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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.

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Wye Retreat Final Programme

assigned times in brackets include discussion

Thursday March 16

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)

Friday March 17

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 (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 (20 min):

Dina Vlachou (Kafatos/Christophides), Antonio Mendes (Kafatos/Christophides), Mike Osta (K/C), Tibebu Habtewold (Kafatos/Christophides)

• b. Differences and similarities between plasmodia (20 min):

Jacqui Mendoza (Sinden), Geoff Butcher (Sinden)

• c. Bioinformatics in vector biology (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)

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