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| Session / Speaker | Title of abstract submitted | |
| Genomics Bioinformatics I | ||
| Louis, Kitsos | Introductory remarks | |
| Koutsos, Anastasios | Anopheles Microarrays and their use for Comparative Analysis of Dipteran Development | |
| Eiglmeier, Karin | Full-length enriched cDNA libraries from Anopheles gambiae | |
| Rosinski-Chupin, Isabelle | SAGE analysis of Anopheles and Plasmodium transcriptomes during the salivary phase of infection | |
| Choumet, Valerie | Structural and functional proteomics of Anopheles gambiae salivary glands and saliva | |
| Arca, Bruno | The Anopheles gambiae salivary gland transcriptome: toward a functional analysis. | |
| Martinez Barnetche, Jesus | Bioinformatic analysis of transcriptional regulation of immune responsive genes in A. gambiae. | |
| Hill, Catherine | The Ixodes scapularis Genome Project | |
| Collins, Frank | VectorBase: A Bioinformatics Resource Center for Invertebrate Vectors of Human Pathogens | |
| Hammond, Martin | Annotation of vector genomes in Ensembl/VectorBase – recent developments | |
| Louis, Kitsos | From AnoBase to Vectorbase | |
| Genomics Bioinformatics II | ||
| Kriventseva, Evgenia | AnoEST: A. gambiae component of VectorBase | |
| Zdobnov, Evgeny | Insect comparative genome analysis | |
| Gelbart, William | Comparative Annotation of Dipteran Genomes | |
| All | General Discussion on Vector genomes and Databases | |
| Immunity/anti-microbial peptides | ||
| Luckhart, Shirley | Conserved anti-plasmodial defenses and signaling in An. stephensi and An. gambiae | |
| Chen, Cheng-Chen | Roles of PO, DDC and dopachrome conversion enzyme in the melaniz. of parasites in mosquitoes | |
| Michel, Kristin | Role of SRPN2 in Melanisation: Systemic and Parasite Centered Functions. | |
| Barillas-Mury, Carolina | Two peroxidases mediate refractoriness in A. gambiae | |
| Immunity/anti-microbial peptides | ||
| Kafatos, Fotis | RNAi Screens and their Use to Decipher Immune Response Modules in Anopheles gambiae | |
| Christophides, George | Whole Genome Microarray and RNAi Analysis to Elucidate Immune Signalling Pathways | |
| Dimopoulos, George | Anopheles gambiae anti-Plasmodium responses | |
| Raikhel, Alexander | Transg. alteration of Toll imm. pathway affects anti-fungal and anti-Plasm. activ. in the Ae. aegypti. | |
| Schneider, David | New signaling pathways involved in insect immunity and microbial pathogenesis | |
| Hernandez-Martinez, Salvador | Mosqu. pericardial cells constitute a cellular defense system against microorg. including malaria… | |
| Strand, Michael | Characterization of hemocyte classes in two vector mosquito species | |
| Arrighi, Romanico | Screening potential anti-parasitic molecules aiming for paratransgenic control | |
| Moreira, Luciano | Anti-microbial Peptides for Plasmodium-Blocking Mosquitoes | |
| Population I | ||
| Powell, Jeffrey | The Intimate Coupling of Changing Vector and Disease Distributions | |
| Asmah, Richard | Molec. and Chromos. Forms of A. gambiae s.s. in Ghana: Relationship to Malaria Transmission… | |
| Besansky, Nora | to be anounced | |
| Sharakhov, Igor | The structure of the 2La inversion breakpoints in Anopheles gambiae complex | |
| Marshall, J / Yale | Geographic differentiation at multiple loci in A. gambiae populations from São Tomé and Príncipe | |
| Marshall, J / UCLA | Bayesian Approach to Inferring Recent Selective Sweeps in Anopholes Gambiae Populations | |
| Sagnon, N'Fale | Infl.e on larval distrib. of phys. and chem.l prop.of A. gambiae complex breeding habitats in BF | |
| Simard, Frederic | Popul. genetic structure of A. arabiensis on La Réunion , a candidate for SIT-based control. | |
| Taylor, Charles | Genet. structure of A. gambiae populations within ecol. diverse and geograph. disjunct study … | |
| Cytoplasmic incomp./virus trans | ||
| Rasgon, Jason | Can MULTIple copies MAKE nuclear-locus cytoplasmic incompatibility (NLCI) gene drive feasible | |
| Sinkins, Steven | Wolbachia variability and cytoplasmic incompatibility in Culex | |
| Dobson, Stephen | Progress toward manipulating disease vector popul. via releases of Wolbachia infected mosquitoes | |
| Foy, Brian | Killing the Messenger: Generating Mosquitocidal Immunity to Prevent Disease Transmission. | |
| Olson, Ken | Devel. of transgenic A. aegypti that display resist. to DEN-2 virus inf. by triggering RNA i to the… | |
| Scott, Thomas | Impact of Entomological Heterogeneities on Dengue Virus Transmission | |
| Carlson, Jonathan | Effects of AeDNV infection on Aedes aegypti populations | |
| Sanchez-Vargas, Irma | Analysis of RNAi –based resistance in Aedes aegypti to dengue viruses | |
| Toure, Yeya | TDR Molecular Entomology research: objectives and achievements | |
| Gene expression/promoters | ||
| Beaty, Barry | Heterogen. sequ's in the 5’UTRs of Inhibitor of Apoptosis Protein 1 homol's from Aedes and Culex… | |
| Benes, Helen | Female-specific promoter activity in dipteran larvae | |
| Crisanti, Andrea | Identification of sex-specific transcripts of the Anopheles gambiae doublesex gene | |
| Romans, Patricia | Unique organization and unexpected expression patterns of A. gambiae Vitellogenin genes | |
| Yoshida, Shigeto | Robust salivary gland-specific expression in transgenic Anopheline mosquito | |
| Insecticides | ||
| Ranson, Hilary | Genetic maps for malaria vectors | |
| Dolo, Guimogo | Suscept. to insecticides and mol. character. of the complex A. gambiae in Banambani and Pimp… | |
| Coetzee, Maureen | DDT resistance and the kdr mutation in Anopheles arabiensis | |
| van Bortel, Wim | Spatial and temporal patterns of knockdown-resistance in Anopheles gambiae s.s. from Uganda | |
| Koekemoer, Lizette | CYP6 overexpression in pyrethroid resistant Anopheles funestus | |
| Lycett, Gareth | Functional Characterisation of Anopheles gambiae Cytochrome P450 Reductase | |
| Rodriguez, Americo | Insecticide resistance in Mexican malaria vectors and strategies for its management | |
| Penilla, Patricia | Insecticide resistance in the Mexican malaria vectors from the transmission foci | |
| Vontas, John | Transcript. analysis of insecticide resist. in A. stephensi, using cross species microarray hybrid. | |
| David, Jean-Philippe | Transcript. profile of detox genes in An. gambiae. Effect of permethrin, aging and sugar feeding | |
| Hawkes, Nicola | Establishing insecticide resistance analysis in sand flies | |
| Federici, Brian | Improved Genetically Engineered Mosquitocidal Bacteria for Vector Control | |
| Population II | ||
| Ayres, Const | Population genetics of mosquitoes vectors from Recife, Brazil | |
| Bracco, Jose | Genealogy, distribution and history of haplotypes of Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti ND4 from Brazil | |
| Peixoto, Alexandre | Incipient speciation in Brazilian populations of Lutzomyia longipalpis | |
| Beebe, Nigel | Population structure comparisons of three southwest Pacific malaria vectors | |
| de Silva, Babaranda | Sibling species status of An. culicifacies and An. subpictus and their distribution in Sri Lanka | |
| Foley, Desmond | Population structure of an island malaria vector | |
| Torres, Elizabeth | Population Genetic Structure of the Philippine Malaria vector, Anopheles flavirostris | |
| Walton, Catherine | Population Genetics of Anopheles mosquitoes in South Asia | |
| Gasperi, Giuliano | Molec. phylogeny of the subgenus Culicoides and related species in Italy inferred from ITS-2 seq's | |
| Transposons/transgenesis/fitness | ||
| O'Brochta, David | Population biology of Herves in natural populations of Anopheles gambiae | |
| Eggleston, Paul | High efficiency site-specific genetic engineering of the mosquito genome. | |
| Alphey, Luke | Dominant lethal systems for genetic control of mosquito populations | |
| Bossin, Herve | Transgenic technologies in support of the IAEA mosquito SIT project | |
| Catteruccia, Flaminia | Development of a genetic sexing strain in Anopheles stephensi | |
| James, Anthony | Out of the lab. and into the field: genetically-modified vectors and control of mosquito-borne dis… | |
| Lambrechts, Louis | Infl. of host and parasite genotype and environm. conditions on the resist. of mosqu. to malaria… | |
| Gould, Fred | The importance of genetic fitness costs in strain replacement and autocidal control strategies | |
| Hurd, Hilary | Mechanisms underlying the fitness costs imposed by malaria infection and immune stimulation | |
| Capurro, Margareth | Aspects of Aedes-Plasmodium Interaction | |
| Physiology | ||
| Boudko, Dmitri | Molecular Mechanisms of Nutrient Amino Acid Absorption in Diseases Vector Insects. | |
| Corena, Maria del Pilar | Bicarbonate metabolon | |
| della Torre, Ale | Cuticular hydrocarbons in Anopheles gambiae: preliminary results and future perspectives. | |
| Lanz-Mendoza, Humberto | The NRAMP/Malvolio homolog in An. albimanus: Physiol. implications of metal ion transp… | |
| Noriega, Fernando | Regulation of Juvenile Hormone synthesis in mosquitoes | |
| Monastirioti, Maria | Octopamine neurotransmission in the control of insect reproduction | |
| Pietrantonio, Patricia | G protein-coupled receptors from mosquito Ae. aegypti excretory system | |
| Zwiebel, Larry | The Molecular Genetics Of Olfaction and Host Selection in Disease Vector Mosquitoes | |
| Host-parasite interaction | ||
| Kanuka, Hirotaka | Dissecting Malaria Vector-Pathogen Interactions Using Drosophila-Plasmodium Genetic System | |
| Jacobs-Lorena, Marcelo | Plasmodium-mosquito interactions | |
| Lombardo, Fabrizio | Display of plasmodium adhesive domains on the surface of lambda phage | |
| Loukeris, Thanasis | Uncovering the role of proteases in parasitic development and invasion processes | |
| Rodriguez, Maria del Carmen | Calreticulin, an A. albimanus midgut protein binds to an ookinete protein (Pvs25) from P. vivax … | |
| Siden-Kiamos, Inga | Host parasite interactions: the ookinete in the midgut of Anopheles | |
| Sinden, Bob | Ookinete-mosquito interactions: an exploitable target for new interventions | |
| Vlachou, Dina | Local Epithelial Responses during Plasmodium Invasion of the Mosquito Midgut | |