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RESULTS
Read below for coverage of our most exciting and engaging outreach event - the Tick Immunity Symposium - where we share and discuss our work with the broader scientific community, thanks to P01 funding from the NIH.
Preliminary findings related to this project are also highlighted below.
Up-to-date results from our studies can be found in the Publications tab, which lists all relevant peer-reviewed literature from this program. For information about the technologies and methodologies that have been created or optimized through our project, please refer to the Technical Resources tab.
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2022 Symposium: Return to in-person format
The Tick Immunity Symposium conducted in an in-person format, supported by P01 funding from NIH NIAID, made its return in 2022, after an...
Dec 10, 2022
2021 Symposium via Zoom
We were eager to host a full-blown symposium in 2021, but our plan had to change as coronavirus infection rates rose and new strains...
Jan 15, 2022
2020 Symposium: Postponed in favor of closed virtual meeting
After careful thought, we decided to postpone our 2020 symposium to a later time, as an in-person meeting is not appropriate due to the...
Jan 20, 2021
First Annual Tick Immunity Symposium
Local, national, and international researchers, students, special guests, and stakeholders gathered together on October 17, 2019 to...
Nov 12, 2019
Message in a Vesicle – Trans-kingdom Intercommunication
Joao H. F. Pedra of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and his team published a new review paper that briefly discusses...
Mar 18, 2019
Role of Mannose Binding Lectin in the Immune Response against Borrelia
Erol Fikrig and team at the Yale University School of Medicine published a new paper examining the role of Mannose Binding Lectin (MBL)...
Feb 5, 2019
Mutational Analysis of Gene function in the Anaplasmataceae
Ulrike Munderloh and team at the University of Minnesota published a new paper on mutational analysis of gene function. Mutational...
Feb 1, 2019
Borrelia Protein Interactions Critical for Persistence in Mammals
Utpal Pal and team at the University of Maryland, College Park published a review on the interactions between Borrelia burgdorferi...
Feb 1, 2019
Activation of the Immune Deficiency Pathway in Black-legged Ticks
Researchers identify the molecule p47 as a binding partner that induces a signaling cascade to limit microbial infection Researchers at...
Jan 2, 2019
Characterization of Tick OATPs on Bacterial and Viral Infections
Utpal Pal and his team at the University of Maryland, College Park, published a new paper characterizing the roles of Ixodes scapularis ...
Nov 14, 2018
Vector Immunity and Evolutionary Ecology: The Harmonious Dissonance
How evolution has shaped vector immunity, calling for immunologists and evolutionary ecologists to work together to tackle some of these...
Nov 1, 2018
Team of Investigators Across Institutions to Pave the Way in Tick-borne Illness
Receives $7.7 million grant for first-of-its-kind Tick Immunity research program to examine tick immune responses to pathogens that cause...
Jul 30, 2018
Identification of Lyme Borreliae Proteins Promoting Survival in Ixodes Nymphs
Utpal Pal and team at the University of Maryland, College Park, published a new paper identifying proteins that affect survival of...
Jul 1, 2018
Visualization of Microbiota in Tick Guts by Whole-mount In Situ Hybridization
Erol Fikrig and team from the Yale University School of Medicine have published a method to visualize the microbiota in tick guts using...
Jun 1, 2018
Host-Specific Expression of Tick Salivary Genes
Findings provide new insight into vector-host interactions and offer a functional paradigm to better understand the phenomenon of...
Jun 1, 2018
Ixodes Immune Responses Against Lyme Disease Pathogens
Utpal Pal and team at the University of Maryland, College Park, published a new review of recent studies in immune response against Lyme...
May 29, 2018
Borrelia Surface Protein Processed into Peptides for Microbial Persistence
Utpal Pal and team at the University of Maryland, College Park, published a new paper highlighting a newly discovered mechanism for...
May 10, 2018
Protein Used to Outsmart the Human Immune System
Findings have major implications for tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease A UMD researcher has uncovered a mechanism by which the...
Apr 2, 2018
Methods in Microbiology: Artificial Infection of Ticks with Borrelia
Utpal Pal of the University of Maryland, College Park, edited a book in the Methods in Microbiology series on Borrelia burgdorferi...
Oct 15, 2017
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