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Sunday, 28.06.2020

10:00 Registration open
13:00-14:30 Education session
 
14:30-16:30     

Workshop on Biomarkers
Chairs: TBC
GL01Tom OttenhofLeiden University Medical Centre (25'+5')
TBC
GL02: Delia Goletti  (25'+5')
TBC
GL03: Gerald Walz, (25'+5')
TBC
GL04: Morten Ruhwald, FIND, (25'+5')
Overview on biomarkers and diagnostics for Tuberculosis infection

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-17:45

Industry Symposia
 


17:45-18:00 Break
18:00-19:30

Opening session and awards
Chairs: Daniela M Cirillo,
Iñaki Comas
Silva Tafaj, University Hospital "Shefqet Ndroqi", Tirana
Welcome from the organiser
Daniela M Cirillo, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan
Opening words from the President
Presentation of Gertrud Meissner Award by Research Center Borstel FZB - Stefan Nieman (25') 
Presentation of Gardner Middlebrook award by BD
 (45')

19:45 Welcome reception @ the hotel
 

Monday, 29.06.2020

9:00– 10:30

Biology of the pathogen
Chair: TBC
GL05: Kristine Arnvig, University College London  (25'+5')
Lost in translation: post-transcriptional control in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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10:30- 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30

Biology of the host
Chair: TBC

GL06: Anne O'Garra, Crick Institute, London
Transcriptomic approaches reveal the immune response in tuberculosis underlying protection or pathogenesis

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12:30- 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Poster session I  (Odd numbered posters - P001, P003, P005, P007 etc)
14:30 - 16:15

Transmission
Chair: TBC
GL07: Sébastien Gagneux, 
Epidemic of MDR Tuberculosis 

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16:15 -  16:45 Coffee break

16:45 - 17:45

Clinical Trials and new regimens
Chair: TBC

GL08: Michael Hölscher, LMU, Munich

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17:45 - 18:30 Round table: Bordering EU countries: Situation, Challenges and way out
Chair: TBC

GL09: Hazan Hafizi, University Hospital "Shefqet Ndroqi", Tirana
TBC

Round table discussion
 
19:00 - 23:00

Traditional dinner

 

Tuesday, 30.06.2020

09:00 - 10:00

Special Lecture
GL10: Lalita Ramakrishnan, Cambridge University (50'+10')
TBC

10:00 - 10.30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 13:00

Personalised diagnosis and treatment
Chair: TBC

GL11: Christoph Lange, Borstel
Personalised treatment

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13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Poster session II (Even numbered posters - P002, P004, P006, P008 etc)
15:00 - 16:00

New diagnostics on Tuberculosis infection and disease
Chair: TBC
GL12: Philp Fowler, CRyPTIC, Oxford
TBC

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16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17.00 - 18:00 General Assembly
18:00 - 23:00 Guided tour of the city, dinner and party
 

Wednesday 01.07.2020

09:30 - 11:00

New standards and new methods for sensitivity testing in TB and NTM's
Chair: TBC

G14: Jakko van Ingen, 
The future of NTM treatment: PK/PD and EUCAST susceptibility testing

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11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 12:30

 

NTM's
GL14: Emmanuelle Cambau, 

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12:30 - 13:00

Poster Awards
Closing remarks