9th Annual BioMalPar I EVIMalaR Conference
Biology and Pathology of the Malaria Parasite
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Monday 13 May - Wednesday 15 May 2013 Registration closedAbstract submission closed
Conference Programme
The 2013 conference programme and the poster listing are available for download HERE.
| Time | Speaker | Title |
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| 09:00 - 11:00 | ESAB / Exec Meeting (members only) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | General assembly (members only) | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Cluster meetings (members only) |
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| 12:00 - 14:00 | Registration | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch ATC Foyer |
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| 14:00 - 14:15 | Welcome: Andy Waters, University of Glasgow |
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| 14:15 - 18:00 | Plenary session 1: Chair: Britta Urban, Co-chair: Francis Ndungu |
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| 14:15 - 14:45 | Keynote lecture: Michael McHeyzer Williams, The Scripps Research Institute |
Programming Affinity and Function into B Cell Memory |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Selected talk: Paulina Ampomah |
Exposure dependency of antibody levels and memory B-cell frequencies in Plasmodium falciparum-exposed Ghanaian women |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Selected talk: Wiebke Nahrendorf |
Humoral responses against Plasmodium falciparum after chloroquine prophylaxis and sporozoite immunization in human volunteers are a correlate of parasite exposure and do not predict protection |
| 15:15 - 15:40 | Poster preview talks | (#37, 45, 48, 68, 69, 76) |
| 15:40 - 17:00 | Poster session 1 incl coffee (#37 - 76) ATC Helices and Rooftop Lounge |
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| 17:00 - 17:15 | Selected talk: Lander Foquet |
Anti-circumsporozoite antibodies induced by the RTS,S vaccine block hepatocyte invasion of Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites in a humanized mouse model |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Selected talk: Julius Clemence Hafalla |
Characterising targets of CD8+ T cell responses to malaria liver stages |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Selected talk: Hernando del Portillo |
Novel antigens whose expression is dependent on an intact spleen are the targets of protective immunity in Plasmodium vivax |
| 17:45 - 18:00 | Selected talk: Philippe Boeuf |
Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Elicits Inflammatory Responses that Dysregulate Placental Amino Acid Transport |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | ESAB / EC Meeting (members only) | |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Dinner ATC Canteen |
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| 20:00 - 21:15 | Parasite biology and technical advances Chair: Hernando del Portillo, Co-chair: Till Voss |
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| 20:00 - 20:12 | Selected talk: Daniela Böhm |
A novel high throughput assay for investigating inhibitors of erythropoiesis in malarial anaemia |
| 20:12 - 20:24 | Selected talk: David Cavanagh |
Enhancing vaccine immunogenicity without chemical adjuvants |
| 20:24 - 20:36 | Selected talk: Jürgen Bosch |
Throwing a wrench into the works of the Plasmodium falciparum glideosome at the Aldolase-TRAP interface |
| 20:36 - 20:48 | Selected talk: Robert W. Moon |
Continuous in vitro culture of Plasmodium knowlesi in human erythrocytes: a genetically tractable human malarial pathogen |
| 20:48 - 21:00 | Selected talk: Mats Wahlgren |
Improved in vitro culture of Plasmodium falciparum permits establishment of clinical isolates with preserved multiplication, invasion and rosetting phenotypes |
| 21:00 - 21:15 | Turbo talks: Mirko Singer (#164) Anneleen Vuchelen (#182) Chwen Tay (#172) Alex Crick (#77) Luis G. Rigat-Brugarolas (#145) |
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| 21:15 - 23:00 | Get together ATC Foyer and Rooftop Lounge |
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| Time | Speaker | Title |
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| 09:00 - 12:30 | Plenary session 2 Chair: Freddy Frischknecht, Co-chair: Tobias Spielmann |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Keynote lecture: Mohandas Narla, New York Blood Center |
Malaria and Red Cells |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Selected talk: Nicolas M. Brancucci |
Depletion of heterochromatin protein 1 in malaria parasites triggers hyper-expression of virulence genes, cell cycle arrest and sexual conversion |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Selected talk: Liliana Mancio-Silva |
Nutrient-sensing by Plasmodium parasites |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Selected talk: Markus Ganter |
Plasmodium falciparum cdc2-related protein kinase (CRK) 4 regulates DNA segregation and the onset of blood-stage schizogony |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Poster preview talks | (#91, 95, 101, 111) |
| 10:30 - 11:45 | Poster session 2 incl coffee (#77 - 114) ATC Helices and Rooftop Lounge |
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| 11:45 - 12:00 | Selected talk: Katarzyna K. Modrzynska |
The systematic deletion of P. berghei ApiAP2 genes identifies essential regulators of Plasmodium development and mosquito transmission |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Selected talk: Mathieu Brochet |
cGMP signalling controls calcium mobilisation by regulating phosphoinositide synthesis during Plasmodium sexual development |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Selected talk: Sylke Müller |
Plasmodium falciparum Atg8 implicated in both autophagy and apicoplast formation and homeostasis |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch ATC Foyer |
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| 13:15 - 14:00 | Industry session Chair: Simon Draper |
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| 13:15 - 13:30 | Industry talk: Paul Finn, InhibOx Ltd. |
Computer-Aided Drug Design |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Industry talk: Krishna Sanjeev, |
Point-of-care device for malaria diagnosis and drug resistance status |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Industry talk: Julio Martin, GlaxoSmithKline |
Open Innovation in GSK to Fight Neglected Diseases of the Developing World |
| 14:30 - 18:30 | Plenary session 3 Chair: Ken Vernick, Co-chair: Elena Levashina |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 | Keynote lecture: Teun Bousema, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
The epidemiology of P. falciparum low density infections and transmission-blocking strategies |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Selected talk: Johannes Dessens |
Dissecting malaria crystalloid biogenesis and function |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Selected talk: Cora Meaden |
Gametocyte Sex Ratio in Plasmodium falciparum is controlled by a single genomic locus |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Selected talk: Benoit Poulin |
An ancient bacterial Shewanella-like protein phosphatase (SHLP1) is critical to microneme development in Plasmodium ookinetes and parasite transmission |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Poster preview talks | (#92, 123, 131, 168) |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Poster session 3 incl coffee (#115 - 153 plus #92 and #168) ATC Helices and Rooftop Lounge |
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| 17:30 - 17:45 | Selected talk: Natalie Hofmann |
Molecular tools for monitoring transmission dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum |
| 17:45 - 18:00 | Selected talk: Julien Pompon |
Clonal-dependent killing of Plasmodium falciparum by the new TGase2-AP1/Fos axis in Anopheles gambiae |
| 18:00 - 18:15 | Selected talk: Lenka Richterova |
Selection and characterization of a new, non-melanising, line of Anopheles gambiae refractory to Plasmodium falciparum |
| 18:15 - 18:30 | OUTREACH session | |
| 19:30 - 00:00 | Conference Dinner & Party ATC Canteen and ATC Foyer |
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| Time | Speaker | Title |
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| 09:00 - 13:00 | Plenary session 4 Chair: Erica Pasini, Co-chair: Mario Recker |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Keynote lecture: Ovidiu Radulescu, Université de Montpellier 2 |
What mathematical models can tell us about the life cycle of Plasmodium? |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Selected talk: Sethia Sonal |
Metabolic labelling to dissect the role of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in Plasmodium falciparum |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Selected talk: Yong H. Woo |
The nuclear genome of Chromera velia elucidates the evolution of apicomplexan parasites |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Selected talk: Tjeerd M. Dijkstra |
A Bayesian model of missing data improves sensitivity of label-free proteomics |
| 10:15 - 10:35 | Poster preview talks | (#72, 154, 155, 161, 173) |
| 10:35 - 11:45 | Poster session 4 incl coffee (#154 - 189 and #72) ATC Helices and Rooftop Lounge |
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| 11:45 - 12:00 | Selected talk: Climent Casals-Pascual |
Deconstructing Severe Malaria |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Selected talk: Margaret Mackinnon |
Comparison of transcriptional profiles of Plasmodium falciparum populations from areas of different transmission intensities in East Africa |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Selected talk: Chris Newbold |
Preliminary analysis of the global var gene repertoire |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Poster Prize-giving and closing remarks | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Packed Lunch and light refreshments ATC Foyer |
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| 14:00 - 16:00 | TAC meetings and networking (as required) | |