Programme

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (UK TIME)

Wednesday, 2nd of June, 2021
14:00 – 14:15 Welcome & Announcements Anastasios Tsaousis
14:15 – 15:30 Welcome Lecture
Host: Anastasios Tsaousis
An overview on Blastocystis current research
Eleni Gentekaki
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16.00 – 17.00

Poster Session 1 – Presentations

Hosts: Anastasios Tsaousis & Rune Stensvold
 
 

Title

Presenter
  Occurrence of Blastocystis in Patients with Clostridioides difficile Infection Laura Vega
Identification of multiple Blastocystis subtypes in domestic animals from Colombia using amplicon-based next generation sequencing. Adriana Marcela Higuera Gelvez
Molecular detection and genotyping of Blastocystis from different biogeographical regions of Colombia Adriana Marcela Higuera Gelvez
Succinate dehydrogenase gene as a marker for studying Blastocystis genetic diversity Adriana Marcela Higuera Gelvez
Prevalence and genotyping of Blastocystis sp. and other enteric protist parasites in farmed red deer (Cervus elaphus) in Cádiz, southern Spain Fátima Vioque
Blastocystis sp. is the most prevalent enteroparasite in school-age children at Puerto Berrio, Antioquia-Colombia Carolina Hernández Castro
Molecular identification and subtyping of Blastocystis sp. in HIV-positive patients in Madrid, Spain Mercedes Chozas-Conde
Draft genomes of Blastocystis isolates from human samples in Bogotá, Colombia Adriana Marcela Higuera Gelvez
Molecular Detection and Gentoyping of Blastocystis spp in samples from patients suffering from ulcerative colitis in Uruguay Alejandra Valentín
Metagenomic analysis of the prevalence and impact of blastocystis in gut microbial communities Dandan Zhao
An update on the distribution of Blastocystis subtypes in North and South America Paula Andrea Jimenez Jimenez
The investigation of Blastocystis sp. in immunocompetent and immunodeficient diarrheal patients using both conventional and molecular methods Fakhriddin Sarzhanov
A study of associations between Blastocystis subtypes and eukaryotic taxa in fecal samples from people living in urban and periurban communities from Arequipa, Peru Kasandra Ascuña-Durand
Frequency of Blastocystis subtypes in spondyloarthritis patients of Colombia Paula Hernandez Atehortua
17:00 – 17:30 Break
17:30 – 19:15

Session 1: Prevalence/Distribution/Diagnostics/Microbiome

Host: Juan David Ramirez
 

Title

Presenter
17:30 Detecting and Differentiating Blastocystis Subtypes using Metabarcoding Rune Stensvold
18:00 Oxford Nanopore MinION sequencing provides a new method for generating full-length Blastocystis SSU rRNA gene sequences Jenny Maloney
18:15 Blastocystis in humans and animals in Pomeranian Region, Poland Monika Rudzińska
18:30 Detection and identification of blastocystis isolates from wastewater samples in turkey Sabiha Aydogdu
18:45 Investigating the occurrence and molecular diversity of Blastocystis sp. by Sanger and next generation amplicon sequencing in cattle in the province of Álava, Northern Spain Alejandro Dashti
19:00 Microbiota characterization in Blastocystis-colonized and Blastocystis-free school-age children from Colombia Sergio Andrés Castañeda Garzón
19:15 Gut microbiota profiles in diarrheic patients with co-occurrence of Clostridioides difficile and Blastocystis Laura Vega
 


Thursday, 3rd of June, 2021
08:20 – 08:30 Welcome & Announcements Anastasios Tsaousis
08:30 – 10:00

Session 2: Prevalence/Distribution/Subtyping/Diagnostics

Host: Funda Dogruman-Al
 

Title

Presenter
08:30 Identification and molecular characterization of a novel Blastocystis subtype in humans from the Paranaguá Bay, Brazil David Carmena
09:00 Prevalence and distribution of Blastocystis in schoolchildren from a rural area in northern Thailand and association with anthropometric factors Abby McCain
09:15 Blastocystis spp. subtypes in the northeastern area of Spain CRISTINA MATOVELLE
09:30 Detection of Blastocystis sp. in symptomatic children attended at three different hospitals in Spain Carolina Hernández-Castro
09:45 Evaluation of association with subtypes and alleles of Blastocystis with chronic spontaneous urticaria Mehmet Aykur
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:00

Session 3: Blastocystis and host interactions

Host: Özgür Kurt
 

Title

Presenter
10:30 Changes in the human gut microbiota associated with colonization by Blastocystis sp. and Entamoeba spp. in non-industrialized populations Magali Chabé
11:00 Blastocystis sp. carriage and irritable bowel syndrome: is the association already established? Fernando Salvador
11:15 Bioinformatic Characterisation of Gut Microbiota Profile Alterations in Blastocystis ST-7 Infected DSS Colitis Mouse Model Eileen Koh
11:30 Investigation into community-level differences in the bacterial microbiota in water voles with Blastocystis colonisation Emma Betts
11:45 Is It Useful To Treat Blastocystis sp.? A double-blind placebo-controlled randomised trial. L.G. Cobuccio
     
12:00- 13:30 Break
13:30 – 14:30

Poster session 2 – Presentations

Hosts: Eleni Gentekaki & Anastasios Tsaousis
 

Title

Presenter
  The Prevalence of Blastocystis subtypes in humans in Turkey: a systematic review and meta-analysis Mehmet Aykur
Prevalence and molecular characterization of Blastocystis isolated from Pallas’s squirrels (Callosciurus erythraeus) in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Aya Masuda
Blastocystis sp. in public kindergartens of Majadahonda, Madrid-Spain Carolina Hernández-Castro
Detection, molecular characterization, and assessment of zoonotic transmission of Blastocystis sp. between companion animals and their owners in Peru and Spain Elena Cobo-López
The prevalence of asymptomatic blastocystosis in adults from southeastern serbia Nataša Miladinović Tasić
Novel Functionality of a Horizontally-Acquired Tryptophanase Gene in the Protistan Parasite Blastocystis Steven Leonardi
Protease activity diversity of Blastocystis sp. from animal and water samples in the Philippines Davin Edric Adao
Prevalence of blastocystis in human stool samples in hungary and the comparison of three identification methods István Kucsera
Prevalence and subtype analysis of Blastocystis sp. in symptomatic and asymptomatic children Fakhriddin Sarzhanov
Molecular detection of Blastocystis in sewage samples from Greece Gregory Spanakos
Genotypic diversity of Blastocystis isolated from a cohort of patients in Eastern Saudi Arabia Ayman El-Badry
Detection and molecular identification of Blastocystis isolates from humans and cattle in northern Egypt: the potential for zoonotic transmission Ayman El-Badry
Application of Blastocystis identification techniques in medical laboratory Chalermpon Kaewjai
Prevalence and subtype distribution of Blastocystis sp. amongst Syrian refugee communities living in North Lebanon Manasi Sawant
   
14:30 – 15:30

Poster session 3 – Breakup groups

Host: Anastasios Tsaousis
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 17:00

Session 4: Blastocystis cell biology and ‘omics

Host: Anastasios Tsaousis
 

Title

Presenter
16:00 – 16:30 Investigations into the Properties of Blastocystis-Derived Extracellular Vesicles, and Their Potential Roles in Bacteria and Host Cell Interactions Eileen Y Koh
16:30 – 17:00 Comparative genomics of Blastocystis ssp. reveal proteomes with hyper-expansions of amino acid homopolymers Dayana Salas-Leiva
17:00 – 17:30 Break – Breakout rooms upon request
17:30 – 18:30

Session 5: Subtyping and Diagnostics

Host: Rune Stensvold
 

Title

Presenter
17:30 Exploring the relationships between Blastocystis subtypes through comparisons between full-length and partial regions of the SSU rRNA gene Monica Santin-Duran
18:00 MALDI-TOF as an alternative diagnosis method to Blastocystis subtypes identification. Proposal research Renzo Salazar-Sanchez
19:00 – 20:00 Virtual Social Event
 

Friday, 4th of June, 2021
07:50 – 08:00 Welcome & Announcements Anastasios Tsaousis
08:00 – 10:00

Session 6: Blastocystis and gut microbiome

Hosts: Anastasios Tsaousis & Kevin Tan
 

Title

Presenter
08:00 Experimental Infection with Two Different Blastocystis Subtypes is Associated with Strikingly Different Microbiome Features Kevin Shyong-Wei Tan
08:30 Blastocystis colonization alters host immune response and gut microbiome, part a Zuzana Lhotska
08:45 Blastocystis colonization alters host immune response and gut microbiome, part b Vincent Billy
09:00 Blastocystis in the faeces of children from six distant countries: prevalence, quantity, subtypes and the relation to the gut bacteriome Ondrej Cinek
09:15 Experimental Colonization with Blastocystis ST4 is Associated with Protective Immune Responses and Modulation of Gut Microbiome in a DSS-Induced Colitis Mouse Model Lei Deng
09:30 Investigating the metabolic fluctuations of the human gut during Blastocystis infection Jamie Newton
09:45 -10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:30

Session 7: Prevalence/Distribution/Subtyping/Diagnostics

Hosts: Rune Stensvold & Eleni Gentekaki
 

Title

Presenter
10:30 Prevalence, molecular diversity, and evidence of zoonotic transmission of Blastocystis sp. in non-human primates and their caretakers in four Spanish zoos Pamela Carolina Köster
10:45 Longitudinal analysis of Blastocystis diversity in a cohort of healthy adults during a period of international travel Pauline Scanlan
11:00 The first microsatellite based genotyping of two common Blastocystis sp. Subtypes Erdogan Malatyali
11:15 Detection and molecular characteryzation of Blastocystis in Polish soldiers stationed in the Balkans Barbara Pietrzak-Makyła
11:30 High Prevalence of Blastocystis and Dientamoeba fragilis in Rural Nepal: Pathogens to Treat or Residents of Healthy Gut? Özgür Kurt
11:45 Blastocystis transmission dynamics in a rural community of northern Thailand Vasana Jinatham
12:00 Investigating the enteric coinfection of Hepatitis E virus with Giardia duodenalis, Blastocystis sp., and Balantioides coli in intensively and extensively raised pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) in Southern Spain Alejandro Dashti
12:15 Prevalence and subtype identification of Blastocystis sp. in Western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) from Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Sierra Leone Pamela Carolina Köster
12:30 – 12:45 Short Break
12:45 – 14:00 Open Discussion, Future funding opportunities and closing remarks
Host: Anastasios Tsaousis


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