Trieste Course Leishmania 2014

22-24 October 2014 Trieste, Italy 

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The ICGEB started to organise its Leishmania course back in 2002, aiming at providing an opportunity for young scientists especially from least developed countries in endemic areas for advanced training on the related topics by leading scientists in the field, as well as to establish collaborations with fellow researchers.

Since then, the course has regularly been held every second year at the ICGEB Headquarters in Trieste, witnessing an increasing participation from an ever wider geographical region that in the last edition included participants from Tunisia, Sudan, Colombia, India, Iran, UK, Sri Lanka, Algeria, Nepal, Spain, Kenya, Brazil, Bangladesh, Afghanistan as well as Italy and the ICGEB laboratories.

Topics

• Overview of Leishmaniasis and its epidemiology
• Computer based analysis of the Leishmania Genome
• The Sandfly vector and transmission
• Virulence factors involved in infection
• Recent advances in therapy and vaccine development

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The course programme will include a poster session and short oral presentations selected from the submitted abstracts.
Interested participants are encouraged to submit a short resume of their current research with relevance to the course topics with their online application

Abstract book

Programme

See ICGEB News item

NOW ONLINE! Selected lectures from the Course available through the ICGEB Podcast programme

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