Sunday
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Bacterial-Host Interactions in Symbiosis and Disease
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
"New Immunologic Targets for the Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculosis"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:55 pm
"Exploring the Mosquito-Microbiota for Disease Control"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:25 pm
"Microbiota Control of Tissue Immunity and Repair"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Bacterial Infections and Antibiotic Resistance
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Undetected Antibiotic Resistance Leading to Treatment Failure"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
"A Klebsiella Outbreak in a Reference Low-Income University Hospital in Guatemala City"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:05 am
"Inflammasomes in Host Response to Intracellular Bacteria"
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:05 am
"Comparative Evaluation of Two Modes of Flea-Borne Plague Transmission: Implications for Disease Outcome and Ecology"
11:05 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:35 am
"Pulmonary Innate Immune Responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis "
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
"Large-Scale Chemical-Genetics Yields New Classes of Inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis "
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Pursuing Edward Jenner's Revenge"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Vector Biology and Disease Transmission
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Malaria Vector Analysis and Chromosomal Inversions"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
"Malaria Transmission Requires Interaction with the Mammalian Fibrinolytic Proteins"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
"Gene Drive and Malaria Control: What Does It Take to Get to the Field?"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
"Can Adoption of 'Next Generation' Bednets Stem the Resurgence of Malaria in Africa?"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Disrupting Mosquito-Borne Disease Transmission
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Mosquito Population Modification and the Malaria Eradication Agenda"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"A Roadmap for Responsible Research on Gene Drive Technology for Malaria Control"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
"Reversible Paratransgenesis"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
"Targeting Malaria Parasites Within the Anopheles Female"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
"Development of a Pfs47-Based Vaccine to Disrupt Plasmodium falciparum Transmission: Recent Advances"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
"A Human Anti-Plasmodium falciparum Pfs230 Monoclonal Antibody Greatly Reduces Malaria Transmission"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Breaking Paradigms: Using Mosquitoes to Control Arboviruses!"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Biology and Control of Trypanosomiasis and Filariasis
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"New Insights in Trypanosome Transmission in the Tsetse Vector"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
"Trypanosoma brucei Antigenic Variation in the Extravascular Niche"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
"Gene Expression Control During the Life Cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi "
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Emerging Arboviruses: Vectors, Virulence and Transmission
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Antiviral Adaptive Immunity in Insects"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"Searching for Re-Emerging, Endemic Arboviruses in Indonesia"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
"Multiplex, High-Throughput Arrays to Profile Seroreactivity to Vaccine and Pathogen Antigens"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:05 am
"A Unique Specialization of Antiviral RNA Interference in Aedes Mosquitoes"
11:05 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:35 am
"A Single-Dose DNA-Launched Live-Attenuated Zika Vaccine"
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
"Sex, Seminal Fluids and Swarms: Determinants of Harmonic Convergence in Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae Mosquitoes"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Mechanisms of Urban Arbovirus Emergence"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Infection Genomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Exploiting Mosquito Metabolism for Prevention of Human Arboviral Transmission"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
"Harnessing Evolution to Inform Function in Disease-Vector Biology"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
"A Molecular Signature in Blood Reveals a Role for P53 in Malaria Immunity in Children"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
"Determinants of Antibiotic Efficacy During M. tuberculosis Infection"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Advances in Understanding the Biology of Protozoan Parasites
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Immune Response to Sand Fly Saliva as a Biomarker of Vector Exposure in an Endemic Area for Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
"Leishmania Encoded Evasion of Chemokine Signaling and T-Cell Response"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:05 am
"Plasmodium falciparum Dry Season Reservoir"
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:05 am
"Early Assessment of Therapeutic Outcomes in Experimental and Clinical Chagas Disease"
11:05 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:35 am
"Autoimmunity as a Cause for Anemia in Malaria"
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
"Antibody Response to Linb-13 as a Marker of Severity Across the Tegumentary Leishmaniasis Clinical Spectrum"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Cryptosporidium Host-Parasite Interaction"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Breakthroughs in Parasite Biology
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
"Origins and Contributions of Protozoal Viruses to Parasite Virulence"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm
"Host, Plasmodium and the Surrounding Environment"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
"A New Stage of Leishmania in the Sand Fly Gut and Its Role in Transmission"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure