[Meeting] ONEIDA Kick off meeting

ONEIDA kick-off meeting

ONEIDA is a consortium established between Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA), Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) and Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) to match the urgent need for effective solutions in the prevention and control of infectious diseases and ­antibiotic resistance.

The kick-off meeting will gather the Scientific Advisory Board and the 80 researchers involved, and the talks are open to everyone who is interested.

9:15 Registration and coffee

9:40 Welcome and presentation of ONEIDA. Cláudio Soares, Director of ITQB NOVA, Raquel Sá-Leão and Mónica Serrano, ONEIDA coordinators

10:00 Management of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE): new insights into spread of VRE clones, spread of resistance and development of further resistance, Henrik Westh, Hvidovre Hospital, Denmark. Scientific Advisory Board

10:50 Coffee Break

11:10 Case studies in clinical application of WGS: pathogens, promise and pitfalls, Jason Hinds, St George's, University of London, UK. Scientific Advisory Board

11:50 Antimicrobial resistance in intensive care units: a reality shot, Filipe Froes, Hospital Pulido Valente, Direção Geral de Saúde. Scientific Advisory Board

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Compensatory evolution of multi-resistance bacteria, Isabel Gordo, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

14:30 Making high throughput sequencing actionable in real-world surveillance and outbreak detection, Mário Ramirez Instituto de Medicina Molecular

15.00  How to kill Clostridium difficile: an instruction manual, Adriano Henriques, ITQB NOVA