09h00 – 11h00 | Oral Presentations

OP.01 – Oral Presentations 01| ROOM A
Chairs: José L. Nepomuceno-Silva

PV001 – Roles of NFS, ISD11 and MTU1 in Mitochondrial tRNA Thiolation and Fe-S Clusters in Trypanosoma cruzi
Marilene Souza Braga (USP, Brazil)

HP001 – Cellular Senescence Integrates Inflammatory And Cytotoxic Axes In The Pathological Landscape Of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
Paola De Oliveira Lopes (UFES, Brazil) 

HP002 – Congenital Toxoplasma gondii infection alters dopaminergic pathway gene expression during retinal development.
Gustavo Pinheiro De Araujo (Fiocruz-RJ, Brazil) 

TB001 – High-content screening of FDA-approved drugs in combination with benznidazole identifies potential anti – Trypanosoma cruzi agents.
Laura Maria Alcântara (USP, Brazil) 

HP003 – Genomic Similarities Between Plasmodium simium and A Historical Sample Of Plasmodium From The Sado Valley, Portugal
Nathalia Rammé Medeiros De Albuquerque (USP, Brazil) 

PV002 – Investigating a Likely Role for RBP43 in Regulating Expression of the Trypanosoma brucei Respiratome and Mediated through an Interaction with an Alternative Translation Initiation Complex
Savio Silas Farias Falcão (Fiocruz-PE, Brazil) 

HP004 – Toxoplasma gondii alters mitochondrial dynamics in brain endothelial cells and cortical microvessels during early infection
Guilherme Andrade De Santana (Fiocruz-RJ, Brazil) 

TB002 – Beyond Homology: Unveiling the Unique Structural Features of Trypanosoma cruzi ?-Glutamyl Phosphate Reductase
Maria Eduarda Souza Dias Lino (USP, Brazil)

OP.02 – Oral Presentations 02 | ROOM B
Chairs: Wesley R. Rodrigues Ferreira and Erica dos Santos M. Duarte

HP005 – Functional characterization of mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase supports a role in stress adaptation and host-cell infection in Trypanosoma cruzi
Jessica Jenireth Rodriguez Duran (USP, Brazil) 

HP006 – Conserved mitochondrial and translational repression and strain-associated chromatin responses in Toxoplasma gondii-infected neuroblasts
Thuany Prado Rangel Marcelo (Fiocruz-RJ, Brazil) 

PV003 – Identification of genes potentially involved in vector competence in Nyssomyia umbratilis from endemic and non-endemic areas for american tegumentary leishmaniasis in the amazon region.
Victor Ramos De Almeida (Fiocruz-RJ, Brazil) 

TB003 – Butoconazole as a therapeutic candidate for Chagas disease: experimental evidence against Trypanosoma cruzi
Gabriela Rodrigues Leite Morais (Fiocruz-RJ, Brazil) 

HP007 – Endothelial activation and dysfunction drive retinal neurodegeneration and glial scarring through cytotoxic leukocyte infiltration in a clinically relevant mouse model of Ocular Toxoplasmosis.
Vladimir Pedro Peralva Borges Martins (Fiocruz-RJ, Brazil) 

TB004 – Modelling the Inflammatory Microenvironment of Localised Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Reveals Cytotoxic Reprogramming of CD4? T Cells
Isabela Valim Sarmento (UCL, UK) 

HP008 – Investigating the molecular basis of Trypanosoma cruzi quiescence
Marketa Novotna (LSHTM, UK) 

PV004 – Telomere dynamics: understanding the crosstalk between inositol pyrophosphates and telomeres in Leishmania
Vitor Luiz Da Silva (UNESP, Brazil)

11h00 – 11h30 | Coffee break

11h30 – 12h00 | Conference 01 | ROOM A
Chair: Pedro Oliveira

Mosquito midgut response to blood feeding at a single-cell resolution
Ana Beatriz Barletta (NIH/NIAID, USA)

12h30 – 14h30 | Lunch

13h30 – 14h30 | SBPz Council Meeting

14h30 – 16h30 | Round-Tables

RT.01 – Round-Table | Mechanisms of Genomic Plasticity in Trypanosomatids | ROOM A
Chair: Maria Carolina Elias Sabbaga

• From development to transmission: Understanding the development regulation of trypanosomes in the tsetse fly
  Lucy Glover (Institut Pasteur, France)
• Deciphering the machineries that guide initiation and progression of nuclear DNA replication in Trypanosoma brucei
  Richard McCulloch (University of Glasgow, UK)
• The Cost of Flexibility: Mapping Replication Stress Hotspots and their Impact on Leishmania Genomic maintenance
  Luiz Tosi (FMRP-USP, Brazil)
• Mechanisms of Genomic Plasticity in Trypanosomatids
  Daniella Bartholomeu (UFMG, Brazil)

RT.02 – Round-Table | Diversity, Ecology and Evolution of Protists | ROOM B
Chair: Daniel Lahr and Thiago Paiva

• A trait-based approach in ciliate functional ecology: toward a standardized framework
  Gabriela Kuppers (MACN-CONICET, Argentina)
• Diversity of microbial communities in aquatic and terrestrial environments
  Laura Utz (PUC-RS, Brazil)
• Escaping Ice and Animals: Did Snowball Earth and the Rise of Metazoans Drive Testate Amoebae into Continental Waters?
  Luana Morais (UNICAMP, SP, Brazil)

16h30 – 17h00 | Coffee-Break

17h00 – 17h30 | Conferences 02 e 03

CO.02 – Conference | ROOM A |
Chair: Ariel M. Silber

Glycerol metabolism as a novel regulator of trypanosome development and transmission
Frédéric Bringaud (Université de Bordeaux, France)

CO.03 – Conference | ROOM B
Chair: Renato A. Da Matta

TRAMP-CSS complex is essential for hepatocyte and erythrocyte infection by Plasmodium zoites
Daniel Youssef Bargieri (ICB/USP, Brazil)

17h30 – 18h00 |Conferences 04 e 05

CO.04 – Conference | ROOM A
Chair: Yara Maria Traub Cseko

Genomic merger: How Leishmania hybridization drives parasite evolution and immune escape
Gerald Spaeth (Institut Pasteur – Paris, France)

CO.05 – Conference |ROOM B
Chair: Simone Guedes Calderano

Energy status as a signal for adaptation and differentiation in Trypanosoma cruzi
Guillermo Alonso (INGEBI-UBA, Argentina)

18h30 – 19h30 | SBPz Plenary – Ordinary General Assembly | ROOM B

19h30 – 20h30 | Dinner

20h30 – 22h30 | Poster Session – EVEN/Pares | GYMNASIUM

09h00 – 11h00 | Round-Tables 03 and 04

RT.03 –  | Vectors|ROOM A
Chair: Yara M. Traub Cseko

• Effect of Anopheles midgut microbiota bacteria on the sexual development of Plasmodium vivax in Anopheles darlingi
  Maisa da Silva Araujo (Fiocruz-Rondônia, Brazil)
• Vitellogenin Receptor Function Shapes Fertility and Microbial Inheritance in Rhodnius prolixus
  Isabela Barbosa Ramos (UFRJ, Brazil)
• Trypanosomatids from the Brazilian Amazon: Invertebrate (dipterans) and vertebrate (didelphimorphs, rodents, anurans, squamates) hosts
  Claudia Ríos Velasquez (Fiocruz-AM, Brazil)
• Sand fly immunity and gut receptors – implications for Leishmania infection in the vector
  Erich Telleria (Charles University, República Tcheca)

RT.04 – | Drivers of Diversity: Kinases, Translation, and the Evolution of Cell Populations | ROOM B
Chair: Janaina de Freitas Nascimento

• Translational Tricks and Trypanosome Tactics
  Zdenek Paris (Institute of Parasitology, Czech Republic)
• Gene expression programs driving Leishmania differentiation and transmission in the sand fly
  Tiago Ferreira (FMRP-USP, Brazil)
• Cell Cycle Regulation in Trypanosoma cruzi: Conserved Kinases with Parasite-Specific Functions
  Simone Calderano (Butantan Institute, Brazil)
• The NEK family in Trypanosoma cruzi: focus on RDK2 in differentiation and host–parasite interaction
  Miguel Chiurillo (University of Cincinnati, USA)

11h00 – 11h30 | Coffee break

11h30 – 12h00 | Conferences 06 and 07

CO.06 – | ROOM A
Chair: Juliany Cola Fernandes Rodrigues

From parasite biology to therapy: druggable targets in malaria
Maria Belen Cassera (UGA, USA)

CO.07 – | ROOM B
Chair: Norton Heise

The sweet side of immune evasion in African trypanosomes
Calvin Tiengwe (Imperial College London, UK)

12h00 – 12h30 | Conference 08 | ROOM A
Chair: Otavio Henrique Thiemann

Trypanosomal acetate: succinate CoA transferase: from biochemical and structural characterization to a metabolic engineering tool for bioenergetic studies across organisms.
Daniel Inaoka (School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health – Nagasaki University, Japan)

12h30 – 14h30 | Lunch

14h30 – 16h30 | Round-Tables 05 and 06

RT.05 – | Immunity to Trypanosoma cruzi in the Americas | ROOM A
Chair: Juliana Gomes

• How Trypanosoma cruzi Diversity Shapes Human Immune Responses
  Luisa Mourão Dias Magalhães (UFMG, Brazil)
• From Fundamental Research to Public Health: Congenital Chagas in Bolivia
  Cristina Alonso-Vega (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
• Cellular and Molecular Biomarkers of Cardiac Remodeling: Insights from the Brazilian Scenario of Chagas Cardiomyopathy
  Juliana Gomes Estanislau (UFMG, Brazil)
• To be confirmed

RT.06 – | One Health | ROOM B
Chair: Ariel M. Silber

• Detection of silent circulation of parasites to ecoepidemiology investigations in a One Health perspective
  Marcia Sperança (UFABC, Brazil)
• Insights into trypanosome infection biology from the bovine model
  Liam Morrison (University of Edinburgh, UK)
• Zoonotic sarcocystidae: challenges for One Health in protozoology
  Aline Diniz Cabral (FCM/Santa Casa de SP, Brazil)
• The Fly That Shaped a Continent: African Trypanosomosis and the Evolution of One Health Solutions
  Alec Evans (GalvMed, UK)

16h30 – 17h00 | Coffee break

17h00 – 17h30 | Conferences 09 e 10

CO.09 – Conference | ROOM A |
Chair: Diana Bahia

Mitochondrial butterfly effect: how changes in the organelle physiology impacts the fitness of trypanosomatids
Rubem Menna Barreto (IOC-FIOCRUZ – Brazil)

CO.10 – Conference | ROOM B
Chair: Gerald Spaeth

Benzoxaboroles target CPSF3 for degradation through a SUMO-dependent
Mark Field (University of Dundee, UK)

17h30 – 18h30 | Closing Conference | ROOM A
Chair: Maria Carolina Elias Sabbaga

DNA metabolism in trypanosomatids: why so many differences?
Carlos Renato Machado (UFMG, Brazil)

18h30 – 19h30 | Closing Cerimony, Remarks and Awards | ROOM A

19h30 – 21h30 | Dinner

Click here to download the Scientific Program in PDF