SAMUEL PESSOA CONFERENCE
Title: Feast or Poison? How Blood-Feeding Arthropods Tame the Toxicity of Massive Meals
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)
Title: Beyond the Genetic Code: Insights into Trypanosome Epigenome on Gene Regulation
5. Patricia Silva Romano (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo – Argetina)
Title: The role of autophagy in the Trypanosoma cruzi life cycle: Adding pieces to the puzzle
6. To be Confirmed
7. María Adelaida Gómez (CIDEI – Colombia)
Title: The conundrum of persistent Leishmania infection and exacerbated inflammation, how do these co-exist?
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)
Title: Altered Monocyte Recruitment Following Challenge Infection With Non-Healing Strains Of Leishmania Abrogates Protective Th1 Immunity
ROUND-TABLES
1- 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)
Title: T. cruzi virulence factors and new developments towards a Chagas disease vaccine
c. Eric Dummonteil (Tulane University – USA)
Title: Immunotherapy of Trypanosoma cruzi chronic infection with a therapeutic vaccine
d. Irene Soares (USP – SP – Brazil)
Title: Preclinical evaluation of a multi-allelic CSP-based vaccine candidate against Plasmodium vivax.
2- DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND RESISTANCE
a. Michael Barrett (University of Glasgow – UK)
b. Pieter Steketee (Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh – UK)
c. Marcia Graminha (UNESP Araraquara – Brazil)
d. Juliana Quero Reimão (Faculdade de Medicina de Jundiai, Brazil)
Title: Preclinical research of novel therapeutic options for toxoplasmosis: from in silico screening to animal testing
3- 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)
Title: Detection of Leishmania and sand fly borne viruses coinfection in dogs and studies of the role of the phlebovirus Non-structural protein N (NSs) in Leishmania infection.
4- 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)
Title: Diversity of microbial communities in aquatic and terrestrial environments
c. Jonatas Abrahao (UFMG – MG – Brazil)
Title: The limits of the virosphere: a Journey into the World of Giant Viruses of Amoebas
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)
Title: Dissection of Leishmania parasite adhesion in the sand fly vector
c. Pedro Cecílio (NIAID-NIH – USA)
d. José Roberto da Silva (UFRJ – RJ – BRA)
Title: Heme as a player in the control of hemoglobin digestion in Rhodnius prolixus
6- HOST DEFENSES AGAINST PROTOZOA
a. Silvia Boscardin (USP – SP – Brazil)
Title: Directing the Plasmodium vivax 19kDa merozoite surface protein (MSP1 19 ) to two distinct dendritic cell subpopulations through prime-boost vaccination strategies.
b. Walderez Dutra (UFMG – MG – Brazil)
Title: Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals subset-specific immune signatures and unusual imune-cell populations differentiating asymptomatic and cardiac Chagas disease patients
c. Luiz Gustavo Gardinassi (USP – MG – Brazil)
Title: Gut microbes are associated with immune and metabolic responses to Plasmodium vivax malaria
d. Tiago Mineo (UFU – MG – Brazil)
Title: CRISPR/Cas9 genomic edition in the context of the Neospora caninum-host relationship