10th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers, October
2-5, 2013
The ability of microbes – bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites – to
mutate rapidly, disseminate and adapt to new hosts and environments,
forces us to increase our capabilities for the early recognition of
novel strains of pathogens, and to understand the factors that
contribute to their diversity, evolution and dissemination. IMMEM-10
will address a variety of topics related to pathogen emergence,
population-level diversity, evolution of virulence and antibiotic
resistance, strain tracking, typing networks, public health and
surveillance, novel typing approaches, high-throughput sequencing,
genomics, and molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases. The meeting
will take place at Institut Pasteur, in the heart of Paris.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee,
Sylvain Brisse, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
INVITED SPEAKERS
Andrea Ammon, European Center for Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden
Siv Andersson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Alessandra Carattoli, Institute of Public Health, Rome, Italy
Stewart Cole, Global Health Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland
Alex Friedrich, University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands
Peter Gerner-Smidt, CDC, Atlanta, USA
Matthew Gilmour, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada
Hajo Grundmann, RIVM, Bilthoven, Netherlands
Joerg Hacker, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Berlin, Germany
Dag Harmsen, Universitätsklinikum Münster, Germany
René Hendriksen, DTU, Denmark
Keith Jolley, Oxford, UK
Philippe Lemey, Leuven, Belgium
Martin Maiden, Oxford University, UK
Claudine Médigue, CEA-Genoscope, Evry, France
Julian Parkhill, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
Laurent Poirel, Univ. Paris Sud, Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Marc Struelens, eCDC, Stockholm, Sweden
Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS
Novel genomics technologies
Population genetics, phylogenomics, gene flux
Genomic typing of bacterial pathogens
Phylodynamics of viral pathogens
Emergence of virulence
Emergence of resistance
Typing and surveillance networks
High-throughput sequencing and diagnostics/discovery
Bioinformatics tools for surveillance and population biology
Bioinformatics tools for comparative and evolutionary genomics
Early registration up to June 15, 2013 Standard fee: 400 € ; Student
fee: 300 €
The abstracts submission manager will open early 2013.
WEB SITE
For more information and updates, please visit us at www.immem-x.org
CONTACT
Chrystèle Blin
Congress-Events
Institut Pasteur, CIS
28 rue du Dr Roux
75015 PARIS France
immem-x@pasteur.fr