Departamento de Parasitologia – ICB

EVENTOS

Seminars of the Department of Parasitology - ICB-USP

 

BMP 5761 – Seminars of Parasitology II – 2025

Time: Fridays at 11:00

 

Local: ICB 2, Anfiteatro Samuel Pessoa, Anexo Didático
Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, nº 1374 – Butantã – São Paulo – SP

 

Date

Speaker

Title

August

08

Dr. Henning Ulrich (IQ-USP)

Purinergic Signaling in Neurogenesis and Brain Diseases

15

Dr. Alejandro Miguel Katzin (ICB-USP)

Isoprenoid Biosynthesis in P. falciparum

22

Dr. David Olsen (Merck, EUA)

Aspartyl Protease Inhibitors as Antimalarial Drugs: An Academic/Pharma Collaboration Case Study

29

Dra. Tamara Nunes de Lima Câmara (FSP-USP)

Virus-Vector Interactions: Impacts of Arbovirus Infection on the Locomotor Activity of and (Diptera: Culicidae)

September

Nation week- there will be no class

12

Dra. Constância Ayres (Aggeu Magalhães, FIOCRUZ-PE)

Assessment of Replication Dynamics of the Live-Attenuated Tetravalent Vaccine

(QDENGA) in Field Mosquitoes

19

Dr. Daniel Sojka (Biology Center CAS, República Tcheca)

Biting, Breaking, and Budding: Enzymatic Mechanisms of Digestion and Division in Ticks and Babesia

26

Dra. Lygia da Veiga Pereira (IB- USP)

DNA do Brasil: what our genomes tell us about health and history

October

03

Dr. Alfonso Javier Rodriguez-Morales (Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colômbia)

Toxocariasis: A Neglected Parasitic Disease in Latin America: In Memoriam to Olinda Delgado, PhDn

10

Dr. André Gustavo Tempone Cardoso (Instituto Butatan)

Selection and Optimization of Natural Compounds in the Search for Anti-Trypanosoma cruzi and Anti-Leishmania Candidates

17

Dra. Andrea Rodrigues Avila (ICC-FIOCRUZ – PR)

Unraveling the RNA Export system in Trypanosoma cruzi: a window for new therapeutic strategies

24

Dr. Rodolpho Ornitz Oliveira Souza (University at Buffalo- USA)

Unraveling (some) Mysteries of Toxoplasma gondii Mitochondrial Biology

31

Profa. Dra. Carolina Catta Preta (ICB-USP)

Cracking the Cryptic Sexual Cycle of — What We’ve Uncovered and Where We’re Headed

November

07

Dra. Ester Sabino (FM-USP)

Understanding th Evolution of Chagas Disease

14

Mini-symposium

Implications of survival and death mechanisms for the interactions of pathogenic protozoa with their hosts

28

Dr. Marcelo Jabobs-Lorena (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Scholl of Public Health)

Microbes That Suppress Pathogen Transmission: Quo Vadis?