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EMBO | EMBL Symposium: Infection: pathogens, hosts, and microbiomes

May 26 to May 28

EMBL

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This conference will take place at EMBL Heidelberg, with the option to attend virtually.

 

Symposium Overview

Infectious diseases are among the most prevalent causes of human illness and death in the world. Epidemics & pandemics have shaped human evolution and history, and although for a while they were considered a solved problem for the developed world, the recent past has showed us all why this is not the case. Antimicrobial resistance, global warming, human population size increase, modern lifestyles (urbanization, traveling), decrease of wild-life habitats for pathogen reservoirs all contribute to creating an ideal setting for infectious diseases becoming an even greater challenge in the future.

This symposium will bring together experts working on different pathogens (viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites) who rarely meet. It will cover a broad range of topics on the host-pathogen interface, highlighting the diversity in mechanisms and the convergence of strategies pathogens use to invade, hijack host machineries, proliferate within the host, cause disease, and spread to other hosts. Infection biologists using systems biology, population genomics, genetics, cell and tissue biology, biochemistry and structural biology will meet to present the state-of-the-art of different fields. The emerging realisation that infections are often polymicrobial, pathogens can be opportunistic and already reside for years as benign in our body, and that the microbiome can greatly impact infection onset and progress will provide a common thread of discussion across fields of different pathogenic agents. Discussions will fertilise transfer of technologies and know-how across fields, and set the ground for developing new strategies to tackle current bottlenecks in our ability to treat infections.

 

Session topics

  • Structural aspects of infection
  • Global analysis of pathogens
  • Pathogen-cell dialogues
  • Pathogen-tissue interactions
  • Microbiome, evolution, and beyond

 

Deadlines

MAR 3:      Abstract Submission
APR 14:     Registration (On-site)
MAY 19:     Registration (Virtual)

On-site Registration   |   Virtual Registration

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Details

Start:
May 26
End:
May 28
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/EES25-04/

Venue

EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual
EMBL Advanced Training Centre + Google Map

Organizers

Maria Bernabeu, Spain
Pascale Cossart. France
Hiten Madhani, USA
Kim Orth, USA
Michael Way, UK