Event Opening
25th August 2021 (AM)
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Brazil time (GMT -03:00)
Welcome and Opening Ceremony
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Brazil time (GMT -03:00)
Chair: Arne Akbar
UCL, UK
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10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Brazil time (GMT -03:00)
Paul Kaye
HYMS, UK
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Opening Conference
The immunology of diseases associated with the L. donovani complex
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Brazil time (GMT -03:00)
Elvira Saraiva
UFRJ, Brazil
The multifaceted role of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in Neutrophil-Leishmania interaction.
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Brazil time (GMT -03:00)
Round table
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Brazil time (GMT -03:00)
Raquel Nogueira
Beckman Coulter
High Sensitivity Flow Cytometry: From Multicolor Panels to Microvesicle Sorting (Talk in Portuguese)
Innate Immunity
25th August 2021 (PM)
01:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Chair: Dario Zamboni
FMRP / USP, Brazil
01:15 PM - 02:00 PM
Natan Peters
University of Calgary, Canada
The Interplay between innate and adaptive immunity in cutaneous Leishmaniasis: a central role for monocytes.
02:00 PM - 02:45 PM
Thiago Souza Vieira
UFRJ, Brazil
Plasticity of neutrophil effector response regulates susceptibility to Leishmania major infection.
02:45 PM - 03:30 PM
David Mosser
University of Maryland, USA
Macrophage responses to Leishmania
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Round table
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Immunopathogenesis
26th August 2021 (PM)
01:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Brazil time (GMT -03:00)
Opening
Chair: Cláudia Brodskyn
FIOCRUZ, Brazil
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01:15 PM - 02:00 PM
Phillip Scott
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Pathways leading to IL-1b dependent pathology in cutaneous leishmaniasis
02:00 PM - 02:45 PM
Lucas Carvalho
UFBA, Brazil
Decreasing pathologic immune response in cutaneous leishmaniasis as adjuvant therapy
02:45 PM - 03:30 PM
Daniel Gomes
UFES, Brazil
A novel role for immunosenescence in the pathogenesis of cutaneous leishmaniasis
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Round table
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Immunoregulation
27th August 2021 (PM)
01:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Brazil time (GMT -03:00)
Opening
Chair: Walderez Dutra
UFMG, Brazil
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01:15 PM - 02:00 PM
Ramona Hurdayal
University of Cape Town, South Africa
IL-4-producing B cells regulate T helper cell dichotomy in type 1-controlled cutaneous leishmaniasis – Lessons learnt from a murine model of infection
02:00 PM - 02:45 PM
Kenneth Gollobb
A.C. Camargo, Cancer Center, Brazil
Immune Mechanisms of Pathology and Therapeutic Response in Human Tegumentary Leishmaniasis
02:45 PM - 03:30 PM
Herbert Guedes
UFRJ / FIOCRUZ, Brazil
Regulatory B cells and T cell exhaustion in murine cutaneous leishmaniasis
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Round table
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04:30 PM
Closing Remarks
Organizing committee
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