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ACME Student Travel Award

Application Deadline: Spring 2012

An award of $300 USD is available to support travel and accommodation costs for a graduate student attending the Annual Meeting. The award includes a complimentary Annual Meeting registration. Applicants must present their research either orally or in poster format during the Annual Meeting. The subject matter of the presentation should involve directly or indirectly arthropods of medical importance. 

Previous Recepients

2011
Julia Brown

2010
Cara Halldin

2009
Lauren Cator
Win Surachetpong

2008
Nicole Gottdenker
Meera Venkatesen

2007
Maria Julia Dantur
Lisa Purcell

2006
Luca Facchinelli
Sonja Kos

2005
Rebekah Kent
Sharon Minnick

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

Position  Member Term Expires 
Chair, Councilor Brian Foy  2012-2013
Chair-elect, Councilor Steven Dobson  2015
Past-chair, Councilor Kevin Macaluso  2013
Secretary/Treasurer  Amy Morrison 2013
Councilor Nora Besansky  2014
Councilor Jason Rasgon  2014
Councilor Sam Telford 2014
Councilor  Nicole Achee  2015
Councilor Jennifer Anderson  2015
Hoogstraal Medal Coordinator  Stephen Higgs

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
Abdu Azad, 2011
Willy Burgdorfer, 2010
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 Brian Foy at brian.foy@colostate.edu.