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American Committee of Medical Entomology (ACME) 2013 Report ASTMH Annual Meeting Washington, DC

ACME Symposia #144, November 16, Sunday @ 1:45pm Symposium I: Annual Business Meeting and Award Presentations • Annual Business Meeting and Awards Presentation: Stephen L. Dobson • ACME Student Travel awardee presentation: Rob McCann • Hoogstraal Medal awardee presentation: Barry Beaty • Contributions of Female Scientists to the Field of Medical Entomology: Jennifer M. Anderson • Keynote: “Mosquito Immunity and Malaria Transmission: Insights into immune activation and Plasmodium immune evasion" – Carolina Barillas ‐ Mury (NIH) • Networking and Social Time

Your team of many talents… • Amy Morrison • Nicole Achee • Brian Foy • Lyric Bartholomay • Kevin Macaluso • Kristen Michel • Sam Telford A,C • Dan Kline • Jason Rasgon A A – Nominating Committee • Nora Besansky A B – Student Travel Award Committee • Jennifer Anderson A,B (also Rebekah Kading and Ellen Dotson) • Stephen Dobson C – Hoogstraal Medal Coordinator

2014 Chair: New Secretary Treasurer: New Chairperson ‐ elect: Jennifer Anderson NIH Rebekah Kading Nicole Achee CDC Notre Dame

2013 – New ACME Councilors Maria Diuk Wasser Rebekah Kading Gonzalo Vazquez Yale University CDC, Fort Collins, CO Emory University

2013 – Outgoing ACME Councilors “Thank You!” For all of your contributions Kevin Macaluso Brian Foy Amy Morrison Louisiana State U. Colorado State U. UC Davis Past Chair Past Chair Secretary/Treasurer

What does ACME do? • Promote medical entomology in the ASTMH and in organizations whose scopes of activities include the area of human diseases transmitted by arthropods • Organize symposia or workshops annually that emphasize, but are not limited to, the contributions of medical entomology to tropical medicine • Encourage active participation of medical entomologists in the ASTMH • Recognize outstanding contributions by medical entomologists • The Harry Hoogstraal Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Medical Entomology. • ACME Student Travel Award • Help serve as an expert clearing house on certain issues in medical entomology • e.g., Arthropod Containment Guidelines

ACME Symposia #155, November 16, Sunday @ 4pm Symposium II: Progress Towards the Use of Vector Manipulation for the Prevention of Pathogen Transmission “Microbe ‐ mediated control of arthropod vector competence” ‐ Jason Rasgon (Penn State) “Genetic engineering of parasite ‐ resistant mosquitoes" ‐ Tony James (UC Irvine) “Manipulating the mosquito innate immune system for disease control” ‐ George Demopolis (Johns Hopkins) "How to use a fungus to combat Malaria" ‐ Raymond J. St. Leger (University of Maryland)

2013 Award Winners • Hoogstraal Award – Barry Beaty, Colorado State University • Student Travel Award – Rob McCann Michigan State University

2014 Awards • Remember to submit your nominations for 2014 ! • Don’t forget that postdocs ( ≤ 2 years) are eligible for the travel award • Promote developing scientists !!

Contributing to the Development of Guideline Documents • Guidelines for Human Participants in Vector Biology Research (VBR) • Experimental Releases of Mosquitoes into the Environment • Revision of the Arthropod Containment Guidelines

Advocacy / Increasing Awareness • Please participate in ASTMH ‐ organized activities to promote our field Capitol Hill Visits, May 2013

ACME Public Relations • ACME Web Site Revision

ACME Newsletter

ACME Public Relations

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2014 Priorities • Continue to increase membership, Improve standing within the Society, Better define our role within ASTMH • ACME Newsletter and other engagement tools (blog, twitter, etc.) • Continue ACME fundraising efforts, including pursuit of corporate sponsorship

Visit the ACME Booth!! • Meet an ACME member • Pick up information about ACME • Buy a shirt, hat, entomological memorabilia – Funds go to the support of ACME !!!

April 7, 2014 ‐ World Health Day: Focus on Vectors