondertsepoort Veterinary Research, South Africa Title: Karoo Paralysis tick (Ixodes rubicundus) salivary gland transcriptomes – in search of a toxin |
| 17:00-18:00 | Sandra Isabel Da Conceição Antunes IHMT, Portugal Title: Bacteriome Diversity in Babesia ovis-Infected Rhipicephalus bursa salivary glands and midguts |
| 17:00-18:00 | Shohei Ogata Hokkaido University, Japan Title: Understanding the vertical and horizontal transmission potential of Spiroplasma in ticks |