News from the Integrated Consortium on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases and General Announcements

• !!!! Newsletter 40 and  41 now available !!!!

• The Seventh TTP, Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens Conference, will be celebrated in Zaragoza (Spain) from August 28th to September 3rd, 2011. The Conference is aimed at integration and our main theme is "QUESTING TOGETHER: SYSTEMATICS, EPIDEMIOLOGY, GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY RESEARCH ON TICKS AND TICK-BORNE PATHOGENS INTEGRATED AS ONE". As usual, the Conference will cover every aspect concerning the morphology, systematics, epidemiology, diagnostic and treatment of ticks and tick-borne diseases.
• The Seventh TTP will introduce also the "Jane B. Walker Award" to the most outstanding integrative presentation, a recognition intended to keep alive the memory of our colleague, and also to recognize integrative efforts in the world of ticks and associated pathogens. 
• This is is the first announcement to invite you to visit our web page and to begin to arrange your plans to attend that exciting event. We are working in the preparation of an interesting scientific program and on a social program which bring you all the Mediterranean hospitality. Let's share science, and let's share friendship.

Please visit our web page <www.unizar.es/ttp7> for more information or just write to the mail <ticks7@unizar.es> if you want to continue receiving additional information.

With our best wishes,

Agustín Estrada-Peña
José de la Fuente
on behalf of the Organizing Committee

• Database on tick-borne zoonoses
  
  A preliminary version of the database on tick-borne zoonoses which was developed by ICTTD’s Working Group 5 and managed by Umberto Vesco from the University of Torino can be found online at http://www.personalweb.unito.it/315381.dottorato/. Besides the database itself, a list of publications on tick-borne zoonoses in pdf file format and a world map of recorded cases of several tick-borne zoonoses can be accessed through this webpage.