SAMUEL PESSOA CONFERENCE
Pedro Lagerblad (UFRJ – RJ – Brazil)

CLOSING CONFERENCE
Title: What DNA Replication Tells Us, So Far, About the Biology of Trypanosoma cruzi”
Carolina Elias (Butantan Institute – SP – Brazil)

CONFERENCES

1. Rogério Amino (Institut Pasteur – France)

2. Marcelo Urbano (USP – SP – Brazil)
Title: Plasmodium simium: origin and evolution of a reverse zoonosis

3. Otavio Thieman (USP – São Carlos – Brazil)

4. Julia Cunha (Instituto Butantan – SP – Brazil)

5. Patricia Silva Romano (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo – Argetina)

6. To be Confirmed

7. To be Confirmed

8. Noelia Lander (University of Cincinnati – USA)

9. To be Confirmed

10. Nathan Peters (University of Calgary – Canada)

ROUND-TABLES

1- Host-Protozoa Interaction
a. Catarina Gadelha (University of Nottingham – UK)
b. To be Confirmed
c. Elena Jimenez (LMU München – Germany)
Title: Two Keys to the Engine: Methylation Control of Gliding Initiation in Apicomplexa
d. Ulisses Lopes (UFRJ – RJ – Brazil)

2- MESA DE PROTISTAS DE VIDA LIVRE

a. Thiago da Silva Paiva (UFRJ – RJ – Brazil)
Title: Mosaics of convergent evolution: understanding the natural history of Hypotricha (Ciliophora: Spirotrichea)
b. Laura Utz (PUC – RS – Brazil)
c. Jonatas Abrahao (UFMG – MG – Brazil)