Ticks and Tickborne Diseases Symposium
3rd Annual Ticks and Tickborne Diseases Symposium
April 30, 2025 Agenda
Sheldon Hall
8:00am Registration
8:30am Welcome and Introduction
Nicole Baumgarth, Director, Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Research and Education Institute
8:45am Predicting tickborne disease risk
Dustin Brisson, University of Pennsylvania
9:30am Developing a deer-targeted approach to reduce acarological risk of human exposure to
infected Ixodes scapularis: considerations and preliminary data
Jean Tsao, Michigan State University
10:15am Coffee break & Poster viewing (Feinstone Hall)
11:15am Insights on Lyme disease spirochete protein function and control of expression
Brian Stevenson, University of Kentucky
12:00pm Lunch & Poster viewing (Feinstone)
1:15pm Panel #1: Human tickborne diseases – challenges and opportunities
Linden Hu, Tufts University
John Aucott, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Facilitator: Paul Auwaerter, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
2:00 pm Panel #2: New and emerging tickborne diseases
Saravanan Thangamani, Upstate Medical University
John Branda, Massachusetts General Hospital
Facilitator: Thomas Hart. Johns ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½
2:45 pm Coffee Break
3:15 pm Panel #3: Tick surveillance and intervention strategies
Holly Gaff, Old Dominion University
Robert P Smith, Maine Health Institute for Research
Facilitator: Doug Norris, Johns ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½
4:00 pm Keynote Address: Challenging Lyme Disease
Joppe Hovius, Multidisciplinary Lyme Borreliosis Center, Amsterdam UMC
5:00 pm Cocktails/mixer