7th International Conference on Model Hosts

Program - Monday, October 14

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    Registration 
    In completing the online registration form you are not automatically accepted to attend the conference nor are you automatically registered for the conference. Final registration to the conference shall occur after you have been accepted and notified by the conference chair of your acceptance to the conference. If you have been charged the registration fee but your attendance has been declined you will be reimbursed in full.

    Airport
    Please note that Crete has two airports. You want to arrive at the Heraklion International Airport (code: HER) and take a taxi from the airport to the hotel (~60 EUR). You may also rent a car at the airport and drive to the conference center. Alternatively Chania International Airport (CHQ) is a two-hour drive to the Conference Center.

    Accommodation Tax
    An accommodation tax of € 10.00 per room night will apply, and will be charged automatically to the individual guest’s extras accounts. 

    Accommodations
    Accommodations for the conference are at the Aldemar Hotel.  The hotel is located in Hersonissos, 27 km from Heraklion International Airport.  Please take a taxi from the airport to the conference venue. 

    Arrival and Check-in 
    It is expected that attendees will arrive/check-in after 3:00 PM. Anyone arriving after 10:00 pm on the first day should make alternative dinner arrangements.

    Conference Venue
    The Aldemar Conference Center is located at the hotel. 

    Handicapped Accessibility
    The site is fully handicapped accessible.

    Oral Presentations
    Speakers are asked to bring their USB flash drive to the reception desk at least 30 minutes prior to the session.  The allocated time for all presentations, unless otherwise indicated, includes five minutes Q&A.

    Archaeological Site of Knossos and City Tour
    Buses for the city tour will depart from the hotel front lobby at 3:30 pm. Badges are required for participation. 

    Breakfast
    Breakfast for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served at the Aldemar Knossos Royal Village main restaurant during the hours scheduled in this program. 

    Lunches/Informal Discussions
    Lunches for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served during the times indicated in this program at the main restaurant and only after the session has finished. Badges are required for admission.

    Dinners/Informal Discussions
    Three of the dinners/informal discussion will be served during the times indicated in the program. Vegetarian entrees are available only upon request in advance of the meeting.  Please contact info@aegeanconferences.org. 

    Internet, Phone, & Computer 
    Wireless Internet access is located throughout the conference center free of charge during meeting hours. There are computers available in the hotel’s business center for the use of the attendees. Phone service is available for an additional charge from your hotel room.

    Certificate of Participation
    A Certificate of Participation will be distributed to a participant for those sessions that the participant has attended. A participant must attend an entire session to receive credit for that particular session. Late arrivals and early departures from a session will preclude a participant from receiving credit for that session. 

    Passports and Visa
    Participants are advised to check on their individual requirements before attending any Aegean Conference meeting. Visa applications should be filed at the nearest Greek Embassy in the country in which you are resident, at least three months prior to the anticipated departure date.

    Letters of Invitation
    Letters of invitation to attend an Aegean Conference meeting will be issued only to:

    • Authors of accepted abstracts
    • Fully paid registrants

    Note: Invitations are issued at the discretion of Aegean Conferences, and requests for letters will be accepted only 60 days prior to the conference start date.

    Liability and Insurance
    Neither the organizers, nor the Aegean Conferences will assume any responsibility whatsoever for damage or injury to persons or property during meeting period. Participants are advised to arrange their own personal travel and health insurance.  

    Other Information
    Animals are not permitted on site.
    Badges are required for admission to all events.
    All Aegean Conferences events are no smoking, no e-cigarretes, no vaping, etc. 

    No Photographs and Recording Devices 
    Participants are not allowed to photograph and/or record using cameras, mobile telephones and other recording devices during the slide and poster presentations. 

    Code of Conduct Policy 
    Aegean Conferences is committed to making its meetings an inclusive space for sharing ideas and knowledge. The code of conduct can be viewed here. 

     

Monday, October 14

07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Breakfast
Session III - Lord of the Flies
Chair: Dominique Ferrandon
08:30 AM - 08:50 AM
15
cGAS-like receptors drive a systemic STING-dependent host response in Drosophila
Xianlong Ai1, Huimin Deng1, Xiaoyan Li1, Ziming Wei1, Yuqiang Chen1, Ting Yin1, Junhui Zhang1, Jingxian Huang1, Haoming Li1, Xiaoqing Lin1, Di Chen1, Carine Meignin2, Jean-Luc Imler1,2, and Hua Cai1
08:50 AM - 09:10 AM
16
Pathogen-host interactions and interorgan communications in model animals
Lei Pan
09:10 AM - 09:30 AM
17
Adult flies mount an early immune response to injected oncogenic cells different from antimicrobial defenses and suggestive of parallels with innate defenses in mice
Di Chen, Xiao Lan, Xiaoming Huang, Jieqing Huang, Xiaojing Zhou, and Jiyong Liu
09:30 AM - 09:50 AM
18
A humoral stress response protects Drosophila tissues from antimicrobial peptides
Samuel Rommelaere and Bruno Lemaitre
09:50 AM - 10:10 AM
19
The role of Malpighian tubules on insect immunity
Zhonggeng Liu1, Hongyu Zhang1, Bruno Lemaitre2, and Xiaoxue Li1
10:10 AM - 10:25 AM
20
Pathobiont and symbiont coordination maintains microbiota homeostasis through Malpighian tubules-gut countercurrent flow in Bactrocera dorsalis.
Yanning Liu
10:25 AM - 10:40 AM
21
Activation of the innate immune system in Drosophila airway stem cells leads to both apoptosis and proliferation via the Foxo/AP-1 and Ets21C axes, respectively
Leizhi Shi, Judith Bossen, and Thomas Roeder
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
Session IV - One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Chair: Irene Salinas Remiro
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
22
Molecular mechanisms of skin remodeling during water-land-water cycles in African lungfish
Irene Salinas, Daphne Siciliani, and Marijan Posavi
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
23
Ancestral mechanisms for the induction and control of immunity through fever
Daniel Barreda
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
24
Discovering viruses and studying immunity in a zebrafish RNAquarium
Keir Balla
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
25
A molecular understanding of microbiome bacterial adherence to gut epithelial cells
Robert Luallen
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
26
Primary tuberculous granulomas provide a niche for superinfecting nontuberculous mycobacteria
Denise Wee and Stefan Oehlers
12:40 PM - 01:00 PM
27
Spatial dynamics of host-microbiome interactions in the human oral niche
Hyun (Michel) Koo1,2 and Zhi Ren1
01:00 PM - 01:15 PM
28
Selenomonas sputigena: how a motile bacterium influences a childhood oral disease
Zhi Ren, Kathleen J. Stebe, and Hyun (Michel) Koo
01:15 PM - 01:30 PM
29
The tobacco hornworm Mandua sexta as a powerful Model Host
Andreas Vilcinskas1, Gabriele A. Krombach2, and Anton G. Windfelder1
01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
03:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Informal Discussions
07:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Dinner and Informal Discussions (Buses Depart from Hotel Lobby)