6th Joint Conference of the DGHM & VAAM
72nd Annual Meeting of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM)
Annual Meeting 2020 of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM)
08–11 March 2020 • Leipzig (Germany)
Scientific programme
In 2020, the following plenary topics will be in focus
- Big Data
- Emerging Resistance Mechanisms
- Infection Prevention
- Microbial Biotechnology
- Microbial Ecology
- Microbial Physiology and Adaptation
- Single Cell Microbiology
| 15:00–15:30 | Opening of the Conference & Welcome Notes |
| 15:30-17:00 | DGHM Lecture Hans-Günter-Schlegel Lecture |
| 17:00-17:30 | Break |
| 17:30-19:30 | Award Presentation DGHM and VAAM |
| From 19:30 | Welcome Reception (for further details please check page: Social Programme) |
| 08:30–10:00 | Oral Sessions with abstract presentations |
| 10:00–10:30 | Break |
| 10:30–12:00 | Joint Plenary Session 1: Big Data Towards a SWATH-MS Digital Biobank of Proteome Maps for Sepsis - A Resource for Precision Medicine Tba. |
| 10:30–12:00 | Hygiene-Symposium |
| 10:30–12:00 | Special Lecture: Resistance Epidemiology |
| 12:00–13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 12:15–13:15 | Career Symposium (hosted by DGHM & VAAM) |
| 13:30–14:00 | DGHM & VAAM Award Sessions |
| 14:00–15:30 | Plenary Session 2: Microbial Physiology and Adaptation The Hardware and the Software of the Gene Expression Flow in Environmental Bacteria Engineered Microbiomes for Syngas Conversion Operation of Carbon/Nitrogen Homeostasis in Cyanobacteria |
| 14:00–15:30 | Plenary Session 3: Infection Prevention Infection Prevention and Antibiotic Resistance - A Global Perspective Infection Prevention in a connected World: Focusing on the Causes behind the Reasons Adapt to Adopt: Key to successful Change in Infection Control |
| 15:30–18:00 | Poster Session 1 |
| 18:00–20:00 | DGHM Assembly |
| 18:00-19:30 | Symposia of the VAAM Special Groups & Oral Sessions |
| 19:30-20:00 | Special Group Meetings (VAAM) |
| 08:30–10:00 | Oral Sessions with abstract presentations |
| 10:00–10:30 | Break |
| 10:30–12:00 | Joint Plenary Session 4: Microbial Ecology Metabolism of the Gut Microbiota during Health and Disease Diversity and Activity of Cyanobacteria in the Global Ocean |
| 10:30–12:00 | Hygiene-Symposium |
| 12:00–13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 12:15–13:15 | Career Session of DGHM & VAAM |
| 13:30–14:00 | DGHM & VAAM Award Sessions |
| 14:00–15:30 | Plenary Session 5: Microbial Biotechnology A Field of Dreams: Valorization of Renewables into sio-based Chemicals and Materials Industrial Biotechnology - From Science to Market Cyanobacterial Biofilms as light-driven Biocatalysts – Obstacles and Achievements |
| 14:00–15:30 | Plenary Session 6: Emerging Resistance Mechanisms Resistance Mechanisms of High Clinical Importance Tba. One Health Approach for Exploring the Emergence and Spread of Resistances against last-resort Antibiotics |
| 15:30–18:00 | Poster Session 2 |
| 16:00–16:45 | Karrieresymposium - Fachmikrobiologie |
| 18:00–20:00 | VAAM Assembly |
| 18:00-19:30 | Oral Sessions (DGHM) |
| From ca. 20:00 | Mixer (for further details please check page: Social Programme) |
| 09:00–10:30 | Oral Sessions with abstract presentations |
| 10:30–11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-12:30 | Joint Plenary Session 7: Single Cell Microbiology Mechanisms of Bacterial Surface Adhesion
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| 11:00-12:30 | Hygiene-Symposium |
| 12:30-13:00 | Poster Awards |
| 13:30-14:30 | Microbe Slam |
| 13:30–15:00 | Academy: Hospital Infection Epidemiology and Outbreak Management |
| 14:30–16:00 | Oral Sessions with abstract presentations |
| 16:00 | End of conference & Closing |