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7th Annual BioMalPar Conference

Biology and Pathology of the Malaria Parasite

EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Monday 16 May - Wednesday 18 May 2011
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Programme

The conference starts on Monday 16 May at 12:00 with registration at the ATC main entrance.

The first keynote lecture will be given at 14:30.

The meetings ends on Wednesday 18 May at 04:00 pm after the last session.

 

Monday 16 May  2011, Day 1

09:00-10:30

ESAB & EC Meeting (members only)

10:30-11:00

COFFEE BREAK (members only)

11:00-12:00

General Assembly (members only)

12:00-13:00

Cluster Meetings (members only)

12:00-14:00

Registration

13:00-14:00

LUNCH

14:15-14:30

Welcome: Andy Waters, Scientific Director, Immaculada Penas-Jimenez, EC Representative

14:30-18:00

Plenary Session 1 - Cluster 1: Immunology & Immunopathology, Chair: Jean Langhorn

14:30-15:10

Keynote Lecture: Fidel Zavala, Johns Hopkins University

15:10-15:25

Stefan Kappe

15:25-15:40

Lea Barfod

15:40-16:00

Phillipe Boeuf

16:00-16:20

COFFEE BREAK

16:20-17:00

Peter Bull, KEMRI-KILIFI Wellcome Trust

17:00-17:15

Alexandre Potocnik

17:15-17:30

Janet Cox

17:30-17:45

Luciana Moraes

17:45-18:00

Oleksii Skorokhod

18:00-19:00

Poster Session I (odd numbers)

18:00-20:00

DINNER

20:00-21:30

Symposium in Honour of Fotis Kafatos

20:00-20:30

Laudatio I

20:30-21:00

Laudatio II

21:00-21:30

Response: Fotis Kafatos

21:30

Mixer

 

 Tuesday 17 May  2011, Day 2

09:00-14:00

Plenary Session 2 - Cluster 4: Modelling & Systems Biology, Chair: Matthew Berriman

09:00-09:40

Keynote Lecture: Elizabetta Pizzi, ISS, Rome

09:40-09:55

Luc Reininger

09:55-10:10

Edwin Lasonder

10:10-10:25

Peter Preiser

10:25-10:40

Robert Noble

10:40-11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00-11:15

Mario Recker

11:15-11:30

Thomas Otto

11:30-11:45

Sarah Reece

11:45-12:00

BrIdget Penman

12:00-12:15

Christian Koepfli

12:15-14:00

LUNCH

14:00-17:30

Plenary Session 3 - Cluster 3: Biology & Population Genetics of Mosquito/ Human/ Plasmodium, Chair: David Modiano

14:00-14:40

Keynote Lecture: Andrew Read, University of Pennsylvania

14:45-15:00

David Conway

15:00-15:15

Francesco Baldini

15:15-15:30

Jonathan Mwangi

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-16:30

Keynote Lecture: Dominic Kwiatkowski, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

16:30-16:45

Ioana Bujila

16:45-17:00

Anne Teirlinck

17:00-17:15

Chia-Hao Liu

17:15-17:30

Sylvie Cornelie

17:30-18:30

Poster Session II (even numbers)

18:30-19:30

Internal Meetings: ESAB & EC

19:30-24:00

GALA DINNER & LIVE MUSIC

 

 Wednesday 18 May  2011, Day 3

09:00-12:15

Plenary Session 4 - Cluster 2: Parasite Molecular & Cell Biology, Chair: Dominique Soldati, Mike Blackman

09:00-09:30

Keynote Lecture: David Sibley, Washington University St Louis, USA

09:35-09:50

Nicolas Brancucci

09:50-10:05

Alfred Cortes

10:05-10:20

Nina Eickel

10:20-10:35

Leyla Bustamante

10:35-10:55

COFFEE BREAK

10:55-11:25

Keynote Lecture: Photini Sinnis, New York University, USA

11:30-11:45

Sebastian Kehr

11:45-12:00

Natalie Spillman

12:00-12:15

Klaus Lingelbach

12:15-14:00

LUNCH

14:00-16:00

EMVDA Session: Development of Malaria Vaccine Candidates, Chair: David Cavanagh

14:00-14:45

Joe Cohen, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals

14:45-15:10

Ed Remarque, Biomedical Primate Research Centre

15:10-15:35

Adrian Hill and Simon Draper, University of Oxford

15:35-16:00

Hermann Bujard and Christian Epp, University of Heidelberg

16:00-16:15

Poster Prize Giving & Closing Remarks