DAY 1: ​Tuesday June 27th, 2023

Time	Event	Location
8h00 - 9h00	Registration & Coffee	Entry Hall
9h00 - 9h15	Welcome & Opening Remarks	SH-2800
9h15 - 10h15	Invited Speaker: Dr. P’ng Loke Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIH	SH-2800
10h15 - 11h00	Oral presentations: Session I – Immunology (Part I) Naomi Chege  Chukwunonso Nzelu  Matheus Carneiro	SH-2800
11h00 - 11h30​	Coffee Break	SH-4800
11h30 - 12h30	Oral presentations: Session I – Immunology (Part II) Susan Westfall  Sharada Swaminathan  Ana Popovic  Tanja Stögerer	SH-2800
12h30 - 14h00	Lunch	SH-4800
14h00 - 15h00	Oral presentations: Session II – Parasite biology and genetics (Part I) Nilmar Moretti  Kayla Paulini  Vedanti Ghatwala  Tony Isebe	SH-2800
15h00 - 15h30	Coffee Break	SH-4800
15h30 - 16h15	Oral presentations: Session II – Parasite biology and genetics (Part II) Audrey Corbeil Atia Amin Dimitri Desmonts de Lamache	SH-2800
16h30 - 17h30	Roundtable Discussion	SH-4800
18h00 - 19h30	Dinner	SH-4800
19h30 - 21h00	Poster Presentations	SH-4800

DAY 2: Wednesday June 28th, 2023

Time	Event	Location
8h00 - 9h00	Breakfast	Entry Hall
9h00 - 10h00	Invited Speaker: Dr. Emily Jenkins Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan	SH-2800
10h00 - 10h45	Oral presentations: Session III – Ecology, epidemiology, drug discovery & vaccines (Part I) Aparna Thomas  Rebecca Chen Ana Victoria Ibarra Meneses	SH-2800
10h45 - 11h15	Coffee Break	SH-4800
11h15 - 12h15	Oral presentations: Session III – Ecology, epidemiology, drug discovery & vaccines (Part II) Dawit Gebreegziabiher Hagos  Mojtaba Rostamighadi  Savina Cammalleri Mira Loock	SH-2800
12h15 - 14h00	Lunch	SH-4800
14h00 - 15h00	Oral presentations: Session IV – Host-parasite interactions (Part I) Sophia Noel  Priscilla Cabral  Viraj Muthye  Grant Stevens	SH-2800
15h00 - 15h15	Coffee Break	SH-4800
15h15 - 16h00	Oral presentations: Session IV – Host-parasite interactions (Part II) Visnu Chaparro  Mauricio Ayala Hamlet Adolfo Acevedo Ospina	SH-2800
16h00 - 17h30	Poster presentations: Session II	SH-4800
17h30 - 18h30	Closing remarks + best oral & best poster prizes	SH-2800

​Invited speakers

P'ng Loke, PhD

Dr. P'ng Loke completed his Ph.D. research at the University of Edinburgh on IL-4 activated macrophages responding to Brugia malayi filarial parasites in 2001. He then did postdoctoral research on costimulatory molecules at University of California-Berkeley and studied macrophage responses to different parasites at University of California-San Francisco. In 2009, he joined New York University School of Medicine as an assistant professor and was a tenured associate professor before he joined the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases as a senior investigator in 2020.

Emily Jenkins, PhD, DVM, BSc

Dr. Emily Jenkins (PhD, DVM, BSc), is Professor, Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan and adjunct at University of Manitoba. Her research takes a One Health approach to parasites and diseases that transmit among animals and people via food, water, vectors, and the environment in the North. She has over 20 years of experience in the Canadian North, training over 50 undergraduate research and graduate students, and producing over 100 peer-reviewed publications. She co-leads the Canadian Arctic One Health network and the University of Saskatchewan One Health signature area, and is Canadian representative to the Terrestrial Working Group of the International Arctic Science Committee.  She is a western Canadian representative on the Canadian Parasitology Expert Panel and serves on the editorial advisory boards of the International Journal for Parasitology – Parasites and Wildlife, and Food and Waterborne Parasitology.