“Advances in Diagnostics of Parasitic Diseases: current trends and

“Advances in Diagnostics of Parasitic Diseases:
current trends and future prospects”
29 – 30 May 2008 Warsaw,
Warsaw, Poland
PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE
Thursday,
Thursday, 29 of May 2008
10.00-11.00
11.00-11.10
Registration
Opening Ceremony
Friday,
Friday, 30 of May 2008
Session 2
10.00-10.15
Plenary Session
11.15-11.45
11.45-12.15
12.15-12.45
12.45-13.45
13.45-14.15
13.30-14.00
Jens G. Mattsson: The use of recombinant
proteins in diagnostic parasitology:
possibilities and challenges.
Simone M. Cacciò: Molecular epidemiology
of giardiasis: facts and problems.
Donato Traversa, Thomas R. Klei, Raffaella
Iorio, Domenico Otranto, Olivier A. E.
Sparagano: New insights into molecular
identification of equine cyathostomes:
significant scope for improved diagnosis and
infection control.
LUNCH
Luiza Jedlina-Panasiuk, Monika Kozak,
Simone M. Cacciò, Tadeusz Graczyk:
Application of flow cytometry for
parasitological diagnostics.
Maria Vitale, Vittoria Currò, Maria La Giglia,
Fabrizio Vitale, Katarzyna Goździk and
Santo Caracappa: A nested PCR for
Toxoplasma gondii detection from different
animal samples.
10.15-10.30
10.30-10.45
10.45-11.00
11.00-11.30
Session 3
11.30-11.45
11.45-12.00
Session 1
14.00-14.15
14.15-14.45
14.45-15.00
15.00-15.15
15.15-15.30
Anna Bajer, Małgorzata Bednarska, Simone
M. Cacciò, Anna Paziewska, Renata WelcFalęciak and Edward Siński:
Cryptosporidiosis in humans and animals
from Poland: molecular diagnostics and
epidemiological implications.
COFFEE
Piotr Solarczyk, Anna C. Majewska and
Mirosława Dabert: A novel Giardia
intestinalis Assemblage A genotype in red
deer (Cervus elaphus), Poland.
Katarzyna Goździk and Władysław Cabaj:
Evidence of Neospora caninum antibodies
in sera from farmed and free living deer in
Poland.
Bożena Moskwa, Justyna Bień, Katarzyna
Goździk and Władysław Cabaj: Polymerase
chain reaction (PCR) detection of Neospora
caninum DNA in oocytes and embryos of
seropositive cows.
Monika Turkowicz, Danuta Cielecka, Anna
Gierczak and Bogdan Michałowicz: Diagnosis
of Echinococcus infection in humans based on
PCR-RFLP analysis.
Monika Kozak, Aleksandra Garbacewicz and
Halina Wędrychowicz: The performance of a
PCR assay for the detection of Fasciola
hepatica DNA in fecal samples.
Erland L. Ljunggren, Luiza Jedlina-Panasiuk
and Monika Kozak: Cloning and heterologous
expression of a novel cysteine protease from
Fasciola hepatica newly excysted juveniles.
Johan Höglund, Annie Engström, Jens G.
Mattsson, David Morrison and Anna Rydzik:
Serodiagnosis of bovine lungworm infection
using a recombinant protein as the capture
antigen.
COFFEE
12.00-12.15
12.15-13.15
Anu Näreaho, Katarzyna Goździk and Justyna
Bień: Two-dimensional electrophoresis –
parasite proteome in focus.
Justyna Bień, Anu Näreaho and Katarzyna
Goździk: Trichinella spiralis and Trichinella
britovi: preliminary analysis of muscle larvae
crude extract by two-dimensional gel
electrophoresis.
Elżbieta Gołąb, Aleksander Masny, Wioletta
Rożej, Natalia Wnukowska and Tadeusz
Dzbeński: An evaluation of the usefulness of
the PCR method for Trichinella spiralis DNA
detection in faecal samples of experimentally
infected mice – preliminary results.
LUNCH
Session 4
13.15-13.30
13.30-13.45
13.45-14.00
14.00-14.10
18.00
Erland L. Ljunggren and Katarzyna Goździk: A
novel diagnostic PCR for the gastro-intestinal
nematode Ashworthius sidemi.
Anna Borecka: PCR tools for the diagnosis of
nematodes from Toxocara genus.
Donato Traversa, Stefania Avolio, David
Modrý, Domenico Otranto, Raffaella Iorio,
Itamar Aroch, Giuseppe Cringoli, Angela Di
Cesare, Katka Albrechtová, Andrei D. Mihalca,
Eran Lavy: New coprological and molecular
diagnosis of canine spirocercosis.
Closing ceremony
CONFERENCE DINNER