Leibniz Center Infection (LCI) The Leibniz Center Infection (LCI) is an alliance against infectious diseases and links the complementary research of three internationally REGISTRATION DEADLINE renowned Leibniz Institutes in the North of December 19, 2014 Germany: LCI-Symposium 2015 Emerging Infections Register now as space will be limited. Please send your e-mail to: Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg [email protected] January 29 and 30

Historic Lecture Hall Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine – Leibniz Center for The registration desk will open at Hamburg Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel 11:30 a.m. on January 29, 2015

and at 08:30 a.m. on January 30, 2015 Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for

Experimental , Hamburg Registration is free of charge. Participants are Local proximity, complementary expertise and expected to meet their own accommodation technical competence promote the alliance`s and travel expenses. intensive scientific exchange and its development of joint research strategies. Across the spectrum of disciplines and pathogens, regular symposia, retreats and joined application-oriented projects are dedicated to basic and clinical infection research, thereby Certified by the promoting exchange between the institutes and General Medical Council Organizers: transfer of research results into clinical 16 points Prof. Rolf Horstmann (BNITM, Hamburg) Prof. Ulrich E. Schaible (FZB, Borstel) application. Prof. Thomas Dobner (HPI, Hamburg) For more information on LCI, please visit www.lc-infection.de/. LCI-Symposium 2015 Registration Deadline: Emerging Infections December 19, 2014 January 29 and 30

THURSDAY, January 29 17:05 Dr. Alexander Loy, Vienna 12:20 Lunch Understanding colonization resistance - new tools to analyze in vivo physiology and 12:30 Opening by Prof. Rolf Horstmann, Hamburg 13:30 – 15:30 substrate competition of individual microbial Session 4: Nosocomial infections (acting speaker of LCI) cells in the intestinal tract Chair: Prof. Ulrich Schaible, Borstel 13:30 Lecture: Prof. Brendan Wren, London 12:35 – 15:00 Session 1: Recent outbreaks 17:40 LCI Keynote Lecture Clostridium difficile - A global evolutionary Chair: Prof. Rolf Horstman, Hamburg Prof. Heinz Feldmann, Rocky Mountain experiment in our hospitals 12:35 Lecture: Prof. Stephan Günther, Hamburg Laboratories, Hamilton 14:15 Dr. Barbara Bröker, Greifswald Viral hemorrhagic fevers in West Africa Response to emerging viral infections - Human immune memory of Staphylococcus pathogenesis and countermeasures 13:20 Dr. Jan F. Drexler, Rotterdam aureus - the high costs of control Vaccine-induced antibodies poorly neutralize a 18:40 Meet the speakers – informal get-together 14:40 Dr. Uwe Mamat, Borstel poliovirus causing a lethal outbreak in the with snacks, finger food and drinks Virulence properties of Stenotrophomonas Republic of Congo in 2010 maltophilia 13:45 Dr. Marcel A. Müller, Bonn FRIDAY, January 30 15:05 PD Dr. med. Jörg Steinmann, Essen MERS-: A virus with pandemic Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in cystic fibrosis potential? 09:00 – 12:20 Session 3: Emerging zoonoses 15:30 Coffee 14:10 Dr. Alexander Mellmann, Münster Chair: Prof. Gülsah Gabriel, Hamburg EHEC O104:H4: Insights into virulence and 09:00 Lecture: Prof. Thijs Kuiken, Rotterdam 16:00 – 17:35 Session 5: Emerging drug resistance pathogenicity Zoonotic influenza at the interface of wildlife, Chair: PD Dr. Norbert Reiling, Borstel 14:35 Prof. Adam Grundhoff, Hamburg livestock and people 16:00 Lecture: Daniel F. Sahm, PhD, Schaumburg Metagenomic and -transcriptomic approaches 09:45 Dr. Stephanie Bertram, Hamburg Emerging and Changing Resistance Trends for outbreak investigation Role of cytokine regulated nuclear import Among Key Bacterial Pathogens proteins in respiratory viral infections 15:00 Coffee & Snacks 16:45 PD Dr. Stefan Niemann, Borstel 10:10 Prof. Egbert Tannich, Hamburg Selective forces shaping Mycobacterium 15:30 – 17:30 Session 2: Emerging topics Dirofilariasis – a new emerging vector-borne tuberculosis evolution - the impact of antibiotic Chair: Prof. Thomas Dobner, Hamburg zoonosis in Central Europe treatment 17:10 Prof. Christoph Lange, Borstel 15:30 Lecture: Nikos Vasilakis, PhD, Galveston 10:35 Coffee The fever from the forest - a Sisyphean ordeal Emerging M/XDR-TB in Europe 16:15 Jakko van Ingen, MD PhD, Nijmegen 11:10 Lecture: Noël Tordo, PhD, Paris 17:35 Farewell address by Prof. Rolf Horstmann Management of NTM disease Perspective for drugs against rabies 18:00 Speakers dinner 16:40 Dr. Bärbel Stecher, Munich 11:55 PD Dr. Rainer Ulrich, Greifswald Influence of the intestinal microbiota on the Emerging zoonoses: Increased preparedness outcome of infections by networking

Conference venue Historic Lecture Hall of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Contact Dr. Susanne Pätzold, Phone: +49 4537 188-5840, E-Mail: [email protected] Bernhard-Nocht-Strasse 74, D-20359 Hamburg, Germany Dr. Jessica Tiedke, Phone: +49 40 42818-264, E-Mail: [email protected] Phone: +49 40 42818-0 Dr. Dorothea Pieper, Phone: +49 40 48051-104, E-Mail: [email protected]