Shotgun Presentations

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Carlos Estrella, PhD Student
Affiliation: University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health of the Canary Islands,University of La Laguna (Spain)
Title: In vitro biological evaluation of Withania aristata: a bioguided fractionation and a preliminary study of cell death
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Aitor Rizo Liendo, PhD Student
Affiliation: University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health of the Canary Islands,University of La Laguna (Spain)
Title: In vitro activity against Leishmania spp. of crown ethyl acyl derivatives based on 18-crown-6: a preliminary study
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Olfa Chiboub, PhD Student
Affiliation: University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health of the Canary Islands,University of La Laguna (Spain)
Title: Organic extracts from various seaweeds collected from Tunisia: preliminary study of biological activities
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Aurore Lison, PhD Student
Affiliation: University of Warwick (UK)
Title: Available soon.
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Tamara Salloum, PhD Student
Affiliation: Lebanese American University LAU (Lebanon)
Title: Available soon.
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Sara Pereira, PhD Student
Affiliation: IHMT-UNL (Portugal)
Title: Actual occurrence of proven or suspected sand fly species, vectors of Leishmania sp., in Alentejo, Portugal and Volta Redonda, Brazil
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Clara Muñoz, PhD student
Affiliation: Universidad de Murcia, Murcia (Spain)
Title: Available soon.
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María Ortuño, PhD student
Affiliation: Universidad de Murcia, Murcia (Spain)
Title: Available soon.
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Barbora Vojtkova, PhD student
Affiliation: Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University (Czech Republic)
Title: Effect of repeated sand fly feeding on Leishmania infections in BALB/c mice
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Tomas Becvar, PhD student
Affiliation: Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, (Czech Republic)
Title: Development of Leishmania of the subgenus Mundinia in sand flies and Guinea pigs
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Jéssica dos Santos, PhD student
Affiliation: Radboud University Medical Centre (The Netherlands)
Title: β-glucan induced Training Immunity resulting in protection against Leishmania infection: A crucial role for IL-32
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Laura A. González, MSc student
Affiliation: Departamento de Ciencias Patológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias – UNA (Paraguay)
Title: Available soon.
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André Pereira, PhD student
Affiliation: IHMT-UNL, Lisbon (Portugal)
Title: A case of feline leishmaniosis with involvement of mammary glands
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Sneha Ratnapriya, PhD student
Affiliation: Central Drug Research Institute (India)
Title: Therapeutic vaccination with Th1 stimulatory peptides against experimental visceral leishmaniasis
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Joana Pissarra, PhD student
Affiliation: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement – IRD (France)
Title: A new epitope-based peptide vaccine against human leishmaniasis
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Zahra Navi, PhD student
Affiliation: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (Iran)
Title: The study of interaction between Leishmania and its host via evaluation of IL-8 and IL-23 genes expression
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Pedro Cecílio, PhD student
Affiliation: i3S/IBMC (Portugal)
Title: Exploring the effect of a sandfly salivary protein “prime” on the immunogenicity of a complex vaccine formulation containing both vector and parasite-derived antigens
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Alba Calvo, PhD student
Affiliation: Institute of Tropical Health, University of Navarra (Spain)
Title: Near infrared imaging of albumin nanoparticles biodistribution in L. infantum infected mice
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Myrthe Pareyn, PhD student
Affiliation: University of Antwerp, Antwerp (Belgium)
Title: Ecology and transmission dynamics of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Ochollo, a hotspot in Southern Ethiopia
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Sara Montserrat, PhD student
Affiliation: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain)
Title: Available soon.
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Laura Botana Veguillas, PhD student
Affiliation: Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Spain)
Title: Cytokine release assay as test for exposure to Leishmania in patients under immunosuppressive treatment
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Ilaria Varotto Boccazzi, PhD student
Affiliation: University of Milan, Milan (Italy)
Title: NOD2 pathway implication in Leishmania tropica infection
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Gabrielle Barcellos, PhD student
Affiliation: FIOCRUZ (Brazil)
Title: Protein kinase C signaling interferes in proliferation, differentiation and metacyclogenesis of Leishmania amazonensis
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Medhavi Ranatunga, PhD student
Affiliation: University of Greenwich (UK)
Title: Ex vivo analysis of Leishmania infection of human blood cells over 24 hours
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Imtissal Krayem, PhD Student
Affiliation: Institute of Molecular Genetics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
Title: Strong Epistasis in Genetics of Leishmaniasis – Search for Genes and Mechanisms
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Justin T. Lana, PhD Student
Affiliation: Nicholas School of the Environment Duke University (USA)
Title: Available soon.
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Hejer Souguir, PhD Student
Affiliation: Institut Pasteur de Tunis (TUNISIA)
Title: Hedgehogs: possible reservoirs of endemic leishmaniases in Tunisia
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Elisa Vignoni, PhD Student
Affiliation: University of Pavia (Italy)
Title: Available soon.
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Sandra López Fernández, PhD student
Affiliation: Universidad de Málaga, Málaga (Spain)
Title: Feral cats as a main reservoir of Leishmania in South of Spain
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Alissa Majoor, PhD student
Affiliation: Université Côte d’Azur, C3M Inserm (France)
Title: Innovative screening method for drugs against visceral Leishmaniasis
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Renata Elen Costa da Silva, MSc student
Affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo (Brazil)
Title: Genetic diversity of Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi in Brazil using kDNA
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Edubiel Arturo Alpizar Sosa, PhD student
Affiliation: Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow (UK)
Title: Polyene resistance in Leishmania probed with metabolomics and genomic approaches
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Bibi Razieh Farash, PhD Student
Affiliation: Tehran University of Medical Sciences(TUMS) (Iran)
Title: Cloning, expression and production of rK39 from Iranian strain of Leishmania infantum for serodiagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in human