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MALBOP 2017
TIMETABLE
DAY 1 INFECTION & IMMUNITY I, INTRODUCTION (CHAIRS TBC)
Monday 25th September
Time
Topic
Faculty
8:30-9:00
Introduction
Mwandumba, Marti/Garside, Mipando,
Gordon
9:00-10:00
Immunology Overview
Paul Garside (UoG)
10.00-10.30
TEA/COFFEE BREAK/ viewing posters
10:30-11:30
Innate Immunity
Jim Brewer (UoG)
11:30-12:30
Antigen presentation
Jim Brewer (UoG)
12:30-13:30
LUNCH/ viewing posters
13:30-14:30
B & T cell Development and activation
Megan Macleod (UoG)
14:30-15.30
Immune memory
Megan Macleod (UoG)
15.30-16.00
TEA/COFFEE BREAK
16:00-17:00
Autoimmunity
Paul Garside (UoG)
17:00-18:00
Immune deficiencies
Jim Brewer (UoG)
18.00-18.30
Round table discussions and questions for
presenters
Mwandumba /Marti/Garside/Brewer
/MacLeod/Jambo/Ngotho
19:00-20:00
DINNER
20:30-22:00
Poster session/presentations
DAY 2 INFECTION & IMMUNITY II, VIRAL & BACTERIAL INFECTIONS (CHAIRS TBC)
Tuesday 26th September
Time
Topic
Faculty
8:30-9:30
HIV – the Virus
Kondwani Jambo (MLW)/Alex Sigal (AHRI)
9:30-10:30
Immunity to HIV
Zaza Ndlovu (AHRI)/Clive Gray (UCT)
10.30-11.00
TEA/COFFEE BREAK/ viewing posters
11.00-12.00
Immunity to TB 1 - Innate
David Russell (Cornell)/Henry
Mwandumba (MLW)
12:00-13:00
Immunity to TB 2 – B & T cells
Stephen Cose (MRC-Entebbe)/Elisa Nemes
(UCT)
13:00-14:00
LUNCH/ posters
14.00-15.00
Emerging Viral infections/Neuroinflammation
Emma Thompson (UoG)/Hugh Willison
(UoG)
15:00-16:00
Rotavirus and vaccines
Nigel Cunliffe (UoL)/Khuzwayo Jere (MLW)
16.00-16.30
TEA/COFFEE BREAK/ viewing posters
16:30-17:30
Pneumococcal immunity and vaccines
Stephen Gordon (MLW)/Neil French (UoL)
17.30-18.30
Immunity to Salmonella
Melita Gordon (MLW)/Tonney Nyirenda
(CoM)
19:00-20:00
DINNER
DAY 3 INFECTION & IMMUNITY III, PARASITIC INFECTIONS & NCDs (CHAIRS TBC)
Wednesday 27th September
Time
Topic
Faculty
8.30-9.30
Immunity to Malaria
Francis Ndungu (KEMRI-WT)/Gathoni
Kamuyu (KEMRI-WT)
9.30-10.30
Immunity to Helminths
Rick Maizels (UoG)/Maria Yazdanbaksh
(Leiden)
10.30-11.00
TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11.00-12.00
HIV-TB co-infection
Thumbi Ndung’u (AHRI)/Joep van
Oosterhout (Dignitas, Mw)
12.00-12.30
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory
Syndrome (IRIS)
Graeme Meintjes (UCT)
12.30-13.00
Immunity to bacterial infections
Tom Evans (UoG)
13.00-14.00
LUNCH
14.00-15.00
Epidemiology/Population Health/One Health
Mia Crampin (MEIRU)/Charles Masembe
(Makerere University)
15.00-16:00
Co-infection
Dean Everett (MLW)/Nick Feasey (LSTM)
16.00-16.30
TEA/COFFEE BREAK
16:30-17:30
Short selected talks from early career
researchers and Speed talks from students
Priscilla Ngotho/Tonney
Nyirenda/Kondwani Jambo
17:30-18:00
Round table discussion
Melita Gordon/Thumbi Ndung’u/Wilson
Mandala
19:00
COURSE DINNER/ SYMPOSIUM INTRODUCTION
Scottish/ Malawian government
representative (Dr Mwansambo)
MALAWI EXPERT SYMPOSIUM 2017
TIMETABLE
DAY 1 INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Thursday 28th September
Time
State of the Art Talks 1
Expert Speaker
8:30-9:10
Malaria pathogenesis
Malcolm Molyneux (LSTM/MLW)
9:10-9:50
Epidemiology of malaria in Africa
Alfred Tiono
9:50-10:30
The malaria transmission cycle
Matt Marti (UoG)
10:30-11.00
TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:40
Rodent malaria model for genetic studies
Andy Waters (UoG)
11:40-12:20
Malaria vaccines
Philip Bejon (KEMRI-WT)
12.20-13.00
Rabies pathogenesis
Katie Hampson (UoG)
13:00-14:00
LUNCH
14:00-14:40
Research & public/private engagement/health
systems
Nicola Desmond (MLW)
14:40-15:20
Cryptosporidium and cryptosporidiosis
Boris Striepen (UoG)
15:20-16:00
Diabetes
Naveed Sattar (UoG)
16.00-16.30
TEA/COFFEE BREAK
16:30-17:10
Cardiovascular disease
Rhian Touyz (UoG)
17:10-18:00
Super turbo talks (one slide, 2 minutes)
All students
Discussion & questions from faculty/expert
speakers
Kondwani Jambo/Matt Marti/Paul Garside
19.00
DINNER
DAY 2 NCD’s & COMORBIDITIES
Friday 29th September
Time
State of the Art Talks 2
Expert Speaker
8:30-9:10
Comorbidities in an African context,
Iain McInnes (UoG)
9:10-9:50
Cardiovascular diseases in Africa
Bongani Mayosi (UCT)
9:50-10:30
Diabetes in Africa
Moffat Nyirenda (LSHTM/MRC-Ent)
10:30-11.00
TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:40
Career Development
Henry Mwandumba (MLW)/Francis
Ndungu (KEMRI-WT)/Female Scientist
11.40-12.20
Research Capacity building & Funding
Opportunities in Africa
Victor Mwapasa (CoM)/Sam Kanyanjui
(KEMRI-WT)/Tom Kariuki
(AESA)/Wilson Mandala (MUST)
12.20-13.00
Immunology training in Africa
Clive Gray (UCT)/Steve Cose (MRC-Ent)
13:00-14:00
LUNCH
14:00-14:40
Scottish Government Representative
TBC
14:40-15:20
Malawi MoH Representative
Dr Charles Mwansambo (MoH)
15:20-16:00
Funders (Wellcome Trust/NIH/Gates/BWF)
16:00-16:30
MLW Director & Principal of College of Medicine
Stephen Gordon/Mwapatsa Mipando
MALBOP 2017 TRAINING COURSE & EXPERT SYMPOSIUM SPONSORED BY:
Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology
Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Wellcome Trust