Wesley (Wes) C. Van Voorhis, MD, PhD
University of Washington (UW), Seattle, WA, USA

Title: Two Bumped Kinase Inhibitor (BKI) preclinical candidates for the therapy of Cryptosporidiosis and Toxoplasmosis

L. David Sibley, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA

Title: Cryptosporidiosis: microbial interactions in the gut

Mattie Christine Pawlowic, PhD
University of Dundee, United Kingdom

Title: Using genetics to investigate Cryptosporidium transmission

Didier Betbeder, PhD
President and CSO, Vaxinano, France

Title: A non-adjuvanted nanoparticle for inactivated prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines
administered via the nasal route

Sabrina MARION, PhD
The Pasteur Institute of Lille, University of Lille, France

Title: TBD…

Guan Zhu, PhD
Jilin University, China

Title: TBD…

Carol A. Gilchrist, PhD
University of Virginia, VA, USA

Title: Cytophilic Immunoglobulin responses to cryptosporidiosis in Bangladeshi children

Sébastien Besteiro, PhD
University of Montpellier, France

Title (Tentative): Exploring Iron-Sulfur cluster biosynthesis and transfer in Toxoplasma gondii: insights from the HFC101-ABCE1 interaction and its implications for protein synthesis

Ke Hu, PhD
Arizona State University, AZ, USA

Title: The initiation, development, and evolution of apical-basal polarity of Toxoplasma gondii

Yifan Wang, DVM, PhD
University of Michigan Medical School, MI, USA

Title: Host-specific determinants of Toxoplasma gondii fitness revealed by genome-wide CRISPR screens

Clare Harding, PhD
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Title: The importance of copper transport to Toxoplasma gondii

Rajesh Chandramohanadas, PhD
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Title: Malaria’s favorite hideout- The mystery of immature red blood cells

Carlos Gustavo Baptista, PhD
VA-MD College of Veterinary Medicine
Virginia Tech, VA, USA

Title: Linking ubiquitin signaling to transcriptional control: The F-Box L2 role in Toxoplasma

Klemens Engelberg, PhD
Boston College, MA, USA

Title: TBD…

Robyn Kent, PhD
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, OK, USA

Title: Exploring the role of concurrent cell cycles in chronic Toxoplasma infection

Simon Gras, PhD
LMU München, Germany

Title: Balancing renewal and recycling: Endocytic pathway of Toxoplasma gondii plasma membrane

Dennis Kyle, PhD
University of Georgia, GA, USA

Title: Single cell viability of P. falciparum exposed to antimalarial drugs provides insights into evolution of drug resistance

Rita Tewari, PhD
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Title: Divide and thrive: Atypical mitosis in Plasmodium

Dave Richard, PhD
Universitaire de Québec-CHUL-Université Laval, Canada

Title (Tentative): Exploring the roles of phosphoinositides in the biology of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Thomas Lavstsen, PhD
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Title: Broadly binding-inhibitory antibodies against P. falciparum’s variable virulence proteins

David Serre, PhD
University of Maryland School of Medicine, MA, USA

Title: Beyond protein-coding sequences: the role of non-coding elements in regulating Plasmodium gene expression

Lilach Sheiner, PhD
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Title: Perkinsus mitochondrial complexes reveal new mitochondrial biology of myzozoan

Cyrille Botté, PhD
CNRS UMR, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France

Title: TBD…

Mathieu Gissot, PhD
The Pasteur Institute of Lille, University of Lille, France

Title: TBD…

Nishith Gupta, PhD
BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India

Title (Tentative): Novel mediators of signaling in Toxoplasma gondii

Markus Ganter, PhD
University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany

Title: Plasmodium proliferation: How to establish asynchronous nuclear cycles in a multinucleated cell

Joachim Michael Matz, PhD
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Germany

Title (Tentative): Redefining the role of the Plasmodium Heme Detoxification Protein: From hemozoin formation to mitochondrial protein synthesis

Rui Zhang, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA

Title: High-resolution cryo-EM structure of the conoid in Toxoplasma gondii

Anat Florentin, PhD
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Title: A chaperonin system links apicoplast proteostasis and biogenesis

Sudhir Kumar, PhD
Iowa State University of Science and Technology, IA, USA

Title: Regulation of Plasmodium male gametogenesis and nuclear partitioning

Smritikana Dutta, PhD
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Title: A Plasmodium falciparum redox survival mechanism licenses killing by artemisinins