BSP Spring Meeting 2016, London - From Science to Solutions: optimising control of parasitic diseases

Session in Stream 2

Programme : Session in Stream 2

NTDs: 1 - Neglected Tropical Disease Research. Sponsor - London Center for Neglected Tropical Disease Research

Keynote: Research and Implementation Issues in STH Control and Elimination Efforts
Tue12 Apr09:00am(15 mins)
 Judd Walson Judd Walson  
Session : NTDs: 1 - Neglected Tropical Disease Research. Sponsor - London Center for Neglected Tropical Disease Research
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Using lymphatic filariasis transmission assessment survey as a screening platform for molecular surveillance of Strongyloides stercoralis and other soil-transmitted helminths in Fijian school children
Tue12 Apr09:15am(15 mins)
 Russell Stothard Russell Stothard  
Session : NTDs: 1 - Neglected Tropical Disease Research. Sponsor - London Center for Neglected Tropical Disease Research
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
What impact will the current WHO treatment coverage targets have the soil-transmitted helminths and can a change in strategy break transmission?
Tue12 Apr09:30am(15 mins)
 Hugo Turner  
Session : NTDs: 1 - Neglected Tropical Disease Research. Sponsor - London Center for Neglected Tropical Disease Research
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
How do you measure transmission interruption of STH and LF in mass drug administration programmes?
Tue12 Apr09:45am(15 mins)
 Roy Anderson Roy Anderson  
Session : NTDs: 1 - Neglected Tropical Disease Research. Sponsor - London Center for Neglected Tropical Disease Research
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Unraveling the epidemiology and origin of the urogenital schistosomiasis outbreak in Corsica (France)
Tue12 Apr10:00am(15 mins)
 Bonnie Webster  
Session : NTDs: 1 - Neglected Tropical Disease Research. Sponsor - London Center for Neglected Tropical Disease Research
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building

NTDs: 2 - NTD Monitoring and Evaluation. Sponsor - Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI)

Keynote: Identifying challenges and opportunities to optimise disease control through monitoring and evaluation
Tue12 Apr11:00am(30 mins)
 Fiona Fleminig Fiona Fleminig  
Session : NTDs: 2 - NTD Monitoring and Evaluation. Sponsor - Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI)
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Identifying factors that influence cure rates during schistosomiasis treatment with praziquantel: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Tue12 Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Mizuho Fukushige  
Session : NTDs: 2 - NTD Monitoring and Evaluation. Sponsor - Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI)
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) in Abeokuta, Nigeria
Tue12 Apr11:45am(15 mins)
 Uwemedimo Ekpo Uwemedimo Ekpo  
Session : NTDs: 2 - NTD Monitoring and Evaluation. Sponsor - Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI)
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building

NTDs: 3 - Vector/Intermediate Host-Parasite Interactions and Biology. Sponsor - RSTMH

Keynote: The compatibility between Biomphalaria snails and Schistosoma mansoni: an increasingly complex puzzle
Tue12 Apr02:15pm(30 mins)
 Guillaume Mitta Guillaume Mitta  
Session : NTDs: 3 - Vector/Intermediate Host-Parasite Interactions and Biology. Sponsor - RSTMH
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Soil-transmitted helminth infections, risk factors, and morbidity associations in Timor-Leste
Tue12 Apr02:15pm(15 mins)
 Suzy Campbell  
Session : NTDs: 3 - Vector/Intermediate Host-Parasite Interactions and Biology. Sponsor - RSTMH
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Mapping freshwater snails in Angola: distribution, identity and molecular diversity of medically important taxa
Tue12 Apr02:45pm(15 mins)
 Fiona Allan  
Session : NTDs: 3 - Vector/Intermediate Host-Parasite Interactions and Biology. Sponsor - RSTMH
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Hematophagy of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera; Psychodidae) on a mouse skin model: a new view based on intravital microscopy and image analysis
Tue12 Apr03:00pm(15 mins)
 Kelsilândia Aguiar Martins  
Session : NTDs: 3 - Vector/Intermediate Host-Parasite Interactions and Biology. Sponsor - RSTMH
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Keynote: Breaking through the surface: Insights into host-parasite signalling in Schistosoma mansoni
Tue12 Apr03:15pm(30 mins)
 Tony Walker Tony Walker  
Session : NTDs: 3 - Vector/Intermediate Host-Parasite Interactions and Biology. Sponsor - RSTMH
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building

NTDs: 4 - Epidemiology, Infection and Morbidity

Going paperless? A six-country experience on the use of SMART phones in data collection for Nation wide disease mapping and monitoring of Schistosomiasis and Soil Transmitted Helminths National Disease Control Programs.
Tue12 Apr04:30pm(15 mins)
 Yolisa Nalule Yolisa Nalule  
Session : NTDs: 4 - Epidemiology, Infection and Morbidity
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Design and Evaluation of a Health Educational Board Game for the Control of Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis among Primary School Children in Abeokuta, Nigeria
Tue12 Apr04:45pm(15 mins)
 Uwemedimo Ekpo Uwemedimo Ekpo  
Session : NTDs: 4 - Epidemiology, Infection and Morbidity
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Systematic review and meta-analysis of soil-transmitted helminth treatment efficacy studies and the case for sharing individual patient data
Tue12 Apr05:00pm(15 mins)
 Julia Halder  
Session : NTDs: 4 - Epidemiology, Infection and Morbidity
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Anti-morbidity effects of second generation tetracycline antibiotics in pre-clinical lymphatic filariasis disease models
Tue12 Apr05:15pm(15 mins)
 Stephen Cross  
Session : NTDs: 4 - Epidemiology, Infection and Morbidity
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building

NTDs: 5 - Functional Genomics

Keynote: Developing & applying ‘poly-omics’ tools to enrich our understanding of schistosome biology
Wed13 Apr09:00am(30 mins)
 Karl Hoffman Karl Hoffman  
Session : NTDs: 5 - Functional Genomics
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Functional genomics for schistosomes: retroviral-based transgenesis and CRISPR-Cas9
Wed13 Apr09:30am(15 mins)
 Gabriel Rinaldi  
Session : NTDs: 5 - Functional Genomics
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
The genome of Onchocerca volvulus: a first view of filarial chromosomes
Wed13 Apr09:45am(15 mins)
 James Cotton  
Session : NTDs: 5 - Functional Genomics
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Protein families with a putative role in parasitism in Strongyloides nematodes
Wed13 Apr10:00am(15 mins)
 Vicky Hunt  
Session : NTDs: 5 - Functional Genomics
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Museomics; an emerging tool for disease research in parasitology
Wed13 Apr10:15am(15 mins)
 Andrew Briscoe  
Session : NTDs: 5 - Functional Genomics
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building

NTDs: 6 - In Vitro and In Vivo Molecular Insights

Schistosoma life in the blood (and in the lab) illuminated by RNA-sequencing
Wed13 Apr11:00am(15 mins)
 Arporn Wangwiwatsin  
Session : NTDs: 6 - In Vitro and In Vivo Molecular Insights
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
A mouse model for the dynamic imaging of collagen deposition during hepatic schistosomiasis
Wed13 Apr11:15am(15 mins)
 Geoffrey Gobert  
Session : NTDs: 6 - In Vitro and In Vivo Molecular Insights
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
New macrofilaricide discovery and development through targeting Wolbachia
Wed13 Apr11:30am(15 mins)
 Kelly Johnston  
Session : NTDs: 6 - In Vitro and In Vivo Molecular Insights
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Re-purposing the Medicines for Malaria Venture compound library against the Wolbachia endosymbiont drug target for lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis
Wed13 Apr11:45am(15 mins)
 Rachel Clare  
Session : NTDs: 6 - In Vitro and In Vivo Molecular Insights
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Development of murine models of loiasis to assess microfilaricidal activity of pre-clinical candidate anti-filarial drugs
Wed13 Apr12:00pm(15 mins)
 Hanna Sjoberg  
Session : NTDs: 6 - In Vitro and In Vivo Molecular Insights
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building

NTDs: 7 - Controll, elimination and diagnostics I

Keynote: The era of elimination: progress and challenges in fighting helminthiases
Wed13 Apr02:00pm(30 mins)
 Steffi Knopp Steffi Knopp  
Session : NTDs: 7 - Controll, elimination and diagnostics I
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Quantifying polyparasitism in Beira, Mozambique: Detection of intestinal parasites in fecal samples by microscopy and real-time PCR
Wed13 Apr02:30pm(15 mins)
 Lynn Meurs  
Session : NTDs: 7 - Controll, elimination and diagnostics I
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Diagnosis of active Schistosoma infection in a non-endemic clinical setting using the ultrasensitive lateral flow test for detection of schistosome Circulating Anodic Antigen (CAA) in serum.
Wed13 Apr02:45pm(15 mins)
 Lisette van Lieshout Lisette van Lieshout  
Session : NTDs: 7 - Controll, elimination and diagnostics I
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Efficacy of triple drug regimen in the global elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis
Wed13 Apr03:00pm(15 mins)
 Michael Irvine  
Session : NTDs: 7 - Controll, elimination and diagnostics I
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building

NTDs: 8 - Control, elimination and diagnostics II

Diagnostics of schistosomiasis by antigen-detection (CAA and CCA): the quest for a single worm.
Wed13 Apr03:45pm(15 mins)
 Govert van Dam Govert van Dam  
Session : NTDs: 8 - Control, elimination and diagnostics II
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
COUNTDOWN in Ghana: Developing the diagnostic capacity for detection and surveillance of soil-transmitted helminthiasis at local and national levels
Wed13 Apr04:00pm(15 mins)
 Lucas Cunningham  
Session : NTDs: 8 - Control, elimination and diagnostics II
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
Community-wide patterns of infection following standard treatment for schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths from a 2 year study in Uganda
Wed13 Apr04:15pm(15 mins)
 Arminder Deol  
Session : NTDs: 8 - Control, elimination and diagnostics II
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building
A novel methodology to assess diagnostic performance when ambiguous results are present, with application to Schistosoma mansoni detection in Côte d’Ivoire and Uganda
Wed13 Apr04:30pm(15 mins)
 Michelle Clements  
Session : NTDs: 8 - Control, elimination and diagnostics II
Room: Great Hall - Sherfield Building

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