ABSTRACTS FROM SECTION MEETINGS 2000

(also available 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)


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The Society of Protozoologists

53rd Annual Meeting
Puerto Rico, June 25-28, 2000


Acosta, D. and Lynn, D.H.   A Preliminary Report on Soil Ciliate Biodiversity and Spatial Heterogeneity from a Highly Stratified Sampling Grid

Anderson, O.R. & Gastrich, M.D.   Major Protistan Composition of a Brown Tide Bloom in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, During the Summer of 1999

Bacchi, C.J., Lane, S., Weiss, L., Yarlett, N. & Wittner, M.   Polyamine Metabolism in Encephalitozoon cuniculi Using Gradient Isolation Techniques

Bamforth, S. S. & Robinson, B.   Australian Desert Soil Protozoa

Basselin, M., Coombs, G.H. & Barrett, M.P.   Pentamidine Resistance Is Mediated by Reduced Drug Accumulation Due to an Active Extrusion System in Leishmania mexicana

Berger, J. D.   Riding the Ciliate Cell Cycle - A 35-Year Prospective

Caron, D.   S.H. Hutner Research Prize Lecture

Clamp, J.C.   Peritrich Ciliates with a Fully Formed Spasmoneme in a Poorly Contractile Stalk: Functional Paradox or Developmental Adaptation?

Eichinger, D.   A Role for a Galactose Lectin and Its Ligand During Encystation of Entamoeba

Gast, R.J. & Cruz-Monserrate, Z.   New Acanthamoeba Ribotypes Identified by Reverse Dot Blot

Hawdon, J.M., Bin, Z., Yan, W., Sundaram, P., Ghosh, K. & Hotez, P.   Molecular Cloning of Two Potential Hookworm Vaccine Antigens

Honts, J.E. & Williams, N.E.   Novel Cytoskeletal Proteins in the Cortex of Tetrahymena

Huttenlauch, I. & Stick, R.   Articulins/Epiplasmins: Ciliates and Beyond

Icenhour, C.R., Rebholz, S.L., Collins, M.S. & Cushion, M.T.   Targeted PCR of Oral Swabs from Rats Shows Pneumocystis carinii Is Acquired Early in Life

Icenhour, C.R., Rebholz, S.L., Collins, M.S. & Cushion, M.T.   Widespread Detection of Pneumocystis carinii in Commercial Rat Colonies Using Targeted PCR and Oral Swabs

Jarroll, E.L., Macechko, P.T., Steimle, P., Bulik, D., Karr, C., Van Keulen, H., Paget, T.A., Gerwig, G.J., Kamerling, J.P., Vliegenthart, J.F.G. & Erlandsen, S.   Regulation of Carbohydrate Metabolism During Giardia Encystment

Johnson, M.D., Lackey, K.H. & Smith-Sommerville, H.E.   Inositol Hexakisphosphate and Inositol Synthase Activity in Tetrahymena vorax

Kaneshiro, E.S., Basselin, M., Wyder, M.A., Riordan, C., Zhu, G. & Keithly, J.S.   Evidence for the Presence of Cardiolipin, a Mitochondrial Marker Lipid, in Cryptosporidium parvum Sporozoites

Kloetzel, J.A., Baroin-Tourancheau, A., Miceli, C., Barchetta, S., Farmar, J., Banerjee, D. & Fleury-Aubusson, A.   Plateins: A Novel Family of Signal Peptide-containing Articulins in Euplotid Ciliates

Laakkonen, J., Fisher, R.N. & Case, T.J.   Interspecific Differences in the Occurrence of Pneumocystis carinii in Small Mammals in Southern California

Lee, M. B., Keystone, J.S. & Kain, K.C.   Non-pathogenic Protozoa: Laboratory Reporting and Physician Management

Lloyd, D., Turner, N.A., Khunkitt, W., Hann, A.C., Furr, J.R. & Russell, A.D.   Encystation in Acanthamoeba castellanii: Development of Biocide Resistance

Lynn, D.H.   The Evolution of Stomatogenesis in the Class Oligohymenophorea and Related Classes (Phylum Ciliophora)

Maga, J.A., Moore, S., Travi, B., Santrich, C., Cadena, H., Saravia, N. & Lebowitz, J.H.   Structure and Function of the Leishmania Paraflagellar Rod

Malave, T.M. & Forney, J.D.   Identification of a Developmentally Regulated Transcript in Tetrahyema thermophila

McLaughlin, N.B., McCutcheon, S.M., Buhse Jr, H.E. & Smith-Sommerville, H.E.   Identification of Centrin in Tetrahymena vorax

Musich, P.R. & Samuels, R.   Evolving Polymorphisms Among Multiple Sets of rRNA Genes in the Pathogenic Parasite Trichomonas vaginalis

Pylawka, S., Debaufer, P.E. & Buhse Jr., H.E.   Indirect Evidence That a Phospholipase-signaling System Controls Stalk Excision in the Peritrich Ciliate Vorticella convallaria

Ray, K. & Levandowsky, M.   Chemosensory Responses of Euglena to Amino Acids, Amines and Potential Carbon Sources

Ribeiro, K.C. & Benchimol, M.   A Quest Toward Understanding the Closed Mitosis of Tritrichomonas foetus

Schuster, F.L., Glaser, C., Gilliam, S. & Visvesvara, G.S.   Screening of Serum Samples for Antibodies to the Opportunistic Ameba, Balamuthia mandrillaris

Seed, J.R., Tidwell, R.R., Boykin, D.W. & Hall, J.E.   New Pentamidine Analogues for the Treatment of African Trypanosomiasis

Siddall, M.E., Reece, K.S., Nerad, T.A. & Burreson, E.M.   Molecular Phylogeny and the Ancestor of Apicomplexa, Dinoflagellata and Ciliophora

Stejskal, F., Zhu, G. & Keithly, J.S.   Cloning and Characterization of a Pyruvate:Ferredoxin Oxidoreductase/NADPH Cytochrome P450 Reductase Fusion Gene from the Apicomplexan Cryptosporidium parvum

Strüder-Kypke, M.C., Wright, A.D.G., Jerome, C.A. & Lynn, D.H.   Parallel Evolution of Histophagy in Ciliates of the Genus Tetrahymena

Sundermann, C., Estridge, B.H., Woods, F., Conner, D., Weese, J. & Wei, C.   Irradiation of Food that Contains Giardia lamblia Cysts

Sundermann, C., Greenwell, A., Dandrea, G., Mendonca, M. & Lindsay, D.S.   Renal Coccidiosis in a Bat Colony

Tiedtke, A.   Molecular Analysis of the Entry Compartment of the Phagosomal Pathway

Van Keulen,H.   Giardia Epidemiology: Where Taxonomy and Risk Assessment Meet

Yarlett, N., Martinez, M.P., Goldberg, B., Kramer, D.L. & Porter, C.W.   Dependence of Trichomonas vaginalis Upon Preformed Spermine

Zackroff, R.V. & Hufnagel, L.A.   Pharmacological Dissection of Tetrahymena thermophila Phagocytosis Using Actin and Myosin Inhibitory Drugs

Zalitis, J.G.   Diplomonads Cycle to Maintain Their Glycolysis. It Is Not a Futile Exercise

Zalitis, J.G. & Cross, D.S.   Giardia intestinalis Needs Glucose to Complete Its Life Cycle

Zhu, G., Marchewka, M.J. & Keithly, J.S.   The Cryptosporidium parvum Lactate Dehydrogenase Gene

 

Groupement des Protistologues de Langue Française (GPLF)

38th Annual Meeting
Paris, May 23 - 26th, 2000


Abdala, H. & Le Pape, P.   Phospholipase A2-like Activity in Leishmania mexicana: Participation in the Infection Process

Portois, B. C., Cailleret, P., Sadovskaya, I., Deweer, C., Jeanfils, J. & De Coninck, J.   Effects of Media on the Lipase Production by Tetrahymena thermophila

Chessa, M. G., Gallus, L., Tiano, L. & Delmonte Corrado, M. U.   Macronuclear Chromatin Structure during Resting Excystment of Colpoda inflata

Cochennec, N. & Garcia Ifremer, S.   Flow Cytometric Comparison of Esterase and Radicals Oxygen Intermediate Productions by Ostrea edulis Haemocytes Uninfected and Infected by the Protistan Parasite Bonamia ostreae

Cornillot, E., Keller, B., Cushion, M. T. & Vivares, C. P.   Analysis of the Pneumocystis carinii Genome by Two-Dimensional Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis

Couvreur, B., Dujardin, J.-C., Wattiez, R., Le Ray, D. & Bollen, A.   Identification of a Leishmania infantum Immunodominant Antigen with the 20S Proteasome of the Parasite

Couzinet, S., Cejas, E., Schittny, J., Deplazes, P., Weber, R. & Zimmerli, S.   Phagocytic Uptake of Encephalitozoon cuniculi by Non-Professional Phagocytes

Delmontecorrado, M. U., Trielli, F., Politi, H., Ognibene, M. & Falugi, C.   Is GABAergic System Involved in Regulating Paramecium primaurelia Mating-cell Pairing?

El Alaoui, H., Bata, J., Peyret, P., Dore, J.-C. & Vivares, C. P.   On the Lipid Metabolism of Microsporidia

Florent, I., Mouray, E., Dali Ali, F., Drobecq, H., Girault, S., Schrevel, J., Sergheraert, C. & Grellier, P.   Identification and Molecular Characterization of Plasmodium falciparum Protein Disulfide Isomerase Homologue, a Target of the Antiplasmodial Inhibitor 1,4-bis{3-[N-(Cyclohexylmethyl)amino]propyl}piperazine

Guillen, N.   Cytoskeleton Activities During the Interaction of Entamoeba histolytica with Epithelial Cells

Labaïed, M., Arzel, E., Godard, A., Marsais, F., Queguiner, G., Rocca, P. & Grellier, P.   In Vitro Antimalarial and Antitrypanosomal Activities of Delta-Carbolines Alkaloids

Labruyère, E., Galy, V., Olivo, J.-C., Sansonetti, P. & Guillen, N.   Role of a Putative p21 Activated Kinase in Entamoeba histolytica

Maillo, P. A., Salvado, H. & Gracia, M. P. Seasonal Fluctuation of the Pathological Cycle Phases of Spraguea lophii (Doflein, 1898) Weissenberg, 1976, in the Ganglion Cells of the Anglerfish, Lophius budegassa, Spinola, 1807

Maillo, P. A., Salvado, H., Gracia, M. P. & Marques, A.   Parasite Fauna on the European Eel, Anguilla anguilla, L. 1758, in the Natural Park of the Ebro Delta, West Mediterranean

Majed, M., Deregnaucourt, C. & Schrevel, J.   Streptolysin O, a Tool to Study the Biology of the Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells

Milon, G.,   Why is Dictyostelium discoideum a Relevant Model Organism for Deciphering Actin Cytoskeleton Dynamics of Parasitic Organisms?

Nicolas, L., Sidjanski, S., Colle, J.-H. & Milon, G.   Distribution and persistence of Leishmania major in mice inoculated within the mouse ear dermis

Perez-Romero, P., Diaz-Quintana, A., Villalobo, E. & Torres, A.   Tridimentional Structure, Transcription Start and Expression of the Actin from Histriculus cavicola

Peuvel, I., Delbac, F., Peyret, P., Méténier, G. & Vivarès, C. P.   Immunological and Molecular Characterization of Structural Proteins in Encephalitozoon

Prevot, G., Bonnet, S., Tahar, R., Jacques, J.-C., Boudin, C. & Bourgouin, C.   Molecular Analysis of Anopheles Receptivity to Plasmodium falciparum Development

Salvado, H., Perea, X., Mas, M., Maillo, P. & Gracia, M. P.   Effects of Salinity Variations on the Microorganism Communities from Activated Sludge Plants

Sànchez-Sílva, R., Fernàndez-Alised, M. C., Perez-Romero, A. P. , Calvo, P. & Torres, A.   Actin of Peritrich Ciliates

Villalobo, E., Moch, C., Baroin-Tourancheau & Perasso, R.   Cysteine Proteases in Sterkiella histriomuscorum

Villena, I., Depaquit, J., Aubert, D., Bonhomme, A. & Pinon, J. M.   No Variation in the Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 from Toxoplasma gondii Isolates



Scandinavian Section Society of Protozoology

22nd Annual Meeting, 2000


Larsson, J.I.R.   We Recognise Glugea anomala?

Lindholm, T.   Red Protists---Are They Increasing?

Leick, V., Båg-Hansen, T. C. & Juhl, H.A.   Affinity Chromatography Purification of Insulin/FGF-Binding Ciliary Membrane Glycoprotein(s) from Tetrahymena

Nilsson, J.R.   How to Explain Survival for more than 60 Years of Amicronucleate Tetrahymena pyriformis GL? Conflict between Morphological and Biochemical Evidence

Skovgaard, A. & Hansen, P.J.   Uniformly 14C-labelling of Dinoflagellates

Czech Section Society of Protozoology

30th Annual Meeting
April 25-28, 2000


Braunfuchsova, P. & Salat, J.   Immune Response of the Host to Infection with the Microsporidian, Encephalitozoon cuniculi Levaditi, Nicolau et Schoen, 1923

Cepicka, I, Hampl, V, Kulda, J. & Flegr, J.   Phylogenetic Position of Some Trichomonad Species Isolated in Vitro from Different Animals

Hampl, V., Cepicka, I., Tachezy, J. & Flegr, J.   Relationships of Flagellates of the Genus Monocercomonas from Different Host Species

Havlicek, J., Kodym, P., Maly, M., Smahel, Z. & Flegr, J.   Increased Prevalence of Latent Toxoplasmosis in Victims of Traffic Accidents in Prague

Kisidayova, S., Laukova, A & Siroka, P   Effect of Nisin Against the Cultures of Some Rumen Ciliates

Koudela, B. & Vavra, J.   Opportunistic Properties of Brachiola algerae (syn. Nosema algerae) (Microspora, Protista) Demonstrated in the SCID Mice

Kutisova, K., Kulda, J. & Tachezy, J.   Trichomonads in Oral Cavity and Respiratory Tract of Humans: A New Species of Nathogenic Tetratrichomonas?

Tesarova, P. & Nohynkova, E.   Heterogenity of alfa- and beta-tubulin in microtubular systems of Giardia intestinalis

Votypka, J., Svobodova, M., Volf, P. & Lukes, J.   Species Composition and Vectors of Avian Trypanosomes - Molecular Evidence

Italian Section Society of Protozoologists

21st Annual Meeting
November 9-10, 2000
Casalmaggiore (Parma), Italy


Amaroli, A., Evangelisti, V., Falugi, C., Delmonte Corrado, M.U. & Viarengo, A.   Biological Targets of Neurotoxic Phytodrugs in Dictyostelium discoideum

Brandonisio, O., Panaro, M.A., Sisto, M., Acquafredda, A., Leogrande, D. & Fumarola, L.   Expression of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase (iNOS) in Dog Macrophages Infected with Leishmania infantum

Calderaro, A., Galati, L., Collini, L., Lorusso, B., Ragni, P., Dettori, G. & Chezzi, C.   Preliminary Evaluation of a New "ColorPACTM Giardia/Cryptosporidium Rapid Assay" for the Simultaneous Diagnosis of Infection Caused by Giardia intestinalis and Cryptosporidium spp.

Fronte, P., Diaspro, A., Robello, M. & Ramoino, P.   Dextran Endocytosis in Paramecium primaurelia

Manca, N., Calderaro, A., Perandin, F., Piccolo, G., Galati, L., Ricci, L., Turano, A., Dettori, G. & Chezzi, G.   A Genus-specific Polymerase Chain Reaction (pg-PCR) and Genus-specific Nested-PCR: Comparative Methods for Diagnosing Malaria

Mattana, A., Biancu, G., Fiori, P.L. & Cappuccinelli, P.   Susceptibility of Acanthamoeba castellanii to Antimicrobial Drugs and Chlorpromazine

Mattana, A., Costa, M.L., Cappai, V., Tozzi, M.G., Delogu, G., Fiori, P.L. & Cappuccinelli, P.   Acanthamoeba castellanii Trophozoites Use ADP-release as Strategic Arm to Kill Target Cells

Menegon, M., Severini, C., Gradoni, L. & Majori, G.   MSP-1 Sequence Analysis of Plasmodium vivax Clinical Isolates from Different Geographical Regions

Miyake, A., Buonanno, F. & Saltalamacchia, P.   Defense Function of Non-colored Cortical Vesicles in the Heterotrich Ciliate Climacostomum virens

Modeo, L., Mariani, S., Petroni, G., Verni, F. & Rosati, G.   Interspecific Differences in the Fine Structure of Euplotes Genus (Ciliata, Hypotrichida)

Navarra, E. & Coppellotti, O.   Glutathione Levels and gamma-glutamylcysteine Synthetase (gamma-GCS) Activity in Glaucoma scintillans Cells Exposed to Copper and Cadmium

Petroni, G., Di Guiseppe, G., Rosati, F., Verni, F. & Dini, F.   An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Phylogenetic Relationships of the Genus Euplotes

Politi, H., Delmonte Corrado, M.U., Falugi, C. & Miceli, C.   Cloning of a Gene Encoding a Protein Similar to Receptor-Channels Activated by Neurotransmitters in Paramecium primaurelia

Pucciarelli, S., Ballarini, P., Melki, R. & Miceli, C.   Heterologous Expression and Folding Analysis of Euplotes focardii beta-tubulin

Rappelli, P., Carta, F., Delogu, G., Addis, M.F., Dessí, D., Cappuccinelli, P. & Fiori, P.L.   Trichomonas vaginalis and Mycoplasma hominis: Characterization of the Symbiotic Relationship

Ricci, N., Banchetti, R. & Erra, F.   The Evolution of Locomotion and "Random Displacing" in Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Microorganisms

Sannella, A.R., Gramiccia, M., Viani, I. & Dettore, G.   Nested PCR Assay for Specific Detection of Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar in Faecal Samples