The Colegio de Químicos de Puerto Rico
(CQPR), IUPAC's Puerto Rico National Adhering
Organization (NAO), is delighted to invite you to the
2nd second International Conference on Neglected
Tropical Diseases (NTD 2018).
The event will take place at The Condado Plaza
Hilton Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Ricoon June
25-27, 2018. The final program will be posted here.
Keynote
Speakers
Dr. Stephen
M. Beverley Washington
University
St. Louis, MO
"Leishmania RNA
Viruses and Parasite Virulence"
Dr. Marc Ouellette Université
Laval, Québec, Canada "Genomics of drug
resistance in Leishmania leading to new drug
targets"
Dr. Rick Tarleton University
of Georgia "Chagas Disease:
The real risks and possible solutions"
Dr. Mariano García Blanco UT
Medical Branch/Duke "RNA and Immunity:
A Love-Hate Story about Dengue Virus"
Dr. Dale J. Kempf AbbVie
Pharmaceuticals "Pharma Assisted
Drug Discovery and Development for Neglected
Diseases"
Dr. Rubén Santiago
Nicholls Panamerican
Health Organization (PAHO), Washington, DC
“PAHO’s Plan of
Action for the Elimination of Neglected
Infectious Diseases and currents status of
Neglected Infectious Diseases in the Americas”
Dr. Timothy G. Geary
Institute of
Parasitology, McGill University, Montreal,
Canada
“Evolving paradigms
in anthelmintic discovery”
Invited Speakers
Dr. Carmen D.
Zorrilla Maternal Infant
Studies Center (CEMI), San Juan, Puerto Rico “Zika
in Pregnancy”
Dr.
Rosa M. Reguera Universidad de León León, Spain "A chronic
bioluminescent model for experimental visceral
leishmaniasis"
Dr. Roberto
Barrera Center
for Disease Control, San Juan, PR "Incessant threat
of Aedes-transmitted arboviruses"
Rick
L. Tarleton, University
of Georgia, Athens, GA (USA)
"Chagas
Disease: The real risks and possible solutions”
Dr. Néstor Carballeira
- Presiding
2:15 pm – 2:40 pm
Manu De Rycker, University of Dundee, Dundee
(UK), and GSK (Spain)
“Chagas’ disease drug discovery: challenges and
opportunities”
2:40
pm –3:00 pmCoffee
Break
Dr. Néstor Carballeira
- Presiding
3:00 pm – 3:20 pm
Eduardo
J.E. Caro-Díaz, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, UCSD, USA
“Gallinamide A
analogues as potent and selective inhibitors of T. cruzi
and potential therapeutic agents for Chagas disease”
3:20 pm – 3:40 pm IUPAC
Awardee
Jehad Almaliti, Faculty of Pharmacy, The
University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
“Novel and Selective epoxy-ketone based
P. falciparum proteasome inhibitors: New antimalarial
drug leads”
3:40
pm – 4:00 pm
Emilee
E. Colón, University of Puerto Rico,
Medical Sciences campus, San Juan, PR
“Antimalarial drug
discovery targeting Plasmodium glutathione
S-transferase”
4:00 pm – 6:00 pmPoster Presentations – Foyer Miramar I
P1 – Lourdes
Garcia-Fragoso, University
of
Puerto Rico School of Medicine, San Juan, PR
“Birth growth parameters in
newborns with microcephaly secondary to congenital
Zika virus syndrome”
P2
– Daniel W.
Pérez-Ramos, Inter American University of Puerto Rico,
Bayamón Campus, PR
“Entomological
assessment on mosquito species: Estimation on the vector
capacity potential of the malaria vector Anopheles
vestitipennis”
P3
– Idalí Martínez, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences campus,
San Juan, PR “Secretome
of monocytes-derived macrophages from patients with
Chikungunya-induced Chronic arthralgia/arthritis”
P4 – Denisse
Alequin-Torres, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus, San
Juan, PR “Synthesis
of novel chlorinated and brominated haloallylated fatty
acids with antileishmanial and antibacterial
activity”
P5 – Harry G. Ramírez,
University
of
Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus, San Juan, PR
“Analysis of mosquito
population during non-hurricane and hurricane season
(2017)”
P6
– Angélica K. de Jesús
Sosa, University
of
Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences campus, San Juan, PR
“Plasmodium berghei
abcg null mutants exhibits altered expression of
antioxidant genes and changes in drug sensitivity”
P7 – Rafael
Balaña-Fouce, Biomedical, University of León and
Pharmacy, University of País Vasco, Spain “Substituted 1,5-naphthyridine
derivatives as novel antileishmanial agents”
P8 – Rafael Balaña-Fouce,
Biomedical, University of León and CSIC, Madrid, Spain
“Fluorescent
analogues of miltefosine as biomarkers for Leishmania
presence in biological samplesand as a tool for
detection of sublethal miltefosine accumulation” (CHEMRAWN)
P9
– José
R. Muñiz González, University
of
Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences campus, San Juan, PR
“Analysis of
non-linear growth functions to model Plasmodium berghei
parasitemias”
P10 –
Mariana D. Padilla,
Ponce
Health Sciences University, Ponce,PR
“Cannibalism
in Aedes aegypti and Chironomus spp. larvae”
P11 –
Kayra Rosado Ortiz,
Ponce
Health Sciences University, Ponce,PR
“Competence
in oviposition between Aedes mediovittatus and Aedes
aegypti”
P12 – Alejandro J. Veintidós Feliú,
Ponce
Health Sciences University, Ponce,PR
“The effects of different
substrates on mosquito oviposition behavior: A
field-based pilot study”
P13 – Christian Morales-Guzmán,
University
of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus, San Juan, PR
“Total synthesis and
leishmanicidal evaluation of novel w-phenyl D6 fatty acids”
P14 – Alicia
Schinini, Departamento de Medicina
Tropical, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay
“Animal
models in Chagas disease”
P15
– Gilberto A. Santiago,Center
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), San Juan, Puerto
Rico, USA
“Performance of the trioplex real time RT-PCR
during the Zika epidemic in Puerto Rico” (CHEMRAWN)
P16 – Rosa M.
Reguera,
Biomedical
Dept, University of León, Spain, and Freie Universität,
Berlin, DE
“Mannosylated
polyglycerol
nanoparticles as delivery systems in macrophages
infected with Leishmania
infantum”
P17
– Shamika D.
Mathis-Torres,
Inter
American University of Puerto Rico, Bayamón Campus, PR
“Assessment
of Aedes aegypti in Puerto Rico using BGS-2 and CDC-UV
traps”
P18 – Rafael
Balaña-Fouce, Biomedical Department, Veterinary
Medicine, University of León, Spain
“Potential
anthelmintic activity of a certain series of new
molecules (benzalphthalides and phtalazinones) against
different phases of the gastrointestinal nematode
Teladorsagia circumncincta”
P19
– Rafael Balaña-Fouce, Biomedical Department, Veterinary
Medicine, University of León, Spain
“Anthelmintic
activity of synthetic amino alcohols on eggs and larvae
of the gastrointestinal nematode Teladorsagia
circumncincta”
P20 – Gabriela
Matamoros, Microbiology Research
Institute, UNAH, Tegucigalpa, Honduras (IUPAC) “Identification of SNPs
associated with benzimidazole resistance in Ascaris
lumbricoides andTrichuris
trichiura recovered from humans in Honduras”
P21 – Jelissa Reynoso García, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, PR “Paleomicrobiologal
studies shows the presence of phytopathogenic fungi in cropolites
revealing the diets of Ancient Caribbean cultures”
P22 – Yazmary Meléndez-Contés, Department of Chemistry, University
of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus,
San Juan, PR
“Synthesis of a new series of 1,2,3-triazolyl fatty acids
as potential novel Leishmania topoisomerase
IB inhibitors”
P23– Alexandra
Acevedo, Institute of Neurobiology and
Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University
of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus “Localization
of pedal peptide 4-like immunoreactivity in the central nervous system of
Biomphalaria glabrata, an
intermediate host for schistosomiasis”
Wednesday,
June
27, 2018 - Miramar I
7:00
am – 8:30 pmContinental Breakfast
8:00 am – 1:00 pmRegistration
8:30
am – 9:15 am Keynote Speaker
Dr. Néstor Carballeira
- Presiding
Dale
J. Kempf, Abbvie
Pharmaceuticals,
USA
"Pharma
assisted drug discovery and development for neglected
diseases”
9:15
am – 9:45 am Plenary Speaker
Dr. Rafael Belaña Fouce
- Presiding
Babu
L. Tekwani, Center
for Natural Products Research, University of Mississippi,
USA
"New
phenolic models for antimalarial and antileishmanial
drug discovery”
9:45
am – 10:00 amCoffee
Break
10:00 am – 10:20 am
Zillur
Rahman,
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, PR
“Comparative genomics of apicomplexan”
10:20 am – 10:40 am
Robert
Rodríguez González, Ponce Health Sciences University, Ponce,PR
“Environmental
and sociodemographic factors after Hurricane Maria and its effect on mosquito
density as a vector of diseases”
10:40
am – 11:00 am
Jason Pitts, Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas (USA)
“Chemosensory
mechanisms in disease-transmitting mosquitoes”
11:00
am – 11:20 am
Erick
X. Pérez-Guzmán, University of Puerto Rico,
Medical Sciences Campus San Juan, PR
“Previous immunity to Zika
modulates Dengue infection pathogenesis and immune
response in rhesus macaques”
11:20
am – 11:40 am
Manuel
F. Lluberas, H.D. Hudson Manufacturing
Company, USA
“Integrated vector
control: proven methods or miasmatic vapors”
11:40
am – 12:00 pm
José
Seguinot-Barbosa,
Environmental Health, Medical Sciences, Univ. of Puerto
Rico, San Juan, PR
“Geographical information systems (GIS):
Application to the analysis of vectors borne diseases
distribution in Puerto Rico”(CHEMRAWN)
