Module 1:  Parasite Transmission and Vector Biology

Faculty: Shaden Kamhawi and Alvaro Acosta-Serrano
Research Facilitators: Tiago Donatelli-Serafim, Eva Iniguez, Aitor Casas Sanchez

Date

Speaker

Title

Comment

20-June

Shaden Kamhawi

Transmission and pathology of leishmaniasis through the lens of a sand fly

 

21-June

Alvaro Acosta Serrano

  1. Tsetse-trypanosome molecular interactions
  2. Death by gluttony: tyrosine metabolism and vector control

 

22-June

Carolina Barillas

Mosquito immunity and malaria transmission

Zoom

23-June

Lisa Reimer

Behavioural ecology of filariasis vectors

 

24-June

Charles Wondji

Mosquito insecticide resistance and malaria control

 

25-June

Rita Rio

  1. Tsetse fly biology and medical significance
  2. Tsetse fly microbiota: the significant other

 

26-June

Free day

Free day

 

27-June

Conor McMeniman

Chemosensory biology of malaria transmission

 

28-June

Luciano Moreira

  1. Vector Control: a case of translational research
  2. One bacterium in the fight against arboviruses

Zoom

29-June

Alessandra Guarnieri

Triatomine-trypanosome interactions:

  1. The costs of parasite development; and
  2. Behavioral alterations induced by the infection

Zoom

30-June

Joe Pedra

  1. Tick extracellular vesicles at the intersection of skin immunity
  2. Tick immunobiology and microbial interactions

Zoom

1-July

Flaminia Catteruccia

Sex, blood and parasites: Unraveling the basis of malaria transmission by Anopheles mosquitoes

 

2-July

Student presentations

 

 

Module 2:  Bioinformatics

Faculty: Omar Harb, Dan Beiting, Kathryn Crouch

Date

Speaker

Title

Comment

5-July

Bjorn Kafsack

   

6-July

Omar Harb

   

7-July

Dan Beitinng

   

8-July

Kathryn Crouch

   

Module 3:  Cell and Molecular Biology

Faculty: Jim Collins, Silvia Portugal
Research Facilitators: Chen Rui, TBA

Date

Speaker

Title

Comment

10-July

Kirk Deitsch

SPECIAL SEMINAR:  Bioethics and Responsible Conduct

"Ethical Quandaries for Parasitologists (and other scientists)”

 

11-July

James Collins

 The Basic Biology of Schistosomes”

 

12-July

Silvia Portugal

P. falciparum asymptomatic persistence in seasonal malaria transmission settings”

 

13-July

Kirk Deitsch

"Maintenance of Chronic Malaria Infections Through Coordinated Gene Activation and Silencing" 

 

14-July

Alfred Amambua-Ngwa

Genomic epidemiology of Plasmodium falciparum in Africa”

Zoom

15-July

Gary Ward

New ways of looking at and thinking about Toxoplasma motility

 

16-July

Gary Ward

SPECIAL SEMINAR:  Scientific Publishing and Open Access

 "Transforming scientific publishing to better serve science and scientists"

 

17-July

Free day

Free day

 

18- July

Mimi Ho

Introduction to Cryo Electron Microscopy and Structural Parasitology

 

19-July

Filipa Rijo-Ferreira

Circadian rhythms in parasitic diseases: an underlying clock of malaria parasites

 

20-July

David Mangelsdorf

Targeting a Nuclear Receptor Pathway in Parasitic Nematodes

 

20-July

James D. Bangs

ENGLUND LECTURE: 6:00 PM

“What a Long Strange Tryp Its Been: VSGs, GPIs & Protein Trafficking in African Trypanosomes”

 

21-July

Norma Andrews

1:  Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania: a cell biological journey with the intracellular trypanosomatids

2:  The surprises along the way: from cell invasion to plasma membrane repair

 

22-July

Sebastian Lourido

A functional genomics guide to the cellular adaptations of apicomplexan parasites

 

23-July

Student Presentations

   

Module 4:  Host Immune Responses to Parasite Infection

Faculty: Melissa Lodoen, Meera Nair
Research Facilitators: Sang Yong Kim,  TBA

Date

Speaker

Title

Comment

25-July

Phil Scott

Introduction to Parasite Immunology

 

26-July

Melissa Lodoen / Meera Nair

 Innate immunity in the vasculature and at the BBB during Toxoplasma gondii infection

 

27-July

Prasanna Jagannathan

Malaria-specific Immune responses

Zoom

28-July

Jude Uzonna

Leishmania immunity

 

29-July

Rick Tarleton

BLOUT LECTURE:  Immunity to Trypanasoma cruzi

 

30-July

Eva Frickel

Toxoplasma immunity

Zoom

31-July

Free day

   

1-August

Keke Fairfax

Schistosoma Immunology

 

2-August

Elia Tait

Helminth Immunology

 

3-August

Student Presentations