THIRD INTERNET CONFERENCE ON SALIVARIAN TRYPANOSOMES AND OTHER
TRYPANOSOMATIDS - TICSTT 2000
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Millenium Overviews:
George Cross:
African trypanosomes in the 21st century: What is their future in science
and in health.
John R. Seed.
African trypanosomiasis research: 100 years of progress, but questions and
problems still remain.
1) Biology and Ultrastructure
Keith Gull
The Biology of Kinetoplastids: New insights and challenges from
genomics and post-genomics.
James Morris and Paul Englund
Kinetoplast DNA Replication: An Update for the Year 2000
Michel Dollet
Phloem restricted trypanosomatids form a clearly characterized
monophyletic group among trypanosomatids isolated from plants.
Peter Overath
The surface structure of trypanosomes in relation to their molecular
phylogeny
Kevin Tyler
The life-cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi revisited
2) Biochemistry and Drug development
Fred Opperdoes
Glycolytic enzymes as drug targets.
Stefan Kunz, KeWei Gong, Roya Zoraghi, Rahel Schaub and Thomas Seebeck.
cAMP signaling in T. brucei:Cyclases and phosphodiesterases.
Herb Tanowitz
The role of the mitogen-activated protein kinase-endothelin-1 pathway in
the pathogenesis of Chagasic Heart Disease.
Mecia M. Oliveira
Inositol metabolism in T. cruzi: a potential target for the Chagas'
disease chemotherapy
Harry P. de Konig
Transporters in T.b.brucei: role in drug action and resistance
3) Molecular Biology
Piet Borst
Control of trypanosome expression sites for Variant Surface
Glycoproteins.
Luc Vanhamme and Etienne Pays
Function and regulation of the VSG expression sites of T. brucei.
Wim Degrave et al.
The trypanosomatid genome projects - A current state of play.
Yara M. Traub-Cseko.
Cellular trafficking in trypanosomatids: a new target for therapies?
4) Immunology and Pathology
Rick Tarleton
Parasite persistence in the etiology of Chagas disease.
Dave Engman
Autoimmune pathogenesis of Chagas disease.
Samuel J. Black, Noel B. Murphy, Derek P. Nolan.
Innate and acquired resistance to trypanosomiasis in Cape buffalo.
Edith Authie
Immunological strategies for control of livestock trypanosomosis .
Patrick T. K. Woo
Cryptobiosis and its Control in North American Fishes
5) Epidemiology
Michel Tibayrenc.
The European Centre for Infectious Diseases, a sorely needed structure
for an efficient control of infectious and parasitic diseases in Northern
and Southern countries.
Peter Van den Bossche
The epidemiology and control of bovine trypanosomosis in southern Africa.
Geoff Hide
Use of mobile genetic elements as tools for molecular epidemiology.
John McDermott and Paul Coleman
Comparing apples and oranges: model-based assessment of different control
strategies for tsetse-transmitted trypanosomosis.
Marc Desquesnes
ITS of rDNA as tool for livestock trypanosome diagnosis
6) Vectors
Charles Beard, EM Dotson, PM Pennington, S Eichler, C Cordon-Rosales, and
RV Durvasula.
Bacterial Symbiosis and Paratransgenic Control of Vector-borne Chagas
Disease.
Francis Oloo
The status of research on and control of tsetse flies and other
trypanosomiasis vectors in Eastern Africa: the challenges for this
century.
Ian Maudlin and Chris Schofield
Approaches to Vector control in the Old and New World
Dale C and Welburn SC
The endosymbionts of tsetse flies.
Priscilla Emmanuele Machado, Iriane Eger-Mangrich, Gisele Rosa, Leonardo
Barbosa Koerich, Edmundo Carlos Grisard, Mrio Steindel
Differential susceptibility of triatomines of the genus Rhodnius to
Trypanosoma rangeli strains from different geographical regions.
Alexandre Afranio Peixoto
New molecular markers for Phlebotomine Sandflies
Special debate on Phylogeny and Evolution
Hooman Momen
Some current problems in the systematics of Trypanosomatids
Wendy Gibson
Sex and evolution in trypanosomes
Sergei Podlipaev
The more insect trypanosomatids under study - the more diverse
Trypanosomatidae appears
Conclusions and Recommendations
Alberto M. R. Davila and Kevin M. Tyler
Alberto M. R. Davila Phone: 55-21-290-7549 Ext. 143/149
DBBM/Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ Fax: 55-21-5903495
Av. Brasil 4365 Manguinhos (lab) davila at gene.dbbm.fiocruz.br
Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil davila at cenargen.embrapa.br
21045-900
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