8th Annual BioMalPar I EVIMalaR Conference
Biology and Pathology of the Malaria Parasite
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Monday 14 May - Wednesday 16 May 2012
Programme
| 09:00 - 11:00 | ESAB / EC Meeting (members only) |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break (members only) |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | General Assembly meeting (members only) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Cluster Meetings (members only) |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Registration |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Welcome: Andy Waters, Scientific Director, University of Glasgow |
| 14:15 - 16:00 | Plenary Session 1: From liver stages to signalling Chair: Peter Preiser |
| 14:15 - 14:45 | Non-human primate models for P. vivax: from blood stages to hypnozoites Keynote Lecture: Clemens Kocken, BPRC, The Netherlands |
| 14:45 - 15:00 |
Selected Talk 1: Maurice Itoe |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Selected Talk 2: Stefan Kappe |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Selected Talk 3: Christian Doerig |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Selected Talk 4: Chetan Chitnis |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Selected Talk 5: Klemens Engelberg |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Coffee Break |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Poster preview talks 1 Chairs: Lisa Ranford-Cartwright and Till Voss |
| 17:00 - 20:00 | Poster Session I (odd-numbered posters) |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Dinner |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Lifetime Achievement Award |
| 21:30 - 23:00 | Get together |
| 09:00 - 10:45 | Plenary Session 2: Malaria immunology Chairs: Jean Langhorne and Britta Urban |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Malaria and Salmonella co-infection: A conflict between pathogen tolerance and resistance Keynote Lecture: Eleanor Riley, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Selected Talk 6: Anne Teirlinck |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Selected Talk 7: Alan Brown |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Selected Talk 8: Alexandra Rowe |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Human B cell memory in malaria Keynote Lecture: Hedda Wardmann, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 - 12:30 | Plenary Session 3: Entering the mosquito Chair: Kai Matuschewski |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Genetic dissection of heterogeneities in the malaria vectorial system Keynote Lecture: Kenneth Vernick, Institut Pasteur, France |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Selected Talk 9: Julia Knoeckel |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Selected Talk 10: Gabriele Pradel |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Selected Talk 11: Anne Boissiere |
| 12:30 - 14:15 | Lunch |
| 14:15 - 15:45 | Plenary Session 4: Molecular and cell biology Chair: Dominique Soldati-Favre |
| 14:15 - 14:45 | PlasmoGEM, a free vector resource for the genetic modification of P. berghei. Keynote Lecture: Oliver Billker, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, United Kingdom |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Selected Talk 12: Hayley Bullen |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Selected Talk 13: David Riglar |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Selected Talk 14: Catherine Lavazec |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Selected Talk 15: Jose Lopez-Rubio |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee Break |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Poster preview talks 2 Chairs: Flaminia Catteruccia and Peter Bull |
| 17:00 - 20:00 | Poster Session II (even-numbered posters) |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | ESAB / EC Meeting (Members only) |
| 20:00 - 00:00 | Formal Dinner with Live Music |
| 09:00 - 10:15 | Plenary Session 5: Genomics Chair: Matt Berriman |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Malaria chemical genomics: target identification and drug combination Keynote Lecture: Xin-zhuan Su, NIH/NIAID, USA |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Selected Talk 16: Thomas Otto |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Selected Talk 17: Martin Hunt |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Selected Talk 18: Samuel Assefa |
| 10:15 - 10:35 | OUTREACH Session |
| 10:35 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Pleanary Session 6: Drug resistance Chair: Chris Newbold |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Drug resistance and the curious orthodoxy of aggressive chemotherapy Keynote Lecture: Andrew Read, The Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Selected Talk 19: Shiroh Iwanaga |
| 11:45- 12:00 | Selected Talk 20: Martin Rono |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Workshop on New tools for P. berghei reverse genetics |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Plenary session 7: About essentiality and paradigms Chair: Michael Lanzer |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Isoleucine utilization and starvation in P. falciparum Keynote Lecture: Daniel Goldberg, Washington University in St Louis, USA |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Selected Talk 21: Stuart Ralph |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Selected Talk 22: Shahid Khan |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Selected Talk 23: Markus Meissner |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Selected Talk 24: Michelle Boyle |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Poster Prize-Giving and Closing Remarks |