Saturday 27 September
SESSION 4
EPIDEMIOLOGY, TREATMENTS AND NOVEL APPROACHES TO DISEASE CONTROL
Mansonella ozzardi in Haiti: a little-known and neglected filarial nematode
Christian P. Raccurt
Can onchocerciasis be eradicated? Studies on the biology and epidemiology of human and bovine Onchocerca filarial worms in North Cameroon
Alfons Renz
Persistent transmission of onchocerciasis after a decade of repeated annual treatment with ivermectin in three drainage basins of the rain forest of South West Cameroon
Samuel Wanji
Loa loa: a double penalty for filariasis control programmes in Central Africa
Michel Boussinesq
Coffee break
Update and new trends in macrofilaricidal drug development
Achim Hoerauf
Quantification and analysis of nematodes using a new motion based technology
Charles D. Mackenzie
The footprint of natural selection on acetylcholine-gated ion-channels of the filarial nematodes
Robin Beech
Anti-Wolbachia drug discovery and development: exploiting the Wolbachia symbiosis for safe macrofilaricides for onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis
Mark J. Taylor
Small RNAs secreted by nematodes: localization and biomarker potential in filariasis
Juan F. Quintana
Lunch
SESSION 5
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
MicroRNAs and development in Brugia
Eileen Devaney
The therapeutic potential of the Acanthocheilonema viteae anti-inflammatory immunomodulator, ES-62
William Harnett
Immunological functions of the major ES proteins from Brugia malayi
Rick M. Maizels
Coffee break
A convergent adaptive and innate immune regulatory pathway of eosinophil-dependent immunity in murine models of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis
Joseph D. Turner
Nematode-induced interference with vaccination efficacy targets follicular T helper cell induction and is preserved after termination of infection
Minka Breloer
The clinico-histopathological responses in filarial infections: commonalities and differences
Charles D. Mackenzie
Transcriptomics in human filariasis reveals increased gene expression in individuals with latent infection
Alexander Kwame Kwarteng
Stage-specific structural proteomes and the nodular secretome from Onchocerca ochengi
Benjamin L. Makepeace