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Wednesday 25 January 2012

 

08.30 – 18.00      Pre-Meeting Workshop

                          Masterclass in the management of chronic and allergic pulmonary aspergillosis

                          Open to 35 clinicians

                          Lead by Professor David Denning and other colleagues.

 

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Thursday 26 January 2012 – Day 1

 

08.00 – 08.45      Meet the Professor Session

                          Controversies in immunology: Excessive inflammation in aspergillosis

                          Luigina Romani, MD, PhD

 

09.00 – 09.10      Opening Remarks

                          William J. Steinbach, MD

 

 

 

09.15 – 09.40      Angiogenesis at the mold-host interface: a potential key to understanding and treating invasive aspergillosis

                          Ronen Ben-Ami, MD

 

09.40 – 10.05      Aspergillus fumigatus survival in the lung environment

                          Elaine Bignell, PhD

 

10.05 – 10.30      Visualising phagosomal killing of Aspergillus fumigatus

                          Jatin M. Vyas, MD

 

10.30 – 10.55      Vitamin D and OX40L interaction

                          Jay K. Kolls, MD

 

10.55 – 11.05      Oral Poster Presentation: Aspergillus fumigatus supermaters: genome comparison and genetic recombination
Janyce Sugui, PhD

 

 

11.05 – 11.35      Coffee / Tea Break

 

 

 

11.35 – 12.00      COPD and aspergillosis

                          Jesús V. Guinea Ortega, PharmD, PhD

 

12.00 – 12.25      Aspergillosis in cystic fibrosis – insights from new and old diagnostics

                          Caroline Baxter, MD

 

12.25 – 12.50      Invasive aspergillosis in ICU – are we moving forward?

                          George Dimopoulos, MD

 

12.50 – 13.15      Immune regulation in idiopathic bronchiectasis

                          Rosemary Boyton, PhD

 

 

13.15 – 14.45      Lunch

 

 

 

13.45 – 14.45 and concurrent with lunch

Murat Akova, MD and Nir Osherov, PhD

 

 

 

14.45 – 15.10      Innate immunity to Aspergillus

                          Mihai G. Netea, PhD

 

15.10 – 15.35      Neutrophil extracellular traps and A. fumigatus

                          Matthias Gunzer, PhD

 

15.35 – 15.45      Control of neutrophil ROS responses to A. fumigatus

                          Keith Boyle, PhD

 

15.45 – 15.55      Oral Poster Presentation: T-cell responses to several Aspergillus antigens may be detected in patients with invasive Aspergillosis and may be exploited for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes: a multicenter study
Leonardo Potenza, MD, PhD

 

 

15.55 – 16.25      Coffee / Tea Break

 

 

 

16.25 – 16.50      Specification of polarity sites during growth and development of Aspergillus nidulans

                          Steven D. Harris, PhD

 

16.50 – 17.15      Aspergillus niger a perfect host for industrial biotechnology: systems biology approaches for the production of building block chemicals

                          Peter J. Punt, PhD

 

17.15 – 17.40      Diversity of Aspergillus flavus on crops and in the environment can be exploited to reduce aflatoxin exposure and improve environmental health

                          Peter J. Cotty, PhD

 

17.40 – 17.50      Oral Poster Presentation: Unique polysaccharide cell-wall composition responsible for dysregulated inflammation of A. nidulans infections in chronic granulomatous disease
Stefanie Henriet, MD

 

 

17.50 – 19.50      Welcome Reception, Drinks and Poster Session 1

 

Dinner (on your own)

 

 

Friday 27 January 2012 – Day 2   [back to top of page]

 

 

08.00 – 09.00      Controversies in management: prophylaxis or diagnostics

                          Andrew Ullman, MD

                          Drosos E. Karageorgopoulos, MD

 

 

 

09.15 – 09.40      Aspergillus adhesions

                          Don Sheppard, MD

 

09.40 – 10.05      mRNAs in Aspergillus

                          Michelle Momany, PhD

 

10.05 – 10.30      RNAseq

                          Antonis Rokas, PhD

 

10.30 – 10.55      Alternative approaches to drug discovery in Aspergillus fumigatus

                          Michael Bromley, PhD

 

10.55 – 11.20      Targets for broad spectrum antifungal vaccines? Quantitative proteomic comparisons of Aspergillus & Co.

                          Markus Kalkum, PhD

 

 

11.20 – 11.50      Coffee / Tea Break

 

 

 

11.50 – 12.15      Management of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis

                          Koichi Izumikawa, MD, PhD

 

12.15 – 12.40      Update on biologicals for ABPA and asthma

                          Richard B. Moss, MD

 

12.40 – 13.05      Paediatric aspergillosis

                          Andreas Groll, MD

 

13.05 – 13.15      Aspergillus bronchitis in non-immunocompromised patients – case series, response to treatment and criteria for diagnosis Timothy Felton, MD

 

 

13.15 – 14.15      Lunch

 

 

14.15                  CONFERENCE SOCIAL EVENT: Tours followed by Dinner

 

 

Saturday 28 January 2012 – Day 3   [back to top of page]

 

08.00 – 08.45      Meet the Professor

                          Stump the Professor – Interesting clinical dilemmas

                          John E. Bennett, MD

                          Souha Kanj, MD

 

 

 

09.15 – 09.40      Application of diagnostic markers for IA in children

                          Emmanuel Roilides, MD

 

09.40 – 10.05      Impact of prophylaxis on galactomannan, beta-D-glucan and PCR

                          J. Peter Donnelly, PhD

 

10.05 – 10.30      Which antigens are important and why?

                          Max S. Topp, MD

 

10.30 – 10.40      Oral Poster Presentation: Impact of current antifungal therapy on PCR based investigation of bronchoalveolar lavage samples for diagnosing pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with hematologic malignancies
Mark Reinwald, MD

 

 

10.40 – 11.10      Coffee / Tea Break

 

 

 

11.10 – 11.15      Welcome and introduction

                          J. Peter Donnelly, PhD

 

11.15 – 11.30      Stratification of risk for IA in immunocompromised patients

                          Raoul Herbrecht, MD

 

11.20 – 11.45      Pre-emptive versus empirical anti-fungal therapy in neutropenic hematologic patients

                          Omrum Uzun, MD

 

11.45 – 12.00      Combination therapy: who benefits?

                          Keiren Marr, MD

 

12.00 – 12.10      Panel discussion

 

 

12.10 – 14.10      Lunch and Poster Session 2

 

 

 

14.10 – 14.35      Global status of azole resistance in Europe and Asia

                          Sevtap Arikan-Akdagli, MD

 

14.35 – 15.00      Update on resistance mechanisms

                          David S. Perlin, PhD

 

15.00 – 15.10      Oral Poster Presentation: Aspergillus fumigatus biofilms releases extracellular DNA which plays a role in phase dependant antifungal resistance

                          Ranjith Rajendran, MSc

 

15.10 – 15.35      Current section and species complex concepts: recommendations for routine daily practice

                          Manuel Cuenca-Estrella, MD, PhD

 

15.35 – 16.00      Implications of resistance in Aspergillus treatment guidelines

                          Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, MD

 

16.00 – 16.10      Farewell

                          David A. Stevens, MD

 

16.20                  Farewell Drinks and Discussion about the next AAA Meeting

 

 

Dinner (on your own)