BSP Parasites Online 2021

Fri 25 June

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Conference room 1

Conference room 2

Workshop Space

DAY 5

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Plenary II

Chairs: Maria-Gloria Basanez, Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine

Fascioliasis control in human endemic areas: one health action to complement preventive chemotherapy
09:00 (45 mins)
Keynote Speaker: Santiago Mas-Coma, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Valencia

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Q & A
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BSP AGM
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Drugs, Vaccines and Disease Control III

Chairs: Elmarie Myburgh, University of York

Development of macrofilaricidal drugs for onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis
11:00 (30 mins)
Keynote Speaker: Achim Hoerauf

Towards the Structure Based Design of Broad Spectrum Anti-Apicomplexan Drugs
11:30 (15 mins)
Ashwani Sharma, Paul Scherrer Institute

ACT treatment failure and resistance gene variants in African Plasmodium falciparum
11:45 (15 mins)
Colin Sutherland, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Disentangling the role of Ascaris β-tubulin isotypes in the emergence of anthelmintic resistance.
12:00 (15 mins)
Ben Jones, University of Surrey

Schistosomiasis - Control, epidemiology and One Health II

Chairs: Tine Huyse, Royal Museum for Central Africa

Reaching the WHO elimination targets for schistosomiasis: the importance of a One Health perspective
11:00 (30 mins)
Keynote Speaker: Joanne Webster, Royal Veterinary College

Remaining pockets of moderate to high endemicity of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis in selected communities in Caraga region, the Philippines
11:30 (15 mins)
Allen Jethro Alonte, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of the Philippines Los Banos

How much variation in drug response is found in schistosome populations?
11:45 (15 mins)
Winka Le Clec'h, Texas Biomedical Research Institute

Standardising the interpretation of point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen diagnostics for Schistosoma mansoni: A Bayesian latent class analysis study
12:00 (15 mins)
Jessica Clark, University of Glasgow

Spatial analysis of Schistosomiasis in Endemic Communities in Southern Mindanao, Philippines
12:15 (15 mins)
Vachel Gay Paller, University of the Philippines Los Banos

Wormbase Workshop:An introduction to WormBase ParaSite
11:00 (30 mins)
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Wormbase workshop: Data mining with BioMart (short talk + practical session)
11:30 (30 mins)
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Wormbase workshop: WBPS tips and tricks (how to access expression and phenotype data, what you can do with the API, answers to our most frequently asked help-desk questions)
12:00 (30 mins)
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Session 13:Live Q & A

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Wormbase Workshop: Dropin Session.
12:30 (60 mins)
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Surveillance, Epidemiology, Stigma and Public Health I

Chairs: Martin Walker, Royal Veterinary College

Mathematical modelling and the WHO 2021-2030 roadmap on neglected tropical diseases: Insights and challenges
13:00 (30 mins)
Keynote Speaker: Maria-Gloria Basanez, Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine

Force of infection and age-profiles of Taenia solium human taeniasis and cysticercosis: global trends and subnational analysis for Colombia
13:30 (15 mins)
Matthew Dixon, Imperial College London

ZooTRIP: Zoonotic transmission of intestinal parasites: implications for control and elimination.
13:45 (15 mins)
Kezia Whatley, University of Surrey

Parasite-vaccine interactions through the lenses of meta-analysis and field research
14:00 (15 mins)
Liana Wait, Princeton University

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Schistosomiasis - Control, epidemiology and One Health III

Chairs: Joanne Webster, Royal Veterinary College

Schistosomiasis vaccines: their role in disease prevention and elimination
14:00 (30 mins)
Keynote Speaker: Peter Hotez, Baylor college of Medicine, Baylor University

Using choice modelling to identify popular and affordable alternative interventions for schistosomiasis in Uganda
14:30 (15 mins)
Poppy Lamberton, University of Glasgow

The Enemy of My Enemy is Perhaps My Friend: Intestinal schistosomiasis is associated with reduced malaria intensity in preschool children in Uganda.
14:45 (15 mins)
Daniel McDowell, Cardiff University

New dynamics of schistosomiasis in Lake Malawi
15:00 (15 mins)
Russell Stothard, LSTM

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Surveillance, Epidemiology, Stigma and Public Health II

Chairs: Helen Price, Keele University

Leishmaniasis and Conflict
15:00 (30 mins)
Keynote Speaker: Margriet den Boer, MSF UK

Are Parasitic Diseases still a Continuing Health Problem in Gaza Strip, Palestine?
15:30 (15 mins)
Adnan Alhindi, Islamic University Of Gaza

Community practices and Environmental Reservoir as risk factor of Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Selected Rural Communities in the Philippines
15:45 (15 mins)
Kim Louisse Patagnan, University of the Philippines Los Banos

Unusual localization of blood-borne Loa loa microfilariae in the skin depends on microfilarial density in the blood: Implications for onchocerciasis diagnosis in co-endemic areas
16:00 (15 mins)
Yannick NIAMSI EMALIO, Centre for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases (CRFilMT)

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Poster Session - Please go to main Hall and access the poster balcony

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