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We will be at the ASM Biothreats conference in Arlington VA next week. This is ASM’s premier conference on high consequence pathogen research and policy.
I will be speaking in the From Surveillance To Bedside: Tools for the Next Outbreak session on Wednesday.
Joe will be presenting a poster in Poster Session 1 on Tuesday afternoon.
What could be better than a FREE workshop of folks talking about my favorite type of virus - the Bunyaviruses!!
I will be attending the NIH’s Bunyavirus workshop this week and giving a talk on RVFV animal models. Please come an introduce yourself. We have some openings for opportunities in the lab!
Hartman Lab will also be attending the NIAID conference on Bunyaviruses (Jan 13-14, 2020) and the ASM Biothreats Conference (Jan 28-30, 2020).
You can find us at the ASTMH Trop Med Annual Meeting Nov 20-24 in National Harbor, MD
Cindy McMillen will be giving a talk on Nov 21 #667 - Explants of human and ruminant placentas are targeted by members of the Bunyavirales order differently: comparing cellular and molecular mechanisms of infection to understand disparate rates of miscarriage between species
Devin Boyles will be presenting a poster #854 - Placental trophoblasts and giant cells are targeted for infection in a rodent model of congenital Rift Valley fever
Stop by and introduce yourself!
On Nov 4th, Devin successfully defended her MS thesis! Congrats Devin!
We will be attending the Midwest Virology Symposium at Ohio State University in October.
MS student Zach Koenig was selected to give a short talk and received a travel award. Congrats, Zach!!
Congratulations to Dr. Cynthia McMillen for being selected as a T32 post-doctoral fellowship recipient on the Immunology of Infectious Diseases training grant!
Hartman Lab will be at ASV2019 in Minneapolis! Stop by and meet us!
Workshop #30: Emerging Viruses I: Monday 7/22 1:30 PM
W30-7 Cynthia McMillen “Specialized layers of ruminant placentas are permissive to several members of the Bunyavirales order”
Poster Session #8: Bunyaviruses Sunday 7/21 Afternoon 4-6 PM
P8-6 Devin Boyles “RVFV travels across the olfactory epithelial neurons and stimulates inflammatory cell influx into the brain of Lewis rats after aerosol infection”
Poster Session #32: Pathogenesis Monday Evening 7/22 8:30-10 pm
P32-11 Joseph Albe “Longitudinal cytokine and immunological responses in cynomolgus macaques infected with New World alphaviruses”
IN PRESS:
Albe, J.R., D.A. Boyles, A.W. Walters, M.R. Kujawa, C.M. McMillen, D.S. Reed, and A.L. Hartman. In press. Neutrophil and macrophage influx into the central nervous system are inflammatory components of lethal Rift Valley Fever encephalitis in rats. PLOS Pathogens. Accepted 5/10/19. PPATHOGENS-D-19-00453R1.