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July 6, 2018

College of Veterinary Medicine faculty attend 29th Meeting of the American Society for Rickettsiology

Submitted by Gabriella Doebele

The Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine was well represented at a recent international scientific conference.

At the 29th Meeting of the American Society for Rickettsiology, hosted June 16-19 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, eight scientists associated with the Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Diseases and diagnostic medicine and pathobiology department gave presentations. The attending scientists included Roman Ganta, Ram Raghavan, Katie Reif, Andy Alhassan, Huitao Liu, Chandra Kondithimmanahalli, Ying Wang and research assistant, Tippawan Anantatat.

Ganta was one of the plenary talk invitees. He gave a presentation titled "Targeted Mutagenesis Broadly Applicable in Ehrlichia Species in Creating Mutations to Disrupt and Restore a Gene Activity, and also to Introduce Expression Tags in Proteins."

"The American Society for Rickettsiology is a great forum to interact with scientists having research interests on rickettsial diseases resulting from various vector-borne pathogens," Ganta said. "Its annual meetings are ideally suited for learning new research advances and also to build a network of collaborations for both young and senior scientists engaged in rickettsial research."

Three K-Staters, Kondithimmanahalli, Reif and Anantatat, were among a group of 17 attendees who received American Society for Rickettsiology travel awards, which were organized by K-State Global Campus. The conference included other oral and poster presentations. The meetings have been coordinated continuously from K-State since 2006, which was started by Ganta when he began serving on the society's executive panel.

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