8:30-9:30am |
Registration and Coffee |
8:50-9am |
Welcoming Remarks by Program Organizers |
9am-12pm
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Panel I — Parasitic Nematode Models
Chair: Kris Gunsalus, NYU New York and NYU Abu Dhabi
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9-9:30am — Host immune responses and parasite development in the real world
Mark Viney University of Bristol, UK
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9:30-10am —Programmed DNA elimination in nematodes
Richard Davis University of Colorado Medical School |
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10-10:30am — Developing heterorhabditis bacteriophora as a model for nematode parasitism
John Hawdon George Washington University |
10:30-11am |
Break and Refreshments |
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11-11:30am — A self-recognition system in nematodes
Ralf Sommer Max Planck Institute Tuebingen |
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11:30am-12pm — Nippostrongylus brasiliensis: a model for understanding cholinergic regulation of immunity
Murray Selkirk Imperial College |
12-2pm |
Lunch |
2-4:30pm
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Panel II — Development, Behavior, and Host Interactions
Chair: Oliver Hobert, Columbia; HHMI
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2-2:30pm — Molecular and behavioral analysis of neuronal remodeling events in the C. elegans dauer
Oliver Hobert Columbia; HHMI |
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2:30-3pm — Molecular and cellular dissection of a conserved hitchhiking behavior of the nematode
Junho Lee Seoul National University |
3-3:30pm |
Break and Refreshments |
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3:30-4pm — The chemical language of worms: semantics and host interference
Frank Schroeder Cornell; Boyce Thompson |
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4-4:30pm — Mucosal immunity and mitigation of helminth-induced tissue injury
De'Broski Hebert University of Pennsylvania |
4:45-5:45pm |
Campus Tour |
6:30-8pm |
Public Program — A World Without Parasitic Worms: Why, When, and How?
Tim Geary McGill University
*Immediately followed by public reception
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