malaria day

march 12, 2007

8:00      Dean Michael Klag             Welcome - Diane Griffin

8:05      Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena 
             Interactions of the malaria parasite with its mosquito vector

8:35      Jason Rasgon    
             Microbial agents for manipulation and control of Anopheles mosquitoes

9:05      Douglas Norris                      
             Vectorial components of malaria transmission in Southern Zambia

9:35      Monique Stins                        
             Consequences of Plasmodium infection for the blood brain barrier

10:05    Break

10:30    Sinisa Urban                         
             Plasmodium rhomboid proteases: convergence point of diverse invasion pathways?

11:00    Sungano Mharakurwa   
             Bloodless detection of Plasmodium falciparum infection in humans: How feasible is it?

11:30    Keynote Lecture - Dyann Wirth  - Harvard School of Public Health               
             From genes to genomes: genetic diversity in malaria, implications for biology and pathogenesis

1:30     Peter Agre     
            Aquaglyceroporin channels and the intraerythrocytic stages of Plasmodium berghei

2:00     Fidel Zavala                            
            Early events in the induction of protective CD8+ T cells against malaria liver stages

2:30     Nirbhay Kumar                       
            Malaria transmission blocking vaccine

3:00     Katherine Conant                   
            Matrix metalloproteinases and cerebral malaria

3:30    Reception/Posters