Scientific Programme

Monday 17th OCTOBER

13:45 Introduction – Gerald Spaeth

Session 1- KEYNOTE SPEAKER

14:00 – From sand flies to Leishmania with love: vectors’ influence on transmission, survival, infectiousness and diversity of parasites

Shaden Kamhawi, NIH, USA

Session 2 – TRANSMISSION, INFECTION AND TREATMENT

15:00 – Mechanisms for the homing of malaria sporozoites to the liver: more than meets the eye

Joana Tavares, University of Porto, Portugal

15:20 – The macrophage Lysine Demethylase LSD1 as a potential target for host-directed antileishmanial drug discovery

Maria Gutierrez-Sanchez, Institut Pasteur, France

15:40 – Wolbachia in Culex mosquitoes: a parasitic or symbiotic interaction?

Javier Serrato-Salas, Institut Pasteur of Guyane, French Guyane

16:00 – A paternally inherited protein is essential for Plasmodium meiosis and mosquitos transmission

Franziska Hentzschel, Heidelberg University, Germany

16:20 – How does the crystalloid organelle facilitate malaria transmission?

Johannes Dessens, London School of hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

16:45 – Coffee Break

 

Session 3 – RNA PROCESSING AND FUNCTION

17:25 – Characterizing ribosomal specialization in Plasmodium falciparum: the malaria parasite as an extreme example of ribosome heterogeneity

Tiziano Vignolini, Institut Pasteur, France

17:45 – N6-methyladenosine in poly(A) tails stabilize VSG transcripts

Idalio Viegas, University of Lisbon, Portugal

18:05 – A transcriptional switch controls sex determination in Plasmodium falciparum

Arthur Talman, University of Montpellier, France

18:25 – Dual transcriptome of cattle and Trypanosoma congolense highlights host- parasite interactions and modulation of host genes involved in immuno-metabolism

Sophie Thévenon, CIRAD, Montpellier, France

Tuesday 18th OCTOBER

Session 4 – IMMUNITY AND RESISTANCE

9:00 – Protection mechanism of anti-Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein human antibodies in the host tissues

Manuela Aguirre Botero, Institut Pasteur, France

09:20 – G3BP/Rasputin mediates O’nyong nyong virus manipulation of Anopheles antiviral immunity

Solène Cottis, Institut Pasteur, France

09:40 – Identification of immune correlates that are associated with protection against Plasmodium vivax blood stage challenge following immunization with recombinant PvDBPII

Francisco Martinez, Institut Pasteur, France

10:00 – Sand fly immune response is involved in the balance of Leishmania infection

Erich Telleria, University of Prague, Czech Republic

10:20 Coffee break

Session 5 – ORGANELLES AND METABOLISM

10:50 – Deciphering the significance of the tubulin code in T.brucei

Serge Bonnefoy, Institut Pasteur, France

11:10 – An evolution-based approach to decipher rhoptry secretion in Apicomplexa

Daniela Sparvoli, University of Montpellier, France

11:30 – Elucidating mechanisms of iron regulation in Trypanosoma brucei

Calvin Tingwe, Imperial College London, UK

11:50 – Trypanosoma brucei cellular differentiation: when ROS is not SOS

Alena Zikova, Institut of Parasitology, Czech Republic

12:10 Lunch + Poster Session

 

Session 6 – GENE REGULATION AND EPIGENETICS

14:30 – Single cell transcriptomic analysis of the T. brucei cell cycle and differentiation deciphers cell cycle exit

Emma Briggs, University of Edinburgh, UK

14:50 – The VEXing question of VSG regulation in the tsetse fly

Karinna Rubio Pena, Institut Pasteur, France

15:10 – Discovery of RUF6 ncRNA interacting proteins involved in P. falciparum immune evasion

Gretchen Diffendall, Institut Pasteur, France

15:30 – Gene expression regulation in Plasmodium transmission stages: interplay between transcription factors, epigenetics and RNA-binding proteins

Katarzyna Modrzynska, University of Glasgow, UK

15:50 – Trifloxystrobin blocks the growth of Theileria parasites and is a promising drug to treat Buparvaquone resistance

Marie Villares, Paris Cité University, France

16:10 – coffee break

 

Session 7 – KEYNOTE LECTURE

16:30 – Uncovering the secrets of Plasmodium development in the Anopheles mosquitoes to stop the malaria transmission cycle

Flaminia Catteruccia, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA

Wednesday 19th OCTOBER

Session 8 – LAVERAN SESSION

08:45 – Introduction

Geneviève Milon, Institut Pasteur, France

08:55 – Plasmodium falciparum antigenic variation and infection persistence in seasonal transmission settings

Silvia Portugal, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany

09:20 – Population genomics of Leishmania donovani in Ethiopia

James Cotton, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK

09:40 – Serological surveillance of neglected tropical diseases

Stéphane Pelleau, Institut Pasteur, France

10:00 – Taking life changing decisions in 10 seconds, cGMP signalling in malaria parasites

Mathieu Brochet, University of Geneva, Switzerland

10:25 Coffee break

Session 9 – KEYNOTE LECTURE

10:55 – Advances in Parasitology – a marriage of field and laboratory work

Jeffrey Shaw, University of São Paulo, Brazil

11:55 – Closing remarks and meeting end

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