ospC: An essential protein in Lyme disease* transmission

Hybrid American Entomological Society Meeting

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 • 7 pm EST

Location:

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Meeting Topic:

ospC: An essential protein in Lyme disease* transmission

The outer surface protein C (ospC) plays a vital role in the transmission of Lyme disease from ticks to vertebrate hosts. This presentation will discuss how our understanding of Lyme disease ecology and human infection risk, is shaped by genetic variation at the ospC gene. In the United States, human Lyme disease is commonly caused by the pathogenic bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto.

Location: In-person at the Academy of Natural Sciences: 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103; Butterfly Foyer OR Virtually on Zoom.

This is a Hybrid meeting both in person at the Academy of Natural Sciences & on Zoom.
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Guest Speaker

Scarlet Shifflett

Scarlet Shifflett is an Entomology and Wildlife Ecology PhD candidate at the University of Delaware. Her work focuses on using population genetics of the Lyme disease bacterium and its common mammalian hosts to better understand how host pathogen relationships drive pathogen dynamics.

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