Friday, 8th April 8th International Conference on Plasmodium vivax Research 2022

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Chair: Stephan Karl

P. vivax and Anopheles stephensi in the Horn of Africa - Fitsum Tadesse

• Molecular dynamics of mosquito gut-microbiome interaction and Plasmodium vivax development:  a mechanistic insight on parasitism - Rajnikant Dixit
• Determining the transmissibility of Plasmodium vivax at low parasite density - Thitiporn Surit
• Mathematical modelling of Plasmodium vivax to identify areas of residual transmission and effects of delayed treatment - Clara Champagne

Panel Q&A - 15 minutes

Chairs: Sasha Sigel & Eline Kattenberg

Using single cell genomics to understand complexity, transmission and adaptation in malaria infections - Ian Cheeseman

• Functional Evidence That Plasmodium vivax pvmdr1 Haplotypes Confer Multidrug Resistance - Lucas Buyon
• Development of microhaplotype-based amplicon sequencing assays to determine P. vivax relatedness   - Mariana Kleinecke
• Molecular surveillance of P. vivax: SNP barcodes for within-country analysis of Pv populations in a highly multiplexed NGS tool - Johanna Helena Kattenberg

Panel Q&A - 15 minutes

• Infectivity of clinical and asymptomatic malaria cases to Anopheles farauti s. s.mosquitoes in Papua New Guinea - Lincoln Timinao
• Methylene blue antimalarial activity against asexual and sexual stages of Plasmodium vivax - Camila CF Fabbri
• Primary and recurrent P. vivax infections dynamics and transmission to mosquitoes among clinical cases in Arba minch, Ethiopia. - Wakweya chali Gerba
• Antigenicity of Plasmodium vivax gametocyte protein Pvs047 - Sofia S Forcellini
• Development of in vivo P. vivax life cycle in Aotus nancymaae non-human primates for immunological studies of pre-erythrocytic and blood stage infections - Brandon Wilder

• Genomic analyses of Ethiopian P. vivax to inform for Epidemiology, Population structure and selection - Alebachew Messele Kebede
• Simulating neutral genetic diversity in P. vivax parasite populations - Jillian T Grassia
• Determining diversity and immune selection targets of leading Plasmodium vivax antigen vaccine candidates and sero-surveillance markers - Alison Paolo N Bareng
• Genetic profiling of drug resistance genes in Plasmodium vivax field isolates from Northern and Western regions of India. - Suman Tamang
• A suitable RNA preparation methodology for whole transcriptome shotgun sequencing harvested from Plasmodium vivax-infected patients - Catarina Bourgard
• Global genetic diversity of serological markers of Plasmodium vivax infections - Noelia Coronado

Chair: Jane Carlton

Tracing Sri Lanka’s path from control to elimination of Plasmodium vivax malaria - Kamini Mendis