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.
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 |