Author Archives: lch27@cornell.edu

The lab enjoyed Halloween this year with the theme Alice in Wonderland!

The lab attended a great ASTMH meeting this year in New Orleans.  It was great to catch up with former lab members, colleagues and friends.   Bill Gates came to Ethan’s poster session!

Ethan presents his research at ASTMH 2014

Congratulations to our graduating seniors: Laura, Emily, Jason and Eric!!!

Minigolf senior lab celebration May 9th

(right to left: Eric, Ethan, Nick, Sylvie, Susan, Brittany, Laura, Jason and Gloria)

Dr. Nicholas Ledesma completed his dissertation in Comparative Biomedical Sciences on dog heartworm vector biology on December 20th.  Nick will now return to vet school to complete his last two years of his DVM.  Congratulations!

New York’s first case of locally acquired dengue virus has been reported:

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/11/20/new-york-states-first-known-dengue-virus-infection-found-on-long-island/

The infection was likely transmitted by the Asian Tiger Mosquito (Aedes albopictus)

Nick Ledesma presented his research on dog heartworm at the 2013 American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting in Austin, TX.

Welcome to new graduate student Ethan Degner!  https://blogs.cornell.edu/harrington/research/members/

Welcome to new lab members Dr. Roy Faiman and Dr. Susan Villarreal!  You can read more about them and what they are up to here: https://blogs.cornell.edu/harrington/research/members/

There is mounting evidence and much discussion this summer regarding the connection between A. americanum tick exposure and sensitivity to alpha gal.   More details can be found here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3085643/pdf/nihms-273885.pdf