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ASR 2024 Posters
| First Name | Last Name | Abstract Title | Poster # |
| Olalekan Chris | Akinsulie | Identifying immune correlates of protection against Anaplasma marginale | P01 |
| Sultanah | Alharthi | Differential transcriptomic responses of human neutrophils and monocyte-derived macrophages to Anaplasma phagocytophilum challenge | P02 |
| Paige | Allen | Orientia tsutsugamushi inhibits p53 production to inhibit host cell apoptosis | P03 |
| Matthew | Anderson | Fluorescent Labeling of Coxiella burnetii to Monitor Dissemination: Methods in Progress | P04 |
| Louise | Ball | Osmolarity and ion dependent enhancement of Rickettsia parkeri virulence factors | P05 |
| Tarka Raj | Bhatta | Unraveling the Genomic Diversity of Coxiella burnetii strains from Australian Patients using Whole Genome Sequencing | P06 |
| Maureen | Brophy | Ecologic risk factors for infestation of Rhipicephalus sanguineus s.l. in a Rocky Mountain spotted fever-endemic area of eastern Arizona | P07 |
| Lisa | Brown | Transcriptional induction of the IMD signaling pathway and associated antibacterial activity in the digestive tract of cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) | P08 |
| Duc-Cuong | Bui | Ehrlichia ubiquitinates and degrades alternate splicing factor hnRNPA2B1 to promote infection | P09 |
| Thomas | Burke | A forward genetic screen reveals rickettsial factors required for evading innate immunity and survival in macrophages. | P10 |
| Manish | Chauhan | STING dependent BAX-IRF3 signaling results in apoptosis during late-stage Coxiella burnetii infection. | P11 |
| Hua-Wei | Chen | Scrub typhus among hospitalized acute febrile illness admissions, Western and Central Provinces, Sri Lanka | P12 |
| Travis | Chiarelli | Anaplasma phagocytophilum cell division is required for infectious progeny formation and bacterial release | P13 |
| Sabrina | Clark | Characterization of nuclear effector CBU0388 during Coxiella burnetii infection | P14 |
| Dezmond | Cole | The Impact of Cell Shape on the Actin-based Motility of Rickettsia parkeri | P15 |
| Nicola | Collins | A novel rickettsial agent identified in patients with acute febrile illness is also present in Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks | P16 |
| Cameron | Coyle | Tick Tales: Exploring Innate Immune Memory and Vector Competency in Ixodes scapularis | P17 |
| Benjamin | Cull | Investigation of tick immune control of tick-borne pathogens with CRISPR/Cas9Ixodes scapularis cell lines | P18 |
| Gregory | Dasch | Molecular Typing of Isolates of Rickettsia akari | P19 |
| Nan | Duan | Nanobodies Targeting Ehrlichia Type IV Secretion Effector Etf-3 Inhibit Protein Functions and Mouse Infection | P20 |
| J. Stephen | Dumler | Neutrophil single cell RNAseq analyses demonstrate marked heterogeneity over transcriptional and differentiation programs with Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection. | P21 |
| Marina | Eremeeva | An Overview of Rickettsiology Presented at the American Society of Microbiology Meetings before the ASR | P22 |
| Marina | Eremeeva | Detection and Characterization of Rickettsia amblyommatis in Sympatric Amblyomma americanum | P23 |
| Dina M. | Fagir | The occurrence of novel Rickettsia sp. in fleas at the human-wildlife-livestock interface of a rural community in South Africa | P24 |
| Jennifer | Farner | The role of calcium in rickettsial pathogenesis: growth and cell-cell spread | P25 |
| Alison | Fedrow | Prevalence and seasonality ofAmblyomma americanum at multiple locations in Pennsylvania | P26 |
| Alison | Fedrow | Retrospective analysis of avian and mammalian samples for the presence of Orientia in Pennsylvania | P27 |
| Jonathan | Ferm | Systemic immune response to bovine anaplasmosis differs with method of infection challenge | P28 |
| Holly | Gaff | The changing prevalence of Rickettsia parkeri in Virginia | P29 |
| Dominica | Genda | Targeted deletion of the phage head-to-tail connector protein gene (phtcp) of Ehrlichia canis and its use in preventing canine monocytotropic ehrlichiosis | P30 |
| Lidia | Gual Gonzalez | Unearthing transmission drivers of Rickettsia parkeri in South Carolina | P31 |
| Rosa Marena | Guzman | At the heart of Q fever:Coxiella burnetii growth in primary human cardiac cells | P32 |
| Will | Hamilton | Wolbachia-host interactions are mediated by ankyrin repeat proteins | P33 |
| Shelby | Jarvis | The development of an axenic medium for Anaplasma marginale | P34 |
| Sri Jyosthsna | Kancharlapalli | Evaluation of a P0 synthetic vaccine in guinea pigs against the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus | P35 |
| Gilbert | Kersh | Impact of C. burnetii genotype on infections in animals and people | P36 |
| Roberta | Koku | Identification of the Anaplasma marginale Msp1b1 binding domain for adhesion to tick cells: understanding host pathogen interactions | P37 |
| Yuejin | Liang | Lack of the IFN-γ signal leads to lethal Orientia tsutsugamushi infection in mice with skin eschar lesions | P38 |
| Mingqun | Lin | Ehrlichia RipE Upregulates ATP Production and Confers Resistance to Extracellular Bacteria to Infect Host Cells to Ensure Lethal Infection in Mice | P39 |
| Mary Clark | Lind | The Anaplasma phagocytophilum invasin AipB interacts with CD18 to promote host cell invasion | P40 |
| Lichao | Liu | Role of NAD+ and a NAD-dependent enzyme in the interactions of Rickettsia parkeri with endothelial cells | P41 |
| Anh Phuong | Luu | Deciphering host innate immune responses to tick-borne Rickettsia | P42 |
| Juan | Martinez | Modulation of mitochondrial dynamics and function is associated with intracellular growth and survival of SFG Rickettsia in macrophages | P43 |
| Paige | McCaslin | CteG disrupts centrosome duplication machinery leading to centrosome amplification during Chlamydia trachomatis infection. | P44 |
| David | McCormick | Laboratory-based Surveillance for Rickettsia typhi, United States, 2023 | P45 |
| Jaclyn | McCoy | Ehrlichia chaffeensis: Effector Modulation of CLK1 as a Mechanism to Manipulate Alternative Splicing | P46 |
| Samantha | Mercer | Anaplasma phagocytophilum modulates host exosome sphingolipid content to enhance infection | P47 |
| Smruti | Mishra | Polysaccharide synthesis operon in Rickettsia is critical in restricting endothelial cell immune responses during intracellular replication. | P48 |
| Colleen | Monahan | Determining the role of ObgE during the developmental cycle of the human pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis | P49 |
| Kristin | Mullins | Serologic and molecular testing for the diagnosis of Rickettsia, Ehrlicha, Anaplasma, and Bartonella infections in patients in Maryland, USA. | P50 |
| Minal | Mulye | Role of lipid droplets and prostaglandinE2 in Coxiella burnetii intracellular growth. | P51 |
| Hema Prasad | Narra | Transformation of Orientia tsutsugamushi reveals stable expression of transgenes during in vitro growth. | P52 |
| Girish | Neelakanta | Targeting anaplasmosis with an anti-tick vaccine | P53 |
| Trung | Nguyen | The role of the PopZ condensate in the cell polarity of the obligate intracellular human pathogenRickettsia parkeri | P54 |
| Marinda | Oosthuizen | Tick-borne pathogens and acute febrile illness: The bacterial microbiome of Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks in rural South Africa | P55 |
| Chelsea | Osbron | Caspase-8 activity mediates TNFα production and restricts Coxiella burnetii replication during murine macrophage infection | P56 |
| Kathleen | Pierce | Manipulation of human macrophage p38 signaling by Coxiella burnetii | P57 |
| Anna | Pinson | Coxiella burnetii inhibits Irg1 during infection of alveolar macrophages | P58 |
| Nicholas | Pittner | EHRLICHIA ALTERS MCL-1 POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS TO INHIBIT INTRINISIC APOPTOSIS | P59 |
| Rahul | Raghavan | Divergent evolution of OxyR regulon in Coxiella and Legionella | P60 |
| Yasuko | Rikihisa | Ehrlichia Effector TRP120 Manipulates Bacteremia to Facilitate Tick Acquisition of Ehrlichia | P61 |
| Anna | Rodriguez | Host Pathogen Interactions: Determining the Role of the Coxiella burnetii Virulence Protein CINF in Host Autophagy Induction | P62 |
| Arif | Sadi | Coxiella burnetii Actively Blocks Intracellular Interleukin-17 Signaling to Evade the Immune Response. | P63 |
| Johanna | Salzer | A Public Health Crisis: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in the United States and Mexico | P64 |
| Savannah | Sanchez | The interplay between host central carbon metabolism and Orientia tsutsugamushi intracellular proliferation | P65 |
| Allison | Scott | Understanding the functional consequences of gene family expansion in R. parkeri’s type IV secretion system | P66 |
| Sammuel | Shahzad | Identification of Dermacentor andersoni proteins that play a role in Anaplasma marginale host cell entry | P67 |
| Liliane | Silva Durães | CAT SCRATCH DISEASE: A SEMINAL STUDY TO VERIFY THE NEED FOR ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE IN BRAZIL | P68 |
| Isaura | Simões | The role of cell-to-cell communication in rickettsial pathogenesis: an approach to unveil new virulence mechanisms | P69 |
| Leslie | Sims | Host-Cell Type AffectsCoxiellaReplication Kinetics | P70 |
| Brandon | Sit | Functional genetic dissection of pathogen and host during rickettsial infection | P71 |
| Regina | Solomon | Ehrlichia chaffeensis TRP120-mediated NFAT signaling and chemokine expression | P72 |
| Brianna | Steiert | Chlamydia trachomatis conventional type III secreted effector CT584 blocks STAT1 nuclear translocation via interactions with nucleoporins and Rae1 | P73 |
| Ian | Stoll | A Novel Real-Time PCR Assay for Detection of Rickettsia rickettsii Aiding Vaccine Development | P74 |
| Chanakan | Suwanbongkot | Spotted fever group Rickettsia transmission, dissemination kinetics, and host response during tick feeding. | P75 |
| Omid | Teymournejad | Wnt/β-Catenin Regulation inEhrlichia-Induced Liver Injury | P76 |
| Sylvia | Thiong'o | Functional analysis of Coxiella burnetii cbu1261 using E. coli as a surrogate system | P77 |
| Kun-Hsien | Tsai | Detection of Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, and Neoehrlichia spp. in ticks and small mammals in Kinmen County, an offshore island of Taiwan | P78 |
| Charles | Ugwu | Evaluation of Potential Mechanisms for Glucose Phosphorylation in the Obligate Intracellular Pathogen Coxiella burnetii | P79 |
| Luisa | Valencia | Tick-mediated modulation of mammalian immune-epithelial networks | P80 |
| Jaylon | Vaughn | A Detailed Characterization ofRickettsia bellii - Host Interactions | P81 |
| Loka Reddy | Velatooru | Antibodies contribute to vaccine-conferred protection against fatal rickettsioses in mice | P82 |
| Kaylee | Vosbigian | Pathogen persistence in ticks is supported by ATF6 regulation of stomatin | P83 |
| Lidan | Wang | Anaplasma phagocytophilum T4SS Effector Hijacks ER-Golgi Proteins to Pathogen-Occupied Inclusions for Multiplication | P84 |
| Sabrina | White | Rickettsia amblyommatis and its influence on Amblyomma americanum microbiomes: a longitudinal study | P85 |
| Guoquan | Zhang | The role of dendritic cells (DCs) in regulating protective immunity against Coxiella burnetii infection | P86 |
| Guoquan | Zhang | Mechanism of Coxiella burnetii Nine Mile phase I primary infection derived protective immunity against C. burnetii reinfection in mice | P87 |
| Jianmin | Zhong | Prevalence of Rickettsia species phylotype G022 and Rickettsia tillamookensis in Ixodes pacificus nymphs and adults from Northern California | P88 |
| Jinyi | Zhu | The host calcium system contributes to intracellular Rickettsia pathogenesis. | P89 |
| Bing | Zhu | Secretome Analysis of Murine Typhus | P90 |
| Adam | Nock | Development of inducible promoter and CRISPRi plasmids functional in Rickettsia rickettsii. | P91 |
| Garrett | Cutchin | Immune correlates of memory T cells with vaccine-induced protection against fatal murine rickettsiosis | P92 |
| Caroline | Anderson | An obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen forms extensive and stable contacts with the rough endoplasmic reticulum. | P93 |
| Paul | Blair | Molecular confirmation of Orientia spp. human infection in Africa | P94 |
| Shawna | Reed | N2A, MCF7, and HepG2 Cells Support the in vitro Growth of Coxiella burnetii | P95 |
| Shawna | Reed | RpoS-dependent gene regulation during the Coxiella burnetii developmental transition | P96 |