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Saturday
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| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
Arrival and Check-in
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| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm |
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
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| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm |
Keynote Session: Frugal Science
Discussion Leader: Ana Beatriz Barletta Ferreira (National Institutes of Health, USA)
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| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm |
Manu Prakash (Stanford University, USA)
"Frugal Science"
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| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm |
Discussion
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| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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| 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Complex Interactions: The Interplay Between Vector, Pathogen, Host and the Microbiome
Discussion Leaders: Brandon Trent (University of Texas Medical Branch, USA) and Thiago Silva (National Institutes of Health, USA)
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| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm |
Anubama Rajan (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
"Next-Gen Models of Infection: How Human Intestinal Enteroids Challenge Current Paradigms of Bacterial Adherence"
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| 7:40 pm - 7:45 pm |
Discussion
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| 7:45 pm - 7:55 pm |
Alejandro Antonia (Duke University, USA)
"Pathogen Encoded Evasion of CXCL10 and T-Cell Responses"
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| 7:55 pm - 8:00 pm |
Discussion
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| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm |
Iliano Coutinho-Abreu (National Institutes of Health, USA)
"Transcriptional Plasticity of Leishmania Developmental Stages in the Vector"
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| 8:10 pm - 8:15 pm |
Discussion
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| 8:15 pm - 8:25 pm |
Joshua Lacsina (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, USA)
"The BITE Study: Defining Human Skin Immunity to Vector Insect Bites"
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| 8:25 pm - 8:30 pm |
Discussion
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| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm |
Christopher Roundy (University of Texas Medical Branch, USA)
"Effects of Colonization on the Aedes aegypti Microbiome and Vector Competence"
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| 8:40 pm - 8:45 pm |
Discussion
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| 8:45 pm - 8:55 pm |
Gianmarco Raddi (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, USA)
"Cellular Immunity Against Malaria: An Atlas of Mosquito Hemocytes at Single Cell Resolution"
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| 8:55 pm - 9:00 pm |
Discussion
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| 9:00 pm - 9:10 pm |
Camila Coelho (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, USA)
"The Immunological Interplay Between Giardia duodenalis and Toxoplasma gondii During Murine Co-Infection"
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| 9:10 pm - 9:15 pm |
Discussion
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| 9:15 pm - 9:25 pm |
Liu Yang (Yale University, USA)
"Paratransgenic Manipulation of microRNA275 in Tsetse Fly and the Downstream Effect on Trypanosome Infection"
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| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Sunday
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| 7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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| 9:00 am - 11:00 am |
Basic and Translational Insights into Neglected Tropical Diseases
Discussion Leaders: Von Ralph Dane Herbuela (Ehime University, Japan) and Emma Camacho (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
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| 9:00 am - 9:10 am |
Susana Portillo (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
"A Prophylactic a-Gal-Based Glycovaccine Effectively Protects Against Murine Acute Chagas Disease"
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| 9:10 am - 9:15 am |
Discussion
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| 9:15 am - 9:25 am |
Claudia Calvet Alvarez (University of California, San Diego, USA)
"New Treatments to Ameliorate Heart Fibrosis During Chagas Disease Cardiomyopathy"
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| 9:25 am - 9:30 am |
Discussion
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| 9:30 am - 9:40 am |
Rebecca Byler (Yale University, USA)
"Rational Development of a Target Product Profile for Designing Multifunctional, Topical Therapeutics for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Colombia"
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| 9:40 am - 9:45 am |
Discussion
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| 9:45 am - 9:55 am |
Shuhei Taguwa (Stanford University, USA)
"Dependences of Zika Virus on Host Hsp70s Provide Novel Protective Strategy Against Flavivirus Infection and Disease"
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| 9:55 am - 10:00 am |
Discussion
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| 10:00 am - 10:10 am |
Judith Weber (University of Bremen, Germany)
" Trypanosomes, Tsetse Flies and Their Bacteria in Nigeria and Cameroon: Sialidases from Gut Bacteria as Potential Targets to Prevent Trypanosoma Colonization in Tsetse"
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| 10:10 am - 10:15 am |
Discussion
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| 10:15 am - 10:25 am |
Octavio Augusto Talyuli da Cunha (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
"HPx1: A Heme-Induced Peroxidase of the Peritrophic Matrix that Shapes Antioxidant and Immune Function in Aedes aegypti"
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| 10:25 am - 10:30 am |
Discussion
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| 10:30 am - 10:40 am |
Emily Mathews (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
"The Role of Heat Shock Protein Prenylation in Plasmodium falciparum"
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| 10:40 am - 10:45 am |
Discussion
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| 10:45 am - 10:55 am |
Maria Luisa Simoes (Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA)
"CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing to Block Malaria Transmission"
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| 10:55 am - 11:00 am |
Discussion
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| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
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| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
Mentorship Component: Your Career Path and Tropical Infectious Diseases
Discussion Leaders: Angela Kruse (Cornell University, USA) and Mabel Taracena (CDC Foundation, USA)
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| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
Panel Discussion
Your Career Path and Tropical Infectious Diseases
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Michael Dilling (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
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Sean Ekins (Collaborations Pharmaceuticals, Inc., USA)
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Carolyn Wilson (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, USA)
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Manu Prakash (Stanford University, USA)
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
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| 3:00 pm |
Seminar Concludes
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