Programme at a glance
Day 1
Room Pacific/Atlantic | |
14:00-19:00 | REGISTRATION |
17:30-18:15 | Opening Ceremony |
18:15-19:00 | Opening Talk – Plenary Lecture Bernadette Abela-Ridder |
19:00-20:30 | Welcome Reception |
Day 2
Room Pacific | Room Atlantic | Room Mediterranean | Room Baltic | |
7:30 | REGISTRATION | |||
9:00-9:45 | Plenary Lecture: Bruno Gottstein |
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10:00-11:30 | Cryptosporidium (Simone Caccio) |
Diversity of Echinococcus and other taeniids (Thomas Romig) |
Parasite taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny in the molecular era I (Aneta Kostadinova & Roman Kuchta) |
6th KE Mott Sy I (Santiago Mas Coma & Bonnie Webster) |
11:30-12:00 | Coffee Break | |||
12:00-13:30 | Trichinella (Ljiljana Sofronić-Milosavljević) |
Giardia (Marco Lalle & Christian Klotz) |
Parasite taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny in the molecular era II (Aneta Kostadinova & Isabel Blasco-Costa) |
6th KE Mott Sy II (Santiago Mas Coma & Bonnie Webster) |
13:30-14:30 | Lunch Break & POSTER VIEWING | |||
14:30-16:00 | Protozoan infections in livestock and their control – zoonotic and animal health aspects (Gereon Schares & Walter Basso) |
Clinical and Tropical Parasitology (Maria Antoniou & Miloš Korać) |
bioMérieux Symposium: Diagnosis of TORCH infections in pregnancy; Toxoplasmosis last updates 2020 |
Host-parasite interactions Session (Moderator: Alisa Gruden-Movsesijan) |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break | |||
16:30-18:00 | Publishing in parasitology (Julia Walochnik) |
Protozoa in food & environment – methods used in different environmental matrices (Isabelle Villena) |
Combatting anthelmintic resistance in ruminants (COMBAR) – COST Action CA16230 (Laura Rinaldi & Smaragda Sotiraki) |
Key Speakers

Bernadette Abela-Ridder
Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
World Health Organization

Bruno Gottstein
Institute of Infectious Diseases Immunoparasitology
Faculty of Medicine University of Berne
Faculty of Medicine University of Berne

Sanjeev Krishna
Professor of Molecular Parasitology and Medicine
St George’s University of London

James Cotton
Parasite Genomics Group
Wellcome Sanger Institute

Eskild Petersen
Professor Emeritus of Infectious Diseases
Faculty of Health Science, Aarhus University, Denmark
Faculty of Health Science, Aarhus University, Denmark
Day 1
Room Pacific/Atlantic | |
14:00-19:00 | REGISTRATION |
17:30-18:15 | Opening Ceremony |
18:15-19:00 | Opening Talk – Plenary Lecture Bernadette Abela-Ridder |
19:00-20:30 | Welcome Reception |
Day 2
Room Pacific | Room Atlantic | Room Mediterranean | Room Baltic | |
7:30 | REGISTRATION | |||
9:00-9:45 | Plenary Lecture: Bruno Gottstein |
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10:00-11:30 | Cryptosporidium (Simone Caccio) |
Diversity of Echinococcus and other taeniids (Thomas Romig) |
Parasite taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny in the molecular era I (Aneta Kostadinova & Roman Kuchta) |
6th KE Mott Sy I (Santiago Mas Coma & Bonnie Webster) |
11:30-12:00 | Coffee Break | |||
12:00-13:30 | Trichinella (Ljiljana Sofronić-Milosavljević) |
Giardia (Marco Lalle & Christian Klotz) |
Parasite taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny in the molecular era II (Aneta Kostadinova & Isabel Blasco-Costa) |
6th KE Mott Sy II (Santiago Mas Coma & Bonnie Webster) |
13:30-14:30 | Lunch Break & POSTER VIEWING | |||
14:30-16:00 | Protozoan infections in livestock and their control – zoonotic and animal health aspects (Gereon Schares & Walter Basso) |
Clinical and Tropical Parasitology (Maria Antoniou & Miloš Korać) |
bioMérieux Symposium: Diagnosis of TORCH infections in pregnancy; Toxoplasmosis last updates 2020 |
Host-parasite interactions Session (Moderator: Alisa Gruden-Movsesijan) |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break | |||
16:30-18:00 | Publishing in parasitology (Julia Walochnik) |
Protozoa in food & environment – methods used in different environmental matrices (Isabelle Villena) |
Combatting anthelmintic resistance in ruminants (COMBAR) – COST Action CA16230 (Laura Rinaldi & Smaragda Sotiraki) |
Day 3
Room Pacific | Room Atlantic | Room Mediterranean | Room Baltic | |
7:30 | REGISTRATION | |||
9:00-9:45 | Plenary Lecture: Sanjeev Krishna | |||
10:00-11:30 | Malaria (Sanjeev Krishna) |
The microbiome of parasites and role in diseases (Cinzia Cantacessi & Nolwenn Dheilly) |
6th International Workshop on Arctic Parasitology – IWAP 6.0e (Antti Oksanen) |
6th KE Mott Sy III (Santiago Mas Coma & Bonnie Webster) |
11:30-12:00 | Coffee Break | |||
12:00-13:30 | Wildlife parasitology (Pikka Jokelainen) |
Migrants and migrating parasites (Zeno Bisoffi) |
EVPC – European Veterinary Parasitology College Symposium (Smaragda Sotiraki & Edwin Claerebout) |
Novel perspectives for diagnosis and treatment Session (Moderator: Dušan Lalošević) |
13:30-14:30 | Lunch Break & POSTER VIEWING | |||
14:30-16:00 | Malaria: Selected abstracts (Moderator: Sanjeev Krishna) |
Toxoplasma genetic diversity (Marie-Laure Dardé) |
International projects in parasitology (Adriano Casulli) |
Paleoparasitology (Matthieu Le Bailly & Gholamreza Mowlavi) |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break | |||
16:30-18:00 | EFP General Assembly | Helminth immunomodulation and interactions with the microbiome (William Harnett & Ljiljana Sofronić-Milosavljević) |
OIE Collaborative Centre on Foodborne Zoonotic Parasites Symposium (Isabelle Vallee) |
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20:30 | Night on the town |
Day 4
Room Pacific | Room Atlantic | Room Mediterranean | Room Baltic | |
7:30 | REGISTRATION | |||
9:00-9:45 | Plenary Lecture: James Cotton | |||
10:00-11:30 | Foodborne and waterborne parasites: changing climate, changing trends, changing parasites I (Lucy Robertson & Joke van der Giessen) |
Dirofilariosis in Europe today (Fernando Simón Martín) |
SEE Toxoplasmosis (Branko Bobić & Barbara Šoba) |
Fish parasitology: Symposium (Ivona Mladineo) |
11:30-12:00 | Coffee Break | |||
12:00-13:30 | Foodborne and waterborne parasites: changing climate, changing trends, changing parasites II & Panel discussion (Lucy Robertson & Joke van der Giessen) |
Other ectoparasites: from biology to control (Domenico Otranto) |
Trichinellosis and Trichinella infection in SEE: current status (Vasile Cozma) |
Fish parasitology: Selected abstracts (Moderators: Serena Cavallero & Jerko Hrabar) |
13:30-14:30 | Lunch Break & POSTER VIEWING | |||
14:30-16:00 | Foodborne and waterborne parasites: Selected abstracts (Moderators: Lucy Robertson) |
Diagnosis and epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis (Jean-Pierre Gangneux) |
SEE Dirofilariosis & other emerging vector-borne zoonoses (Suzana Otašević) |
Young Scientist Award Session |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break | |||
16:30-18:00 | Hot clinical topics in toxoplasmosis (Florence Robert-Gangneux) |
Leishmaniasis: Selected abstracts (Moderators: Jean-Pierre Gangneux & Guy Caljon) |
COMBAR MC Meeting | |
20:30 | Farewell Party (Conference Dinner) |
Day 5
Room Pacific | Room Atlantic | Room Mediterranean | |
8:00 | REGISTRATION | ||
9:00-10:30 | A One Health approach to manage parasitic infections (Frank Katzer & Rachel Chalmers) |
14th International Symposium of Geospatial Health – GnosisGIS I (Laura Rinaldi & Robert Bergquist) |
SEE Vectors and vector-borne pathogens (Snežana Tomanović) |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
11:00-12:30 | Wildlife parasitology: Selected abstracts (Moderator: Pikka Jokelainen) |
14th International Symposium of Geospatial Health – GnosisGIS II (Robert Bergquist & Laura Rinaldi) |
SEE One Health (Ivana Klun) |
12:30-13:15 | Closing Talk – Plenary Lecture: Eskild Petersen |
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13:15-14:00 | Farewell ceremony (incl. Awards; announcement of EMOP XIV host) |