Medical events COST Action B28 : "Array Technologies for BSL3 and BSL4 Pathogens"

COST Action B28 : "Array Technologies for BSL3 and BSL4 Pathogens"

"7th Management Committee and WG1, WG2, WG3, WG4, WG5 Meetings"
April 22 - 24, 2007, Belgrade, Serbia

  • Romanian participants : Apostol Iuliana MD, Nica Maria MD PhD, Alma Kosa MD, Radu Tanasa MD PhD
  • Coordinator : Prof. Dr. Patrick Butaye
  • Schedule

Wednesday, 22 April 2009
12:00 - 15:00   Registration of attendances
15:00 - 15:15   COST B28 welcome & opening
15:15 - 16:00 Invited lecture I :
Dr. Ursula Dietrich
"Derivation of new antiviral strategies based on the phage display technology"
17:00 - 18:10 WG1 chair Jacques Schrenzel
(replaced by Tanja Kostic)
WG1 : Array technologies
  Erhan Piskin "Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Using SPR Based Sensors Carrying Self-Assembled Nano-Overlayers of Probe Oligonucleotide"
  Henrik Nordström "DNA Microarray Technique for Detection and Identification of Viruses Causing Encephalitis and Hemorrhagic Fever"
  Karen Kempsell "Development of Multiplexed Microarrays for Diagnostic Use with Validated Probe Sub-Sets"
  All Future activities and planning of actions of WG1
Thursday, 23 April 2009
09:00 - 09:45 Invited lecture II :
Dr. Giovanni Maga
"Host-Pathogen interactions as novel targets for antiviral therapy"
10:15 - 12:30 WG2 chair Claude P. Muller WG2 : Antigenicity
  Cornelis Schoen "Quantitative multiplex pathogen detection using proximity dependent DNA ligation"
Authors : Cornelis Schoen, Odette Mendes, Rachel Nong, Spyros Darmanis, Ulf Landegren, Fimme Jan van der Wal
  Francesc Xavier
Abad Morejón de Girón
"New results about environmental persistence of H7N1 highly pathogenic avian infuenza virus"
  Francesc Xavier
Abad Morejón de Girón
"Experimental infection of Rift Valley fever virus in sheep"
  Radu Tanasa "Development of monoclonal antibodies for detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5 subtype"
  Claude P. Muller "Spread and evolution of avian influenza virus in poultry and wild-birds in Africa"
  Claude P. Muller "Hepatitis B virus in Haiti : an unusual subgenotype A and the conspicuous absence of typical West-African genotypes in African descendants"
  All Future activities and planning of actions of WG2
14:00 - 16:00   7th Management Committee Meeting
  Patrick Butaye
the Chair of COST ACTION B28
Welcome the participants to the 7th Management Committee Meeting
  Patrick Butaye Adoption of the Agenda
  Patrick Butaye Adoption of the Minutes of the 6th MC - Bucharest
  Tanja Kostic Report of the Chair of the Working Group 1 - J. Schrenzel
(replaced by Tanja Kostic)
  Claude Muller Report of the Chair of the Working Group 2
  Jiri Stulik Report of the Chair of the Working Group 3
  Stefan Panaiotov Report of the Chair of the Working Group 4
  Mandy Elschner Report of the Chair of the Working Group 5
  Patrick Butaye Annual Report
  R. Toman STSMs : current status
  Patrick Butaye Other subjects
  All MC members Discussion on the place and programme of next meetings
16:00 - 16:45 Invited lecture III :
Prof. Irena Cosic
Array Technologies for Bsl3 and Bsl4 Pathogens
17:15 - 19:45 Jiri Stulik
WG3 chair
PL3 : Proteomica si Glicomica
  L. Balonova "Searching for the glycoproteins in Francisella tularensis"
  Mangesh Bhide "19kDa Bg protein : a novel candidate in the CRASP family that binds complement factor H and help to invade complement system"
  Rudolf Toman "Investigations of a lipopolysaccharide antigen of Rickettsia typhi"
Authors : Rudolf Toman, Pavol Vadovic
  A. Hartlova "Quantitate proteomic analysis of detergent-resitant membranes from macrophages upon Francisella tularensis LVS early infection"
  L. Cerveny "Effect of selected gene deletion on virulence of intracellular pathogen Francisella tularensis"
  Zorzi Willy
Elmoualij Benaissa
"Prion: Biosafety Level 3-unconventional transmissible agent"
  Sanja Glisic "Bioinformatic characterization of hemagglutinin of H5N1 and human influenza viruses"
  All Future activities and planning of actions of WG3
Friday, 24 April 2009
09:00 - 09:45 Invited lecture IV :
Prof. Vladimir Bajic
"Text-mining of information related to BSL3 and BSL4 pathogens"
09:50 - 11:05 Stefan Panaiotov
WG4 chair
WG4 : Genomics
  Stefan Panaiotov "Direct analysis of clinical samples by VNTR for assessment of Bordetella pertussis genotypes"
Authors : Victoria Levterova, Nadia Brankova, Stefan Panaiotov
  Nadia Brankova "Techniques for biodiversity analysis of M. tuberculosis genotypes in Bulgaria"
Authors : Nadia Brankova, Victoria Levterova, Stefan Panaiotov
  Sally J. Cutler "Molecular characterisation of a Rickettsia species present in the soft tick Ornithodoros moubata"
  All Future activities and planning of actions of WG4
11:30 - 13:15 Mandy Elschner
WG5 chair
WG5 : Microbiology
  Mandy Elschner "DNA microarray-based detection and identification of Burkholderia mallei, Burkholderia pseudomallei and Burkholderia spp"
Authors : Gernot Schmoock, Falk Melzer, Ralf Ehricht, Heinrich Neubauer, Konrad Sachse, and Mandy Elschner
  Paola Pilo "Francisella spp in ticks"
Authors: Magali Perrin, Mauro Tonolla, Joachim Frey, Paola Pilo"
  Iuliana Apostol "Enteric pathotypes of Escherichia coli involved in infectious diarrheal syndrome in Bucharest"
Authors : Maria Nica, Iuliana Apostol, Petre Calistru, Alma Tudor, Maria Damian, Codruta Romanita Usein
  Plamen Padeshki "F. tularensis common genotype exists in Bulgaria and Turkey"
  All Future activities and planning of actions of WG5
15:00 - 17:00 All Joint WG1-WG2-WG3-WG4-WG5 Meeting
Discussion of Future Plans for Collaborative Activities