Poster session AMPS 2022

Poster Guidelines
Posters should be no bigger than 4 ft long X 3 ft wide (121 cm X 91 cm), as shown below.

Poster	Title	Authors	Affiliation
1	Exploring the role of the gut microbiota in tissue repair during intestinal helminth infection	Garrie Peng 1,2; Gabriel Russell 1,2; Susan Westfall 1,2; Cynthia Faubert 3; Siegfried Hapfelmeier 4; Irah King 1,2,3	1-Meakins-Christie Laboratories, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada 2-Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada 3-McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity, Montreal, QC 4-Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Switzerland
2	​Loss-of-function screens for drug mode of action and resistance mechanisms in Leishmania	Marine Queffeulou 1,2; Ana Maria Mejia Jaramillo 1; Christopher Fernandez Prada 1; Philippe Leprohon 1; Marc Ouellette 1,2	1-CRCHUQ-Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada 2-Département de Microbiologie-Infectiologie-Immunologie, Université Laval
3	Creatine de novo biosynthesis signature of Dexamethasone-induced tolerogenic dendritic cells	Seyed Alipour 1; Nathalia Malacco 1; Fernando Lopes 1	1-Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada
4	Building the protein-protein interaction map of the trypanosoma cruzi	Amin Azimi 1; Reza Salavati 1,2	1-Institute of parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada 2-Department of biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
5	Three-dimensional analysis of telomeric expression side chromatin in trypanosomes	Oksana Kutova 1 and Igor Cestari 1,2	1-Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada 2-Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
6	Heme metabolism at the Leishmania donovani-host-cell interaction	Álvaro Panadero 1; Hamlet Acevedo 1; Albert Descoteaux 1	1-Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique – Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Laval, QC, Canada
7	Identifying telomeric expression site protein interactions at peptide resolution using cross-linking and mass spectrometry in trypanosomes	Tony Isebe 1 and Igor Cestari 1,2	1-Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada 2-Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
8	Role of phosphoinositides in endocytosis and hemoglobin transport in the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum	Stéphanie Roucheray 1; Dave Richard 1	1-Centre de Recherche en Infectiologie, CRCHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
9	Evidence that prior exposure to chemical infection cues reduce parasite transmission in Gyrodactylus-Guppy model	Katrina Di Bacco 1,2; Marilyn E. Scott 2	1-University of Montreal, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, St-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada 2-Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC
10	Dysregulation of the Leukemia Inhibitory Factor (LIF) pathway in macrophages infected with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii	​Aurore Lebourg 1; Louis-Philippe Leroux 1; Sophie Chagneau 1; and Maritza Jaramillo 1	1-Institut national de la recherche scientifique – Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Laval, QC, Canada
11	Retromer function in apical complex biogenesis of the major malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum	Thomas Galaup 1; Dave Richard 1	1-Centre de Recherche en Infectiologie, CRCHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
12	Targeting phosphoinositides and their effectors to disarm the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum	Audrey Sergerie 1; Dominic Gagnon 1; Michael Mercer 2; Roberto Botelho 2 and Dave Richard 1	1-Centre de Recherche en Infectiologie, CRCHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada 2-Department of Chemistry and Biology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
13	Predicting putative target genes of micro-RNAs isolated from Schistosoma mansoni extracellular vesicles	Trevor Bell 1 ​and Thavy Long 1	1-Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada
14	Quinolines induce the formation of cytosolic Hz-compartments emerging from the digestive vacuole of Plasmodium falciparum	Sharareh Maleki 1 and Petra Rohrbach 1	1-Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada
15	Kinetics of Zn (II) PPIX demetallation under P. falciparum (malaria parasite) hemozoin forming vacuole acidic conditions	Ambre Lambert 1; Scott Bohle 1	1-McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
16	Impact of DDX3 RNA helicase in the mitochondrial energetic metabolism in Leishmania	Alex Dos Santos 1,2; Prasad Padmanabhan 1; Carole Dumas 1, Barbara Papadopoulou 1,2	1-CRCHUQ-Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada  2-Département de Microbiologie-Infectiologie-Immunologie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
17	Extracellular vesicles (EVs) at the origin of a new gene exchange mechanism in protozoa	Noélie Douanne 1,2; George Dong 3; Atia Amin 4; Lorena Bernardo 1,2; Mathieu Blanchette 5; David Langlais 4,6; Martin Olivier 3,6 and Christopher Fernandez-Prada 1,2,6	1-Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada ​2-The Research Group on Infectious Diseases in Production Animals (GREMIP), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada 3-IDIGH, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada 4-Department of Human Genetics, McGill University Genome Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada 5-School of Computer Science, McGill, Montreal, QC, Canada 6-Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill Research Centre on Complex Traits, Montreal, QC, Canada
18	Toxoplasma gondii represses FOXO3a-dependent transcriptional programs to prevent autophagy mediated killing	Andres Felipe Diez 1; Louis-Philippe Leroux 1; Alexandra Plouffe 1; Sophie Chagneau 1, 2; Visnu Chaparro 1; Mackenzie Gold 1 and Maritza Jaramillo 1	1-Institut national de la recherche scientifique – Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Laval, QC, Canada 2-Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Université de Montréal, St-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada
19	Using yeast surface display to identify phosphoinositide-binding proteins in trypanosomes	Mengjin Gao 1; Andressa Brito-Lira 1; Tamara Sternlieb 1; Mira Loock 1; Igor Cestari 1,2	1-Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada  2-Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
20	Targeting PfVps15 to better understand hemoglobin endocytosis in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum	Alexandra Bourgeois 1,2; Dominic Gagnon 1,2; Dave Richard 1,2	1-Centre de recherche en infectiologie, CRCHU de Québec – Université Laval, Québec, QC 2-Université Laval, Québec, QC
21	Complete genome assembly of antimony resistant Leishmania infantum: understanding the formation of a circular amplicon carrying the mrpA gene	Atia B. Amin 1; Noélie Douanne 2; Martin Olivier 3,4; Mathieu Blanchette 5; Christopher Fernandez‐Prada 2; David Langlais 1,4	1-Department of Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill Genome Centre, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.  2-Département de Pathologie et Microbiologie, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada.  3-Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.  4-Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. 5-School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
22	Reprogramming host and parasite eIF4A-dependent mRNA translation to control Leishmania infection	Leonardo Cortazzo da Silva 1; Visnu Chaparro 1; Louis-Phillipe Leroux 1; Jerry Pelletier 2; Lauren Brown 3; John Porco 3; and Maritza Jaramillo 1	1-Institut national de la recherche scientifique – Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Laval, QC, Canada 2-McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada 3-Boston University, Boston, MA, US
23	SEC14 proteins, a new therapeutic target against malaria?	Florian Lauruol 1; Dave Richard 1	1-Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec ­ Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
24	Finding new drugs to combat Human African trypanosomiasis	Mojtaba Rostamighadi 1; Arezou Kamelshahroudi 1; H Uri Saragovi 3; Reza Salavati 1,2	1-Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada. 2-Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. 3-Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Translational Center for Research in Cancer, McGill University, Montreal, QC
25	The intercellular communication between B cells exposed to Leishmania donovani	Tanja Stögerer 1, Sasha Silva-Barrios 1, Albert Descoteaux 1, Simona Stäger 1	1-Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique – Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Laval, QC, Canada
26	The role of cytochrome b5 isotype I in the nucleolus of Giardia intestinalis	Logan Latendresse 1; Kaitlyn Mowat 1; Regan Caldwell 1; Francisco Alejandro Lagunas-Rangel 2; Bayan Sajer 1; Rosa María Bermúdez-Cruz 2 and Janet Yee 1	1-Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada 2-Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV), Mexico City, Mexico.
27	Insights into the roles of plant growth-regulating cytokinins in the protozoan parasite Giardia intestinalis	Vedanti Ghatwala 1; Anna Kisiala 2; Neil Emery 2 and Janet Yee 2	1-Environmental and Life Science Graduate Program, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada 2-Department of Biology, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada
28	Exosome isolation from serum samples for neurocysticercosis biomarker research: Realtime challenges	Mohammad shah jalal 1; Christopher fernandez-prada 1; Hélène carabin 1 ​	1-Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Université de Montréal, St-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada
29	A genome-wide yeast surface display screen to identify vaccine targets for Chagas disease	Rhiannon Heslop 1; Andressa Brito Lira 1; Mira Loock 1; Tamara Sternlieb 1; Igor Cestari 1,2	1-Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada 2-Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
30	Assembling genome-wide libraries for yeast surface display screen of drug targets in protozoan pathogens	Andressa Brito Lira 1,4; Rhiannon Heslop 1,3; Tamara Sternlieb 1; Mengjin Gao 1; Mira Loock 1 and Igor Cestari 1,2	1-Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada 2-Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada 3-Faculté de Pharmacie de Tours, Tours, France 4-Programa de Pós-Graduação em Produtos Naturais e Bioativos Sintéticos, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil
31	Elucidating the role of cholesterol in the male-female interplay of Schistosoma mansoni	Ryan Chan 1; Thavy Long 1	1-Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada
32	CXCL16-dependent regulation of macrophage anti-inflammatory responses during Toxoplasma gondii infection	Louis-Philippe Leroux 1; Alexandra Plouffe 1; Visnu Chaparro 1; Brent Jonhston 2 and Maritza Jaramillo 1	1-Institut national de la recherche scientifique – Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Laval, QC, Canada 2-Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
33	A theoretical approach to understanding electronic transfers of hemozoin formation in the malaria parasite	Léo Hall 1; Scott D. Bohle 1	1-Department of chemistry, McGill university, Montreal, QC, Canada
34	Mouse models of passive immunization to study vaccine candidates against bovine cryptosporidiosis	Karine Sonzogni-Desautels 1;  Momar Ndao 1	1-Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
35	Identifying the pseudogenes misidentified as functional genes in T. brucei genome	Poorya Mirzavand Borujeni 1; Amin Azimi 1; Reza Salavati 1	1-Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada
36	An adenovirus-vectored schistosomiasis vaccine reduces parasite burden and pathology	Dilhan Perera 1,2; Christine Gadoury 3; Mehdy Elahi 3; Risini Weeratna 3; Rénald Gilbert 3;  Momar Ndao 1,2,4	1-Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada 2-Infectious diseases and immunity in global health program, RI-MUHC, Montreal, QC, Canada 3-National Research Council of Canada  4-National Reference Centre for Parasitology, Montreal, QC, Canada
37	Allosteric regulation of repressor-activator protein 1 by PI(3,4,5)P3 is essential for silencing telomeric expression sites in trypanosomes	Abdoulie O. Touray 1,2; Rishi Rajesh 1; Tony Isebe 1; Oksana Kutova 1; Igor Cestari 1,2	1-Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste Anne de Bellevue, QC, Canada 2-Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
38	Analysis of the presence of M1/M2 and exhausted macrophages in the spleen of dogs naturally infected with Leishmania infantum	Tainã Luís de Souza 1; Aurea Virgínia Andrade da Silva 1; Leonardo Alexandre de Souza Ruivo 1; Francini Neves Ribeiro 1,2; Fabiano Borges Figueiredo 3; Artur Augusto Velho Mendes Junior 4; Rodrigo Caldas Menezes 4; Renato Porrozzi 2; Fernanda Nazaré Morgado 1	1-Laboratório de Imunoparasitologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil  2-Laboratório de Toxoplasmose e outras Protozooses, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil  3-Laboratório de Biologia Celular, Instituto Carlos Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Curitiba, PR, Brazil  4-Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em Dermatozoonoses em Animais Domésticos, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
39	Differential regulation of host and pathogen gene expression by the c-Rel transcription factor determines the outcome of cardiac and neurotropic infections	Mathieu Mancini 1,2,3; Benoît Charbonneau 1,4; David Langlais 1,2,3,4 and Silvia M. Vidal 1,3,4	1-McGill University Research Centre on Complex Traits, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada 2-McGill University Genome Centre, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada 3-Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada 4-Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
40	The RNA ligation mechanism of post-transcriptional editing in Trypanosoma brucei	Daniel Moses 1; Dr. Vaibhav Mehta 1,2; Dr. Reza Salavati 1,2	1-Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada 2-Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
41	Modulation of macrophage mitochondrial biogenesis and metabolism by Leishmania donovani requires the surface coat glycolipid lipophosphoglycan and type I IFN	Hamlet Adolfo Acevedo Ospina 1; Marie-Michèle Guay-Vincent 1 and Albert Descoteaux 1	1-Institut national de la recherche scientifique – Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Laval, QC, Canada
42	Helminth-induced reprogramming of the stem cell niche inhibits type 2 immunity	Danielle Karo-Atar 1, 8, 9; Shaida Ouladan 2, 9; Tanvi Javkar 2,9; Loick Joumier 3,4; Macy K. Matheson 5; Sydney Merritt 1; Susan Westfall 1; Annie Rochette 2, 9; Maria E. Gentile 1; Ghislaine Fontes 1; Gregory J. Fonseca 6; Marc Parisien 7; Luda Diatchenko 7; Jakob von Moltke 5; Mohan Malleshaiah 3,4,9; Alex Gregorieff 2, 9; Irah L. King 1, 8,9	1-Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Meakins-Christie Laboratories, Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada  2-Department of Pathology, McGill University and Cancer Research Program, Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada  3-Division of Systems Biology, Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), Montreal, QC, Canada 4-Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada 5-Department of Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA 6-McGill University Health Centre, Meakins-Christie Laboratories, Department of Medicine, Division of Quantitative Life Sciences, Montreal, 7-Department of Human Genetics, Allen Edwards Centre for Pain Research, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada 8-McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity, Montreal, QC, Canada 9-McGill Regenerative Medicine Network, Montreal, QC, Canada
43	Development of rapid in vitro colorimetric enzymatic activity assay to differentiate macrocyclic lactone susceptible and resistant Dirofilaria immitis isolates	Emily Curry 1 and Roger Prichard 1	1Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada
44	Severe genetic iron overload hampers development of cutaneous leishmaniasis in mouse footpads	Edouard Charlebois 1; Yupeng Li 1; Victoria Wagner 2; Kostas Pantopoulos 1 and Martin Olivier 1	1-Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada 2-Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, St-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada
45	The relationship between chemosensory neuron morphology and ivermectin resistance in Caenorhabditis elegans	Hazel Shields 1; Joseph Dent 1	1-McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
46	Determination of confounders with DAGs: the example of Taenia solium	Ellen Jackson 1; Veronique Dermauw 2; Guy Eyaba Tchamdja 1; Mohammad Shah Jalal 1; Amanda Janitz 3; Athanase Millogo 4; Rasmané Ganaba 5; Zékiba Tarnagda 6; Pierre Dorny 2; Hélène Carabin 1	1-Université de Montréal, QC 2-Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium 3-University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, USA 4-Sourô Sanou University Teaching Hospital, Burkina Faso 5-AFRICSanté, Burkina Faso 6-Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Burkina Faso
47	The impact of metronidazole on the nitric oxide dioxygenase activity of the parasitic protist Giardia intestinalis	Sarah Hill 1 and Steven Rafferty 1	1-Chemistry Department, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada
48	The role of LAG-3-expressing CD4 T cells in visceral leishmaniasis	Sharada Swamianthan 1; Linh Thuy Mai 1; Simona Stäger 1	1-Institut national de la recherche scientifique – Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Laval, QC, Canada