Tuesday, 1st October 2024

08:30

Arrival and Registration

09:00 – 09:30

Welcome & Short presentation of the three Clusters of Excellence

Resolving Infection Susceptibility
Reinhold Förster, Hannover Medical School, Germany

Balance of the Microverse
Kirsten Küsel, University of Jena, Germany

Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections
Andreas Peschel, University of Tübingen, Germany

09:30 – 12:15

Antimicrobial Resistance and New Solutions

Chair: Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt & Samuel Wagner (CMFI)

09:30

Maria Vehreschild, Frankfurt University Hospital, Germany
Fighting Microbes with Microbes – Decolonization Strategies for MDR Bacteria

09:55

Nadine Ziemert, CMFI, University of Tübingen, Germany
Mining Bacterial Genomes for Novel Antibiotics

10:20 – 11:10

Coffee break

11:10

Mark Brönstrup, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Assault, Siege, Trojan Horses or Gentle Disarmament: Four Molecular Strategies to Fight Bacterial Infections

11:35

Anna Hirsch, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Germany
Novel avenues in target-based anti-infective drug discovery

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 15:35

Microbial Community Resilience

Chair: Hannes Link (CMFI) & Rosalind Allen (Microverse)

13:30

Sofia Forslund, Max Delbrück Center and Charité Berlin, Germany
Title TBD

13:55

David Berry, University of Vienna, Austria
Gut microbiome assembly in extremely premature infants and implications for gutbrain- axis development

14:20

Pierre Stallforth, Microverse, University of Jena and Leibniz-HKI, Jena, Germany
Natural Products from Interacting Microorganisms and Ancient Microbiomes

14:45

Laurent Philippot, INRAE Dijon, France
Microbiome resistance and resilience in response to compound disturbances

15:10

Hagay Enav, CMFI, Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Strain tracking in complex microbiomes using synteny analysis reveals per-species modes of evolution

15:35

End of Scientific Part Day 1, Stay-Together-Coffee

15:45

Group photo of all participants in front of the Futurium

18:30 – 20:00

Public evening with Fishbowl discussion (in German language)

Infektionsforschung im Dienste der Gesundheit: Ein Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft & Politik

Wednesday, 2nd October 2024

09:00 – 12:15

Infection Susceptibility

Chair: Thomas Schulz & Gesine Hansen (RESIST)

09:00

Dusan Bogunovic, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY, USA
Broad-spectrum RNA antiviral inspired by ISG15 deficiency

09:25

Dan Depledge, RESIST, Hannover Medical School
Regulation of the Varicella Zoster Virus latent-to-lytic switch

09:50

Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, ETH Zurich
Antimicrobial resistance crisis: the microbial growth conjecture

10:15 – 11:00

Coffee break

Chair: Lars Dölken & Dorothee Viemann (RESIST)

11:00

Manu Shankar-Hari, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh
Integrated longitudinal multiomic immune profiling of sepsis

11:25

Christoph Stein-Thoeringer, CMFI, University Hospital Tübingen
The dysbiotic gut microbiome as reservoir for infection and inflammation in immunocompromised hosts

11:50

Lennart Riemann, RESIST, Hannover Medical School
Integrative Deep Immune Phenotyping of the Elderly Immune System

12:15

Miguel Soares, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal
Metabolic adaptation as a defence strategy against infection

12:40 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:15

Microbiome & Health

Chair: Ilse Jacobsen & Diana Dudziak (Microverse)

14:00

Michael Bauer, Microverse, Jena University Hospital
An ecological perspective on infectious disease: The “Hormesis” principle revisited

14:25

Lisa Maier, CMFI, University Hospital Tübingen
Drug-Microbiome Dynamics: Implications for Host Health

14:50

Dorothee Viemann, RESIST, Hannover Medical School
Insights into the mutual relationship between host and microbiota in early life and its impact on the development of health and disease

15:15

Final Discussion / Concluding Remarks

15:30 | Departure

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