Today I delivered a presentation at ESA's Annual Meeting in Portland, OR on our research into the role of invasive plant species in tick-borne disease in Vermont. This presentation was part of a Symposium titled "Invasive Plants and Public Health: Unraveling the Connections to Vector-Borne Diseases", organized by Dr. Brian Allan of the University of Illinois.

Figure 1. Detection of PCR amplification products by agarose gel electrophoresis (left), DETECTR using a fluorescence plate reader (middle) and DETECTR using lateral flow test strips (right). The same eight samples were tested by each method.