Nyheder

Session 1 – Oral presentations [Chair: Birgitte Vennervald]
Welcome – President (DSP) and President (DSTMIH)
Keynote presentation 1: Kurt Hanevik (Bergen University): “From protozoan subtyping in Norway to targeted treatment of Cryptosporidium in Africa”

BREAK 20min with coffee in the foyer

Session 3 – Poster session with coffee (*YSA competitor)
5. Julie Odgaard Vedel*: The restrictive vaccine vial opening policies in rural Guinea-Bissau: Experiences of those affected, implications, and feasibility of change
6. Ann Kinyanjui*: NGS based detection of microbial pathogens in ticks from Danish hedgehogs
7. Clarissa Seige*: Assessing the distribution and presence of vector mosquito species in Copenhagen’s urban  green areas using eDNA and trapping methods
8. Rosalina Rotovnik*: Testing the effect of plant compounds on Ascaridia galli with an in vitro larval motility assay
9. Kamilla Linde Mønsted*: The influence of diet and T. suis infection on gut microbiota and immune cell composition in pigs
10. Mads Zippor*: Enolase: a context specific biomarker for helminth extracellular vesicles
11. Kristine Erikstrup Tækker*: Interaction between Ascaris suum derived extracellular vesicles and host using human intestinal organoids
12. Lydia Boyle Garcia*: Specificity and cross-reactivity of VAR2CSA-specific antibodies in placental malaria: Insights from natural infection and vaccine responses

13. Anh Tran: Plasma protein biomarker discovery for high-impact communicable diseases: a case study of active tuberculosis
14. Hadi Khatounaki: Four-Year Trend Analysis of Malaria Prevalence in Iran (2020–2024)
15. Konrad Luedecke: Can de novo designed protein binders inhibit the growth of P. falciparum malaria parasites?
16. Tina Vicky Alstrup Hansen: Antimicrobial efficacy of the synthetic stilbenoid LUX-613 on Caenorhabditis elegans infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
17. Mita Eva Sengupta: Liver fluke host snail immune defense and life history trait responses to heat stress across Africa and Europe
18. Frederikke Juncher Høeg: Molecular epidemiology of old and novel parvoviruses in wild Danish carnivorans
19. Nao Takeuchi-Storm: Effects of food production processes on inactivation of parasites in food
20. Peter Nejsum: Helminth infection induces trained immunity in plasmacytoid dendritic cells
21. Nanna Schødt Hansen: Is there antiparasitic resistance in ectoparasites of dogs, cats and livestock in Denmark?
22. Mohammad Naghizadeh: Vaccine designs to elicit protective antibodies against Plasmodium falciparum CSP
23. Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer: The effect of neonatal oral polio vaccination on paediatric admissions: a secondary analysis of a randomized trial from Guinea-Bissau 
32. Anna-Sofie Stensgaard Stensgaard: A first nationwide citizen science mapping of Culicoides biting midges of relevance for the transmission of arboviruses in Denmark

Session 4 – Oral presentations [Chair: Anna Kildemoes]
Keynote presentation 2: Anna Bachmann (Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg): The art of survival: infection, adaptation and persistence of malaria parasites in the human host
24. Geng Pan*: Discovery of magnolol and honokiol as novel anthelmintics from Magnolia officinalis that target the mitochondrial electron transport chain
25. Simon Hoff Moesgaard Jensen*: Examining the association between maternal BCG scar status and perinatal mortality: A hospital-based study from Guinea-Bissau
26. Nathalie Ouaré*: Epidemiological profile and environmental determinants of Plasmodium falciparum Infection in villages surrounding the Soum agropole, Burkina Faso
27. Yajiao Duan*: Using zebrafish as a model to study the worm migration: 2D/3D visualization and immune response

BREAK 30 min Coffee and cake in the foyer

Session 5 – Oral presentations 3 [Chair: Ole Bæk]
28. Anna Kildemoes: Harnessing the potential of anti-glycan antibodies induced in schistosomiasis for development of highly sensitive and specific serological tools
29. Ebenezer Addo Ofori: ProC6C, a novel multi-stage malaria vaccine, elicits functional antibodies against the minor and central repeats of the Circumsporozoite Protein in human adults
30. Anna Sophia Feix: Sex- and time-dependent host cell uptake of Ascaridia galli extracellular vesicles
31. Thomas Lavstsen: Isolation of broadly inhibitory antibodies targeting severe malaria virulence proteins from B cells and plasma

Awards: Best Young Scientist Oral Presentation, Best Young Scientist Poster, Best Global Health contribution