Friday, 20th February 16th Lorne Infection and Immunity 2026

• Understanding erythrocyte invasion using zoonotic malaria parasites: New biology and new tools for P. vivax vaccine development - Robert Moon
• Retrovirus capsids – the multifunctional orchestrators of infection - David Jacques
• PfPTRAMP-CSS as a multi-stage malaria vaccine target - Pailene S Lim
• Hijacking and tissue destruction, the story of a novel bacterial toxin. - Jason J Paxman

This session features a 5-minute talk from sponsor Olink. 

• Targeting Protective B Cell Epitopes for Prophylactic and Therapeutic Antibodies against Mpox     - Camila Coelho
• Orthology- and mutational constraint-guided drug repurposing efficiently identifies narrow-spectrum inhibitor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis acting through a new target - Eachan O Johnson
• RfxCas13d Enables Broad-Spectrum Suppression of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza - Sudip Dhakal
• New functions for γδ T cell-derived IL-4 in immunity to liver stage malaria - Lynette Beattie
• Using in vivo models to understand and target the drivers of inflammation and disease during severe acute SARS-CoV-2 infection and long COVID - Marcel Doerflinger

This session features a 2-minute talk from sponsor CSL.