Instituto Butantan – Australia Infectious Diseases, Animal Venoms

Workshop
April 18-20 2016
Instituto Butantan
Museu Biológico
Auditorium
Instituto Butantan – Australia
Infectious Diseases, Animal Venoms
and Envenomation
Organizing Committee
Instituto Butantan
Scientific Committee
Jorge Kalil (Director)
Marcelo De Franco
(Deputy Director)
Alexander Precioso
Ana Marisa Chudzinski-Tavassi
Denise Tambourgi
Fan Hui Wen
Gisele Picolo
Luciana C. C. Leite
Solange Serrano
Paulo Lee Ho
Yara Cury
Support
Carlos Magalhães
Lígia Farias-Cardon
Ricardo Braga
Financial and technical support
Fundação Butantan
Divisão de Desenvolvimento Científico
Centro de Desenvolvimento Cultural
Divisão de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico
e Produção
Australia
Organizing committee and technical support
Sheilla Lunter, Consul, Trade Comissioner,
Australian Consulate-General, Australian
Trade Commission (Austrade)
Daniel Meninelli, Business Development
Associate, Australian Consulate-General,
Australian Trade Commission (Austrade)
Patricia Monteiro, Education Manager,
Australian Consulate-General
Danielle Somers, Director, Office
for Global Health, Sydney Medical
School, The University of Sydney
Joanna Donagan, Director of International
Relations, Monash University
Glenn King, Researcher and Group
Leader, University of Queensland
support
organization
Program
Workshop
Instituto Butantan – Australia
Infectious Diseases, Animal Venoms
and Envenomation
Day 1 - April 18
Museu Biológico auditorium
8h30 - 8h45
8h45 - 9h
9h - 9h30
9h30 - 11h
welcome coffee
opening session
Jorge Kalil, Director, Instituto Butantan,
and Ms. Sheilla Lunter, Consul, Trade
Comissioner, Australian Consulate-General
Instituto Butantan, an overview
Jorge Kalil, director
− Paulo Lee Ho, Instituto Butantan
Vaccine Production and Developments at Butantan Institute
11h30 - 12h30
lunch
14h - 15h30
Infectious Diseases
Chairs: Waldir Elias Junior and Elizabeth Hartland
− Elizabeth Hartland, University of Melbourne at the
Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Enteropathogenic E. coli genomics and virulence
− Waldir Elias Junior, Instituto Butantan
Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli: multitasking bugs
Vaccines and Vectors
Chairs: Paulo Lee Ho and Warwick Britton
− Kristine Macartney, National Centre for
Immunization Research & Surveillance (NCIRS)
Vaccines in Australia - successes and challenges
11h - 11h30
12h30 - 14h
− Ana Lucia Tabet Oller Nascimento, Instituto Butantan
Functional genomics for the identification of
targets involved in Leptospira-host interactions
15h30 - 16h
coffee break
16h - 17h30
Infectious Diseases (following)
− Alexander Precioso, Instituto Butantan
Zika Virus project
coffee break
Infectious Diseases
Chairs: Paulo Lee Ho and Warwick Britton
− Dario S. Zamboni, Faculdade de Medicina
de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo
Inflammasome activation in response to
intracellular pathogens and evasion mechanisms
− Warwick Britton, NHMRC Centre of Research
Excellence in Tuberculosis Control, Centenary Institute
and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
Pulmonary vaccines against Tuberculosis
− Sérgio Verjovski-Almeida, Instituto Butantan
Large-scale gene expression analyses of
Schistosoma mansoni parasites exposed to novel
candidate anti-schistosomicidal drugs and the
search for synergistic drug combinations
− Luciana C.C. Leite, Instituto Butantan
Recombinant BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin)
expressing LTAK63 increases protection
against Mycobacterium tuberculosis
− Ana Maria Moro, Instituto Butantan
Anti-toxin antibodies
Program
Workshop
Instituto Butantan – Australia
Infectious Diseases, Animal Venoms
and Envenomation
Day 2 - April 19
9h - 11h
Museu Biológico auditorium
Animal venoms and Toxins: Structural
Biology and Targets
Chairs: Denise Tambourgi and Glenn King
13h - 15h
lunch
15h - 16h
Animal venoms and Toxins: Structural
Biology and Targets
Chairs: Fan Hui Wen and Raymond Norton
− Irina Kerkis, Instituto Butantan
Toxins and ion channels
− Raymond Norton, Monash University
Proteogenomics as a tool for the discovery
of bioactive peptides: an emerging role of
neuroendocrine modulators in animal venoms
− Richard Lewis, Institute of Molecular
Bioscience, University of Queensland
Marine toxins as tools for the development of
new classes of pain management drugs
− Gisele Picolo, Instituto Butantan
Animal toxins as a source for analgesic
and painful compounds
− Glenn King, Institute of Molecular
Bioscience, University of Queensland
Venoms to drugs: spider-venom peptides for
the treatment of epilepsy and stroke
11h - 11h30
11h30 - 13h
coffee break
Animal venoms and Toxins: Structural
Biology and Targets (following)
− Kerly Fernanda Mesquita Pasqualoto, Instituto Butantan
Rational drug design and toxins: which
kind of strategy should be used?
− David Craik, Institute of Molecular
Bioscience, University of Queensland
Transforming conotoxins into cyclotides: backbone
cyclization of P-superfamily conotoxins
− John Miles, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Mining venoms for compounds that modulate
human immune system function
16h - 17h30
− Solange Serrano, Instituto Butantan
Toxin proteomics
Clinical Aspects of Human
Envenomation and Treatment
Chairs: Fan Hui Wen and Raymond Norton
− Ronelle Welton, Department of Pharmacology
and Therapeutics, University of Melbourne
Venomous injury surveillance in Brazil
and Australia
− Fan Hui Wen, Instituto Butantan
The need for new rules to assess efficacy
and safety of antivenoms
− David Williams, Department of Pharmacology
and Therapeutics, University of Melbourne
Collaboration is the key to reducing global
snakebite morbidity and mortality: lessons learned
from an international collaboration to produce
a new antivenom for Papuan taipan (Oxyuranus
scutellatus) envenoming in Papua New Guinea
Cooperation
projects
discussions
Workshop
Day 3 - April 20
9h15 - 11h15
Museu Biológico auditorium
11h15 - 13h15
Exclusive for Instituto Butantan
and Australian institutions
researchers cooperation projects
13h15 - 13h30
support
Instituto Butantan – Australia
Infectious Diseases, Animal Venoms
and Envenomation
discussions in thematic groups
(three parallel sessions)
general presentations of groups conclusions
closing session
Dr. Jorge Kalil and Mr. John Richardson,
Australian Ambassador to Brazil
organization