Oral Contributions

Valéria M. F. de Lima, PhD Affiliation: Department of Surgery and Animal Reproduction, São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Veterinary Medicine, São Paulo (Brazil) Title: Correlation between miRNAs in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and parasitic load in canine visceral leishmaniasis

Denis Sereno,PhD Affiliation: IRD Montpellier, Montpellier (France) Title: Antimony susceptibility of Leishmania isolates collected over a 30-years period in Algeria

Otacilio C. Moreira,PhD Affiliation: Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Brazil) Title: Standardization of a consensus real time PCR assay to the molecular diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Americas

Gad Baneth, PhD Affiliation: Hebrew University (Israel) Title: Leishmaniosis caused by Leishmania tropica and Leishmania major in dogs

Joziana Muniz De Paiva Barcante, PhD Affiliation: Federal University of Lavras (Brazil) Title: Characterization of a new focus of visceral leishmaniasis: canine, human and vectorial components

Camila Braga Dornelas, PhD Affiliation: Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL) (Brazil) Title: Investigation of red propolis ointment in co-therapy with Glucantime for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

Sergi Segarra Lopez, PhD Affiliation: BIOIBERICA S.A.U. (Spain) Title: Nutritional modulation of the immune response in canine leishmaniasis using dietary nucleotides and active hexose correlated compound

Wagner Tafuri, PhD Affiliation: Instituto de Ciências Biológicas Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) Title: Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis as fibrotic disease

Nebiye Doni, PhD Affiliation: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Centre Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Ohio (USA) Title: Refugee Migration and Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, in Turkey

Peter Myler, PhD Affiliation: Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (USA) Title: Genome-scale analysis of Leishmania gene organization and transcription

Eugenia Carrillo Gallego, PhD Affiliation: Instituto de Salud Carlos III Centro Nacional de Microbiología WHO Collaborative Center for Leishmaniasis (Spain) Title: Biomarkers in Leishmaniasis

Carla Maia, PhD Affiliation: Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Portugal) Title: A double sided perspective of leishmaniasis: the lab vs the field experiences

Anabela Cordeiro da Silva, PhD Affiliation: Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Porto (Portugal) Title: Leishmania extracellular antigens properties and future applications

Ibrahim Khalifeh, PhD Affiliation: American University of Beirut Medical Center (Lebanon) Title: Cutaneous Leishmania in Near East: A story to tell.

Laura Manna, PhD Affiliation: University Federico II of Naples (Italy) Title: Immunotherapy of canine leishmaniasis by Photodynamic vaccination

Marina Gramiccia, PhD Affiliation: Dipartimento di Malattie Infettive (DMI), Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italy) Title: Surveillance human leishmaniasis data from Italy: changes in epidemiological trends (1989-2017)

Charles Jaffe, PhD Affiliation: National Center for Leishmaniasis Kuvin Centre for Study of Tropical & Infectious Diseases, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School (Israel) Title: Attempting to understand parasite tropism: Comparison of Leishmania donovani from visceral and post-kala azar dermal leishmaniasis patients

Malini Sen, PhD Affiliation: Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (India) Title: Wnt5A Signaling in Macrophages Restricts Leishmania donovani Infection

Prasan Kumar Panda, PhD Affiliation: All India Institute of Medical Sciences (India) Title: Emerging of Leishmaniasis in Himalayas; a different perspective

Joachim Clos, PhD Affiliation: Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (Germany) Title: Leishmania systems biology in drug development

W. Robert McMaster, PhD Affiliation: Vancouver Coastal Heal Research Institute, University of British Columbia (Canada) Title: Role of Epigenetic Gene Regulation in Leishmania-Macrophage Interactions

Márcia Laurenti, PhD Affiliation: University of São Paulo (Brazil) Title: Clinical, epidemiological and immunopathological aspects of atypical cutaneous leishmaniasis due Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi infection in Central América

Marcia Almeida de Melo, PhD Affiliation: Unidade Acadêmica de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (Brazil) Title: Spatial analysis of leishmaniasis in the State of Paraíba, Brazil

Vania da Matta, PhD Affiliation: University of São Paulo- Medical School – Department of Pathology (Brazil) Title: Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis: serological and molecular diagnosis of dogs infected with Leishmania infantum in Brazil

Lars Gille, PhD Affiliation: University of Veterinary Medicine (Austria) Title: Iron-mediated activation of endoperoxides in Leishmania

Jacob Lorenzo-Morales, PhD Affiliation: Instituto Universitario de Enfermedades Tropicales y de Salud Pública de Canarias,University of La Laguna (Spain) Title: Available soon.

Atteneri López Arencibia, PhD Affiliation: Instituto Universitario de Enfermedades Tropicales y de Salud Pública de Canarias,University of La Laguna (Spain) Title: In vitro activity of new 1H-Phenalen-1-one derivatives against Leishmania spp. And studies to elucidate their mechanism of cell death

Ines SIFAOUI, PhD Affiliation: Instituto Universitario de Enfermedades Tropicales y de Salud Pública de Canarias,University of La Laguna (Spain) Title: Bioguided in vitro activity of Maytenus chiapensis extracts against Leishmania spp

María Reyes Batlle, PhD Affiliation: Instituto Universitario de Enfermedades Tropicales y de Salud Pública de Canarias,University of La Laguna (Spain) Title: In vitro activity against Leishmania spp. of Laurencia johnstonii and its derivatives: a preliminary study of its cell death mechanisms

Gianni Colotti, PhD Affiliation: Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari (IBPM) (Italy) Title: Trypanothione Reductase, an essential and unique enzyme of the trypanothione-based redox metabolism: structure-based anti-Leishmaniasis Drug Discovery

Laila Alves Nahum, PhD Affiliation: René Rachou Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Brazil) Title: Evolutionary relationships among protein deacetylases of Leishmania and other parasites

Sara Epis, PhD Affiliation: University of Milan, Milan (Italy) Title: Sand flies, mycobiota and leishmaniasis

Fernando Real, PhD Affiliation: Institut Cochin, INSERM U1016 (France) Title: ATP6V0d2 controls Leishmania parasitophorous vacuoles biogenesis via cholesterol homeostasis

Nicola Micale, PhD Affiliation: University of Messina (Italy) Title: Target-based drug design and development of drug delivery systems to tackle leishmaniasis

Johan van Griensven, PhD Affiliation: Institute of Tropical Medicine (Belgium) Title: Available soon.

Orin Courtenay, PhD Affiliation: University of Warwick (UK) Title: Insecticide–impregnated dog collars reduce human visceral leishmaniasis under operational conditions in NW Iran: a community–wide cluster randomised trial

Andreia Albuquerque-Wendt, PhD Affiliation: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford (UK) Title: L. infantum/ L. major natural hybrids: Insights on in vitro and in vivo phenotypic behavior

Ana Paula Salles Moura Fernandes, PhD Affiliation: Faculdade de Farmácia, UFMG (Brazil) Title: Development of a vacine against visceral leishmaniasis: from bench to market

Wilma Ap. Starke Buzetti, PhD Affiliation: Animal Science Department, São Paulo State University -UNESP (Brazil) Title: Intestinal Leishmaniasis

Reynaldo Dietze, PhD Affiliation: Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal) Title: Critical Gaps in VL Research

Patricia Veras, PhD Affiliation: Instituto Gonçalo Moniz – Fiocruz (Brazil) Title: Proteomic Analysis Revealed a Predominant NFE2L2 (NRF2) Signature in Macrophages Infected with Leishmania

Leo A.B. Joosten, PhD Affiliation: Radboud University Medical Center (Netherlands) and UFG, Goiania (Brazil) Title: The role of Interleukin 32 in host defense against intracellular pathogens with emphasis on Leishmania

Dan Zilberstein, PhD Affiliation: Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Israel) Title: Arginine sensing in Leishmania has a role in virulence

Guy Caljon, PhD Affiliation: Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences, University of Antwerp, Anterwp (Belgium) Title: Impact of miltefosine resistance and miltefosine treatment on virulence of Leishmania infantum

Louis Maes, PhD Affiliation: Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences, University of Antwerp, Anterwp (Belgium) Title: in vitro drug susceptibility assessment of clinical isolates: which cell type to use?

Ognyan Mikov ,PhD Affiliation: UNational Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (Bulgaria) Title: Geographical distribution and epidemiological characteristics of visceral leishmaniasis in Bulgaria, 1988 to 2017

Eduardo Sergio da Silva ,PhD Affiliation: Universidade Federal de São João del Rei (UFSJ) (Brazil) Title: IgG avidity index and complete blood count as prognostic biomarkers for dogs naturally infected with Leishmania infantum

Ursa Ravnik Verbic ,PhD Affiliation: Veterinarska fakulteta UL (Slovenia) Title: PRESENCE OF LEISHMANIA POSITIVE DOGS IN SLOVENIA

Diana Caridha, PhD Affiliation: Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (USA) Title: Predicting the Therapeutic Dose and Desired Pharmacological Effects of Antileishmanial Drugs in Humans using Animal Models of Murine Leishmaniasis

Jovana Sadlova, PhD Affiliation: Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University (Czech Republic) Title: Host competence of African rodents Arvicanthis neumanni, A. niloticus and Mastomys natalensis for L. Major

Tatiana Spitzova, PhD Affiliation: Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University (Czech Republic) Title: Chinese and Djungarian hamsters (Rodentia: Muridae) as model animals for L. major research

Hirotomo Kato, PhD Affiliation: Division of Medical Zoology, Department of Infection and Immunity, Jichi Medical University (Japan) Title: Molecular mass-screening for vector research on leishmaniasis

Marie Lipoldová, PhD Affiliation: Institute of Molecular Genetics of the ASCR (Czech Republic) Title: Guanylate binding proteins in leishmaniasis

Mikko Aalto, PhD Affiliation: Bosaso General Hospital (Somalia) Title: Visceral Leishmaniasis Discovered in Northern Somalia

Mehmet Gultekin, PhD Affiliation: University of Adnan Menderes, Faculty of Veterinary (Turkey) Title: A review of Leishmaniasis in dogs and cats in Turkey

Rob McMaster, PhD Affiliation: University of British Columbia (Canada) Title: The Epigenetic Reponses in Macrophages Induced by Leishmania donovani Infection

Seray TOZ, PhD Affiliation: Ege University Faculty of Medicine (Turkey) Title: Molecular epidemiology and the investigation of Leishmania RNA virus of Leishmania tropica strains in Turkey

Fabienne Tacchini-Cottier, PhD Affiliation: University of Lausanne (Switzerland) Title: The importance of neutrophils in Leishmania infection

Maria Paola COSTI, PhD Affiliation: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) Title: Flavonols derivatives as promising agents for drug-resistance anti-leishmania parasites

Ana Poveda, PhD Affiliation: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) Title: Fluoroquinolones: an ancient antibiotic potentially useful against leishmania, Ecuador

Ana Tomás, PhD Affiliation: ICBAS – Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto , Porto (Portugal) Title: Mechanisms used by Leishmania to counteract zinc nutritional immunity

Christine J. Piek, PhD Affiliation: Utrecht University, Utrecht (The Netherlands) Title: Survival and prognostic factors in a retrospective cohort of dogs with Leishmaniasis in a non-endemic area

Jack Sunter, PhD Affiliation: Oxford Brookes University (UK) Title: Leishmania flagellar pocket architecture is critical for development in the sand fly vector and pathogenicity in the mammalian host

Sandra Regina Costa Maruyama, PhD Affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Carlos – UFSCar (Brazil) Title: Whole-genome sequencing of Trypanosomatidae clinical isolates reveals Crithidia-like species in cases of visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis in Brazil

Giulia Getti, PhD Affiliation: University of Greenwich (UK) Title: The effect of Iron on L. aethiopica and L. mexicana infection of human cells

Andrea Hornemann, PhD Affiliation: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Germany) Title: Combining FTIR-based fingerprinting on Leishmania from the Old World with chemometrics tools for differentiation and classification

Margherita Ortalli, PhD Affiliation: University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy) Title: Anti-leishmanial activity of natural-like molecules: chalcones

Trícia Maria Oliveira, PhD Affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (Brazil) Title: An Analysis of Hematological and Biochemical Parameters of cats infected by Leishmania infantum

Elham Moghaddas, PhD Affiliation: Department of parasitololy Mashhad university of medical science (Iran) Title: Clinical and laboratory features in human visceral leishmaniasis, northeastern Iran, 1997- 2017

Lucia Helena Pinto-da-Silva, PhD Affiliation: Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Title: Prospection of essential oil with in vitro antileishmanial activity

Juliana B. T. Carnielli, PhD Affiliation: University of York (UK) Title: Molecular Markers for Miltefosine Resistance Identified in Leishmania infantum Clinical Isolates: Potential Miltefosine Prognostic Markers for Visceral Leishmaniasis Treatment

Edith Araceli Fernández Figueroa, PhD Affiliation: National Institute of Genomic Medicine (Mexico) Title: Transcriptome and proteome analysis in Leishmania mexicana parasite isolated from patients diagnosed with localized or diffused cutaneous leishmaniasis show differential behavior

Fátima Ribeiro-Dias, PhD Affiliation: Universidade Federal de Goiás (Brazil) Title: TLR4 and NOD2 as relevant innate immune recognition receptors to New World Leishmania spp. by human cells

Pamela Martínez Orellana, PhD Affiliation: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain) Title: The effect of TLR3, TLR4 and TLR7 agonists alone or in combination with Leishmania infantum antigen on TNF-a and IL-6 production in blood from healthy dog

Ana Victoria Ibarra Meneses, PhD Affiliation: Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Spain) Title: Use of whole blood stimulation assay to detect asymptomatic Leishmania infection under immunosuppressed conditions

Constantine Vassalos, PhD Affiliation: Greek Health System/Technological Institute of Athens, Athens (Greece) Title: New World cutaneous leishmaniasis in a traveller to a country endemic for Old World cutaneous leishmaniasis

Ma. Berenice Martinez Salazar, PhD Affiliation: WHO Immunology Research and Training Center, University of Lausanne, Lausanne (Switzerland) Title: Evaluation of a new topical treatment for the control of cutaneous Leishmaniasis

Lúcia Braz, PhD Affiliation: Instituto de Medicina Tropical USP (Brazil) Title: Genetic diversity of Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi in Brazil using kDNA

Jacob Gopas, PhD Affiliation: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) Title: Anti Leishmania major properties of Nuphar Lutea (Water lily) leaf extracts and purified Nupharidines

Helena Fehling, PhD Affiliation: Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (Germany) Title: Control of intracellular Leishmania major infection by treatment with synthetic analogs deduced from an Entamoeba histolytica glycolipid

Sushma Singh, PhD Affiliation: National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (NIPER) (India) Title: Pyridoxal kinase from Leishmania donovani: Identification and functional characterization of vitamin B 6 salvage pathway enzyme for exploring its possibility as antileishmanial drug target

Emanuela Martino, PhD Affiliation: University of Pavia (Italy) Title: Nature aided drug discovery. Novel Compounds against Leishmaniosis from Eremurus persicus

Claudia Rangel-Escareño, PhD Affiliation: National Institute of Genomic Medicine, INMEGEN (Mexico) Title: Multi-omics approach to the structural and functional characterization of Leishmaniasis caused by L. Mexicana

Christiane Juhls, PhD Affiliation: Infectious Diseases and DNA Vaccines MOLOGEN AG (Germany) Title: DNA vaccines against leishmaniasis in research and development

Daniel Jeffares, PhD Affiliation: University of York (UK) Title: Beginning the population genomics of Leishmania infantum in Brazil

Mohammad Amin Ghatee, PhD Affiliation: University of Medical Sciences (Iran) Title: Phylogeny of Leishmania tropica causing visceral leishmaniasis in Iran

Rafael Freitas, PhD Affiliation: Bernhard-Nocht Institut of Tropical Medicine in Hamburg (Germany) Title: Role of co-inhibitor molecule PD-L1 during Leishmania infection

Kimberly Harding,President, Monarch Innovation Partners, Inc. Affiliation: Monarch Innovation Partners, Inc. (USA) Title: The case for a precision medicine digital atlas and global health innovation framework, to support collaborative research and population health management for Leishmaniasis initiatives

Luiz Euribel Prestes Carneiro, PhD Affiliation: West Paulista University (Brazil) Title: New spatial-temporal scenario of visceral leishmaniasis with emphasis on the western region of São Paulo state