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Biophysics in the Understanding, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Infectious Diseases Program
5
12:20 – 14:20
Lunch
Riverside Terrace
Session IV
Chair: Eric Rubin, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA
14:20 – 15:00
Jonathan Blackburn, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Raman Biosensing for TB Diagnosis
15:00 – 15:40
James Sacchettini, Texas A&M University, USA
Combining Structural Genomics and Drug Discovery to Develop New TB Drugs
15:40 – 16:00
Ian Mbano, KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV,
South Africa*
Light Forge: A Microfluidic High Throughput Platform for Rapid and
Affordable Detection of Drug Resistant Strains of Tuberculosis
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:10
Adrie Steyn, KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV,
South Africa
Energy Metabolism in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and the Infected Host Cell
17:10 – 17:30
Michael A. Reiche, University of Cape Town, South Africa*
Visualizing the Mycobacterial Mutasome
17:30 – 19:30
Poster Session II
Old Wine Cellar
20:00
Banquet
Riverside Terrace
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
8:00 – 12:00
Registration/Information
Auditorium Foyer
Session V
Chair: Stefan Raunser, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology,
Germany
8:30 – 9:10
Helen R. Saibil, Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom
EMBO Keynote Lecturer
Actions of Plasmodium Falciparum on Its Human Erythrocyte Host Studied
by Electron Tomography
9:10 – 9:50
Pradipsinh Rathod, University of Washington, USA
Structure-inspired Disruption of Proper Folding of an Essential Malaria
Parasite Protein
9:50 – 10:10
Jacky Snoep, Stellenbosch University, South Africa*
Modelling Blood Glucose Concentration in Malaria Patients
10:10 – 10:40
Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:20
David Stuart, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Structural Biology of Some Virus Pathogens
11:20 – 12:00
Mario Amzel, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Inhibition of Parasitic Farnesyl Diphosphate Synthases (FPPS)
*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts