PROGRAMME

Monday

(28. 11. 2022)

12:00-18:00	Arrival and hotel check-in of guests and other participants
18:00	Speakers & Guests Dinner – invitation only

8:00	Registration (Entrance Hall)
8:30-9:15	Opening ceremony
9:15-9:30	The Institut Pasteur today and the legacy of Louis Pasteur Stewart COLE
9:30-10:00	Louis Pasteur, a child of the Jura, a man for the world Daniel RAICHVARG
10:00-12:00	Plenary Session – PATHOGENS
10:00-10:20	*How the food borne bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes* promoted the emerging discipline ”Cellular microbiology”** Pascale COSSART
10:20-10:40	*Outsmarting the host: Listeria* interplay with host cells and tissues** Marc LECUIT
10:40-11:00	*Control of the saprophyte-to-pathogen transition in Listeria: mechanism and clinical implications* José A. VÁZQUEZ-BOLAND
11:00-11:20	Interplay between stress and drug resistance in pathogenicity of Cryptococcus neoformans Łukasz KOZUBOWSKI
11:20-11:40	New developments in rabies post-exposure prohylaxis and therapy Hervé BOURHY
11:40-12:00	Understanding immune evasion by a lethal fungal pathogen Robin MAY
12:00-12:30
12:30-14:00	Plenary Session – ANIMALS
12:30-12:50	The challenge of antimicrobial resistances on the animal-human-environment interface Uwe RÖSLER
12:50-13:10	Animals as sentinels for environmental fungal pathogens Patrizia DANESI
13:10-13:30	Gold Sponor Forum Supporting your microbes – how Th. Geyer offer can make your lab get fit for growth Paweł Stępniak
13:30-14:00	Silver Sponsor Forum The usefulness of automated chromatography in protein purification Stephan Pötsch Looking inside microbiology with Illumina next-generation sequencing Piotr Kędziorski Introduction to Corning Life Science Marcel Beckert
14:00-15:00
15:00-17:30	Plenary Session – SYSTEMS
15:00-15:20	From pure culture to multi-species communities: contributions of the biofilm concept to bacteriology Jean-Marc GHIGO
15:20-15:40	The potential of long-read sequencing and bioinformatics for fungal and algal genome projects Daniel WIBBERG
15:40-16:00	Virological surveillance during sanitary crises: sequencing tools and emergence detection Jean-Claude MANUGUERRA
16:00-16:20	From smear microscopy to whole genome sequencing: challenges of the laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis in the 21^st century Miguel VIVEIROS
16:20-16:40	*Software tools and databases developed at the Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe to map global circulation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis* complex genotypes** David COUVIN
16:40-17:00
17:00-18:00	Plenary Session – THERAPY
17:00-17:20	Phage therapy: present and future Andrzej GÓRSKI
17:20-17:40	Development of novel anti-tuberculosis agents Violeta VALCHEVA
17:40-18:00	Fungi always have the last laugh: medical advances spoiled by fungal disease Ilan SCHWARTZ
18:00-18:30	Silver Sponsor Forum New diagnostics trends in molecular microbiology Kasper Ciepluch Microbiology in High-Content Screening images – modern assays with microorganisms Marek Michałowski Bacteriophage cocktails – a new sustainable solution for infectious agents Elżbieta Fornal
20:00	Gala Dinner – Participation in the dinner is optional and extra charged upon registration.

8:30-11:00	Plenary Session – ENGINEERING & UBIQUITY
8:30-8:50	Major evolutionary trends in clinical fungi Sybren de HOOG
8:50-9:10	*Evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis* complex** Roland BROSCH
9:10-9:30	Mechanisms of solvent tolerance in Pseudomonas Juan-Luis RAMOS
9:30-9:50	Cytosolic bacteria as platforms for innate immune signalling Michał WANDEL
9:50-10:10	The predominant clonal evolution (PCE) model of microbial pathogens and its practical relevance Michel TIBAYRENC
10:10-10:30	Gold Sponsor Forum The role of education in building awareness of infectious diseases among doctors and patients Paweł Pacholczyk
10:30-11:30	Best Abstract Session Pathogens – Phagosomal acidification and autophagy are required to kill Streptococcus pneumoniae in a zebrafish model Tomasz Prajsnar Animals – Zoonotic Acinetobacter baumannii: exploratory epidemiological investigation towards “One Health” approach Saranya Adukkadukkam Systems – Genome wide dissection of secondary chromosome initiation network in Vibrio cholerae Théophile Niault Therapy – Investigation of the protective effect of monoclonal antibodies against poly-N-acetyl glucosamine (PNAG), a superficial polysaccharide, as an alternative to antibiotic-containing eye drops for the prevention of neonatal eye infections caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae Cagla Bozkurt Guzel Engineering – Efficiency of bio-hydrogen production as a result of dynamics of metabolic activity and composition of dark fermentation microbial communities: open-flow systems vs static batch experiments Anna Detman Ubiquity – PICOTA: an extendible pipeline for identification of composite transposons from assembly graphs Recep Can Altinbag Resistance – Effect of rotating magnetic field on susceptibility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains exposed to activity of antibiotics Karol Fijałkowski
11:30-12:30
11:30-12:30	Poster Session and e-Poster Presentation
12:30-14:00	L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards Gala
14:00-14:30	Best Abstract and e-Poster Presentation Awards
14:30-15:30
15:30-17:00	Plenary Session – RESISTANCE
15:30-15:50	How integrons helped gram-negative bacteria to overcome the antibiotic threat Didier MAZEL
15:50-16:10	On the emergence and drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Philip SUPPLY
16:10-16:30	Spread of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in Poland before and during the COVID-19 pandemic Marek GNIADKOWSKI
16:30-16:50	The interplay between climate change, drug resistance and new infectious diseases Arturo CASADEVALL
16:50-17:00	Silver Sponsor Forum Challenging AMR with antibiotic stewardship Ernesto Battinelli
17:00-18:00	Plenary Session – MISCELLANEA
17:00-17:20	Genetic variability, genotyping, and genomics of Mycobacterium leprae Philip SUFFYS
17:20-17:40	Modern Koch’s postulates applied to bacterial pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease Jan POTEMPA
17:40-18:00	Silver Sponsor Forum Single microbial cell isolation using cellenONE Cécile Thion Microbiological and molecular diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections Tomasz Szczęsny
19:00	Reception at the French Embassy in Warsaw – invitation only

Thursday

(01. 12. 2022)

10:00-12:00

Warsaw sightseeing tour – Discovering the history of Warsaw
Farewell and departure of guests

Organizing Committee:

Tomasz JAGIELSKI, PhD, DSc (chair)
Department of Medical Microbiology
Institute of Microbiology
Faculty of Biology
University of Warsaw
I. Miecznikowa 1
02-096 Warsaw
Poland

t.jagielski@uw.edu.pl
http://zmm.biol.uw.edu.pl/
+48 22 55 41 427
Fax: +48 22 55 41 402