Biology of
Parasitism
2 0 1 4
L E C T U R E
S C H E D U L E
Mon, 23 June
Marc Jenkins, Univ. of Minnesota
Tues, 24 June
Wed, 25 June
Chris Engwerda, Queensland Inst. of
Medical Research
Colby Zaph, Univ. of British Columbia
Thurs, 26 June
Marion Pepper, Univ. of Washington
CD4+ T Cell Responses to Infection
Fri, 27 June
Phil Scott, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Sat, 28 June
Meera Nair, Univ. of California Rivers
Mon, 30 June
Andrew MacDonald, Univ. of
Manchester
David Sacks, National Inst. of
Health/NIAID
Rick Tarleton, Univ. of Georgia
Protective and Pathologic Responses
in Leishmaniasis
The Function of Macrophages in
Immunity and Inflamation to
The Immunobiology of Schistosoma
Tues, 1 July
Wed, 2 July
Thurs, 3 July
Mon, 7 July
Alan Sher, National Inst. of
Health/NIAID
Photini Sinnis, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Tues, 8 July
Jan Tachezy, Charles Univ.
Wed, 9 July
Bill Martin, Univ. of Dusseldorf
Thurs, 10 July
Jayne Raper, Hunter College CUNY
Fri, 11 July
Bill Sullivan, Indiana Univ. School of
Medicine
Kirk Deitsch, Weill Cornell Medical
College
Volker Heussler, Inst. of Cell Biology
Sat, 12 July
Mon, 14 July
Tues, 15 July
Iris Bruchhaus, Berhard Nocht Inst. for
Tropical Medicine
Basics of Innate and Adaptive
Immunity
Immunity to Malaria
We Love Worms!
mansoni
The Influence of Vectors on AntiParasitic Immunity
All Things Chagas
Cytokines and Dendritic Cells in the
Immune Response to Pathogens
The Plasmodium Sporozoite’s
Journey to the Liver and Beyond
Biochemistry of Mitochondria-like
Organelles in Giardia and
Eukaryotic Anaerobes and
Endosymbiotic Theory
The Wonderful World of African
Trypanosome Lytic Factors
How Do Parasites Respond When
They Get Stressed Out?
Nucleic Acid Gymnastics in Malaria
Parasites
Live Imaging of Malaria Parasites in
Rodents Using Fancy Microscopy
Pathogenecity of Entamoeba
histolytica
All lectures will be held at 8:30 AM in Starr 209.
Wed, 16 July
Terry Taylor, Michigan State Univ.
Thurs, 17 July
Zac Cande, UC Berkeley
Fri, 18 July
Patricia Johnson,
Mon, 21 July
Thurs, 24 July
Oliver Billker, Wellcome Trust Sanger
Inst.
Flaminia Catteruccia, Harvard School
of Public Health
George Dimopoulos, Johns Hopkins
Univ. Bloomberg School of Public
Health
Paul Bates, Lancaster Univ.
Fri, 25 July
Dan Neafsey, Broad Inst.
Mon, 28 July
Meg Phillips, Univ. of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center
Kent Hill, UCLA
Malaria Pathogenesis Illuminated by
Clinical Insights
Mitosis and Regulation of the Cell
Cycle Giardia
Cell Surface Proteins and Secreted
Vesicles Mediating Pathogenesis of
the Sexually-Transmitted Parasite
Trichomonas vaginallis
Tues, 22 July
Wed, 23 July
Tues, 29 July
Parasite-Host Interaction in the
Mosquito
Reproduction in Mosquitos the
Transmit Malaria
Influence of the Mosquito’s Innate
Immune System and Microbiota on
Plamodium Infection
Sand Flies and Transmission of
Leishmaniasis
Genomic Insights into Mosquito
Vector Biology
Targeting Malaria Dihydroorotate
dehydrogenase
African Typanosomes: Flagella and
Motility
From Photosynthesis to Parasitism:
Nutrient Acquisition in
Apicomplexans
African Trypanosomes – Drug
Resistance and Immune Evasion
Wed, 30 July
Giel van Dooren, Australian National
Univ.
Thurs, 31 July
David Horn, University of Dundee
Fri, 1 August
Boris Striepen, Univ. of Georgia
Cell Biology of Toxoplasma gondii,
Metabolism of Apicoplast
Sat, 2 August
Isabel Roditi, Univ. of Bern
One Hundred Years of Sleeping
Sickness: Sex, Drugs, and RNA
Mon, 4 August
Keith Matthews, Univ. of Edinburgh
Tues, 5 August
Peter Bradley, UCLA
Wed, 6 August
Gerald Spaeth, Institut Pasteur
Thurs, 7 August
Gary Ward, Univ. of Vermont
Environmental Sensing and Cell-Cell
Communication in Trypanosoma
brucei
Invasion of Host Cells by
Toxoplasma gondii
Post-Translational and Epigenetic
Regulators of Leishmania
Environmental Adaptation: Novel
Targers for Anti-Parasitic Drug
Development
Small Molecule Approaches to the
Study of Host-Parasite Interactions
Fri, 8 August
Kiaran Kirk, Australian National Univ.
The Cell Physiology of the Malaria
Parasite: New Drug Targets and
Drug Resistance Mechanisms
All lectures will be held at 8:30 AM in Starr 209.