ECMM

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

 

* Selected from submitted abstracts