Welcome to the 1st Arctic Meeting on Clinical Tuberculosis, Umeå
The first Arctic Meeting on Clinical Tuberculosis will take place at Norrland University Hospital and is organized by researchers at Umeå University, Infection Clinic / TB Centrum Norr and TBnet.
Venue: Bärnstensalen, Norrland University Hospital

Registration (deadline 20 January 2018)
Registration form

FIRST DAY: Thursday, 25 January 2018

13:00
Introduction and Welcome
Anders Sjöstedt, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Head
Bernt Eric Uhlin, Director for Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR) and The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS)

Session 1 Chair: Hanna Rönström and Valeriu Crudu
13:15
New generation sequencing of MTB & antibiotic resistance
Matthias Merker, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Germany

13:50
Tubercolosis outbreak in Greenland
Karen Bjorn-Mortensen, Statens Serum Institut (SSI)
Copenhagen, Denmark

14:25 Coffee

Session 2 
 Chair: Fredrik Almqvist and Olena Rzhepishevska
14:40
Developing virulence inhibitors to fight TB
Christer Larsson, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University

15:15
Metabolites-biomarkers of tuberculosis meningitis in Vietnamese cohort
Henrik Antti, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University

15:50
Coffee and posters

Session 3 Chair: Johan Normark and Judy Orikiiriza
16:05
Does trained immunity open up a new avenue for TB prevention?
Maria Lerm, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University

16:40
Tuberculosis of the spine in Russia; methods of diagnosis and characteristics of the pathogen
Viacheslav Zhouravlev, Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology, St. Petersburg, Russia

17:00
Comparative genome-wide analysis of M. tuberculosis isolates causing pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis spread in Russian Federation
Ekaterina Chernyaeva, Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome BioInformatics,
Saint Petersburg State University, SPBU, Russia

17:35 – Closing

18:00 – Dinner

 

SECOND DAY: Friday, 26 January

9:00
Registration of clinical participants, coffee

9:20
Introduction to the clinical part of the meeting
Therese Thunberg, Dep. of Infectious Diseases, TB Center Arctic

Session 4
9:30
TB epidemiology in Västerbotten County
Andreas Winroth, Department of Clinical Microbioloy, Umeå University

9:50 Chair: Anna Kauppi, Dep. of Infectious Diseases, TB Center Arctic

Advances in the diagnosis of TB and LTBI
Jose Dominguez, Fundació Institut Investigació Germans Trias i Pujol
Microbiology, Badalona, Spain

10:20 Short break

Session 5

10:25 Chair: Anna Kauppi, Dep. of Infectious Diseases, TB Center Arctic
The emergence of MDR-TB in Europe, a clinical approach
Christoph Lange, Clinical Tuberculosis Center, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF),  and University of Lübeck, Germany

11:00 Chair: Johan Rasmusson, Dep. of Infectious Diseases, TB Center Arctic
Andrii Dudnyk, National Pirogov Memorial Medical University,Tuberculosis, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Vinnytsya, Ukraine
MDR-TB in Ukraine, MDR-TB treatment during pregnancy

11:30 Chair: Johan Rasmusson, Dep. of Infectious Diseases, TB Center Arctic
Pediatric tuberculosis
Judy Orikiiriza, Irland

12:00 Lunch

Session 6

12:45 Chair: Andreas Winroth Dep. of Infectious Diseases, TB Center Arctic
Clinical cases with group discussions, presented by TB clinicians, Umeå

Panel: Christoph Lange, Eva Norrman, Dep. Pulmonary medicine, Umeå, Cristina Prat Fundació Institut Investigació Germans Trias i Pujol Microbiology, Badalona, Spain, Hanna Rönström Dep. Clin Mikrobiology, head of theTB-lab, Umeå.

Case 1: Deborah Fritiof and Maria Björmsjö, Dep. of Pediatrics, Umeå
Case 2: Johan Rasmusson Dep. of Infectious Diseases, TB Center Arctic

13:30
MIND THE GAP, before proclaiming the EndTB strategy
Christoph Lange, Clinical Tuberculosis Center, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF),  and University of Lübeck, Germany

14:15
Closing of the international part of the conference

-Sightseeing-

14:25-15:10
Analysis of clinical work on TB in Norther Sweden, in Swedish/University
Other participants: -Sightseeing-

ca. 16:20  or 17:10
Teambuilding activity IKSU sport center

Contact for the organisation committee:
Olena Rzhepishevska, PhD
Department of Chemistry
Department of Clinical Microbiology
Umeå University
Umeå, Sweden
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Andreas Winroth, MD
Physician at Department of Clinical Microbiology
Infectious Diseases
Umeå University
Umeå, Sweden
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