Your New England Center of Excellence in Vector-bonre Disease (NEWVEC) is hosting two speakers of interest to the tick and tick-borne disease community.  

On 11-February-2025 Eric Siegel, UMass Microbiology PhD candiate, will be talking about ""Exploiting the Essentiality of Borrelia burgdorferi's guaB for Reservoir Host-Targeted Interventions."  Eric has published a number of interesting papers and this latest reports on an interesting new drug that may help the fight against Lyme Disease. 

On 13-February-2025, Dr. Nathan Grubaugh, Professor at Yale University, will present on ""Genomic ecology of mosquito- and tick-borne viruses."  Dr. Grubaugh is conducting cutting edge research on the growing number of viral pathogens transmitted by ticks. 

Both seminars are at 11:30AM in 222 Morrill Science Center II (on the Umass Amherst campus).  If you would like to meet with either speaker, or wish to learn more about NEWVEC, contact Jane Derderian (jderderian@umass.edu).