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)
Title: A novel type of Plasmodium division
2. Marcelo Urbano (USP – SP – Brazil)
Title: Plasmodium simium: origin and evolution of a reverse zoonosis
3. Otavio Thieman (USP – São Carlos – Brazil)
Title: Synchrotron Light: can it help my research?
4. Julia Cunha (Instituto Butantan – SP – Brazil)
5. Patricia Silva Romano (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo – Argetina)
6. To be Confirmed
7. María Adelaida Gómez (Universidad Icesi – Colombia)
8. Noelia Lander (University of Cincinnati – USA)
Title: Defining the role of cAMP compartments in the specificity of cellular responses in Trypanosoma cruzi
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. Julio César Carrero (Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas – UNAM – MEX)
Title: DNA traps and extracellular vesicles: double-edged swords of neutrophil immunity during confrontation with Entamoeba histolytica.
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- DIVERSITY, ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF FREE-LIVING PROTISTS AND THEIR VIRUSES
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)
Title: The limits of the virosphere: a Journey into the World of Giant Viruses of Amoebas
3- HOST DEFENSES AGAINST PROTOZOA
a. Silvia Boscardin (USP – SP – Brazil)
b. Walderez Dutra (UFMG – MG – Brazil)
c. Luiz Gustavo Gardinassi (USP – MG – Brazil)
d. Tiago Mineo (UFU – MG – Brazil)
Title: CRISPR/Cas9 genomic edition in the context of the Neospora caninum-host relationship
4- RECENT ADVANCES TOWARDS VACCINE DEVELOPMENT FOR MALARIA, LEISHMANIOSE AND CHAGAS DISEASE
a. Ana Paula Fernandes (UFMG – MG – Brazil)
b. Santuza M. Teixeira (UFMG – MG – Brazil)
c. Eric Dummonteil (Tulane University – USA) – ACEITO
Title: Immunotherapy of Trypanosoma cruzi chronic infection with a therapeutic vaccine
d. To be Confirmed
5- VECTORS
a. Georgia Atella (UFRJ – RJ – BRA)
Title: Lipid Flow from Vectors to Parasites: An Unexplored Cascade of Biochemical Mechanisms
b. Jack Sunter (Oxford Brookes University – UK)
c. Pedro Cecílio (NIAID-NIH – USA)
d. To be Confirmed