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...
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TICK IMMUNITY SYMPOSIUM
Jan 15, 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 20, 2021
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...
Nov 12, 2019
First Annual Tick Immunity Symposium
Local, national, and international researchers, students, special guests, and stakeholders gathered together on October 17, 2019 to...
Mar 18, 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...
Feb 5, 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 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
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...
Jan 2, 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...
Nov 14, 2018
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 1, 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...
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the annual NIH Po1-funded symposium.
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