New York City Lyme Support Group

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Please join us for a meeting of the
Greater New York Lyme Neuroborreliosis Support Group
At NYU Langone Medical Center, NY, Auditorium B
550 First Avenue, New York NY
Saturday May 2nd, 2009 at 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Directions
This month’s group meeting will feature two exciting presentations:
The Impact of Online Information on Individuals with Lyme disease: Potential and
pitfalls
We will discuss a series of projects exploring the impact of online information on individuals with Lyme
disease. I will speak about some of the ways in which the Internet can help or harm individuals, including the
type of context that should be more visible and work that is being done to understand how online information is
currently used in Lyme disease. I will also discuss emerging technologies to that can be used to manage Lyme
disease by health professionals and patients.
Jennifer Mankoff PhD
Associate Professor in the Human Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Imaging Lyme Neuroborreliosis in an Animal Model
This recently funded multistage study at NYU is the pivotal element of the NYU Lyme disease research program. I will be
demonstrating our research aimed at establishing an animal model of Lyme disease patterned after our work on Malaria. I
will be discussing in great detail the life cycle of the organisms, and demonstrating our research model using a technique
called digital wide field fluorescence microscopy to show how the bacteria migrates from the skin to systemic organs
including the brain, and the response of the immune system to infection.
Ute Frevert DVM
Department of Medical Parasitology
New York University Medical Center
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Lunch will be provided.
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