Scientific Program
New England Association of Parasitologists Annual Meeting
Saturday October 26, 2002
Quinnipiac University
Hamden, CT
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9:00 Coffee
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9:50 Welcome and introductory remarks (Michael Cappello)
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10:00 Richard Bucala - Yale University
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"The role of macrophage migration inhibitory factor in the pathogenesis of malaria." |
10:30 Claire Healy - University of Connecticut
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"Using a monograph to discover what Rhinebothrium (Linton, 1890) can reveal about the evolution of characters and lineages in tetraphyllidean tapeworms." |
11:00 Thiru Ramalingam - University of Connecticut
TBA
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11:30 Brooke Pearson - Brown University
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"Studies on the Localization of the Class I Ribonuclease H of Trypanosoma brucei" |
12:00 Lunch
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1:00 Business meeting
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1:30 TV Rajan - University of Connecticut
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"Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is an absolute requirement for the morphogenesis of the human filarial parasite B. malayi". |
2:00 Sukanya Narasimhan - Yale University
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"A novel inhibitor of coagulation factor Xa from the tick Ixodes scapularis." |
2.30 Paul Thomas - Harvard University
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"A helminth glycan promotes DC2 maturation and induces unique signaling pathways." |
3:00 Richard Bungiro - Yale University
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"Oral transfer of adult hookworms into permissive and non-permissive hosts." |
3:30 Patrick Guirnalda - University of Massachusetts
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"Flagellar pocket binding antibodies react with living African trypanosomes” |
4:00 Dennis Richardson - Quinnipiac University
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"Human Acanthocephaliasis" |
4:30 Wine and cheese reception
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