2025 BoP Schedule
Day | Speaker | Event |
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Module 1 - Bioinformatics (6/14/25-6/18/25) |
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Omar Harb |
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Kathryn Crouch |
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6/15/25 - Evening |
Jana Broadhurst (BoP Alum) |
Clinical Cases in Parasitology |
6/17/25 |
Bjorn Kafsack |
One is the loneliest number: Single cell exploration of sexual commitment in malaria parasites |
Module 2 - Cell Biology (6/20/25-7/2/25) |
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6/20/25 |
Jim Collins |
The Biology of Schistosomes |
6/21/25 |
Megan Povelones |
Cellular adaptations to host environments by trypanosomatids |
6/23/25 |
Michael Povelones |
Molecular interactions between mosquitoes and parasites |
6/24/25 |
Meg Phillips |
Blout Lecture: Developing new drugs for Malaria using target-based and phenotypic-based approaches |
6/25/25 |
Katy Ralston |
Chew your food: Exploring the interplay between host and parasite during Entamoeba histolytica trogocytosis (cell-nibbling) |
6/26/25 |
Gary Ward |
Science lecture: Into the breach! Host cell membrane perforation during invasion by Toxoplasma |
6/27/25 Morning |
Sabrina Absalon |
Harnessing Expansion Microscopy to Unveil the Mechanisms of Plasmodium Parasite Cell Division |
6/27/25 Evening |
Gary Ward |
Publishing lecture |
6/28/25 |
Chris de Graffenried |
Morphogenesis in Trypanosomatids: how parasites get their shape |
6/30/25 |
Adler Dillman |
Nematode venom: Host-parasite interactions and the immunomodulatory influence of nematode proteins released during infection. |
7/1/25 |
Vern Carruthers |
Food for a foodborne parasite |
7/2/25 |
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Student Presentations + BBQ |
Module 3 - Vector Biology (7/3/25-7/16/25) |
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7/3/25 |
Stephanie Blandin |
Understanding and manipulating mosquito / parasite interactions |
7/5/25 |
Daniel Sojka |
Blood Processing in Ticks: (1) Ticks and Their Gut – A General Introduction (2) Midgut-Associated Metabolism During Tick Ontogenesis |
7/7/25 |
Ryan Smith |
Mosquito hemocytes: (1) Functional roles and their characterization, (2) Contributions to mosquito vector competence |
7/8/25 |
Katia Gondim |
1) Converting blood into fat: Lipid synthesis in the vector insect Rhodnius prolixus. 2) Burn fat and keep going: Lipid mobilization in Rhodnius prolixus. |
7/9/25 |
Isabel Roditi - online |
(1) One hundred years of sleeping sickness - a historical perspective, (2) A sense of direction - cooperative behaviour and chemotaxis by Trypanosoma brucei |
7/10/25 |
Joel Vega (NIH) |
How Mosquito Adaptation to Hematophagy Shaped the Transmission of Malaria Parasites and other vector borne diseases |
7/11/25 |