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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
• Brian Foy
• Kevin Macaluso
• Sam Telford A,C
• Jason Rasgon A
• Nora Besansky A
• Jennifer Anderson A,B
• Stephen Dobson
• Nicole Achee
• Lyric Bartholomay
• Kristen Michel
• Dan Kline

A – Nominating Committee B – Student Travel Award Committee (also Rebekah Kading and Ellen Dotson) C – Hoogstraal Medal Coordinator

Jennifer Anderson NIH

2014 Chair: New Chairperson‐elect:

Nicole Achee Notre Dame Rebekah Kading CDC

New Secretary Treasurer:

2013 – New ACME Councilors

Maria Diuk Wasser Yale University Rebekah Kading CDC, Fort Collins, CO Gonzalo Vazquez Emory University

“Thank You!” For all of your contributions

2013 – Outgoing ACME Councilors

Amy Morrison UC Davis Secretary/Treasurer Kevin Macaluso Louisiana State U. Past Chair Brian Foy Colorado State U. Past Chair

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

ACME Public Relations

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