UMR BIPAR's MiTick team at the TTP11 International Conference

11th Tick and Tick-Borne Pathogen Conference (TTP11) in Havana/Varadero, Cuba, 1st-6th September 2024

During 1st – 6th September multiple members of UMR-BIPAR MiTick team, Maisons-Alfort France (groups: VAMP, Ticks&Co, microBioTick and NeuroTick) contributed to the 11th Tick and Tick-Borne Pathogen Conference (TTP11) in Havana/Varadero in Cuba.

Nine members of MiTick Team (Sara Moutailler, Ladislav Simo, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz, Veronica Risco, Sabine Rakotobe, Lianet Abuin-Denis, Stefania Porcelli, Lourdes Mateos-Hernandez and Apolline Maitre) traveled to Cuba to attend the meeting. Along others members of the MiTick team they contributed to 15 oral presentations and 10 posters displays.

Among those, director of UMR-BIPAR Sara Moutailler gave a keynote talk and other 11 talks were presented or supervised by MiTick members. In addition within the TTP11 conference, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz (head of the group microBioTick) assembled and was a chairman of the Symposium Tick Microbiota, Ladislav Simo (Head of the group NeuroTick)  assembled and was a chairman of the Symposium Tick Physiology and Metabolism and Sara Moutailler (head of the group Ticks&Co) was a chairman of the Symposium Ecology and Epidemiology of Ticks and Tick-borne Pathogens.

During the awards session, the PhD student Stefania Porcelli (supervisors Sara Moutailler and Pierre Deshuillers) received the 2nd place for the best student oral presentation, and the PhD student Lianet Abuin-Denis (supervisor: Ladislav Simo) received the 1st place for the best student poster of the meeting.

MiTick team (UMR-BIPAR) obtained prestigious awards during TTP11 conference in Havana/Varadero Cuba 1st – 6th September 2024. From left: Ladislav Simo (Head of MiTick), PhD candidate Lianet Abuin-Denis (1st place for the best student poster of the conference), PhD candidate Stefania Porcelli (2nd place for the best student oral presentation of the conference), Sara Moutailler (Head of UMR-BIPAR).
© @ Sabine Rakotobe

Contact :

 

See also

Awards:
• 2th place prize for the best oral presentation: S. Porcelli, A. Heckman, PL. Deshuillers, Galon C., L. Mateos-Hernandez, S. Rakotobe, Simo L., Cabezas-Cruz A., A-C. Lagree, S. Moutailler.  Co-infection dynamics of B. afzelii and TBEV in C3H mice. 

• 1st place prize for the best poster. L. Abuin-Denis, S. Rakotobe, C. Ning, L. Sofrankova, M. Vancova, J. Perner, O. Hajdusek, L. Simo. Kinin neuropeptide in the midgut endocrine cells and innervation of salivary glands of Ixodes ricinus

Modification date: 10 October 2024 | Publication date: 10 October 2024 | By: UMR BIPAR