BSP Parasites Online 2021
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DAY 3
Conference room 1Conference room 2
DAY 5
DAY 3
Conference room 1Conference room 2
DAY 5
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2020 President's Medal Lecture
Chairs: Maria-Gloria Basanez, Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine  
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BES: Ecology and Evolution I
Chairs: Bernd Sures, Universität Duisburg-Essen  

Who’s to blame? Host-vector-parasite interactions in timing transmission.
11:30 (15 mins)
Petra Schneider, University of Edinburgh  

A new Plasmodium species in African apes reveals the origin of human Plasmodium malariae
11:45 (15 mins)
Lindsey Plenderleith, University of Edinburgh  

Diversity of Strongylid Nematode Communities in Wild Western Lowland Gorillas
12:00 (15 mins)
Bethan Mason, Department of Botany & Zoology, Masaryk University  
Schistosome Biology II
Chairs: Geoffrey Gobert, Queen's University Belfast  

Diversity and Evolution of Antigens in the Tetraspanin Protein Family of Schistosoma japonicum
11:30 (15 mins)
Daniel Parsons, Kingston University  

Establishing a Female-only Controlled Human Schistosoma mansoni Infection Model: a safety and dose finding study
11:45 (15 mins)
Jan Pieter Koopman, Leiden University Medical Centre  

Schistosoma mansoni lacks the homologue of the human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT), and relies on the snail enzyme for its survival.
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Matty Knight, University of the District of Columbia  
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BES: Ecology and Evolution II
Chairs: Neil Hall, Earlham Institute  
Environmental Parasitology: relevance of parasites in ecotoxicological studies
13:00 (30 mins)
Keynote Speaker: Bernd Sures, Universität Duisburg-Essen  

Using high throughput sequencing to detect the presence of multiple parasite strains in the rapidly declining European turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur)
13:30 (15 mins)
Rebecca Young, Cardiff Univrsity  

On snail-borne hippo parasites: do artificial lakes and biological invasions pose a burden on Hippopotamus amphibius?
13:45 (15 mins)
Ruben Schols, Royal Museum for Central Africa  

Zoonotic Implications of parasite helminths among domestic animals in selected communities of Caraga Region, Philippines
14:00 (15 mins)
Sheina Macy Manalo, University of the Philippines Los Baños  

The potential of citizen science to tackle the wicked problem of snail-borne diseases
13:30 (15 mins)
Tine Huyse, Royal Museum for Central Africa  

Citizen scientists versus malacologists: comparing schistosome snail collections in Lake Albert, Uganda
13:45 (15 mins)
Julius Tumusiime, Mbarara University of Science and Technology  

The current and future predicted status of schistosomiasis in South Africa under climate change
14:00 (15 mins)
Lizaan de Necker, North-West University  
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Diagnosis and Biomarkers II
Chairs: John Gilleard, University of Calgary   

SHERLOCK4HAT: a new CRISPR-based tool for Human African Trypanosomiasis diagnosis
15:30 (15 mins)
Nuria Sima Teruel, Institut Pasteur  

Evaluating the diagnostic test accuracy of molecular xenomonitoring methods for the surveillance of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis
15:45 (15 mins)
Joseph Pryce, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine  

Diagnosis of sheep fasciolosis caused by Fasciola hepatica using Cathepsin L ELISA and lateral flow technologies
16:00 (15 mins)
Amber Dorey, Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, NUI Galway  
Microscopy – relevant or redundant in diagnostic parasitology?
16:15 (30 mins)
Keynote Speaker: Claire Rogers, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine  
Schistosomiasis - Molluscan biology & ‘omics’
Chairs: Coen Adema, University of New Mexico  Anthony Walker, Kingston University  
Snail vector biology, perspectives from genome mining
15:00 (30 mins)
Keynote Speaker: Coen Adema, University of New Mexico  

Bulk segregant analysis of host specificity in schistosome parasites
15:30 (15 mins)
Frédéric Chevalier, Texas Biomedical Research Institute  

Lack of functional chromatin dynamics through nuclear motor proteins in aged Biomphalaria glabrata snails reveals a mechanism of interest with respect to controlling schistosomiasis.
15:45 (15 mins)
Daniel Horton, unemployed  

First molecular identification of Bulinus africanus in Lake Malawi with discussions on its transmission potential for human schistosomes
16:00 (15 mins)
Mohammad Alharbi, Liverpool school of tropical medicine  
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4:45: Session 12 Q & A
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5:00 Poster Session - Please go to main Hall and access the poster balcony 5:00:
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