Presenter Guidelines
Oral presentations should be between 10 – 12 minutes and no longer than 12 minutes.
Oral presentations should be between 10 – 12 minutes and no longer than 12 minutes.
Time |
Event |
Location |
8h30 - 9h30 |
Registration + coffee |
Hallway |
9h30 - 9h40 |
Welcome and opening remarks |
Rooms A & B |
9h40 - 10h40 |
Keynote address: Dr. Jude Uzonna, University of Manitoba - Changing Dogma?: Immunologic memory to cutaneous leishmaniasis may need constant reminding |
Rooms A & B |
10h40 - 10h55 |
Gabriel Reis Ferreira, Université Laval, QC - Combining multi-level bioinformatics tools to globally assess the diversified critical roles of SIDER2 retroposon elements in Leishmania genome ploidy, gene expression and developmental regulation |
Rooms A & B |
10h55 - 11h10 |
George Dong, McGill University, QC - Disruption of Leishmania major extracellular vesicle production significantly impedes its infectious capability and disease progression |
Rooms A & B |
11h10 - 11h25 |
Ana Medina, INRS - Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, QC - Could Leishmania tarentolae EVs be a new platform for vaccine? |
Rooms A & B |
11h25 - 11h40 |
Sophia Bigot, Université Laval, QC - Delving in one carbon metabolism in the parasite Leishmania through a chemi-genomic screen |
Rooms A & B |
11h40 - 11h55 |
Jose Mauricio Ayala Esparza, McGill University, QC - The role of IRF1 in cutaneous L. major infection and driving the inflammatory response in primary macrophages |
Rooms A & B |
11h55 - 13h25 |
Lunch |
Chapiteau Desjardins |
13h30 - 14h15 |
Invited speaker: Dr. Karine Thivierge, Laboratoire de Santé publique du Québec - What’s the role of a parasitologist in Quebec’s Public Health Laboratory |
Rooms A & B |
14h15 - 14h30 |
Kieran Freitag, Trent University, ON - Characterization of the TATA-binding protein in Giardia intestinalis |
Rooms A & B |
14h30 - 14h45 |
Melanie Marlow, Trent University, ON - Analysis of a nuclear localized cytochrome b5 in Giardia intestinalis |
Rooms A & B |
14h45 - 15h15 |
Coffee break |
Chapiteau Desjardins |
15h15 - 15h30 |
Sohini Kumar, McGill University, QC - Droplet digital PCR as a tool to detect resistant isolates of Dirofilaria immitis |
Rooms A & B |
15h30 - 15h45 |
Susan Westfall, McGill University, QC - Helminth-induced IFNg remodels the intestinal epithelium to compromise host resistance |
Rooms A & B |
15h45 - 16h00 |
Nathalia Malacco, McGill University, QC - Heligmosomoides polygyrus-derived metabolites induce tolerogenic dendritic cells and attenuate DSS-induced colitis |
Rooms A & B |
16h00 - 16h15 |
Patrick Lypaczewski, McGill University, QC - Hybridization as a phenotypic adaptation in Leishmania donovani is associated with cutaneous leishmaniasis |
Rooms A & B |
16h20 - 17h00 |
Roundtable discussion |
Chapiteau Desjardins |
17h00 - 18h50 |
Poster session, happy hour & cocktail food |
Chapiteau Desjardins |
18h50 - 19h00 |
Closing remarks + best talk & best poster prizes |
Chapiteau Desjardins |
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