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EMBL Courses and Conferences during the Coronavirus pandemic
With the onsite programme paused, many of our events are now being offered in virtual formats.
Registration is open as usual for many events, with back-up plans in place to move further courses and conferences online as necessary. Registration fees for any events affected by the COVID-19 disruption are fully refundable.
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Programme
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| Time | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |