Workshop 292 - Modern methods in molecular parasitology
Mercredi 4 novembre 2026 / Wednesday, November 4th, 2026 |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Reception of participants |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Welcome and presentation by the organizers |
| Overview lecture | |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Parasitology all the way: Studying parasite biology from the organism level to the molecular detail |
| Luísa FIGUEIREDO (Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal) | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Coffee break |
| SESSION I | Chromatin… |
| 17:30 - 18:15 | Exploration of chromatin organization |
| Jessica BRYANT (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France) | |
| 18:15 - 19:00 | Sequencing methods to study DNA replication |
| Ana-Rita GOMES (CNRS, Montpellier, France) | |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
Jeudi 5 novembre 2026 / Thursday, November 5th, 2026 |
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| 06:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast |
| SESSION I | … and RNA |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Detection of RNA modifications |
| Schraga SCHWARTZ (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel) | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Single-cell transcriptomics of different developmental life stages |
| Arthur TALMAN (IRD, Montpellier, France) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| SESSION II | The functional proteome |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Phosphoproteomics in signaling cascades |
| Moritz TREEK (Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Oeiras, Portugal) | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Functional screening with base editors |
| Tom BENEKE (University of Würzburg, Germany) | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| SESSION III |
Imaging across scales |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Correlative imaging technologies |
| Freddy FRISCHKNECHT (University of Heidelberg, Germany) | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Advanced expansion microscopy |
| Susanne KRAMER (University of Würzburg, Germany) | |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | X-ray nanoimaging of parasites in host cells |
| Matthew BOWLER (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble, France) | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:45 - 17:30 | Combining structural biology methods in parasitology |
| Eva KOWALINSKI (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble, France) | |
| 17:30 - 18:15 | Studies of liquid-liquid phase separation |
| Joana CORREIRA FARIA (University of York, United Kingdom) | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Cocktail |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
Vendredi 6 novembre 2026 / Friday, November 6th, 2026 |
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| 06:30 - 08:30 | Breakfast |
| SESSION IV | Host-parasite interactions |
| 08:30 - 09:15 | Microvessels-on-chip to probe host-parasite interactions |
| Maria BERNABEU (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Barcelona, Spain) | |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | CRISPR tools for host-pathogen interactions in Malaria |
| Ellen BUSHELL (Umea University, Sweden) | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | CRISPR tools for the identification of host factors |
| Adam SATERIALE (Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom) | |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Organoids for host-pathogen interaction studies |
| David SMITH (Moredun Research Institute, United Kingdom) | |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Molecular parasitology from a clinician’s perspective |
| Valentin GREIGERT (University of Reims, France) | |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Departure |