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.