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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