Symposium Professorship in Neglected Tropical Diseases
04.04.2017 by Melanie Rast
On Friday, 7th of April, we welcome five candidates for the Professorship in Neglected Topical Diseases. We invite the interested public to attend the symposium.
Swiss TPH, Entrance Socinstrasse 57, lecture room (Kilimanjaro)
08:30 – 08:40
address of welcome
08:40 – 09:20
Dr. Michael Berney
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
TB drug discovery: Targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis bioenergetics and anabolism
09:20 – 10:00
Dr. Jennifer Keiser
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel
Tackling helminth infections: from bench to field
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:10
Dr. Pierre-Yves Mantel
Université de Fribourg
Extracellular vesicles in the regulation of host-pathogen interactions during malaria
11:10 – 11:50
Dr. Catherine Ronet
Université de Lausanne
Leishmania-RNA virus subverts the host immune response
11:50 – 12:30
PD Dr. Sabine Specht
Vetsuisse, Universität Zürich
Helminth Parasites - Friends or Foe?