2020
We are happy to announce the restart of the seminar series for 7 September 2020! Please note that due to COVID-19 the seminar goes virtual. | |||
Date | Guest Speaker | Home Institution | Title of the Talk |
08.12.20 | Sunil Parikh | School of Public Health, Yale University, USA | Optimizing artemisinin-combination therapies to maximize efficacy and limit resistance |
01.12.20 | Matthias Garten | National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA | Segregation of function at the host-red blood cell – malaria parasite interface: protein, solute and lipid transporters in domains at contact sites |
16.11.20 | Chris Moxon | Wellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology, University of Glasgow, Great Britain | How might we put the breaks on blood brain barrier breakdown in cerebral malaria |
03.11.20 | Silvia Kariuki | KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya | Mechanism of protection against severe malaria conferred by the Dantu blood group variant |
19.10.20 | Muhammad Asghar | Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden | Long-term hidden cost of infections |
06.10.20 | Victoria Ingham | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Great Britain | The complexity of insecticide resistance in Anopheline vectors |
21.09.20 | Marta Maia | KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya | Near infrared spectroscopy for sporozoite detection in mosquitoes |
07.09.20 | Tovi Lehmann | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, USA | A high, mosquito eye view on malaria and the African mosquito-borne diseasome |
Seminar series suspended between March - August 2020 due to social distancing regulations in connection with COVID-19. Seminar restart in September via webinar platform Zoom. | |||
14.02.20 | Michaela Petter | University Hospital Erlangen, Germany | The epigenome of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes |
2019
Date | Guest Speaker | Home Institution | Title of the Talk |
12.12.19 | Melissa Penny | Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland | Development and deployment of novel malaria interventions: the role of modelling and simulation |
29.11.19 | Miguel Soares | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal | Metabolic adaptation as a defense strategy against infection |
14.11.19 | Amulic Borko | School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Great Britain | Neutrophil regulation of Plasmodium sequestration and immunopathology |
17.10.19 | Alfred Cortés | iSGlobal, Barcelona, Spain | Sexual conversion in malaria parasites: the epigenetic mark, the transcription factor and the target genes |
10.10.19 | Catherine Merrick | University of Cambridge, Great Britain | The many cycles of Plasmodium falciparum: DNA replication & cell cycling in an unusual protozoan |
12.09.19 | Thomas Otto | University of Glasgow, Great Britain | Computational approaches to study the evolution of var genes in Plasmodium |
30.08.19 | Carolina Barillas Mury | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, USA | Plasmodium evasion of mosquito immunity enhances malaria transmission |
13.06.19 | Matthias Marti | University of Glasgow, Great Britain | Revisiting malaria transmission: from biology to translation |
06.06.19 | Joana Carneiro da Silva | Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA | Genomics of whole organism vaccine-induced protection |
09.05.19 | Rogerio Amino | Institut Pasteur, Paris, France | Protective cytotoxic antibodies target malaria parasites in the host skin |
11.04.19 | Hedda Wardemann | German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany | Human B cell memory to Plasmodium falciparum Circumsporozoite Protein |
21.03.19 | Ayola Akim Adegnika | Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Gabon | Fast track development of malaria vaccine in malaria endemic area using CHMI in Lambarene, Gabon |
14.03.19 | Maryse Lebrun | University of Montpellier, France | Insights into the secretion machine of virulence factors in apicomplexan parasites |
28.02.19 | Marcel Deponte | University of Kaiserslautern, Germany | The oxidative stress hypothesis in malaria research: facts and fiction |
14.02.19 | Moritz Treeck | The Crick Institute, London, Great Britain | Species-specific virulence factors in human Malaria: Expansion and export of a kinase family in Plasmodium falciparum |
10.01.19 | Mathieu Brochet | University of Geneva, Switzerland | Taking life changing decisions in ten seconds - calcium signalling in malaria parasites |
2018
Date | Guest Speaker | Home Institution | Title of the Talk |
13.12.18 | Sam Wassmer | LSHTM, Great Britain | Linking sequestration, vascular dysfunction, and brain swelling in cerebral malaria |
08.11.18 | Marcelo Urbano Ferreira | Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil | Naturally acquired antibodies and clinical immunity to Plasmodium vivax malaria |
11.10.18 | Catherine Lavazec | Institut Cochin, Paris, France | Targeting erythrocyte mechanical properties to block malaria parasite transmission |
13.09.18 | Erica Pasini | Biomedical Primate Research Center, The Netherlands | Non-human primates in malaria research - Using ‘omics to study parasite-host interactions |
09.05.18 | Miguel Prudencio | Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal | Pre-Clinical and Early Clinical Evaluation of a Plasmodium berghei Sporozoite-Based Malaria Vaccine |
12.04.18 | Stéphanie Blandin | Strasbourg University, France | |
08.02.18 | Elena Levashina | Max-Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany | Dynamics of malaria infections in Anopheles mosquitoes |
11.01.18 | Laurent Dembele | Bamako University, Mali | Relapsing Malaria Liver Stage Model Enabling Novel Drug Discovery Against Hypnozoite |
2017
Date | Guest Speaker | Home Institution | Title of the Talk |
14.12.17 | Steffen Borrmann | University of Tübingen, Germany | Malaria - still more questions than answers |
05.10.17 | Miles Davenport | Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity, UNSW Sydney, Australia | Host-pathogen interactions in malaria |