IFM 2014

Arrival - Check-in

Marc Blaxter

Updated phylogeny of Onchocercidae
Emilie Lefoulon

New insights on the biology of Cercopithifilaria species infecting dogs
Domenico Otranto

Cercopithifilaria rugosicauda (Spirurida, Onchocercidae) in a roe deer and ticks from southern Italy
Rafael Antonio Nascimento Ramos

Onchocerca lupi infecting dogs: a filarioid of zoonotic concern
Alessio Giannelli

Ultrastructural effects of short-term tetracyline treatment on Wolbachia and its filarial host B. malayi
Kerstin Fischer

Co-evolution between an endosymbiont and its nematode host: Wolbachia asymmetric posterior localization and AP polarity establishment
Frederic Landmann

Concurrent transcriptional profiling of Dirofilaria immitis and its Wolbachia endosymbiont throughout the Nematode life cycle reveals coordinated gene expression
Ashley N. Luck

Wolbachia: new filarial nematode organelles
Kenneth Pfarr

Looking at Litomosoides sigmodontis from a new perspective: filarial larvae entry into lymphatics
Coralie Martin

Lessons from Litomosoides sigmodontis: Tregs and Th2 cell-intrinsic tolerance
Matthew Taylor

Immunomodulation by Litomosoides sigmodontis infection and filarial antigen administration improves insulin sensitivity in diet-induced obesity mice
Marc P. Hübner

Chronic Litomosoides sigmodontis infection improves gram-negative sepsis via TLR2 dependent macrophage modulation
Fabian Gondorf

Coffee break

Age-associated increase in susceptibility to chronic helminth infection
Simon A. Babayan

NOD2 dependent neutrophil recruitment is required for early protective immune responses against invading Litomosoides sigmodontis infective larvae
Jesuthas Ajendra

Determinants of resistance and susceptibility to microfilaremia in the Litomosoides sigmodontis mouse model: an approach towards peptide-based vaccines
Wolfgang Hoffmann

What Litomosoides sigmodontis has taught us about macrophage biology
Judith Allen