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Last updated: Apr 26, 2001

4th COST-B9 Congress on Antiprotozoal Chemotherapy


PROGRAMME (download programme and abstract book as PDF file, 244k)
List of participants (download as PDF file)

DATE / TIME

SUBJECT/ AUTHORS/ TITLES

SUNDAY, May 6th

 

15:00-18:00

Registration

 

Poster Mounting

MONDAY, May 7th

 

9:00-9:30

OPENING OF THE MEETING

 

Field situation

Chairpersons: Reto Brun and Rolf Walter

9:30-10:00

J. Jannin

current situation in the field

10:00-10:30

S. Van Nieuvenhove

Sleeping sickness therapy: current challenges and opportunities

10:30-11:00

Jorge Seixas, Christian Lengeler, Jorge Atouguia, Christian Burri

Systematic Review On Encephalopathic Syndromes During Melarsoprol Treatment Of Human African Trypanosomiasis: Preliminary Results

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing I

11:30-12:00

Raya Awad El Tayeb, Samia Amin El Karib, Suad Mohamed Sulaiman, Omer Zaid Baraka Hiba Awad Osman

chloroquine sensitivity studies in el&emdash;rahad area, med-west of the sudan 1999

12:00-12:30

Hiba Awad Osman, Raya Awad Eltayeb, Saadia Ahmed Younis, Suad Mohammed Sulaiman

antimalarial drug utilization: a study of knowledge, attitudes and practices (kap) of sudanese mothers towards malaria treatment in khartoum state

12:30-14:00

Lunch

 

Genome projects and Genetic related studies

Chairpersons: Henri Vial and Michael Duchene

14:00-14:30

Esteban Bontempi, Carole Branche, Kimberly Edwards, Hamid Darban, Delal Öncü, Sindy Kluge, Lena Åslund, Ulf Pettersson, Björn Andersson

the trypanosoma cruzi genome project

14:30-15:00

Mitchell L Sogin

evolution of protists: what can genomics tell us about the first eukaryotes?

15:00-15:30

Philippe Bastin

functional genomics and target validation by rna interference

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing II

16:00:16:30

Intisar E El Rayah, Khitma H El malik, Cecile Schmid, Ronald Kaminsky

characterisation of suramin drug -resistant t.evansi

16:30-17:00

Magdalena Radwanska, Filip Claes, Eddy Magnus, Stefan Magez, Veerle Lejon, Etienne Pays, Philippe Büscher

novel gene targets to diagnose human african trypanosomiasis (hat)

18:00

Wellcome Reception "Porto de Honra" (Padrão dos Descobrimentos)

TUESDAY, May 8th

 

 

BASIC SCIENCE

Chairpersons: Thomas Seebeck and Fred Opperdoes

9:30-10:00

William N. Hunter

pterin metabolism and antifolate drug resistance in trypanosomatids; structure and mechanism of pteridine reductase

10:00-10:30

Aloysius GM Tielens, Jaap J van Hellemond

mitochondria of trypanosomes and their evolutionary relation to hydrogenosomes and other types of mitochondria

10:30-11:00

Michael Boshart, Markus Engstler, Beate Fast, Friedrich Herberg, Carsten Krumbholz, Thorsten Riek, Susanne Schimpf , Cordula Schulte zu Sodingen , Achim Vogt

signaling mechanisms in life cycle control of african trypanosomes.

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing III

11:30-12:00

Armin Schmidt, Henning Hillebrand and R Luise Krauth-Siegel

why are trypanosomes sensitive towards oxidative stress if they possess an armada of antioxidant enzymes?

12:00-12:30

Jean Christophe Barale, Emmanuelle Roggwiller, Thierry Blisnick, Pierrick Uzureau and Catherine Braun Breton, Chris J. Janse and Andrew P. Waters

plasmodium serylproteases involved in merozoite release and red blood cell invasion

12:30-14:00

Lunch

 

Mechanisms of drug action and resistance

Chairpersons: Louis Tielens and Arsalan Kharazmi

14:00-14:30

José M Pérez-Victoria, F Javier Pérez-Victoria, Adriana Parodi-Talice, Santiago Castanys, Francisco Gamarro.

strategy for modulation of alkyl-lysophospholipids resistance in a multidrug resistant leishmania line

14:30-15:00

Fred R. Opperdoes, Emma Saavedra, Francis Duffieux and Paul A.M. Michels

the glycosome and enzymes of the hexose-monophosphate shunt

15:00-15:30

Elisabeth Davioud-Charvet, Sandrine Delarue, Christophe Biot, Louis Maes, Christian Sergheraert, Philippe Grellier, Heiner Schirmer, and Katja Becker.

an antimalarial double-drug exhibiting in vitro and in vivo activity: an anilino-4-quinoline conjugated with a glutathione reductase inhibitor

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing IV

16:00-16:30

Jacob Golenser, Abraham Domb, Talya Mordechay, Benny Leshem, Peter Kremsner, Adrian Luty

iron chelators: correlation between effects on plasmodia and immune functions

16:30-17:00

Leopold Flohé, Birgit Hofmann, Hans-Jürgen Hecht

structures of tryparedoxins as basis for rational drug design

17:00-17:30

Ivan Hrdy, Jiri Vasak, Jan Tachezy, Jaroslav Kulda

malate metabolizing pathways and metronidazole resistance in trichomonads

18:00

Lisbon Tour and Dinner

WEDNESDAY, May 9th

 

 

DRUG TARGETS

Chairpersons: Luise Krauth-Siegel and Jaroslav Kulda

9:30-10:00

Michael H. Gelb, Frederick S. Buckner, Kohei Yokoyama, Wesley C. Van Voorhis, Jeffrey Lockman, Andrew Hamilton

protein prenylation in trypanosomatids and in plasmodium falciparum: an ideal drug target

10:00-10:30

Burkhard Klenke, Mhairi Stewart, Michael P. Barrett, Reto Brun, Ian H. Gilbert

evaluation of the p2 transporter as a selective way to deliver polyamine analogues to trypanosoma brucei.

10:30-11:00

Thomas Seebeck, Stefan Kunz, Roya Zoraghi, Rahel Schaub, Kewei Gong and Tarek Shalaby

cyclic amp signalling in trypanosoma brucei: new drug targets ?

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing V

11:30-12:00

Fernando Hidalgo Zarco, Victor Bernier Villamor, Luis Miguel Ruiz Pérez, Dolores González Pacanowska.

trypanosomal deoxyuridine 5'-triphosphate nucleotidohydrolases as potential targets for drug design

12:00-12:30

Carsten Wrenger, Kai Lüersen, Tanja Krause, Sylke Müller, Rolf D Walter

the plasmodium falciparum bifunctional ornithine decarboxylase, s-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase as a target for chemotherapy of malaria

12:30-14:00

Lunch

 

DRUG SCREENING AND NEW DRUGS

Chairpersons: Simon Croft / Jacques Perie

14:00-14:30

Rosa Sinai, Avi Golan-Goldhirsh, HTS Members, Yaakov Pollack

antimalarial activity of extracts and compounds from diverse and unique biological sources

14:30-15:00

Karin Seifert, Michael Duchêne, Walther H Wernsdorfer, Herwig Kollaritsch , Gerhard Wiedermann, Thomas Hottkowitz, Hansjörg Eibl

in vitro activity of alkylphosphocholines against entamoeba histolytica

15:00-15:30

Ming Chen, Lin Zhai, Søren B. Christensen, Sven Frokjaer, Bent Steffansen, and Arsalan Kharazmi

antileishmanial activity of novel oxygenated chalcones

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing VI

16:00-16:30

L Zhou, JE Hall, J Zong, GM Pollack, JR Seed, JL Allen, P Yeramian, L McChesney-Harris, JM Ndung'u, R Mdachi, J Ngotho, R Brun, CE Stephens, M Anbazhagan, DW Boykin and RR Tidwell

absorption, distribution and metabolism of db289, an orally active prodrug for treatment of african trypanosomiasis

16:30-17:00

Richard R Tidwell, David W Boykin, Reto Brun, Simon L Croft, James E Hall, Ramond Mdachi, J Mathu Ndung’u, Gary M Pollack, J Richard Seed, Karl Werbovitz, and W David Wilson

Pentamidine Type Compounds as Antitrypanosomal and Antileishmanial Drugs. A New Look at an Old Agent.

17:00

Closing remarks - Farewell

4th COST-B9 Congress on Antiprotozoemotherapy


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