Kafatos:Retreat

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16th & 17th of March @ the Wye Campus:
 * catch the 9:53 am train from Charing Cross Station. The train will arrive at Wye at 11:07. It is a 15 min walk from the station to the campus. We will then start our first session at 11:30, which is slightly later than originally planned.
 * (Anyone missing this train may have to consider taking a train to Ashford or Ashford International, which are served more frequently and only a short taxi ride away from Wye Conference Centre.)


 * We couldn't purchase tickets in advance, so please allow enough time to buy these yourselves.


 * Remember to keep the tickets for reimbursement.
 * Most of us will return the next day and should buy a NETWORK AWAY BREAK (£20.80). If you need to return to London the same evening, buy a CHEAP DAY RETURN (£17.60). (Avoid buying single tickets at £15.40 each way.)
 * Those of you travelling by car can get instructions here.

=Wye Retreat Final Programme=
 * assigned times in brackets include discussion

16:30 - 18:25 Session I: Working groups on novel approaches to malaria control

 * 1. Vaccines  (50 min)
 * a. Target Identification (20 min) :
 * Julian Gray (Crisanti), Andrew Blagborough (Sinden)


 * b. Transmission blocking (30 min) :
 * Ellen Runn(Kafatos/Christophides), Kalpana Lal (Sinden), Rebecca Stanway (Sinden), Souraya Ramjanee(Sinden), Anastasios Koutsos (Kafatos/Christophides)


 * 2. Transgenic mosquitoes (65 min)
 * a. Sterile Insect Technique:
 * Jason Benton (Crisanti), Gianmaria Liccardi (Crisanti), Kristin Michel (Kafatos), Lietta Nicolaides (Crisanti), Flaminia Catteruccia (Crisanti)


 * b. Resistance genes:
 * Stephan Meister (Kafatos/Christophides), Idir Akhouayri (Billker)


 * c. Drive mechanisms:
 * Philippos Papathanos (Crisanti)

18:40 - 19:30 Session I continued

 * 3. Chemical approaches to transmission control (50 min)
 * a. Insecticides and insecticide resistance (25 min) :
 * Hilary Ranson (Crisanti)


 * b. Smart sprays and transmission blocking inhibitors (25 min) :
 * Andreas Raabe (Billker), Rob Moon(Billker), Tibebu Habtewold (Kafatos/Christophides), Michael Povelones (Kafatos/Christophides)

08:30 - 09:45 Session II: Vector-parasite genome interactions

 * 1. High throughput genetic screens in the mosquito (45 min)
 * a. Genome-wide RNAi (25 min) :
 * George Christophides (Kafatos/Christophides), Timm Schlegelmilch (Kafatos/Christophides)


 * b. Mutagenesis (25 min) :
 * Nikolai Windbichler (Crisanti),


 * 2. Identification of gene function (30 min)
 * a. Microarrays analysis in mosquitoes (30 min) :
 * Kalle Magnusson (Crisanti), Dina Vlachou (Kafatos/Christophides), Antonio Mendes (Kafatos/Christophides)

10:15 - 11:25 Session II.2 continued

 * b. Knockout screens in the parasite (25 min) :
 * Ellen Runn (Kafatos/Christophides), Andrea Ecker (Sinden),Rita Tewari (Sinden)


 * c. Inducible KO technologies (20 min) :
 * Paco Pino (Billker)


 * d. Protein-protein interactions <font color=#cc0000>(25 min) :
 * Chandra Ramakrishnan (Sinden), Anastasios Koutsos (Kafatos/Christophides), Mike Osta (K/C), Marta Tufet (Sinden)

11:25 - 12:25 Session III: Model systems and bioinformatics

 * a. A. gambiae/A. stephensi - P. berghei <font color=#cc0000>(20 min) :
 * Dina Vlachou (Kafatos/Christophides), Antonio Mendes (Kafatos/Christophides), Mike Osta (K/C), Tibebu Habtewold (Kafatos/Christophides)


 * b. Differences and similarities between plasmodia <font color=#cc0000>(20 min) :
 * Jacqui Mendoza (Sinden), Geoff Butcher (Sinden)


 * c. Bioinformatics in vector biology <font color=#cc0000>(20 min) :
 * Robert Waterhouse (Kafatos/Christophides), Robert MacCallum (Kafatos/Christophides), Seth Redmond (Kafatos/Christophides)

16:00 - 16:30 Reporting

 * Stephan Meister(Kafatos/Christophides), Nikolai Windbichler (Crisanti), Kalpana Lal (Sinden), Michael Povelones (Kafatos/Christophides)

Participants and email addresses by lab:
Crisanti Lab:

Kafatos/Christophides Labs:

Sinden Lab:

Billker Lab: