NTD Network goes online: our seminar programme for 2020!

By NTD Network on June 11, 2020 (updated January 21, 2021)

Category: Network Events

With COVID-19 curtailing everyone’s movements worldwide, our Network members are now meeting online! Our seminar series launched last week, and will run through the rest of this year, with talks scheduled from our Network HUB leads and Network Fellows. Please note these seminars are closed meetings, for our current NTD Network members and their teams, plus our international advisory panel – if this includes you, there will be email updates ahead of each meeting, with instructions on how to join the meetings. Click ‘more’ for the timetable and speakers schedule. We hope to see you soon!

Section 1: HUB Leads
Date	Speaker	Title
Wednesday 3^rd June	Prof Ariel Siber University of Sao Paulo, Brazil	How Trypanosoma cruzi uses metabolism to cope with its highly dangerous lifestyle
	Host: Dr Brian Mantilla, Durham University
Wednesday 17^th June, 2020	Professor Nahid Ali Council of Scientific & Industrial Research – Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (CSIR-IICB) Kolkata, India	New antigenic markers for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis
	Host: Dr Kalesh Karunakaran, Durham University
Wednesday 1^st July, 2020	Prof Iqbal Choudhary International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi)	Generating Chemical Space for Anti-leishmanial Drug Discovery and Development – Phenotypic Screening, Pre-Clinical and Clinical Studies
	Host: Dr Hachemi Kadri, Durham University
Wednesday 15^th July, 2020	Professor Paul Denny Centre for Global Infectious Diseases, Durham University	Protozoan ‘drug’ discovery: old drugs, new targets and mining for novelty
	Host: Dr Katrien van Bocxlaer, University of York

Section 2: Network Fellows
Date	Speaker	Title
Wednesday 16th September 2020 Host: Dr Paul Denny (Durham, UK	Dr Kalesh Karunakaran (Durham University)	“Chemical proteomics for unravelling stress adaptation mechanisms in Leishmania”.
	Dr Nathanial Jones (University of York)	“Validation and characterisation of Leishmania bromodomain factors as potential drug targets”
	Dr Hachemi Kadri (Durham University)	“Innovative drug discovery strategies for Neglected Tropical Diseases”
Wednesday 7^th October, 2020 Host: Dr Paul Denny (Durham, UK)	Dr Brian Mantilla Centre for Global Infectious Diseases, Durham University	Understanding Inositol Pyrophosphate IP7 functions in Leishmania parasites
	Dr Katrien van Bocxlaer University of York, UK	Drug development for CL: a snapshot