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Presenter Guidelines
Oral presentations should be between 10 – 12 minutes and no longer than 12 minutes.
For those interested, there will be a pre-conference talk by Nathan Peters, from the University of Calgary.
When: 11:00 on June 9th, 2022 
Where: INRS – Institut Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, 531 Boul. des Prairies, Laval, QC H7V 1B7 
Title: Fast, Faster, Fastest: Understanding the importance of timing in protective CD4+ T cell mediated immunity against Leishmania. 
For more information: maritza.jaramillo@inrs.ca

The main event will be held on June 10th at the Jardin Daniel A. Séguin
3230 Rue Sicotte, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC
J2S 2M2, Canada

Time
Event​
Location
8h30 - 9h30
Registration + coffee
Hallway
9h30 - 9h40
Welcome and opening remarks
Rooms A & B
9h40 - 10h40
Keynote address: Dr. Jude Uzonna, University of Manitoba -
​Changing Dogma?: Immunologic memory to cutaneous leishmaniasis may need constant reminding
Rooms A & B
10h40 - 10h55
Gabriel Reis Ferreira, Université Laval, QC - Combining multi-level bioinformatics tools to globally assess the diversified critical roles of SIDER2 retroposon elements in Leishmania genome ploidy, gene expression and developmental regulation
Rooms A & B
10h55 - 11h10
George Dong, McGill University, QC - Disruption of Leishmania major extracellular vesicle production significantly impedes its infectious capability and disease progression 
Rooms A & B
11h10 - 11h25
Ana Medina, INRS - Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, QC - Could Leishmania tarentolae EVs be a new platform for vaccine?
Rooms A & B
11h25 - 11h40
Sophia Bigot, Université Laval, QC - Delving in one carbon metabolism in the parasite Leishmania through a chemi-genomic screen
Rooms A & B
11h40 - 11h55
Jose Mauricio Ayala Esparza, McGill University, QC - The role of IRF1 in cutaneous L. major infection and driving the inflammatory response in primary macrophages
Rooms A & B
11h55 - 13h25
Lunch
Chapiteau Desjardins
13h30 - 14h15
Invited speaker: Dr. Karine Thivierge, Laboratoire de Santé publique du Québec - What’s the role of a parasitologist in Quebec’s Public Health Laboratory
Rooms A & B
14h15 - 14h30
Kieran Freitag, Trent University, ON - Characterization of the TATA-binding protein in Giardia intestinalis
Rooms A & B
14h30 - 14h45
Melanie Marlow, Trent University, ON - Analysis of a nuclear localized cytochrome b5 in Giardia intestinalis
Rooms A & B
14h45 - 15h15
Coffee break
Chapiteau Desjardins
15h15 - 15h30
Sohini Kumar, McGill University, QC - Droplet digital PCR as a tool to detect resistant isolates of Dirofilaria immitis
Rooms A & B
15h30 - 15h45
Susan Westfall, McGill University, QC - Helminth-induced IFNg remodels the intestinal epithelium to compromise host resistance
Rooms A & B
15h45 - 16h00
Nathalia Malacco, McGill University, QC - Heligmosomoides polygyrus-derived metabolites induce tolerogenic dendritic cells and attenuate DSS-induced colitis
Rooms A & B
16h00 - 16h15
Patrick Lypaczewski, McGill University, QC - Hybridization as a phenotypic adaptation in Leishmania donovani is associated with cutaneous leishmaniasis
Rooms A & B
16h20 - 17h00
Roundtable discussion
Chapiteau Desjardins
17h00 - 18h50
Poster session, happy hour & cocktail food
Chapiteau Desjardins
18h50 - 19h00
Closing remarks + best talk & best poster prizes
Chapiteau Desjardins

Please note that this program is subject to change

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