Really proud of this guy (⁦Alex Kneubehl, PhD⁩). He defended his PhD yesterday. He’s put in a lot of hard work and is incredibly bright. Love my group.

More evidence of the diversity and distribution of the tick-borne relapsing fever spirochete in densely populated regions of #Texas, but #lymedisease continues to be diagnosed while there’s little epidemiological support for it. journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…

An entomologist at Binghamton University kept a group of African soft ticks alive in a lab for 27 years—and their offspring are still going at age 26. entomologytoday.org/2022/01/14/kee…

We welcome Dr. Jesus Valenzuela as our 4th speaker of the VVB seminar series this Friday, March 11th at 12pm EST! Dr. Valenzuela will present a talk titled, "Vector Salivary Proteins: From Basic Science to Translational Research". Please RT! #SandFly #Leishmaniasis

Congrats Dr. Kneubehl! Fantastic work resolving complicated genomes!

Blacklegged (“deer”) tick larvae are active in Illinois now. What do they look like? How do they move? How small are they? ⬇️

Announcing the 5th International Conference on Relapsing Fever from the 17th to the 19th of July 2023, in the city of České Budějovice , Czech Republic. Link is below for more info. ryanomrego.wixsite.com/5th-relapsing-…

Got ticks? Join us today on Reddit AskScience at 2 p.m. ET for an in-depth discussion about the biology and history of Relapsing Fever. Our expert panelists will be Dr. Phil Stewart and Dr. Tom Schwan, both from NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratories. asm.social/11S #scicomm

Deadline for registration extended to the 24th of March for the International Conference on Relapsing Fever!!!

Hey hey! Great group effort in writing up this case of B. miyamotoi acquired in CA. #ticktalk #vampiresIRL wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29…

The CDMRP Tick-Borne Disease Research program has funding opportunites avialable. Be sure you submit your preproposal by May 25. cdmrp.health.mil/funding/tbdrp

Twitter friends. Those of you that store arthropods in collections what preservative do you use? Just 70% EtOH? Holly C. Tuten RonelPienaar retweet or tag as appropriate please. Thanks! #vectors #ticks #entomology #acarology

Soft tick relapsing fever is a rare but serious bacterial disease spread by Ornithodoros ticks. Check out CDC's recent MMWR: Soft Tick Relapsing Fever - United States, 2012-2021. New jobs are also featured in this week's PacVec Newsletter 7-28-2023: mailchi.mp/8bf79b030d3c/p…

Very excited with the latest paper from the Job Lopez lab. Some cool comparative genomics analysis of the conserved linear plasmid families in the Western Hemisphere soft tick-borne RF spirochetes. (1/2) Microbiology Spectrum journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/sp…

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