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CREATE-NEO Virtual Seminar Series on
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases



September 2023 - August 2024

Seminar Date Speaker Institution Recording (where available)
Spreading clusters of Rift Valley fever disease associated with climate variations in East Africa
September 12, 2023M. Kariuki NjengaWSU Global Health, Kenya 
The Butantan Institute and the dengue vaccine development
October 10, 2023Esper G. KallasUSP & Butantan, Brazil Zoom
Of Bats and Bugs: An integrated approach to biosurveillance of vector-borne pathogens
November 14, 2023Anna FagreCDC, USAZoom
Can live vaccines for dengue virus still be the answer?December 12, 2023Steven WhiteheadNIH, USAZoom
Evolution of Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) in India since its reemergence in 2005January 9, 2024Sujatha SunilICGES, IndiaZoom

Adaptive immune responses to dengue virus infection

February 13, 2024Tineke CantaertInstitut Pasteur, CambodiaZoom
Genomic epidemiology and ecology of mosquito- and tickborne virusesMarch 12, 2024Nathan GrubaughYale University, USAZoom
April 9, 2024Rafael Kroon CamposUTMB, USAZoom
Postponed (original date May 14, 2024) Samantha SampsonStellenbosch University, ZA 
Implementing an Integrated System to Enhance Global Surveillance of Emerging and Reemerging Viral ThreatJune 11, 2024Marta GiovanettiFiocruz/UCBM, Brazil/Italy Zoom
July 9, 2024Lyle Petersen
CDC, USAZoom
Urban Arbovirus Emergence: Chikungunya and Yellow FeverAugust 13, 2024Scott C. WeaverUTMB, USAZoom
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The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Disease (CREID) is a coordinated network with centers in regions around the globe where emerging and re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks are likely to occur. Multidisciplinary teams of investigators will conduct pathogen/host surveillance, study pathogen transmission, pathogenesis and immunologic responses in the host, and will develop reagents and diagnostic assays for improved detection for important emerging pathogens and their vectors.


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