BMP 5735 – Seminars of Parasitology I – 2025

Time: Fridays at 11h00

Local: ICB 2, Anfiteatro Samuel Pessoa, Anexo Didático

Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, nº 1374 – Butantã – São Paulo – SP

Date

Speaker

Title

March

07

Dr. Marcelo Urbano Ferreira

– ICB – USP

Parasitology & Tropical Medicine

14

Dr. Adriano Pinter

– FMVZ – USP

Situação e Perspectivas de Zoonoses Vinculadas a Carrapatos e Culicídeos no Estado de São Paulo

21

Dr. Otavio Henrique Thiemann

– IFSC- USP

Involvement of protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions in translation: an example on Sec synthesis

28

Dra. Fernanda Castro Boulos

– Instituto Butantan

Butantan–Dengue Vaccine Development

April

04

Dr. Ethan Bier

– University of California, San Diego

Gene-Drive Systems Designed to Render Insect Populations Benign

11

Dr. Fabio Costa

– IB-UNICAMP

The Hide and “Sick” Game of Plasmodium vivax

25

Dra. Layla Farage Martins

– IQ-USP

Phages as the treasure trove in a new age of antimicrobials

May

09

Dr. José Ângelo Lauletta Lindoso

– Instituto de Infectologia Emílio Ribas

To be defined

16

Dr. Conor R. Caffrey

– University of California, San Diego

To be defined

23

Dra. Maria Belén Cassera

– University of Georgia

Antimalarial Drug Discovery: Harnessing Nature, AI, Synthesis and Serendipity

30

Dr. Anthony James

–  University of California, Irvine

Mosquito population modification and the malaria eradication agenda

June

06

Dra. Jennifer Doudna

– University of California, Berkeley

A CRISPR future for health and our environment

13

Dr. Dario Zamboni

– FMRP – USP 

To be defined

27

Dr. Fernando Bandeira Sulczewski

– ICB-USP

Dendritic Cell Heterogeneity: From Developmental Origins to Their Role in Infection and Immunity

July

04

Dra. Andréa Cristina Fogaça

– ICB – USP

 Unraveling the Complex Interplay Among Tick Immunity, Rickettsiae, and the Microbiota