2022 BoP Schedule | Marine Biological Laboratory

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	Tsetse-trypanosome molecular interactions 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	Tsetse fly biology and medical significance 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	Vector Control: a case of translational research One bacterium in the fight against arboviruses	Zoom
29-June	Alessandra Guarnieri	Triatomine-trypanosome interactions: The costs of parasite development; and Behavioral alterations induced by the infection	Zoom
30-June	Joe Pedra	Tick extracellular vesicles at the intersection of skin immunity 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