The Symposium was held on April 9th April 2021
Program
13:00-14:45 – Session 1
13:05 Welcome
13:10-13:50 1st Keynote lecture
- Joanne Webster, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK (https://www.rvc.ac.uk/about/our-people/joanne-webster): “Epidemiology and evolution of zoonotic schistosomiasis in a changing world”
13:50-14:30 Short presentations (7 min + 3 min Q&A)
- 13:50-14:00 Kasper Björnsson*: A second generation of malaria vaccines: Using reverse vaccinology to identify protective epitopes,
- 14:00-14:10 Nanna Dalgaard*: Monoclonal antibody targeting malaria protein of key importance in sequestration of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite
- 14:10-14:20 Emma Hocke*: Association between insecticide resistance in vivo and nucleotide diversity in the knockdown resistance (kdr) gene of the arbovirus vector Aedes aegypti from Zanzibar, Tanzania
- 14:20-14:30 Rebecca Berg* : Giardia and Cryptosporidium in muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) in Greenland
14:30-14:45: Pause
14:45-16:30 –Session 2
14:50 -15:30 2nd Keynote lecture
- Dr. Ann Moormann, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA (https://profiles.umassmed.edu/display/130089): “How Plasmodium falciparum aids and abets EBV to cause endemic Burkitt lymphoma”
15:30-16:10 Short presentations (7 min + 3 minQ&A)
- 15:30-15:40 Yvonne Adams: Modelling brain infections – 3D blood-brain-barrier spheroids in health and disease,
- 15:40-15:50 Zakaria Seidu*: IgG reactivity to PfEMP1 antigens among Beninese pregnant women with sickle cell trait
- 15:50-16:00 Abdelbasset Hamrouni: Repertoire focusing of tumor infiltrating gamma/delta T cells in endemic Burkitt’s lymphoma
- 16:00-16:10 Nancy Kassam*: Use of gSG6P1 antibody as a serological biomarker to assess temporal exposure to Anopheles mosquito bites in Lower Moshi
16:10-16:30 Election of best presentation/Young Scientist Award
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