Below is the list of ISHAM and ECMM events to be held during IUMS 2008 (Istanbul, Turkey).
Thursday 7 August
H 16.00 - 18.30
MS 7 - ISHAM Working Group - Black Yeasts: Life on the Extreme
Chair Sybren de Hoog (NL)
Co-Chair Laura Selbmann (IT)
16.00-16.30 |
Laura Selbmann (IT) |
Extremotolerance in dothidealean black yeasts – no human pathogenicity despite capacity of survival. |
16.30-16.45 |
Cecile Gueidan (NL)* |
Extremotolerance as a possible source of virulence factors in the Chaetothyrialean Black Yeasts: evidence from molecular phylogenetic studies |
16.45-17.15 |
Hamid Badali (NL) |
Cladophialophora with an infectious potential occurring in soft drinks |
17.15-17.45 |
Sybren de Hoog (NL) |
Exophiala species: systemic pathogens in cold-blooded animals, and cutaneous pathogens on humans |
17.45-18.15 |
Walter Boeger (BR) |
Letargic Crab Disease: A new chaetothyrialen disease from the mangrove-land-crab, Ucides cordatus (Ocypodidae) in South America |
18.15-18.30 |
Liliya Mingalieva (UZ)* |
Black yeasts – melanin producers |
Friday 8 August
H 13.30 - 15.30
MS 9 - ECMM Working group - Invasive Fungal Infections in the Intensive Care
Chair Jacques Meis (NL)
Co-chair Lena Klingspor (SE)
| 13.30-13.40 | Jacques Meis, (NL) |
Introduction to the problem of invasive fungal infection on the intensive care |
13.40-14.05 |
Anna Maria Tortorano, (IT) |
Candida infections in the ICU |
14.05-14.30 |
Sevtap Arikan, (TR) |
Filamentous fungal infections in the ICU |
14.30- 14.55 |
Murat Akova (TR) |
Risk factors and prophylaxis of fungal infections in ICU |
14.55-15.20 |
George Samonis,( GR) |
Antifungal therapy of fungal infections in ICU) |
15.20-15.30 |
Lena Klingspor, (SE) |
Epidemiology of candidosis in European intensive care units |
Friday 8 August
H 16.00 - 18.30
MS 11 -ECMM Working group: Zygomycosis
Chair G. Petrikkos (GR)
Co-chair E. Tumbay (TR)
| 16.00-16.25 | George Petrikkos (GR) |
Epidemiology of zygomycosis in Europe |
16.25-16.50 |
Emmanuel Roilides (GR) |
Pathogenesis and host defense against Zygomycetes |
16.50-17.15 |
Eric Dannaoui (FR) |
Conventional and molecular diagnostic methods |
17.15-17.30 |
Grit Walther (NL)* |
Reliable diagnosis of mucormycosis by ITS barcoding of the Mucorales (Zygomycetes) |
17.30-17.55 |
Andreas Groll (DE) |
Pharmacology of antifungal agents against zygomycosis |
17.55-18.20 |
Livio Pagano (IT) |
Antifungal prophylaxis and therapy of zygomycosis |
18.20-18.30 |
Discussion |
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* Selected from submitted abstracts