Friday May 16th, 2008 |
08.30 - 09.30 | Registration and coffee/tea |
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09:30 - 11:00 | Plenary session |
09:30 - 10:15 | Haemophilus influenzae and Moraxella catarrhalis in COPD: Pathogenesis and Immunity |
| Timothy Murphy, Buffalo, USA |
10:15 - 11:00 | Genetics and Biology of Haemophilus influenzae lipopolysaccharide |
| Richard Moxon, Oxford, UK |
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11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
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11:30 - 13:00 | Plenary session |
11:30 - 12:15 | Identification and characterization of Moraxella catarrhalis adherence Factors |
| Eric Lafontaine, Athens, USA |
12:15 - 13:00 | MID/Hag, the IgD-binding Protein of Moraxella catarrhalis |
| Kristian Riesbeck, Malmö, Sweden |
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13:00 - 15:30 | Lunch & Poster sessions & Workshops etc. |
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13:30 - 15:00 | Sponsored symposium 1 |
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15:30 - 16:30 | Vaccines and Immune Response |
| 2 Free communications |
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17:00 - 18:30 | Sponsored symposium 2 |
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19:30 | Congress dinner |
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Saturday May 17th, 2008 |
08.30 - 09.30 | Breakfast session |
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09:30 - 11:00 | Parallel session A: Host-Pathogen Interactions |
| 4 Free communications |
09:30 - 11:00 | Parallel session B: Population Dynamics and Microbial Physiology |
| 4 Free communications |
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11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
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11:30 - 13:00 | Parallel session C: Clinical Epidemiology and Antibiotic Resistance |
| 4 Free communications |
11:30 - 13:00 | Parallel session D: Genomics and Proteomics |
| 4 Free communications |
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13:00 - 15:30 | Lunch & Poster sessions & Workshops etc. |
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13:30 - 15:00 | Sponsored symposium 3 |
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15:30 - 16:30 | Parallel session E: Animal Models and Pathogenesis |
| 3 Free communications |
15:30 - 16:30 | Parallel session F: Detection and Inter-microbial Relationships |
| 3 Free communications |
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16:30 - 16:45 | Closing Remarks |