19 April 2024 08:30-17:00
The Spring Symposium 2024 is arranged as a collaboration between the Danish Society for Parasitology (DSP) and the Danish Society for Tropical Medicine and International Health (DSTMIH). As tradition dictates, it will be held in the “Festauditorium” at University of Copenhagen Frederiksberg Campus (formerly Landbohøjskolen), Bülowsvej 17, 1870 Frederiksberg C.
Register (deadline 12 April) here: https://cmp.ku.dk/files/dsp_dstmih_spring_2024/
This year’s meeting is dedicated to the co-founder and former president of DSP, Associate Professor Jørn Andreassen.
Final program:
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration and poster setup |
09:00-11:00 | Session 1 – Oral presentations 1 [Chair: Birgitte Jyding Vennervald (DSTMIH)] 09:00 – Welcome – Lars Hviid (DSP) and Mike Zangenberg (DSTMIH) 09:05 – Eulogy – TBA 09:15 – Keynote 2 (DSTMIH) – Quique Bassat (IS Global, Barcelona, Spain): “A different way of looking at severe malaria. Using prognostic biomarkers for triage, risk stratification and outcome definition, and better characterizing malaria as a cause of death” 10:10 – Oral presentation 1*: Rotovnik et al. Echinococcus multilocularis: Hosts and hotspots in Denmark 10:25 – Oral presentation 2: Quintana et al. High-throughput identification of cross-reactive VAR2CSA-specific monoclonal antibodies from Plasmodium falciparum-exposed pregnant women 10:40 – Oral presentation 3*: Jensen et al. Diet-induced changes to host microbiome and the impact on the microbiome of parasitic intestinal worms *YSA Candidate |
| 11:00-12:00 | Coffee will be served during Session 2 (poster session) – see below |
| 11:00-13:00 | Session 2 – Poster presentations, coffee and lunch Poster 1*: Kumas et al. Methods to eliminate of Anisakis simplex third stage larvae from Atlantic herring Clupea harengus L. Poster 2: Bassi et al. Complement deposition on the surface of Plasmodium falciparum merozoites varies with the development Poster 3*: Moved to Oral Presentation 5 Poster 4: Sengupta et al. Variation of tick infection and microbiome composition across environments and macro-climatic zones Poster 5*: Zippor et al. miRNA loading in nematode EVs – what’s happening outside of Clade 5? Poster 6*: Kobal et al. P. falciparum merozoites recruit C4BP to evade immune recognition Poster 7: Madsen et al. Composition and diversity of freshwater snails in Jægersborg Deerpark through 80 years Poster 8*: Wallin Nielsen et al. Investigation of Babesia spp. and other tick-borne pathogens in ticks recovered from animals and environment in Denmark Poster 9: Upfold et al. Redescription of Gregarines (Apicomplexans) in mass-reared Alphitobius diaperinus (L.) using morphological and molecular data Poster 10: Baz-Gonzalez et al. First Cryptosporidium felis subtype data in cats (Felis catus) in Spain Poster 11*: Svitzer et al. Investigating the effect of storage temperature and duration on molecular detection of Giardia duodenalis in faecal samples Poster 12*: Folami et al. Role of gut-derived products in the regulation of inflammation in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis Poster 13: Berg et al. Mustelids as hosts of Toxoplasma gondii in Denmark Poster 14*: Lawætz Andersen et al. Nanopore sequencing of full eukaryotic rRNA operon could improve resolution in microbiome analysis of complex samples *YSA Candidate |
| 12:00-13:00 | Sandwich lunch will be served during Session 2 (poster session) – see above |
13:00-15:00 | Session 3 – Oral presentations 2 [Chair: Anna Kildemoes (DSP)] 13:00 – Keynote 2 (DSP) – Meta Roestenberg (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands): “Controlled human infections with parasites” 14:00 – Oral presentation 4: Buchmann et al. The Copenhagen parasite Transversotrema hafniensis n. sp. 14:15 – Oral presentation 5: Fernandez-Gonzalez et al. Behavioural changes of Anisakis simplex (s.s.) in relation to its life cycle: in vitro studies 14:30 – Oral presentation 6*: van der Deure et al. Present and future climatic suitability of Anopheles mosquitoes in Africa 14:45 – Oral presentation 7*: Björnsson et al. Unveiling the mechanism of neutralizing antibodies against malaria protein MSP3 and COVID-19 Spike *YSA Candidate |
| 15:00-15:20 | Coffee and cake in the foyer |
15:20-16:30 | Session 4 – Oral presentations 3 [Chair: Helle S Hansson (DSP)] 15:20 – Oral presentation 8*: Bisholm et al. An interaction between PfEMP1 and ICAM-1 on host immune cells in cerebral malaria 15:35 – Oral presentation 9*: Vedsted-Jakobsen et al. The Impact of various diets on Type 2 immunity against enteric helminth infection through alterations of the microbiome and metabolome 15:50 – Oral presentation 10: Lopez-Perez et al. Fc-afucosylation of VAR2CSA-specific IgG and clinical protection against placental malaria 16:05 – Oral presentation 11: Whitehead et al. Selective packaging of tumour suppressor miRNAs in extracellular vesicles of a parasitic whipworm *YSA Candidate 16:20 Young Scientist Awards Best Poster Award Best Oral Presentation Award |
| 16:30 | Informal get-together with refreshments |
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