Registration
Registration Deadline: May, 31th 2018
Registration is free of charge. Participants are expected to meet their own accommodation and travel expenses.
THURSDAY, June 14
08:30 |
Registration |
09:00 |
Opening by Ulrich Schaible (FZB, Borstel) |
09:05 |
Welcome address by Andreas Macke (TROPOS, Leipzig ) |
09:15 |
Ulrich Schaible (FZB, Borstel) Overview on LFV INFECTIONS’21 |
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Session I: Societal change and infection |
09:30 |
Bruno Jochum (GCSP, Geneva) Global health security: challenges, questions and lessons learnt by a frontline medical organization |
10:00 |
Gérard Krause (HZI, Braunschweig) How to identify the source, working across disciplines to control outbreaks |
10:30 |
Clíona Ní Cheallaigh (Trinity College, Dublin) Inflammageing - Inflammation and disease in a changing society |
11:00 |
Sven Stadtmüller (GESIS, Mannheim) Evaluating a training program for TB patients from Somalia and Eritrea: First insights from the field |
11:20 |
Coffee |
11:50 |
Jo Lines (LSHTM, London), Man-made environmental change and vector-borne diseases |
12:20 |
Oliver Kurzai (HKI, Jena) Fungal infections: A one health challenge |
12:40 |
Discussion on Session I |
13:10 |
Lunch |
14:10 |
Poster & Coffee |
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Session II: Spread of infection and antimicrobial resistance |
15:30 |
Astrid Gärdes (ZMT, Bremen) Occurrence and transport of pathogenic bacteria in open-cage aquaculture of the Caquiputan Channel in the Philippines |
16:00 |
Daniela Numberger (IZW, Berlin) Water as a habitat for bacteria including pathogens |
16:20 |
Coffee |
16:50 |
Ulrich Nübel (DSMZ, Braunschweig) Spread of antibiotic resistance in an agrarian landscape |
17:20 |
Elisabeth Pfrommer (FZB, Borstel) Airborne transmission of human pathogens |
17:40 |
Discussion on Session II |
18:00 |
End of session |
FRIDAY, June 15
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Session III: Health in a changing environment Chair: tba |
09:00 |
Leonard Barrie (Stockholm & McGill Universities) Medium to long distance transmission of disease via atmospheric aerosols |
09:30 |
Alex Greenwood (IZW, Berlin) Water as a potential viral vector |
10:00 |
Tom Wingfield (University of Liverpool) Addressing social determinants to end tuberculosis |
10:30 |
Coffee |
11:00 |
Leonhard Horstmeyer (Med. Uni Wien), Can we estimate when infections are curtailed in adaptive contact networks? |
11:30 |
Helge Kampen (FLI, Greifswald – Insel Riems) Mosquitoes as vectors of disease agents in Europe and Germany |
12:00 |
Discussion on Session III |
12:20 |
Closing Discussion |
12:40 |
Farewell address by Ulrich Schaible |
Improved hygiene and better prevention and treatment have reduced the incidence of infectious diseases particularly in industrialised countries. However, increasing antibiotic resistance, the emergence of new pathogens together with changes in pathogen distribution due to altered climateand mobility are global challenges for humankind. Infectious diseases can be spread and transferred to humans in many ways. A holistic approach is required to better understand pathogen transmission and to achieve improved infection control strategies. Biomedical, ecological, socio-economic and political aspects all need to be considered. The Leibniz Research Alliance “INFECTIONS´21” aims to establish an interdisciplinary research agenda and opens up new avenues of communication across disciplines. New strategies and methods for early warning and outbreak management systems will be developed to control spread of pathogens. This effort will also include public involvement through citizen science projects.
For further Information, please visit our homepage: http://www.leibniz-infections21.de/start/.
Registration Deadline: May, 31th 2018
Registration is free of charge. Participants are expected to meet their own accommodation and travel expenses.
By road
On the A14 motorway, take the exit marked "Leipzig-Ost" and head towards Stadtzentrum (City Centre).
By rail
From Leipzig Central Station, take the tram line No. 3/3E (Direction "Sommerfeld" or "Taucha"). After about 15 minutes alight at stop "Torgauer/ Permoserstraße",
cross the street and take the street Permoserstraße eastward. After about 300 metres you will find the main entrance of the Leipziger KUBUS to your left.
By plane
From Leipzig/Halle Airport, take the train (regional express) to the Leipzig Central Station (3,20 Euros one-way). From the Central Station, take tram No. 3
(heading for "Sommerfeld") or No. 13 (heading for "Taucha")
By taxi
A taxi from Leipzig Central Station to the Leipziger KUBUSwill cost about 13 Euro.
The fare from Leipzig-Halle Airport is about 42 Euro.