Mini-Symposium on Molecular Microbiology

Thinking mostly positive!

Hosts: Raquel Sá-Leão and Hermínia de Lencastre

Room 2.13
9:30 am		Angela Brueggemann University of Oxford, Oxford, UK “Using genomics to understand bacterial evolution”
10:15 am		Dora Rolo University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain “Caenorhabditis elegans experimental model for the study of Gram-‐negatives virulence”
11:00 am		Break
11:15 am		Krzysztof TrzciŃski University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands “Molecular surveillance of Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage: monitoring the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in the Dutch population“
12:00 am		Break

Auditorium
2:30 pm		Carina Valente ITQB, Oeiras, Portugal “The role of co-‐colonization in pneumococcal ecology and evolution” (PhD thesis presentation)