American Committee of Medical Entomology (ACME)

• ACME Travel Awards -- Deadline June 15
• Previous Recipients
• ACME Objectives
• Executive Council Membership
• Hoogstraal Award
• Charter
• Arthropod Containment Guidelines
• For More Information

ACME Student Travel Awards
$500 award and ASTMH meeting registration waiver
View the application guidelines.
Click here to submit your application online.

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

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:

1. To promote medical entomology in the ASTMH and in organizations whose scopes of activities include the area of human diseases transmitted by arthropods
2. To organize symposia or workshops annually that emphasize, but are not limited to, the contributions of medical entomology to tropical medicine
3. To encourage active participation of medical entomologists in the ASTMH
4. To recognize outstanding contributions by medical entomologists
5. 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

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
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) [see links for this section on http://www.astmh.org/subgroup/acme.asp]

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: http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/153036603322163475.

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

Nov. 2000 Decision Tree
Diagram showing how an arthropod would be assigned to levels. GUIDANCE ONLY! This was presented prior to v 2.3 at the ASTMH meeting in Houston, Texas. The purpose is to assist persons in how the Guidelines would generally handle their case.

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.