Friday – February 14th

08:30 – 09:00 am

Opening Remarks

José Cândido Lustosa Bittencourt de Albuquerque

Rector, Federal University of Ceará

Manassés Claudino Fonteles

Emeritus Professor, Federal University of Ceará

Member of the National Academy of Medicine

Tarcísio Haroldo Cavalcante Pequeno

President of the Cearense Foundation to Support Scientific and

Technological Development (Funcap)

Jorge Herbert Soares de Lira

Pro-Rector Researcher and Postgraduation, Federal University of Ceará

João Macedo Coelho Filho

Director, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará

Pedro Jorge Caldas Magalhães

Coordinator, PG-Farmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará

Aldo Ângelo Moreira Lima

Coordinator, XXIII TMRC & Pharmacology Meeting and Center of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará

PROGRAM:

09:00 – 09:30 am

Aedes in focus to control and prevent outbreaks of arboviruses in the municipality of Cedro-CE, Brazil: population, health agents and government actions

Ivo Castelo Branco

Federal University of Ceará

9:30 - 10:00 am

Epidemiology of dengue fever in Brazil and the development of new vaccines.

Luis Carlos Rey

Federal University of Ceará

10:00 - 10:30 am

Neurodevelopmental damage by Zika virus: from hydrocephalus to microcephaly.

José Xavier Neto

Federal University of Ceará

10:30 - 11:00 am

Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30 am

Influenza in pregnancy and childbirth in the Brazilian semiarid: the INFLUEN-SA study.

José Quirino Filho

Federal University of Ceará

11:30 – 12:00 am

Enteric glia cells as a target to Clostridioides difficile infection.

Deiziane Viana Da Silva Costa

Federal University of Ceará

12:00-12:30 pm

Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli enteric infections: virulence genes/genome and nutritional impact on cohort children from South America, Africa and Asia.

Alexandre Havt

Federal University of Ceará

12:30 – 14:00 pm

lunch

14:00 - 14:30 pm

Modeling enteropathy or diarrhea with the top bacterial and protozoal pathogens: differential determinants of outcomes.

Richard L. Guerrant

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

14:30-15:00 pm

Campylobacter spp murine enteric infection: microbiome, metabolomics and pathobiology.

David Bolick

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

15:00 - 15:30 am

Tissue is tissue: duodenal biopsies and imaging to elucidate enteropathy in low-resource settings.

Sean R. Moore

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

15:30 -16:00 pm

Impact of malnutrition on the intestinal microbiota: pharmacological basis of pre and probiotics therapeutics.

Aldo AM Lima

Federal University of Ceará

16:00 - 16:30 pm

Coffee break

16:30 -17:00 pm

Leishmaniasis in the northeast of Brazil: epidemiology and genome.

Selma Jerônimo

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

17:00 - 17:30 pm

Leishmaniasis and some of its atypical presentations.

Anastácio de Queiroz Sousa, Federal University of Ceará

17:30 - 17:50 pm

Leishmaniasis and coinfections in dogs in the urban community of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.

Adam L Lima

State University of Ceará

ROOM 1

9:00 - 9:30 am

Characterizing the biochemical alterations associated with environmental enteric dysfunction using metabolomics.

Jonathan Swann

Imperial College London, UK

9:30- 10:00 am

Metabolomics approach to explore new pathobiology associated with enteric infections.

Natasa Giallourou

Imperial College London, UK

10:00-10:30 am

Helminthic infections and metabolomics exploration in cohort children in developing countries.

Gordana Panic

Imperial College London, UK

10:30-11:00 am

Apolipoprotein E polymorphisms in children with heavy diarrhea burdens and implications for later development.

Reinaldo B. Oriá

Federal University of Ceará

11:00- 11:30am

Dietary intake from complementary feeding is associated with intestinal barrier function and environmental enteropathy in Brazilian children from the MAL-ED cohort study

Priscila N. Costa

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

11:30-12:00 am

Energy and zinc intakes from complementary feeding are associated with the risk for undernutrition in children from South America, Africa and Asia.

Bruna LL Maciel

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

ROOM 2

10:00 - 10:30 am

Translational research in nonerosive reflux disease from inflammation to impairment in mucosal integrity: Study of new mechanisms and new topically agents.

Marcellus Ponte e Souza Federal University of Ceará

10:30- 11:00 am

Expression of proteins associated with sarcopenia in reflux esophagitis.

Suliana Mesquita Paula

Federal University of Ceará

11:00-11:30 am

Bile acids inhibit contractility of rat esophageal muscle.

Kalinne Gadelha

Federal University of Ceará

11:30-12:00 am

Anti-inflammatory effect of Gaviscon® on oesophageal mucosa in murine model of non- erosive reflux disease.

Kerolayne de Melo Nogueira, Federal University of Ceará

10:00-12:00 am

Coffee Break open during session