Sunday 22 June
14.00-15.00
Registration
15:00-15.045
Industry sponsored Symposium
Chair: Bernd Merkl, Troels Lillebaek
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15:00 Inna Friesen, Borstel, Germany
Redefining the diagnosis of drug-resistant TB: Clinical validation of FluoroType® MTBDR VER2.0 and first results of tNGS workflow integration.
15.45-16.15
Coffee Break​​​
16.15-16.45
Selected flash talks (5 min)
Chairs:
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16:45-19.00
Opening session
Chair: Troels Lillebaek, Miguel Viveiros, Raquel Duarte
16:45
Welcome words, ESM and congress Presidents
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Opening Keynote
17:00 Raquel Duarte, University of Porto
GL01 Challenges in Tuberculosis Management Today
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17:45
Gertrud Meissner Award presented by S. Niemann​​​
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18:10
GL02 Gardner Middlebrook Award
19.00-21.30
Networking drinks and light dinner snacks at the Insitute of Tropical Medicine
Monday 23 June
08:00-08:30
Registration
08:30-10:00
Session 1: Molecular Biology and Mycobacterial Evolution
Chair: Christophe Sola,
08:30 Roland Brosch, Institut Pasteur, Paris
GL03 The Evolutionary History and Phylogeny of Mycobacteria
4 oral presentations
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10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-12:00
Session 2: One Health Perspective on the Epidemiology, Environment, Lifestyle and Risk Factors for Mycobacteria Infection and Disease
Chair: Nuno Empadinhas,
11:00 Jean-François Guégan, UMR MIVEGEC, Montpellier, France
GL04 Canonical fact versus hypothesis testing to decipher transmission of non-tuberculous and tuberculous mycobacteria
4 oral presentations
12:00-12:25
Poster pitches - Session 1
Chair:
1 minute per poster (25 posters)
12:25-13:25
Lunch
13:25-14:30
Poster Session 1
14:30-16:00
Session 3: Host-Pathogen interactions in TB
Chair: Iñaki Comas, Margarida Saraiva
14:30 Mireia Coscolla, University of Valencia
GL05 Evolutionary insights in host-pathogen compatibility of M. tuberculosisecotypes.
4 oral presentations
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-18:00
Session 4: Clinical pathology and diagnostic advances
Chair: Daniela Cirillo, Rita Macedo
16:30 Daniel Maria Cirillo, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan
GL06 Co-development of new drugs and diagnostics to prevent drug resistance emergence
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4 selected abstracts​​​
18:30
Transfer to central Lisboa, guided tour and traditional dinner
Tuesday 24 June
08:00-08:30
Registration
08:30-10:00
Session 5: Recent advances in research on Mycobacterial pathogenesis
Chair: Mireia Coscolla, Elsa Anes
08:30 William Branchett, Francis Crick Institute, London​
GL07 Models and Mechanisms of M. tuberculosis Infection Outcome
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4 selected abstracts
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10:00-10:30
Poster pitches - Session 2
Chair:
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1 minute per poster (25 posters)
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
Session 6: New generation vaccines for TB
Chair: Matthias Merker, Maria Salomé Pais
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11:00 Helen McShane, University of Oxford
GL08 Progress and challenges in tuberculosis vaccine development.​
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4 selected abstracts
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12:30-13:00
Poster pitches - Session 3
Chair:
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1 minute per poster
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
Poster Session 2
15:00-16:30
Session 7: Therapeutic strategies for NTM
Chair: Troels Lillebaek, Isabel Carvalho
15:30 Nathalie Lorent, KU Leuven
​GL09
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4 selected abstracts
16:30-17:00
Coffee Break
17:00-18:00
Session 8: Therapeutic strategies for TB and NTM Part 2
Chair: Daniela Maria Cirillo
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​4 Selected abstracts
18:00
General Assembly
19:30
Social activity: Dinner and party
Wednesday 25 June
08.30-09:00
Registration
09.00-10.30
Session 9: Neglected mycobacterial diseases - Continuing challenges for a hopeful futur
Chair: Margarida Correia-Neves
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09:00 Leen Rigouts, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp
GL10 Neglected mycobacterial diseases - Continuing challenges for a hopeful future
09:30 Emmanuelle Cambau, APHP-GHU Nord & Université Paris Cité
GL11 Leprosy: back to the future
​2 selected abstracts
10.30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12.30
Session 10: Systems Biology Approaches to Accelerate Mycobacteriosis Drug Discovery
Chair: Miguel Viveiros
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11:00 Hannu Myllykallio, Polytechnique; Palaiseau
GL12
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4 selected abstracts
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12:30-13.00
Poster Awards and Closing Ceremony
Chair: Troels Lillebaek, Leen Rigouts