A Comprehensive Dissection of Pneumococcal-Host Interactions
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Symposium of the PNEUMOPATH project
| When |
27 Jun, 2012
from
01:45 pm to 06:00 pm |
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| Where | ITQB Auditorium |
| Contact Email | rsaleao@itqb.unl.pt |
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Symposium of the PNEUMOPATH project
‘A Comprehensive Dissection of Pneumococcal-Host Interactions’
The symposium is open and free of charge but prior registration is required.
Registration deadline is June 20.
Programme
| 13:45 – 14:00 | Welcome Peter Andrew, University of Leicester, UK |
| Chair: | Nic Lindley, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse, France |
| 14:00 – 14:25 | Pneumococcal intra-clonal variations influence disease outcome Birgitta Henriques-Normark, Karolinska Institute, Sweden |
| 14:25 – 14:50 | Combined microarrays and QTL analysis identifies candidate genes associated with susceptibility to invasive pneumococcal disease Magdalena Jonczyk, University of Leicester, UK |
| 14:50 – 15:15 | Correlates of pneumococcal virulence in the mouse Marco R Oggioni, University of Siena, Italy |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Coffee break |
| 15:45 – 16:10 | Identification of novel pneumococcal adherence factors by a combination of genome-wide approaches Hester Bootsma, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, the Netherlands |
| 16:10 – 16:35 | Insight into the importance and interconnection of regulators of central metabolism in Streptococcus pneumonia Jean-Pierre Claverys, CNRS - Paul Sabatier University, France |
| 16:35 – 17:00 | SNP analysis linking between genotype and phenotype Susana Vinga and Jonas Almeida, INESC-ID, Portugal |
| 17:00 – 17:50 | Plenary - Can molecular microbiology and pathogenesis studies help develop novel antimicrobial strategies? Staffan Normark, Karolinska Institute, Sweden |
| 17:50 – 18:00 | Close |
