Friday– November, 23TH

8:30 - 9:00 am

Opening Remarks

Session I - Motility, neurogastroenterology and pancreatitis

9:00 - 9:30 am

New aspects of pathophysiology of the gastro-esophageal reflux disease

Daniel Sifrim, Queen Mary, University of London

9:30 - 9:50 am

A murine model of laryngeal inflammation induced by GERD: effect of

topical prottective agents.

Thiago Menezes, M.Sc. student, Federal University of Ceará

9:50 - 10:10 am

Esophago- Gastric junction motility and sarcopenia.

Vicente, M.Sc. student, Federal University of Ceará

10:10 - 10:30 am

Impairment of rat esophageal muscle contractility associated with experimental non-erosive esophageal mucosal damage

Kalline Gadelha, M.Sc. student, Federal University of Ceará

10:30 - 11:00 am

Discusssion I

11:00 - 11:20 am

Visceral pain: the purinergic system a new therapeutic target in acute pancreatitis.

Deysen KF Bezerra – Federal University of Ceará

11:20 - 11:40 am

Acute Pancreatitis: Mechanism of intracellular calcium signaling from Ximenia Americana

Patricia S Pantoja, M.Sc. student, Federal University of Ceara

11:40 - 12:10 am

Discusssion II

12:30 - 13:30 pm

lunch

Session II – Proteomic and metabolomic applied to pharmacology & infectious diseases

Chair person:

Prof. Manassés C Fonteles, State University of Ceará

13:30 - 14:00 pm

Metabolome biomarkers exploration for malnutrition and diarrheal diseases

Jonathan R Swann, PhD, Imperial College London, London, UK

14:00 - 14:15 pm

Detection of lactulose and mannitol as biomarkers using HPLC-PAD

and LC-MS/MS to study gut function

Francisco Adelvane de P Rodrigues, Federal University of Ceará

14:15 -14:30 pm

Ginger metabolites inhibit Staphylococcus aureus virulence factors

James A Silva, Federal University of Sergipe

14:30 -15:00 pm

Leishmaniasis a common endemic disease that seems to be rare and complicated

Anastácio de Queiroz Sousa, Universidad Federal do Ceará

15-00 -15:20 pm

Vaccine for treating leishmaniasis in dogs can help curb spread to humans

Adam L Lima, Ph.D. Student, State University of Ceará

15:20-15:40 pm

Coffee break

Session III – From enteric infection to therapeutics: a translational model for science application

15:40 -16:10 pm

Uroguanylin and guanylin peptides: from enterotoxigenic E. coli infection to experimental therapeutics

Manassés C. Fonteles, State University of Ceará

16:10 - 16:30 pm

Modeling diet and pathogen specific enteropathy and diarrhea: a novel murine model of Shigella flexneri infection

Pedro Henrique S Quintela, Ph.D. Student, Federal University of Ceará

16:30 - 16:50 pm

Molecular diagnostics of enteropathogens association with subclinical and clinical infections in the MAL-ED birth cohort study

Alexandre Havt, Federal University of Ceará

16:50 - 17:30 pm

Capes_Print International Program at UFC

Henry de Holanda Campos, Rector, Federal University of Ceará

Antônio Gomes S. Filho, Pró-Reitor de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação

Federal University of Ceará

Internationalization in translational and epidemiological research in neurogastroenterology

Round Table Discussion

Chairpersons - Profs. Marcellus HLP Souza and Aldo AM Lima, Federal University of Ceará

Saturday, November 24th

Session IV -  Causes, pathogenesis, genetics and biomarkers studies of malnutrition & enteric diseases I - Senior and Young investigators session

Chair person:

Aldo A. M. Lima - Coordinator of the Institute of Biomedicine/ Federal University of Ceará

 Francisco A P. Rodrigues, Federal University of Ceara

9:00 - 9:30 am

Gut bacteria that prevent growth impairments transmitted by microbiota from malnourished children

Tahmeed Ahmed, M.D., Ph.D.

Center for Diarrheal Diseases Research, ICDDR, B

Dhaka, Bangladesh

9:30- 9:45 am

Clinical impact of virulence-related genes from Shigella/Escherichia coli enteroinvasive pathotype infection in children from Semiarid Brazilian region

Mariana Bona. PhD student in Medical Science - Federal University of Ceará

9:45-10:00 am

Antimicrobials resistance of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli strains isolated from nourished and malnourished children from Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Marília SMG Amaral, PhD student in Medical Microbiology - Federal University of Ceará

10:00-10:15 am

Use of carbohydrate biomarkers by LC-MS/MS for assays of intestinal permeability

Lyvia MVC Magalhães, PhD student in Medical Sciences - Federal University of Ceará

10:15- 10:30am

Campylobacter jejuni virulence genes and immune-inflammatory biomarkers association with growth impairment in children from Northeastern Brazil

Herlice do Nascimento Veras. PhD student in Microbiology, Federal University of Ceará

10:30- 10:50 am

Coffee Break

Session V    Causes, pathogenesis, genetics and biomarkers studies of malnutrition & enteric diseases II - Senior and Young investigators session

Chair person:

Aldo A. M. Lima, Coordinator of the Institute of Biomedicine, UFC

10:50- 11:10am

Virulence related genes and co-enteropathogens associated with clinical outcomes of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli infections in children from Brazilian semiarid region

Ana KS Santos, PhD student in Medical Microbiology - Federal University of Ceara

11:10-11:40am

Enteropathogens association with gut function, immune-inflammatory responses and growth development: the MAL-ED birth cohort study

Aldo AM Lima

Coordinator, INCT-Biomedicine, Federal University of Ceará

11:40 pm

Meeting close