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ABOUT SPEAKERS PROGRAMME REGISTRATION CONTACT LOCATION About the workshop
ParaFrap is organizing the ParaFrap Next Generation in Parasitology Workshop for the first time in 2024. It aims to support the new generation of European parasitologists in developing their collaboration networks and raising awareness about funding opportunities.
This inaugural edition, scheduled to take place from September 30th to October 3rd, 2024 in the Grenoble region, is being organized by two young researchers from the ParaFrap network: Christopher Swale (IAB, Grenoble) and Jessica Bryant (Institut Pasteur, Paris), with assistance from Mohamed-Ali Hakimi and Artur Sherf.
The workshop will include a scientific session open to all attendees, where 12 junior PIs (10 selected by the organizing committee and 2 by the organizers) will present their research. Following this, the 12 young scientists will take part in a retreat focused on new technologies.
Registration for the scientific session is free but mandatory, and includes participation in the scientific presentations, lunch on Monday, and coffee breaks.
Registration deadline: September 4th, 2024.
- REGISTRATION DEADLINE (FREE)
- 4 september 2024
Speakers
Swiss Tropical Institute
Institut Pasteur
University of Geneva
University of Glasgow, UK
Heidelberg University, DE
Munich Vetenary University, DE
Institut Pasteur, FR
Catholic University of Portugal, PT
University of Manchester, UK
Crick Institute, UK
Inserm, FR
IRD, FR
Programme of the scientific session
Day 1 : Monday 30 September 09:00-09:15 Opening remarks Organizers 09:15-10:00 Dissecting the function(s) of an unconventional Arp2/3 complex in Plasmodium mosquito stage development Franziska Hentzschel 10:00-10:35 Unwinding the MORC mechanisms of repression in Apicomplexa: From the chromosomal to the atomic scale Christopher Swale 10:35-11:05 Coffee Break 11:05-11:50 Mechanisms of Leishmania sexual reproduction: lessons from experimental hybridization Isabelle Louradour 11:50-12:35 Cryptosporidium: a growing (microvilli) problem Adam Satariale 12:35-14:00 Lunch 14:00-14:35 New Frontiers in Plasmodium Genome Organization Jessica Bryant 14:35-15:20 Neuroimmunological basis of sleeping sickness - A tale of two B cells Juan Quintana 15:20-15:50 Coffee Break 15:50-16:35 Conoid Methylation: A Key Player in Motility Initiation in Toxoplasma gondii. Elena Jiménez-Ruiz 16:35-17:20 Sex determination in malaria parasites Arthur Talman 17:20-18:20 Title TBA Keynote by Artur Scherf Day 2 : Tuesday 1 October 09:00-09:15 Opening remarks Organizers 09:15-10:00 Heavy Metal Parasite: How Toxoplasma acquires and detoxifies essential metals Clare Harding 10:00-10:45 From Plasmodium gametocytes to DNA replication and back Nicolas Brancucci 10:35-11:15 Coffee Break 11:15-12:00 Characterization of secreted effectors and host modifications induced by the parasite Cryptosporidium Amandine Guérin 12:00-12:45 Multidisciplinary approaches to understand Trypanosoma interactions with the mammalian host Sara Silva Pereira 12:45-13:00 Closing remarks Registration
To attend the scientific day, please fill in the form below. Registration is free but compulsory, and includes your participation in the scientific presentations, lunch on Monday and coffee breaks. Deadline for registration: 4 September 2024 at 17:00. Please note: as the number of places is limited, registrations will be closed before this date if the maximum number is reached.
Contact
Organizers JESSICA BRYANT CHRISTOPHER SWALE This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Location
[Communiqué]
As part of the actions of the Health Innovation Plan 2030, the health component of the France 2030 plan, Mohamed-Ali Hakimi is one of the 22 laureates of an Excellence Chair in Biology/Health, supported to conduct high-level research projects in France.
The ToxoNeoSex project, "Epigenetically Reprogrammed Sexual Stages: An Animal-Free Model to Study Zoonotic Transmission of Endemic Parasites and their Species Barrier," aims at a comprehensive understanding of toxoplasmosis using in vitro cultures.
The Excellence Chair in Biology/Health program aims to support the work of highly talented researchers in France. Endowed with funding ranging from 2 to 3 million euros each, these chairs will enable the conduct of new large-scale projects in our territory, over a duration of 5 years.
More details on the website of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and in the press kit.
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Congratulations to Arthur Talman, IRD Research Leader in the MIVEGEC laboratory (Montpellier), who has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for the project "TROJAN - Molecular mimicry and immune evasion in malaria parasites ".
For this project, the team will be looking for a parasitologist, an immunologist and a computational biologist.
Ana Rita Gomes, a CNRS Research Associate at the Laboratory of Pathogens and Host Immunity in Montpellier, and former Postdoctoral fellow of the LabEx ParaFrap, has been awarded the prestigious CNRS Bronze Medal in 2023.This esteemed recognition highlights her exceptional contributions to the field of Parasitology and her dedication to advancing our understanding of pathogens. This Bronze Medal, awarded by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), is highly esteemed within the scientific community. It aims to honor early-career researchers and serves as an encouragement from CNRS to continue well-established and fruitful research in their respective fields. Ana Rita's receipt of this medal highlights her significant impact and potential as a scientist.
Ana Rita Gomes' research utilizes omics approaches to explore DNA replication and cell cycle regulation in malaria-causing parasites. With a background in microbiology, she pursued her doctoral program at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge (United Kingdom) under the supervision of Oliver Billker, where she studied the functional genetics of the malaria parasite (2010-2015). During this time, she developed large-scale reverse genetic screening technologies, paving the way for high-throughput malaria research. As a postdoc, she continued to develop this technology at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Imperial College London. In 2015, she relocated to Montpellier and initiated a new research line focusing on DNA biology in Plasmodium in Dr. Jose-Juan LOPEZ-RUBIO's team (ParaFrap fellowship). She was subsequently recruited by CNRS as a CRCN (Chargée de recherche de classe normale) at the end of December 2018, joining the LPHI unit in Montpellier. Her group was initially funded by a starting grant ANR JCJC (2020-2024) and i-SITE MUSE (2021-2023). Ana Rita is also the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant 2023.
By honoring Ana Rita Batista Gomes with the CNRS Bronze Medal, the scientific community not only recognizes her past achievements but also eagerly anticipates the discoveries to come in her promising career.
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