Isobel Ronai

U. Dirnagl on Academic publishing: doom – Or dawn of a new era? Lots of discussion about open access, preprints and AI. #ISTTBD-XVI

J. J. Khoo on Near-complete bacterial genome insertion in a tick nuclear genome evidence from tick cell lines and ticks. Detailed bioinformatic investigation and multiple lines of evidence for integration.

A. Cabezas Cruz on Innovative approaches to vector vaccination – targeting the microbiota to prevent vector-borne diseases. By targeting the microbiota can we prevent pathogen transmission?

Ticks – genomic insights and anti-microbiota vaccines
#ISTTBD-XVI

S. Melis on Complex interactions between two lineages and two symbionts in Ixodes frontalis

P. Lesiczka on Exploring Ixodes ricinus endo-microbiome transmission modes

A. I. Krawczyk on Midichloria mitochondrii, a symbiont of Ixodes ricinus ticks, contributes to Lyme disease risk

The microbiome of Ixodes ticks session #ISTTBD-XVI

S. A. Muñoz Leal on Tick-borne relapsing fever spirochetes in South America: past, present and future directions - identification of unique soft tick species and Borrelia in South America. #ISTTBD-XVI

K. Elati on Establishing of an artificial tick feeding system as contribution to the 3Rs approach.

B. E. Mustafa on Artificial feeding of ticks - 195 studies since 1912

A. Foley-Eby on Female mice infected with Borrelia burgdorferi transmit maternal antibodies to their offspring that provide strain-specific protection against tick bite - maternal antibody transmission, immune waning, immune interference of Borrelia strains.

J. Kamiš on Tick-borne viral pathogens in ticks and human patients from the Czech Republic - investigation of three key viruses (tick-borne encephalitis virus, Alongshan virus, Kemerovo virus)

T. Lao-Gonzalez on African swine fever virus and vector competence in soft ticks – What do we need to do to unravel the unknown? Review of the pathogen and tick competence.

Sinnecker-Kunz Award
session #ISTTBD-XVI

N. Boulanger on Acarological risk in urban and peri-urban ecosystems in a French region highly endemic for ticks and tick-borne diseases - Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus comparison

M. Kazimírová on New patterns in seasonal activity of two epidemiologically important ticks in Slovakia, Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus, and their infection with tick-borne agents - surveillance and tick garden experiments with fine grained temporal data.

J. Rapp on Unravelling urban tick-borne pathogen infection risk – are rodents key reservoirs in urban settings? - finding puzzling differences in rodent host versus tick infection rates.

V. Hönig on Ticks and tick-borne pathogens in urban areas in the Czech Republic - high heterogeneity in ticks and pathogens.

Field ecology II session #ISTTBD-XVI

V Tagliapietra on Impact of extreme weather events on tick-host dynamics and disease risk in mountainous regions – the study case of Vaia windstorm in the north-eastern Italian Alps.

RE Rollins on Analysis of ticks and associated microorganisms collected on the North Sea Island of Heligoland - tick, infection and host data from an island.

S. Schwartz on Tickborne pathogen prevalence of small mammals in Pennsylvania - long term active surveillance effort in the state of Pennsylvania & initial data on mouse infections.

Field ecology I session #ISTTBD-XVI

O. N. Choi on Characterisation of Borrelia burgdorferi sequence diversity using modified multilocus sequence typing

S. Hepner on A core genome MLST scheme for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato improves insights into the evolutionary history of the species complex. Increasing sampled loci (639) helps resolve genospeciss. Scheme is on Borrelia PubMLST database.

Petr Kraiczy on Borrelia tillae, a relapsing fever species from South Africa with human pathogenic potential.

G. Margos on The completed genome of Borrelia tillae – a relapsing fever Borrelia species from South Africa. Using modern day technologies to investigate an understudied Borrelia from a South African soft tick.

Borrelia session #ISTTBD-XVI

Klemen Strle on Immune response in the pathogenesis of Lyme disease - identifying genetic risk factors for host immune response to Borrelia leading to disease #ISTTBD-XVI