38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology

August 7-11, 2005  Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A
   

Cross-Divisional Symposium

MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS BETWEEN INSECT VECTORS AND HUMAN PATHOGENS
Organizer: Liwang Cui

Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Molecular interactions between the malaria parasite and its mosquito vector

Roger Frutos, Campus International de Baillarguet, Montpellier, France
Relationships between the symbiont Sodalis glossinidius and the vectorial competence of tsetse flies

Liwang Cui, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Functional genomics in the postgenomic era: what do we learn from the apicomplexan malaria parasite?

Jesus Valenzuela, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, USA
Sand fly midgut receptors for Leishmania parasites: targets for transmission-blocking vaccines