American Committee of Medical Entomology (ACME)
ACME Student Travel Awards
$500 award and ASTMH meeting registration
waiver
Application Deadline: May 11, 2010
Click here to download
the application guidelines.
Awards in the amount of $500 are available each year to support
travel, registration and accommodation costs for graduate students
attending the ASTMH annual meeting. One or more awards will be made each
year depending on availability of funds.
Applicants must present their research either orally or in a poster
format during the ASTMH annual meeting. The subject matter of the
presentation should directly or indirectly involve arthropods of medical
importance. The ACME student travel award committee will make final
decisions about the eligibility of applicants and will select the
winner(s).
The following criteria are taken into consideration when reviewing
the applications:
- financial need
- significance and quality of presentation abstract
- letter of recommendation
Previous Recipients
2005
Rebekah Kent
Sharon Minnick
2006
Luca Facchinelli
Sonja Kos
2007
Maria Julia Dantur
Lisa Purcell
2008
Nicole Gottdenker
Meera Venkatesan
2009
Lauren Cator
Win Surachetpong
ACME Objectives
The American Committee of Medical Entomology (ACME), is organized under
the auspices of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
(ASTMH) and exists to work toward the following objectives:
- To promote medical entomology in the ASTMH and in organizations
whose scopes of activities include the area of human diseases
transmitted by arthropods
- To organize symposia or workshops annually that emphasize, but are
not limited to, the contributions of medical entomology to tropical
medicine
- To encourage active participation of medical entomologists in the
ASTMH
- To recognize outstanding contributions by medical entomologists
- ACME meets at least annually in conjunction with the ASTMH annual
meeting.
For details on the ACME charter, governance and
membership structure, click
here.
Executive Council
Membership
ACME Executive Council Members
| Position |
Member |
Term Expires |
| Chair |
John Grieco |
2010 |
| Secretary/Treasurer |
Christopher Mores |
2010 |
| Councilor |
Carolina
Barillas-Mury |
2010 |
| Councilor |
Mark Benedict |
2011 |
| Councilor |
Tom Scott |
2011 |
| Councilor |
Chelsea Smartt |
2011 |
| Councilor |
Brian Foy |
2013 |
| Councilor |
Kevin Macaluso |
2013 |
| Councilor |
Amy Morrison |
2013 |
| Hoogstraal Medal Coordinator |
Stephen Higgs |
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Hoogstraal Award
The Harry Hoogstraal Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Medical
Entomology. Nominations for the Harry Hoogstraal Medal for
outstanding Achievement in Medical Entomology may be submitted in
writing by any ACME member to the ACME chairperson. Each year, the
Executive Council shall consider all nominations so submitted as well as
any nominations submitted orally by Council members, and decide whether
to make an award at the business meeting to be held during the following
year. Any living medical entomologist not serving on the Executive
Council is eligible to be selected to receive the award.
Recipient, Year
William E. Collins, 2009
Daniel Sonenshine, 2008
Bruce Eldridge, 2007
Mario Coluzzi, 2006
Robert Washino 2005
John D. Edman 2004
Andrew Spielman 2003
Michael Service 2002
Chris Curtis 2000
Gene DeFoliart 1998
A. Ralph Barr 1995
No award 1994
Thomas H. G. Aitken 1993
James H. Oliver 1992
William L. Jellison 1991
William R. Horsfall 1990
Robert Traub 1989
Lloyd E. Rozeboom 1988
William C. Reeves 1987
Arthropod Containment Guidelines (ACG)
The following links are to the various versions of the
ACG as well as ancillary materials that have been produced during the
development of the Guidelines. Many must be viewed with Adobe Acrobat
Reader.
The Arthropod Containment Guidelines were published in
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases in 2003 and are available free at the publisher’s Web site.
Arthropod
Containment Guidelines version 3.1
Version 3.1 differs from 2.3 in the removal of field recommendations.
Field sites are defined. Other minor changes to wording. This version
has been submitted to the ACME executive council for consideration to be
completed in early 2002.
Arthropod Containment Guidelines version
2.3
Request
for Comments
A list of questions describing the feedback that the committee would
like to get from readers of the Guidelines. Distributed at ASTMH 2000
meeting in Houston, TX.
Nov
1, 2000 Meeting Summary
Summary of an open meeting held in conjunction with the ASTMH meeting to
present an overview of the Guidelines and to receive comments from the
audience.
Changes
between 2.2 and 2.3
Arthropod
Containment Guidelines version 2.2
Table 2 Containment Level
comparisons
Produced for possible inclusion in second draft, but later eliminated.
Provides side-by-side comparison of the measures at each level. Has not
been updated to reflect latest changes, but still useful.
Arthropod
Containment Guidelines version 2.1
For more information on ACME, contact: Ken Linthicum at kenneth.linthicum@ars.usda.gov.
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