Sunday 23 June
14.30-16.30
Registration
16.30-17.00
Student mini-symposium (5 min flash talks)
Chairs:
FT01
FT02
FT03
FT04
FT05
17:00-19.00
Opening session
Chair: Troels Lillebaek, Leen Rigouts
17:00
Welcome words, ESM and congress Presidents
Opening Keynote
17:10 Wouter Arrazola de Onata, Public health director BELTA - VRGT, Vlaamse Vereniging voor Respiratoire Gezondheidszorg en Tuberculosebestrijding
GL01 TB in Belgium and BELTA-TBNet
Gertrud Meissner Award presented by S. Niemann
17:50
GL02
Gardner Middlebrook Award presented by BD
18:15
GL03
19.00-21.30
Networking drinks and light dinner snacks
Monday 24 June
08:00-08:30
Registration
08:30-10:30
Session 2: Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) disease and treatment
Chair:
08:30 Emmanuelle Cambau, University of Paris
GL04: State-of-the-art lecture on challenges with phenotypic and genotypic testing in the field of NTMs
09:00 Round table discussion “phenotypic and genotypic speciation and DST in management of NTM lung disease”
Chair: Troels Lillebaek, Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen
10:00
OR01
10:10
OR02
10:20
OR03
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:10
Session 3: TB treatment: past/current/future
Chair:
11:00 Alberto Piubello, Damien Foundation, Niamey, Niger
GL05: The pathway to the ideal DR-TB treatment: safe, effective, short and able to prevent acquired resistance
11:30 Hanif Esmail, UCL London, United Kingdom
GL06: Paradigm4tb project
12:00
OR04:
12:10-12:40
Poster pitches - Session 1
Chair:
1 minute per poster (25 Posters)
12:40-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:30
Poster Session 1
14:30-15:30
Session 4: Innovative new diagnostics
Chair:
14:30 Morten Ruhwald, FIND; Geneva
GL07: New diagnostics: What’s hot in the pipeline?
15:00
OR05:
15:10
OR06:
15:20
OR07:
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15:30-16:00
Poster pitches - Session 2
Chair:
1 minute per poster (25 Posters)
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-18:15
Session 5: WGS to guide public health interventions
Chair:
16:30 Etthel Windels, ETH Zürich, Basel
GL08 Unlocking the potential of phylodynamic birth-death models: Opportunities and challenges in TB epidemiology
17:00 Stefan Niemann, Borstel Research Institute
GL09 Whole genome sequencing to inform tuberculosis control in high endemic countries
17:30 Dario Garcia De Viedma, Instituto de Investigación Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain
GL10 Whole genome sequencing to guide TB control in a European context: experience from Spain
18:00
OR08
18:10
OR09
18:30
Guided tour and traditional dinner
Tuesday 25 June
08:00-08:30
Registration
08:30-10:25
Session 6: Host-pathogen interaction and vaccines
Chair:
08:30 Carlos Martin, Zaragossa University, Spain
GL11 MTBVAC: A molecular Pasteurian approach to tuberculosis vaccines in clinical trials among the new technology vaccine platforms.
09:00 Stefan Schille, BionTech, Germany
GL12 BNT164: Preclinical development of two mRNA-based tuberculosis vaccine candidates.
10:00
OR10
10:10
OR11
10:20
OR12
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:20
Session 7: TB treatment: forgiveness
Chair:
11:00 Tom Decroo, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp
GL13 Effect of regimen composition on acquired resistance
11:30 Annelies Van Rie, Antwerp University
GL14 WGS-guided RR-TB care and prevention to save lives and preserve regimens
12:00
OR13
12:10
OR14
12:20-12:50
Poster pitches - Session 3
Chair:
1 minute per poster (25 Posters)
12:50-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:30
Poster Session 2
14:30-15:50
Session 8: One Health
Chair:
14:30 Michele Miller, NRF South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Animal TB
GL15 Tackling the Tip of the Iceberg – Using a One Health Approach to Tuberculosis
15:00 Verena Schuenemann, University of Basel
GL16 One health approaches to trace M. leprae's zoonotic potential through time
15:30
OR15
15:40
OR16
15:50
OR17
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-17:40
Session 9: Rapid genotypic and phenotypic drug-susceptibility testing for clinical decision making
Chair:
16:30 Shelley E. Haydel, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, USA
GL17 Large volume scattering imaging technology for rapid mycobacterial phenotypic drug susceptibility testing
17:00
OR18
17:10
OR19
17:20
OR20
17:30
General Assembly
18:30
Social activity: Dinner and party
Wednesday 26 June
08.30-09:00
Registration
09.00-10.30
Session 10: History of mycobacterial pathogens
Chair:
09:00 Rein Houben, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
GL18 The (re)discovery of the spectrum of TB
09:30 Kirsten Bos, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
GL19 TBC
10:00
OR21
10:10
OR21
10:20
OR22
10.30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12.00
Session 11: Mycobacterium tuberculosis machinery
Chair:
11:00 Edith Houben, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
GL210
11:30
OR23
11:40
OR24
11:50
OR25
12.00-13:00
Lunch
13:00-14.30
Session 12: Advancements in modelling and data integration
Chair:
13:00 Oren Tzfadia, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp
GL21 Integration of SNPs and 3D protein structures to highlight conserved regions in the virulence mechanism of Mtb, which could serve as potential new vaccine target
13:30 Joaquín Sanz Remón, Zaragossa University
GL22 Data drive assessment of MTB transmission in evolving demographic structures
14:00 Olivier Gascuel, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique
GL23 New phylodynamic approaches to uncover the epidemiological parameters of outbreaks
14:30
OR26
14:40
OR27
14:50-15.00
Poster Awards and Closing Ceremony
Chair:
17:00
Social activity: Reception in the City Hall of Bruges