Links

ICTTD-3 Partners, tick collection(s), genomics and other links

ICTTD-3 PARTNERS

Argentina

• INTA EEA Rafaela

Australia

• CSIRO Livestock Industries

Belgium

• Institute of Tropical Medicine, Department of Animal Health

Brasil

• Faculdade Medicina de Ribeirao Preto - Universidade de São Paulo
• Faculdade Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade de São Paulo, Colecao Nacional de Carrapatos
• Universidade Estadual Paulista

Burkina Faso

• Centre International de Recherche - Développement sur l'Elevage en zone Subhumide

China

• Animal Quarantin Institute Ministry of Agriculture
• Huazhong Agricultural University
• Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Czech Republic

• Institute of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• National Institute of Public Health

Ethiopia

• National Animal Health Research Centre

France

• Centre International en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

The Gambia

• International Trypanotolerance Centre

Germany

• Forschungszentrum Borstel
• Ludwig-Maximilians - Universitaet Muenchen

Hungary

• Centre for Tick-borne diseases

India

• Indian Veterinary Research Institute

Italy

• Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di
  Torino

Mozambique

• Faculdade de Veterinaria da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane

Netherlands

• Isogen Lifescience
• Utrecht University

Portugal

• Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnologica
• Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Senegal

• Institut Sénégalais de recherches Agricoles

Slovakia

• Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences

Slovenia

• Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical Faculty of Ljubljana

South Africa

• Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute
• Onderstepoort Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria
• University of Pretoria

Spain

• Universidad de Extremadura
• University of Castilla La Mancha
• University of Zaragoza

Sudan

• University of Bahr El Ghazal

Switzerland

• Universität Bern
• Université de Neuchâtel

Tanzania

• Sokoine University of Agriculture

Thailand

• Kamphaengsaen Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratorium, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kasetsart University

Turkey

• Adnan Menderes University

Uganda

• Makerere University

United Kingdom

• Roslin Institute
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Glasgow
• University of Oxford
• University of Surrey

TICK COLLECTION(S)

• The University of Edinburgh Natural History Collections – The Tick Collection (United Kingdom)

GENOMICS 

Hosts

• ARKdb Farm Animal Database
• Ensembl genome browser

Pathogens

• The Anaplasma marginale Genome Sequencing Project
• Babesia bovis EST Sequencing Project
• Borrelia burgdorferi B31 genome page
• The Ehrlichia ruminantium genome sequencing project
• Rickettsia Genome database (RicBase)
• Rickettsia prowazekii Madrid E genome page
• Rickettsia conorii Malish 7 genome page
• Theileria annulata Sequencing Projects
• The Theileria parva Genome Database

Ticks

• OU Amblyomma americanum cDNA sequencing project
• TIGR Amblyomma variegatum Gene Index
• TIGR Boophilus microplus Gene Index
• Ixodes scapularis genome project (white-paper)
• TIGR Rhipicephalus appendiculatus Gene Index

TAXONOMY

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Species 2000 – Catalogue of Life Programme
• Species 2000 Europa

CONFERENCES 

• 4th International Conference on Rickettsiae and Rickettsial Diseases
• 5th International Conference on Ticks and Tick-borne Pathogens (TTP-5)
• 8th Biennal Conference of the Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine
• 10th International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis and other Tick-Borne Diseases (ICLB)
• 80th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Parasitologists

OTHER

• European commission research
• European Union Concerted Action on Lyme Borreliosis (EUCALB)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
• International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)
• International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
• Office International des Épizooties (OIE)
• Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine (STVM)