NTD Network online seminar series 2021

By NTD Network on January 18, 2021 (updated May 8, 2022)

Category: Network Events

Our NTD Network online seminar series is entering its second year! Huge thanks to you all who have supported us by attending, and who gave us such encouragement to continue with your positive feedback about these talks after the 2020 series. And please keep showing up – it is great to see all your faces!! Our programme for 2021 is below. These meetings are for our Network members and their teams, providing a safe forum to share and discuss data across our projects – watch your inbox for our regular email alerts and zoom links!

SCHEDULE 2021

Meetings are (approximately) every third Wednesday at 13:00 UK time.

NB your local time changes relative to your time zone as we move from GMT to BST!)
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Series 3 (March to July 2021)

Date

Speaker

Title

Wednesday 3^rd March, 2021

(Business engagement update)

Prof Paul Denny

University of Durham, Durham, UK

Small molecules to natural products, big pharma to SMEs: antileishmanial work with industry

Prof Santuza Teixeira

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Development of new vaccines and immunotherapy protocols for leishmaniasis

Hosted by Dr Nathaniel Jones

University of York, UK

Wednesday 24th March, 2021

Dr Ashish Arora

Council of Scientific & Industrial Research – (CSIR-CDRI) Lucknow, India

Structure of early endosomal Rab5a of Leishmania donovani

Hosted by Dr Kalesh Karunakaran

Durham University, UK

NB UK time shifts to BST on 28^th March

Wednesday 21^st April, 2021

Dr Julia Cricco

National University of Rosario (UNR), Rosario, Argentina

Heme transport as a target to inhibit Trypanosoma cruzi proliferation: What we learned, and what we don´t yet know

Hosted by Dr Nathaniel Jones

University of York, UK

Wednesday 5^th May, 2021

Prof Jeremy Mottram

University of York, UK

Protein kinases as drug targets for trypanosomatid parasitic protozoa

Hosted by Dr Brian Mantilla

Durham University, UK

Wednesday 26^th May, 2021

[POSTPONED]

Dr Sammer Yousuf

International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi, Pakistan

TBC

Hosted by Dr Hachemi Kadri

Durham University, UK

Wednesday 16^th June, 2021

Prof Adriano Coelho

University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil

Chemotherapy of leishmaniasis in Brazil: studies on susceptibility and resistance in Leishmania

Hosted by Dr Katrien van Bocxlaer

University of York, UK

Wednesday 7^th July, 2021

Dr Pegine Walrad

University of York, UK

Hosted by: TBC

Pursuing trans-regulators essential to parasites

Then a recess (northern hemisphere summer)

Series 4 (November to December 2021)
Date	Speaker	Title
Wednesday 11th November, 2021	Professor Carlos Robello Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay	The pangenome of Trypanosoma cruzi in a context of drug target identification
	Host: Dr Nathaniel Jones (University of York, UK)
Wednesday 17^th November, 2021	Professor Bartira Rossi-Bergmann	Innovative ways to deliver antileishmanial drugs
	Host: Dr Kat ven Bocxlaer (Univeristy ofYork)
Wednesday 8th December, 2021	Dr Pradip SenCouncil of Scientific & Industrial Research-Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR-IMTECH), Chandigarh, India	TIM-3: A key regulator of antileishmanial immune response
	Host: Dr Kalesh Karunakaran (Durham University)

For the list of speakers who contributed to our 2020 seminar series, click here.