Date and venue: 14-15th of October 2019, Aronsborg (Bålsta) at Aronsborgs Konferenshotell in Bålsta (between Stockholm and Uppsala).

The NIB/SFM/NDPIA 2019 meeting is co-organized by the National Network for Infection Biology (NIB) coordinated by The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), the Swedish Society for Microbiology (SFM) and the National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics (NDPIA). The meeting will take place at Aronsborgs Konferenshotell between Stockholm and Uppsala. It will gather researchers from different areas of infection biology/infection medicine and microbiology.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

• Jost Enninga, Institute Pasteur, Dynamics of Host-Pathogen Interactions, Paris, France
• Eva Gluenz, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
• Joan Geoghegan, Department of Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Susanne Häußler, Department for Molecular Bacteriology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, and TWINCORE and Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany
• Helle Krogh Johansen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark
• Boris Striepen, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Pathobiology, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
• Raphael Valdivia, Duke University School of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Durham, NC, U.S.A.

Short talks selected from abstracts The selection of the twenty short from submitted abstracts is ongoing and there will also be poster sessions, including poster presentations.

Organizing Committee:

• Oliver Billker, Umeå University, MIMS
• Eva-Maria Diehl, Umeå University, MIMS/NDPIA
• Åke Forsberg Umeå University, NDPIA/MIMS
• Fredrik Kahn, Lund University, NDPIA
• Keira Melican, Karolinska Institutet, SFM
• Barbara Sixt, Umeå University, MIMS
• Staffan Svärd, Uppsala University, SFM

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

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MIMS Extra Seminar

Speaker:

Raphael Valdivia
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke University School of Medicine, Duke University
Durham, NC, USA

Title:
The genetic basis for mucin utilization and host colonization by the beneficial gut microbe Akkermansia muciniphila

Host: Barbara Sixt, MIMS group leader

Room: Lecture room Major Groove, Dept Molecular Biology, Building 6L, NUS

More information about Raphael Valdivia:
https://mgm.duke.edu/faculty-and-research/primary-faculty/raphael-valdivia-phd/

MIMS Extra Seminar

Speaker:

Eva Gluenz
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
University of Oxford,  Oxford, UK

Title:
High-throughput phenotyping of Leishmania knockout mutants in vitro and in vivo

Host: Oliver Billker, director MIMS, professor, department of Molecular Biology

Room: Major Groove, Department of Molecular Biology, building 6L, NUS

National and International Seminar Series 2019

Speaker:

Jan Potempa
University of Louisville, USA and University of Krakow, Poland

Porphyromonas gingivalis’ role in periodontitis: secretion of virulence factors and links to systemic disease

Lecture room: Betula, NUS

Host: David A. Cisneros, Molecular Biology

Note: te/coffee and cookies served 30 mins before the talk