Programme
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| Time | Speaker | |
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| 09:30-11:00 | Registration | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Welcome and Introduction | |
| 11:15-12:30 |
Scientific Session 1: Vector biology and Transmission |
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| 11:15-11:45 |
Keynote Lecture |
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| 11:45-12:00 |
Attach and infect – Identification of a mosquito receptor for the Plasmodium ookinete |
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| 12:00-12:15 | Elucidating the role of lipolytic pathway in mosquito reproduction and P. falciparum transmission Maurice Itoe - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States of America |
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| 12:15-12:30 | Lipid requirements for life-cycle transition of the malaria parasite Alexander G. Maier - The Australian National University Canberra, Australia |
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| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch and meet the Keynote speaker | |
| 13:30-16:00 | Scientific Session 2: Omics and Systems biology Session Chairs: Richard Bartfai, Rita Tewari |
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| 13:30-14:00 | Keynote Lecture Finding function in parasite and vector population genomic variation Daniel Neafsey - Broad Institute, United States of America |
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| 14:00-14:15 | Integrated parasite load and dual transcriptome analysis of systemic host-parasite interactions in severe malaria Aubrey Cunnington - Imperial College London, Australia |
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| 14:15-14:30 |
The Malaria Cell Atlas |
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| 14:30-14:45 |
Identifying localisation at scale with a novel platform for high-throughput automated Plasmodium culture |
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| 14:45-15:00 |
Global mapping of protein subcellular location in apicomplexans: the parasite as we've never seen it before |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Flash Talks - Abstracts #48 Ellen Bushell, #50 Manuela Carasquilla, #76 Sebastian Kirchner, #102 David Oyen, #120 Lilach Scheiner, #126 Timothy Straub, #142 Danny Wilson, #35 Yaw Bediako, #45 Nicolas Blanchard, #53 Romain Coppée | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break and meet the Keynote speaker | |
| 16:00-18:00 | Poster Session 1 - Even Numbers | |
| 18:00-18:45 | Lifetime Achievement Award | |
| 18:45-20:30 | Dinner | |
| 20:30-23:00 | Welcome Reception | |
| Time | Speaker | |
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| 09:00-10:30 | Scientific Session 3: Molecular and Cellular Biology (1) Session Chairs: Lilach Sheiner, Sebastian Kirchner |
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| 09:00-09:30 | Keynote Lecture Cryptosporidium? Think Intestinal Malaria! Boris Striepen - University of Pennsylvania, United States of America |
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| 09:30-09:45 |
Control of the Nedd8 pathway in Plasmodium falciparum |
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| 09:45-10:00 |
Push and Pull: F-actin facilitates Apicomplexan parasite penetration by forming an F-actin ring structure close to the tight junction |
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| 10:00-10:15 |
RecQ helicases in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum affect genome stability, gene expression patterns and DNA replication dynamics |
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| 10:15-10:30 |
Uncovering the function of EXP1 in P. falciparum blood stages |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break and meet the Keynote speaker | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Scientific Session 4: Host-Parasite interactions Session Chairs: Petra Rohrbach, Marta Tiburcio |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Keynote Lecture Antigenic Variation in T.brucei: A Host-Pathogen Interaction Reduced to First Principles Nina Papavasiliou - German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany |
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| 11:30-11:45 |
Combining RNA-sequencing and mathematical modelling to identify mechanistic correlates of protection in malaria |
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| 11:45-12:00 | Impact of malaria-protective glycophorin polymorphism on Plasmodium falciparum invasion Silvia Kariuki - KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya |
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| 12:00-12:15 | The trophoblast endothelin response as a mechanism for fetal protection in placental malaria Yash Pandya - Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal |
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| 12:15-12:30 | Microvesicles from Malaria-infected Red Blood Cells Activate Natural Killer Cells via MDA5 Pathway Peter Preiser - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
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| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch and meet the Keynote speaker | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Workshop: Life beyond the P value - from elementary to advanced data analysis Moderator: Mario Recker - University of Exeter, United Kingdom |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Workshop: Make up your parasites with CRISPR/Cas9 Moderators: Marcus Lee - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, United Kingdom Scott Lindner - Center for Malaria Research, Pennsylvania State University, United States of America |
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| 14:00-16:00 | Scientific Session 5: Immunobiology and Vaccine development Session Chairs: Nicolas Blanchard, David Oyen |
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| 14:00-14:30 | Keynote Lecture The HIV Vaccine Problem Michel Nussenzweig - The Rockefeller University, United States of America |
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| 14:30-14:45 | Neutrophil proteases regulate malaria pathology by modulating inflammation and cytoadhesion Borko Amulic - University of Bristol, United Kingdom |
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| 14:45-15:00 | Clonal selection of potent germline antibodies drives protective memory B cell response in controlled human malaria infection Rajagopal Murugan - German Cancer Research Center, Germany |
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| 15:00-15:15 | Gametocyte immunity provides a rationale for novel transmission blocking interventions in Plasmodium falciparum Priscilla Ngotho - University of Glasgow, United Kingdom |
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| 15:15-15:30 | Evaluation of Plasmodium falciparum SPECT-1 as a novel pre-erythrocytic vaccine candidate Ahmed Salman - Jenner Institute - University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
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| 15:30-16:00 | Flash Talks - Abstracts #57 Katrien Deroost, #61 Richard Bartfai, #65 José Luis Ruiz Rodriguez, #73 Ernst Joschner, #75 Che Julius Ngwa, #89 Oliver Lyth, #109Kimberley Prior, #113 Martin Rono, #117 Margarida Sanches-Vaz, #141 Mark Dale Wilkinson | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break and meet the Keynote speaker | |
| 16:30-18:30 | Poster Session 2 - Odd Numbers | |
| 18:30-20:00 | Conference Dinner | |
| 20:00-00:00 | Conference Party | |
| Time | Speaker | |
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| 09:00-10:30 | Scientific Session 6: Drugs and resistance Session Chairs: Catherine Lavazec, Angelika Sturm |
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| 09:00-09:30 |
Keynote Lecture |
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| 09:30-09:45 |
A genetic resistance trap in malaria parasites: exploiting the differential metabolism of the parasite between its two hosts |
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| 09:45-10:00 |
Unravelling the mode of action of a novel class of antimalarials |
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| 10:00-10:15 |
Mind the Traffic: A role for trafficking in the ER stress response and artemisinin resistance in P. falciparum |
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| 10:15-10:30 |
Emerging Southeast Asian PfCRT mutations confer Plasmodium falciparum resistance to the first-line antimalarial piperaquine |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break and meet the Keynote speaker | |
| 11:00-12:30 |
Scientific Session 7: Molecular and Cellular Biology (2) |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Keynote Lecture The complexity and the simplicity of host-Plasmodium interactions Maria Mota - Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal |
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| 11:30-11:45 | An enzyme pathway regulates malaria parasite egress Michael Blackman - The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom |
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| 11:45-12:00 |
Genetic interactions reveal functional redundancy between calcium-dependent protein kinases 4 and 1 in motility and invasion of malaria parasites |
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| 12:00-12:15 | A high-throughput liver stage phenotyping screen of P. berghei knockouts reveals novel insights into Plasmodium metabolism Rebecca Limenitakis Stanway - University of Bern, Switzerland |
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| 12:15-12:30 | CAF1/CCR4/NOT Proteins Crucially Regulate Gametocyte Development and Transmissibility Scott Lindner - Center for Malaria Research, Pennsylvania State University, United States of America |
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| 12:30-14:30 | Lunch and meet the Keynote speaker | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Panel Discussion: Career development - science and more Moderators: Peter Preiser - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Rachel Graf - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany |
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| 14:30-14:45 | Awards for best Posters and Oral presentations |
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| 14:45-15:00 | Closing remarks | |
| 15:00-15:15 | Departure | |