Presentations

ICTTD presentations

Presentations from the ICTTD3 Coordinated Action start-up meeting held at the Polana hotel, Maputo, Mozambique from 27 September - 1 October 2004

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• Presentation of A.I. Abdelrahim (University of Bahr El Ghazal, Sudan) on the national Sudan Network
• Presentation of M.A. Darghouth (Ecole Vétérinaire Nationale, Tunisia) on the Maghrebian Network on Tick-borne Diseases
• Presentation of P. Gwakisa (Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania) on the National Forum for Tick and Tick-borne Disease control (NFTTD)
• Presentation of F. Jongejan (Utrecht University, the Netherlands / University of Pretoria, South Africa) on the ICTTD3 Coordinated Action
• Presentation of A. Latif (Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, South Africa) on the African Network for Tick Scientists (ANTS)
• Presentation of V. Nene (Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, USA) on the current status of genomics initiatives on ticks and tick-borne pathogens

Presentations from the EMBO/ICTTD practical course ‘Integrated molecular diagnostics for tick-borne pathogens using RLB hybridization and microarray based biochips’, held at the University of Pretoria, South Africa from 27 October – 7 November 2003.

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• Presentation of D. Berger (ACGT/University of Pretoria, South Africa) on the technology of microarrays and its application in gene expression analysis
• Presentation of M. Broekhuijsen (TNO Prince Maurits Laboratorium, the Netherlands) on diagnostic DNA microarrays
• Presentation of M. Broekhuijsen (TNO Prince Maurits Laboratorium, the Netherlands) on genome-wide analysis of Francisella tularensis
• Presentation of A. Cohen (Roche Diagnostics, South Africa) on (real-time) PCR and the Roche Lightcycler
• Presentation of M. de Boer (Isogen Lifescience, the Netherlands) on microarray technology for molecular diagnostics
• Presentation of A. Nijhof (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) on the basics of the reverse line blot hybridization assay (RLB)