Presenter Guidelines
Oral presentations should be between 10 – 12 minutes and no longer than 12 minutes.

Program

Time	Event​	Room
8h30 - 9h30	Registration + coffee	MS2-022
9h30 - 9h40	Welcome and opening remarks Maude Dagenais & Dr. Anja Geitmann, Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill University	R2-046
9h40 - 10h40	Keynote address: Dr. Meera Nair, UC Riverside, USA - Old and new players in immunity and inflammation to parasitic worms: RELM proteins and endocannabinoids	​R2-046
10h40 - 10h55	Maria E. Gentile, McGill University, QC - IFNγ recruits tissue-protective NK cells to the small intestine during helminth infection	​R2-046
10h55 - 11h10	Danielle Karo-Atar, McGill University, QC - RIPK3 restricts parasite fitness and promotes tissue repair during enteric helminth infection	​R2-046
11h10 - 11h25	Visnu Chaparro, INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, QC - Modulation of translational efficiency in macrophages during Leishmania donovani infection	​R2-046
11h25 - 11h40	Adam Hassan, McGill University, QC - Vaccination with cathepsin B using a YS1646 Salmonella enterica Typhimurium vector protects mice against Schistosoma mansoni challenge​	​R2-046
11h40 - 11h55	Karine Sonzogni-Desautels, McGill University, QC - Cryptosporidium parvum gp45 protein is secreted during infection and constitutes a promising vaccine candidate against cryptosporidiosis	R2-046
11h55 - 13h25	Lunch	Ceilidh Pub
13h30 - 13h45	Christine Matte, INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, QC - Leishmania donovani metacyclic promastigotes colonize inflammatory monocytes by impairing phagosome function	R2-046
13h45 - 14h00	Olivier Séguin​, INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, QC - Differential roles for phagocyte SNARES in the biogenesis of Leishmania parasitophorous vacuoles	​R2-046
14h00 - 14h15	Guillermo Arango Duque​, INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, QC - The host cell secretory pathway mediates the export of Leishmania virulence factors out of the parasitophorous vacuole	​R2-046
14h15 - 14h30	Vaibhav Mehta, McGill University, QC - Naphthalene-based RNA editing ligase inhibitors reveal an essential role for the accessory factors MRP1/MRP2 in RNA editing​	​R2-046
14h30 - 14h45	Danae Guerra, McGill University, QC - Inorganic ions on hemozoin surface provide a glimpse into Plasmodium biology	​R2-046
14h45 - 15h15	Coffee break	MS2-022
15h15 - 15h30	Elizabeth Ruiz-Lancheros, McGill University, QC - Validation of biomarkers of cure for Chagas Disease​	​R2-046
15h30 - 15h45	Kristen K. Nazareth, Ontario Tech University, ON - Characterizing the GGR-1 family cys-loop receptors from Haemonchus contortus	​​R2-046
15h45 - 16h00	Sarah A. Habibi​, Ontario Tech University, ON - Characterization of ACC-1 and 2 from the parasitic nematode Haemonchus contortus	​​R2-046
16h00 - 16h15	Mark Kaji, McGill University, QC - A novel effect of ivermectin on glutamate receptor activity​	​R2-046
16h25 - 17h25	Brainstorming session	MS2-022
17h25 - 18h45	Poster session and happy hour	Ceilidh Pub
​18h45	Closing remarks + best talk & best poster prizes	Ceilidh pub
18h55	Dinner	​Ceilidh pub