COST Action CA22108
9:30 - 10:30 Pedro Alonso. One Health: Integrating Public Health Targets
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Opening ceremony
11:00 - 11:15 Uraiwan Arunyawat. Prevalence of zoonotic malaria parasites in wild long-tailed macaques across Thailand
11:15 - 11:30 Nuria Parody (LETIPharma). Circulating immune complexes in Canine Leishmaniosis: From pathogenesis to clinical biomarker.
10:30 - 11:00 COFFE BREAK
11:30 - 12:15 Zhibin Zhang. Theory and practice of synergetic control of rodents and ectoparasites to reduce disease spillover
12:15 - 12:30 Ana Irina Martín-Lopez. West Nile virus prevalence correlates with avian Plasmodium prevalence in Culex mosquito vectors during a recent outbreak
12:30 - 12:45 Josef Harl. Blood-stage persistence of haemosporidian parasites in wild birds during the winter season: insights from tissue-based detection in birds from Austria
12:45 - 13:00 María Igual i Beltrán. First record of a fatal Plasmodium relictum GRW4 infection in a critically endangered Fatu Hiva monarch fledgling
13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30 - 15:30 Kasun Bodawatta. Host-blood parasites associations through a microbiome lens
15:30 - 15:45 Josué Martínez de la Puente. Landscape anthropization and avian malaria infections in house sparrows:
effects on cloacal microbiota and preen gland secretion composition
15:45 - 16:00 Marta Garrigós. Drivers of mosquito microbiome composition: effects of species, locality, season, and avian Plasmodium infection
16:00 - 16:15 Jessica Jiménez-Peñuela. Influence of urbanization, avian malaria infection and cloacal microbiome composition on serum immunoglobulins levels and oxidative stress status of wild house sparrows
16:15 - 16:30 Xi Huang. Phylogenetic clustering and disease tolerance in avian haemosporidian co‑infections
16:30 - 17:00 COFFE BREAK
17:00 - 17:15 Line Jensen. Do toxic feathers of New Guinean birds protect them from malaria infections?
17:15 - 17:30 Mélanie Tchoumbou. Unveiling tissue development and phenotypic variation of Haemoproteus belopolskyi in the Icterine Warbler
17:30 - 17:45 Mélanie Yvonne Ludivine Duc. Hidden in plain sight: novel tissue stages of Haemoproteus motacillae in yellow wagtails (Motacilla flava)
17:45 - 18:00 Daniela de Angeli Dutra. Does parasite diversity really mirrors their hosts?
18:00 - 18:15 Justyna Kubacka. Host fitness and quality in relation to haemosporidian and trypanosome infections in a female-only care songbird: divergent patterns across sexes
18:15 - 18:30 Alžbeta Šujanová. Species-specific tissue tropism and diagnostic challenges of Haemoproteus co-infections in a natural passerine host Sylvia atricapilla
18:30 - 18:45 Antoine Perrin. Bird migration connects global haemosporidian parasite communities
18:45 - 19:00 Molly Elkjaer. Global drivers of co-diversification between malaria lineages and their avian hosts
19:00 - 20:30 POSTER SESSION (Even numbers)
9:00 - 10:00 Ananías Escalante. Comparative genomics and evolutionary diversification in mammalian Plasmodium
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
10:00 - 10:15 Olof Hellgren. Can climate affect how vector transmitted parasite evolves and affects its hosts?
10:15 - 10:30 Luz García-Longoria. Donor-driven epigenetic memory and blood type barriers in generalist pathogen host-shifts
10:30 - 11:00 COFFE BREAK
11:00 - 11:15 Andrea Soriano. Avian blood parasite richness declines with host evolutionary distinctiveness and increases with ecological exposure
11:15 - 11:30 Catalina González-Quevedo. Immune gene diversity predicts malaria infection in a Neotropical bird
11:30 - 11:45 Ravinder Sehgal. Characterizing Matryoshka RNA Viruses in Avian Blood Using Droplet Digital PCR and RNAscope
11:45 - 12:00 Francisco C. Ferreira. Dynamics of malaria parasites and related haemosporidians infecting Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) in the US: a 21-year study
12:00 - 12:15 Tim Maximilian Rapp. Uncoupling transmission and virulence in a wild blood parasite community
12:15 - 12:30 Andreina Pacheco. Mitogenomic Characterization of Haemosporidian Diversity in Birds of Prey from Northeastern North America
12:30 - 12:45 Edward C. Netherlands. Revising the Genus Haemocystidium (Apicomplexa: Haemoproteidae): Insights from Mitochondrial DNA Genomes and Morphological Data
12:45 – 13:00 Nayden Chakarov. Transcriptomic comparison of raptor-infecting Leucocytozoon
13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30 - 15:30 Nubia Matta. Unraveling Trypanosomatiids in amphibians is more complex than you can imagine
15:30 - 15:45 Swen Renner. Parasite communities in Bhutan's bird community: a pilot study on how haemosporidians respond to forest type
15:45 - 16:00 Gillian Muchaamba. Transmission dynamics and pathology of avian Plasmodium infections in zoo- managed birds and wild passerines
16:00 - 16:15 Erika Braga. The First Official Taxonomic Collection of Wildlife Hemoparasites in Brazil: Advancing Biodiversity Knowledge
16:15 - 16:30 Oskar Web. Multi-organ pathological alterations in Hepatocystis-infected bats challenge the paradigm of benign infection
16:30 - 17:00 COFFE BREAK
17:00 - 17:15 Grethell M. López-Del Aguila. Prevalence and Morphometric Characterization of Hepatozoon-Like Blood Parasites in Chelonoidis Tortoises Under Human Care in Northeastern Peru
17:15 - 17:30 Nícolas Colácio. Hidden piroplasmid diversity in Neotropical cervids: novel Theileria lineages and the potential vectorial role of Dermacentor nitens
17:30 - 17:45 Dimitrav Dimitrov. Is there a correlation between infections with avian blood parasites and parasitic worms in Ethiopian birds?
17:45 - 18:00 Wendy Flores Saavedra. Systematic mapping of tick diversity (Acari: Ixodidae, Argasidae) and their associated pathogens in Peru: Scoping review of half a century of scientific evidence
18:00 - 18:15 Carolina Remacha. Infected male pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca do not hesitate when it comes to offspring care
18:15 - 18:30 Natalia Mazo. Environmental risk factors for haemosporidian infection in birds along a Neotropical gradient: evidence from Arremonops conirostris
18:30 - 19:45 Luca Ilahiane. Detecting avian malaria from host whole-genome sequencing: evaluating bioinformatic approaches in the Italian sparrow
18:45 - 19:00 Juliane Schaer. The Monophyly of Nycteria and Polychromophilus Parasites: A Missing Piece in the Evolution of Malaria and Other Haemosporida
19:00 - 20:30 POSTER SESSION (Odd numbers)
9:00 - 10:00 Philippe Christie. How do blood parasites spread? Integrating Ecology, Diversity, and Transmission in bats and birds
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
10:00 - 10:15 Irene Hernández Caballero. Insecticidal activity against an avian malaria vector is mediated by a component of uropygial secretion
10:15 - 10:30 Germán Alfredo Gutiérrez. Uncovering the diversity of avian Lankesterella and the challenges in detecting its life cycle stages in wild hosts.
10:30 - 11:00 COFFE BREAK
11:00 - 11:15 Kristina Valavičiūtė-Pocie. From mystery to evidence: decoding Haemoproteus – Culicoides interactions and confirming Culicoides minutissimus as a vector of a new lineage
11:15 - 11:30 Arif Ciloglu. Hidden structure in avian haemosporidian circulation in mosquitoes from Illinois, USA
11:30 - 11:45 Jesús Veiga. Winter is coming: Off-Season transmission of avian malaria in southern Europe
11:45 - 12:00 Oliver Glaizot. Impact of the intensity of infection in birds on Plasmodium development within Culex pipiens mosquitoes
12:00 - 12:15 Dumitru-Ionut Paun Tanase. Hidden vectors: haemosporidian blood parasites detection in the genus Leptoconops in a Mediterranean region
12:15 - 12:30 Cyril Kowo. Mosquito community response to rapid deforestation: Implications for disease dynamics in an Afrotropical forest landscape
12:30 - 12:45 Rasa Bernotienė. Entomological studies. What can they tell us about avian blood parasites?
12:45 - 13:00 Clara Portilla Rodríguez. Long-term temporal variation in prevalence and lineage diversity of avian haemosporidians in a migratory bird
13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30 - 14:45 Margarita Kazak. Can trypanosomes be a threat to bird populations?
15:00 - 15:15 Malange N. F. Elikwo. Forest Type and Body Size Drive Blood Parasite Infections in Afrotropical Ant-Following Birds
15:15 - 15:30 Paula Parra. Urbanization and Vector Species Shape Mosquito Abundance and Avian Malaria Prevalence
15:30 - 15:45 Regina Magaña Vázquez. From Sea to Summit: Shifting Patterns of Avian Haemosporidian Diversity across two Malagasy study sites
15:45 - 16:00 Misa Shimizu. Avian haemosporidian infection among Hooded Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) in The Gambia, with the description of Haemoproteus homojanovyi
15:45 - 16:00 Edyta Podmokła. Climate-driven and lineage-specific dynamics of avian haemoparasites in a long-distance migrant over a quarter century
16:00 - 16:30 COFFE BREAK
16:30 - 16:45 Rafael Gutiérrez-López. From forests to plantations: land-use change reshapes parasite transmission in tropical birds
16:45 - 17:00 Claudio Navarrete. Leucocytozoon diversity emerges from opportunistic transmission and selective establishment of host-parasite associations
17:00 - 17:15 STAB vida
17:15 - 17:30 Isabel Barreda Muñoz. Changes in incubation patterns of the pied flycatcher in response to immune activation.
17:30 - 17:45 Daliborka Stanković. Challenging expectations in the host-parasite system: blood parasite infection in the Eurasian eagle-owl Bubo bubo
17:45 - 18:00 Lucía Jiménez-Gallardo. Eurasian blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla) migrating in autumn with blood parasites have impaired oxidative status
18:00 - 18:15 William Fox. Subclinical Haemosporidian infections and diagnostic underestimation in rehabilitating raptors from Central Mexico
18:15 - 19:15 WIMANET Management Committee meeting
20:30 DINNER - HOSPITAL CENTRO VIVO
9:00 - 10:00 Tanja Himmel. Beyond the blood: insights into tissue development in avian haemosporidian parasites
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
10:00 - 10:15 Jenny Dunn. High temporal turnover of generalist Haemoproteus parasite lineages in a passerine bird community
10:15 - 10:30 Jaime Muriel. Maternal effects drive sex-specific susceptibility to avian malaria via early-life hormonal programming
10:30 - 11:00 COFFE BREAK
11:00 - 11:15 Pavel Munclinger. The impact of migratory divides on haemosporidian parasite communities in two European passerine species
11:15 - 11:30 Alexandra Corduneanu. Diversity and ecological drivers of Polychromophilus infections in bats and their ectoparasites in Eastern Europe
11:30 - 11:45 Tabe Tiku Regine Claire. Haemosporidian parasites in Afro-Palearctic migrant birds at a desert stopover site in Morocco
11:45 - 12:00 Elmira Ghadamna. Prevalence, Diversity and Persistence of haemosporidian infections in two songbirds breeding in Europe
12:00 - 12:15 Hector Fabio Rivera Gutiérrez. Geographic range size and phylogeny shape haemosporidian infection across South American birds
12:15 - 12:30 Javier García-Velasco. Do blood parasite infections shape birdsong? a comparison between two European Pied Flycatcher breeding populations.
12:30 - 13:00 IN MEMORIAM
13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30 - 15:00 Round Table – WIMANET- WG1
15:00 - 15:30 Round Table – WIMANET- WG2
15:30 - 16:00 Round Table – WIMANET- WG3
16:00 - 16:30 COFFE BREAK
16:30 – 17:00 Round Table – WIMANET- WG4
17:00 - 17:30 Round Table – WIMANET- WG5
17:30 - 18:00 Round Table – WIMANET- WG6
18:00 - 18:30 CLOSING CEREMONY