Day One — Thursday, January 4, 2018
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8:30-9:30am | Registration and Coffee |
8:50-9am | Welcoming Remarks by Program Organizers |
9am-12pm |
Panel I — Parasitic Nematode ModelsChair: Kris Gunsalus, NYU New York and NYU Abu Dhabi |
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 |
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10:30-11am | Break and Refreshments |
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 |
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12-2pm | Lunch |
2-4:30pm |
Panel II — Development, Behavior, and Host InteractionsChair: Oliver Hobert, Columbia; HHMI |
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 |
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3-3:30pm | Break and Refreshments |
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 |
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4:45-5:45pm | Campus Tour |
6:30-8pm | Public Program — A World Without Parasitic Worms: Why, When, and How? *Immediately followed by public reception |