Transcript Molecular Diagnostics: the Future of Clinical Microbiology?
24
th
NVAMM
symposium
Molecular
Diagnostics:
the
Future
of
Clinical
Microbiology?
´Little things are infinitely the most important’ (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Date:
Location:
Program
February Former 11, 2016 plague hospital de Leeuwenbergh, Servaasbolwerk 1a, Utrecht 8.30
– 9.20
9.20
– 9.30
Chair REGISTRATION WELCOME AND OPENING
Dr.
E.S.
Bruijnesteijn van Coppenraet (Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Isala hospital, Zwolle)
Whole genome sequencing
9.30
– 10.00
Introduction on and what´s new in the field of sequencing
Dr.
J.W.A.
Rossen (Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Groningen)
10.00
– 10.30
Clinical applications of whole genome sequencing in virology
Dr.
S.
van Boheemen (Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center)
10.30
– 11.00
COFFEE BREAK
Microbiome, virus discovery and clinical relevance
11.00
– 11.30
Microbiome analysis: guts & glory
Prof.
dr.
P.H.M.
Savelkoul (Department of Medical Microbiology, Maastricht University Medical Center and VU Medical Center, Amsterdam)
11.30
– 12.00
12.00
– 12.25
Molecular diagnostics in clinical microbiology: sense and sensitivity
Prof.
dr.
M.D.
de Jong (Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam)
Virus discovery, how to make sense
Dr.
L.
van der Hoek (Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam)
12.25
– 13.25
LUNCH
Chair
Molecular diagnostics in practice
13.25
– 14.05
Dr.
W.J.G.
Melchers (Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen)
Organisation of molecular diagnostics in practice
Dr.
K.E.
Templeton (Medical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
14.05
– 14.35
14.35
– 15.00
Entering the transition phase to new genotypic methods
Prof.
dr.
A.C.
M.
Kroes (Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center)
Molecular typing: a case report
Dr.
L.B.
van Alphen (Department of Medical Microbiology, Maastricht University Medical Center)
15.00
– 15.30
15.30
– 16.10
COFFEE Use of BREAK whole surveillance
genome sequencing in clinical diagnostics and national
Dr.
H.
Hasman (Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark)
16.10
– 16.35
16.35
– 17.05
Molecular diagnostics in parasitology
Dr.
J.J.
Verweij (Laboratory of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, St.
Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg)
Culture is not dead
Prof.
dr.
A.
van Belkum (R&D Microbiologie, BioMérieux SA, La Balme Les Grottes, France)
17.05
– 18.15
CLOSURE, DRINKS AND SNACKS