Lyme Disease Center News/Conference

2024 Ticks & Tick-borne diseases symposium

Saturday, May 4, 2024
9:00 am – 4:30 pm

Innovative Technologies Complex, Binghamton University

85 Murray Hill Rd, Vestal, NY 13850.

Agenda

  • 8:30 Registration, Coffee, Light Refreshments
  • 9:00 Welcome Remarks (10 minutes)
    Nagaraju Kanneboyina, Dean and Professor, School of Pharmacy and
    Pharmaceutical Sciences, Binghamton University.

Session I (Morning): Ticks and tick-borne pathogen screening

  • 9:15-10:00 am Keynote speaker
    Transmission and perpetuation of Powassan virus in New York.
    Saravanan Thangamani, Ph.D. SUNY Empire Innovation Professor,
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Director, SUNY Center for
    Environmental Health and Medicine; Director, Vector Biology Laboratories;
    SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.
  • 10:00-11:00 am: Ticks and tick-borne pathogen screening
    • Backyard birds and their ticks in Onondaga County
      Brian Leydet, Ph.D. Associate Professor Epidemiology & Disease
      Ecology Department of Environmental Biology SUNY - College of
      Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY.
    • Bacterial Microbiome of Ixodes scapularis Ticks Collected in Binghamton, New York Michel Shamoon-Pour, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor, First-year Research Immersion, Anthropology, Tick-borne Disease Center, Binghamton University
    • The role of autophagy in tick-endosymbiont interactions: insights from Ixodes scapularis and Rickettsia buchneri
      Xinru Wang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology; SUNY Upstate Medical University.
  • 11:00-11:30 Break and poster session
  • 11:30 Presentation by students
    • Characterizing field-collected isolates of Powassan virus in New York
      State.
      Jessica Crooker, MD/Ph.D. student. SUNY Upstate Medical University,
      Syracuse, NY.
    • Powassan virus elicits differential gene expression during early tick
      transmission at the skin interface.
      Dakota Paine, Ph.D. student]. SUNY Upstate Medical University,
      Syracuse, NY.
  • 12:00-1:15 Lunch


Session II (Afternoon): Lyme disease diagnosis and treatment.

  • 1:30-2:15 pm am Keynote speaker
    Ticks and the diseases they carry- nature’s dirty needle.
    Joseph J. Burrascano Jr., MD, Southold, NY, USA
  • 2:15-3:15 pm Session II:
    • Clinical Experience with C6 Antigen for Lyme Disease
      Betina Wagner, Professor and Chair of the Department of Population
      Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Cornell University.
    • Tick Magnets: The occupational risk of tick-borne disease exposure in
      forestry workers in NY
      Amanda Roome, Associate Director, BU Tick-Borne Disease Center
  • 3:15-3:30 pm Break and poster session

  • 3:30-4:15 pm Session III: Tick-borne Disease Prevention and Patient Experience
    Panel: Amanda Roome, Maggie Whitaker, Beth Scoville, Karen
    Dickerson, and Jennifer Clark

    2022 Webinar Conference

Hosted by Binghamton University's Tick-borne Disease Research Center and Southern Tier Lyme Support, Inc.

May 3, 2022

Emcee

Mackay Rippey
Acupuncturist

Speakers 

Dr. Brian Fallon, MD, and Dr.Shannon Delaney, MD, co-investigators on studies of adults and children with Lyme disease

  • Fallon is director of the Center for Neuroinflammatory Disorders and Biobehavioral Medicine and director of the Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center at Columbia University
  • Delaney is a neuropsychiatrist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center

"Introducing Columbia University's New Lyme Disease Clinic: The Cohen Center for Health and Recovery from Lyme and Tick-borne Diseases"

Michael Shamoon-Pour
Resesarch Assistant Professor of Molecular and Biological Anthropology at Binghamton University
"The Nature of Ticks in the Southern Tier: What We Now Know and What the Future Could Bring"

Ross Douthat
Columnist, The New York Times
"From the Dreamhouse to the Nightmare: My Lyme Disease Experience"

Previous Center-Sponsored Conferences

2019 Lyme Disease Conference

Hosted by Binghamton University's Tick-borne Disease Research Center and Southern Tier Lyme Support, Inc.

May 4, 2019

Speakers

Bahgat Sammakia
Vice President for Research, Binghamton University
Welcoming remarks

Ralph Garruto
Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Lyme and Other Tick-borne Disease Research Center, Binghamton University
"Tick-borne Disease Research Center"

Jill Auerbach
Hudson Valley Lyme Disease Association
"An Overview of NYS and Federal Advocacy and the Need for Tick Research to Eliminate Disease"

Brian Leydet
Assistant Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
"Knowledge Gaps in Lyme Disease Ecology, Transmission and Control"

Dr. Bettina Wagner, DVM
Professor and Chair, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
"Lyme Disease, Treatment and Vaccination in Man's Best Friends"

Robert Giguere
Director of Sales, IGeneX, Inc.
"Testing Techniques for Tick-borne Pathogens"

Hilary Thing
Certified Herbalist
"Hidden Advantages of Natural Lyme Treatment"

Dr. Heidi Puc, MD
Integrative Medicine of Central New York, Chittenango, N.Y.
"Lyme and Co-infectors: Causal Role in Cancer"

Dr. Amy Lazzarini, MD
Integrative Medicine of Central New York, Chittenango, N.Y.
"Impact of Lyme and Co-infections on the Gut"

Dr. Kenneth Liegner, MD
Kenneth Liegner, MD and Associates; Internal Medicine, Pawling, N.Y.
"The Disease that Doesn't Exist - Chronic Lyme Disease"

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