Very proud of Amber who has been presenting her work to so many conferences this year.
Announcement
We are hiring a postdoctoral fellow to work on projects related to tick-borne diseases. These projects include pathogen surveillance and epidemiology, as well as vaccine development.
Applicants must have the following criteria:
1. A PhD in infectious diseases or related field
2. Significant experience in animal work
3. Be interested in joining the USDA after 2-3 years
4. Be a US citizen
If you are interested and match these criteria, email me at [email protected].
Please only reach out if you match all listed criteria.
Applicants must have the following criteria:
1. A PhD in infectious diseases or related field
2. Significant experience in animal work
3. Be interested in joining the USDA after 2-3 years
4. Be a US citizen
If you are interested and match these criteria, email me at [email protected].
Please only reach out if you match all listed criteria.
After a year of working together remotely, Oliver Bocanegra has finally moved to the US and officially joined the lab ✨
Oliver will be working on the ecology and management of Q Fever in rural areas. His work will mainly take place in Latin America and North Africa. He will also study the risk of infection with C. burnetii associated with the consumption of non pasteurized dairy products.
Welcome Oliver 🤍
Oliver will be working on the ecology and management of Q Fever in rural areas. His work will mainly take place in Latin America and North Africa. He will also study the risk of infection with C. burnetii associated with the consumption of non pasteurized dairy products.
Welcome Oliver 🤍
I was very honored to be invited by the Pasteur Institute of Tunisia to talk about the fieldwork activities of my lab and to formalize my collaboration with Dr. Elyes Zhioua on bartonelloses in Tunisia.
New USDA grant
We were awarded a new collaborative agreement with the USDA-ARS to look at the spillover risk from bats in peridomestic regions of Peru.
Very proud of my student Cusi Ferradas Carrillo, who was just awarded a fellowship from the Soulsby Foundation for One Health. This is additional funding that will support her work on the evaluation of domestic dogs as reliable sentinels for the surveillance of vector-borne bacterial diseases.
As more and more scientists get into Global Health research, we are proposing, as a multidisciplinary group of Global Health researchers, a series of dialogues aimed at discussing ethical aspects of Global Health research.
This is a monthly event. Our next event, on November 15th, will be focused on the good practices when establishing a Global Health partnership.
This event is online; feel free to reach out if you'd like the link.
This is a monthly event. Our next event, on November 15th, will be focused on the good practices when establishing a Global Health partnership.
This event is online; feel free to reach out if you'd like the link.
Mentoring to Medicine - Nov 4th, 2023
Our yearly Mentoring to Medicine event
was once again a success. Every year, on the first weekend of November, we host students from underrepresented backgrounds who are interested in medical careers. This year, I coordinated the One Health activity with the support of my lab and my colleagues. The students got to be disease detectives for one day and had to investigate a vector-borne zoonotic disease.
From left to right: Dr. Dennis Bente (Microbiology & Immunology Professor), me, Dr. Matt Dacso (Chair of the Department of Global Health and Emerging Diseases Department), Dr. Anastasia Accoti (upcoming postdoctoral fellow in the Laroche lab), Tanguy Tchifteyan (research associate in the Laroche lab).
Our yearly Mentoring to Medicine event
was once again a success. Every year, on the first weekend of November, we host students from underrepresented backgrounds who are interested in medical careers. This year, I coordinated the One Health activity with the support of my lab and my colleagues. The students got to be disease detectives for one day and had to investigate a vector-borne zoonotic disease.
From left to right: Dr. Dennis Bente (Microbiology & Immunology Professor), me, Dr. Matt Dacso (Chair of the Department of Global Health and Emerging Diseases Department), Dr. Anastasia Accoti (upcoming postdoctoral fellow in the Laroche lab), Tanguy Tchifteyan (research associate in the Laroche lab).
Science communication seminar: on October 10th, we talked to students and faculty members about the benefits of engaging in science communication on social media.
Global Health symposium: on October 7th, I reviewed posters and served as a panelist for the Global Health symposium organized by the Department of Global Health and Emerging Diseases, in the School of Public and Population Health.
We discussed the challenges faced by scientists trying to establish global health partnerships.
We discussed the challenges faced by scientists trying to establish global health partnerships.
NEW GRANT: MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry as an Additional Tool for Vector-borne Disease Surveillance. The USDA will support the development of MALDI-TOF MS databases for the identification of ticks and the surveillance of their associated pathogens.
www.utmb.edu/microbiology/news/m-i-news/2023/09/08/congratulations-dr.-maureen-laroche
www.utmb.edu/microbiology/news/m-i-news/2023/09/08/congratulations-dr.-maureen-laroche
NEW GRANT: A Rickettsia amblyommatis vaccine to prevent the transmission of Rickettsia rickettsii by brown dog ticks. This grant funded by the CDC will allow us to propose a new vaccine which will protect dogs again R. rickettsii disease and potentially reduce the ticks' ability to acquire bacteria from dogs.
www.utmb.edu/microbiology/news/m-i-news/2023/09/01/congratulations-dr.-laroche
www.utmb.edu/microbiology/news/m-i-news/2023/09/01/congratulations-dr.-laroche
In this issue of UTMB's One Health Newsletter, I talked to Madeline Steck, a graduate student at UTMB, about our ongoing work with internally displaced populations.
www.utmb.edu/one-health/news/articles/acute-febrile-illness
www.utmb.edu/one-health/news/articles/acute-febrile-illness
Jessica attended ASTMH in Oct-Nov 2022
