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Tuesday 31 March 2026 Wednesday 1 April 2026

NVMM Meeting for new members

Time: 10:40 - 11:15

Holomicrobiome

Time: 10:30 - 10:35

Coffee/tea break

Time: 15:00 - 15:30

Prizes best poster/presentation Closing BAMA meeting

Time: 14:50 - 15:00

Girbe Buist

Tracking the evolution of cefiderocol resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii: Novel genetic insights from long read sequencing

Time: 14:38 - 14:50

Dominique Snel

Understanding the PIM domain of OTULIN and its role in disease

Time: 14:26 - 14:38

Lars van Steeg

From Bacterial Broth to Bioplastic: Sustainable Detection and Isolation of PHA from Cupriavidus necator

Time: 14:14 - 14:26

Lynn van Boxtel

Characterizing methane-cycling microbial communities and metabolism in Arctic lakes

Time: 14:02 - 14:14

Gwendolyn Thyen

Synergistic Efficacy of Rifampicin and Fosfomycin Against Biofilms in a Bioreactor Periprosthetic Joint Infection Model

Time: 13:50 - 14:02

Luca-Quirin Herrmann

Fanny Hesse award ceremony

Time: 13:45 - 13:50

Girbe Buist

Lunch with poster presentation

Time: 12:17 - 13:45

12.30-13.00 even numbered posters
13.00-13.30 uneven numbered posters

Mike Jetten award ceremony

Time: 12:05 - 12:17

Mike Jetten

The effects of Kombucha microorganisms on the immune system and metabolism of Zebrafish larvae

Time: 11:53 - 12:05

Esma Güran

Establishing Fieldable Assays for the Rapid Detection of West Nile Virus and Usutu Virus

Time: 11:41 - 11:53

Mila Willemsen

Assessing the potential of metal-utilizing microorganisms to recycle metals from electronic wastes

Time: 11:29 - 11:41

Daniel Wüthrich

Coffee/tea break

Time: 10:40 - 11:15

Optimization of Mycoplasma genitalium co-culture

Time: 11:17 - 11:29

Sonja Duijn

Welcome

Time: 11:15 - 11:15

Girbe Buist

NVMM

Time: 10:55 - 11:00

KNVM & Kluyver Award ceremony

Time: 10:45 - 10:55

NVMM Business meeting

Time: 15:30 - 17:30

Coffee/ tea break

Time: 15:00 - 15:30

BaMa Symposium

Time: 13:45 - 15:00

Parallel session 28: Selected abstracts (Applied & environmental – Ecology & evolution)

Time: 13:45 - 15:00

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Parallel session 27: AMR in the environment: Signal, noise, or actionable intelligence?

Time: 13:45 - 15:00

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Parallel session 26: Emerging vector-borne pathogens: Transmission, pathogenesis and prevention

Time: 13:45 - 15:00

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Parallel session 25: Pathogenesis to symbiosis: Microbe interactions in organoid and chip models

Time: 13:45 - 15:00

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Parallel session 24: Clinical cases in medical microbiology: an interactive session

Time: 13:45 - 15:00

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BBC-MMO algemene ledenvergadering

Time: 12:45 - 13:30

Lunch

BaMa Symposium

Time: 11:15 - 12:30

Parallel session 23: Selected abstracts (Molecular)

Time: 11:15 - 12:30

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Parallel session 22: Antifungal resistance – beyond A. fumigatus

Time: 11:15 - 12:30

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Parallel session 21: Enteroviruses: from defining the threat to advancing therapeutic strategies.

Time: 11:15 - 12:30

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Parallel session 20: Microbiome and cancer: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic opportunities + Microbiome & cancer

Time: 11:15 - 12:30

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Parallel session 19: Detection of intestinal parasites

Time: 11:15 - 12:30

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Coffee/ tea break

Time: 10:40 - 11:14

Beyond bacteria: Exploring mechanistic roles of the human archaeome

Time: 09:55 - 10:30

Christine Moissl-Eichinger (Austria)

Westerdijk Award ceremony & Van Leeuwenhoek Award ceremony

Time: 09:35 - 09:55

Staphylococcus aureus cell division: In sickness and in health

Time: 09:00 - 09:35

Simon Foster (United Kingdom)

Registration & Coffee

Time: 08:30 - 08:59

Time: 20:30 - 23:59

20:30 – 21:00	Dessert
21:00 – 21:15	Poster award ceremony
21:15 – 00:30	Party

Dinner

Time: 19:15 - 20:30

Poster session & drinks

17:15 – 18:15	Odd numbers
18:15 – 19:15	Even numbers

Parallel session 18: Antimicrobial resistance and infection prevention

Time: 16:00 - 17:15

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Parallel session 17: CRISPR-Cas in microbial genomics

Time: 16:00 - 17:15

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Parallel session 16: Healthy plants & healthy humans: environmental microbes for one health

Time: 16:00 - 17:15

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Parallel session 15: Moleculair surveillance and cluster detection in practice – current state in NL

Time: 16:00 - 17:15

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Parallel session 14: AI in microbiology research, teaching and publishing

Time: 16:00 - 17:15

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Parallel session 13: Current developments in the diagnosis and treatment of sepsis

Time: 16:00 - 17:15

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Coffee/ tea break

Time: 15:15 - 15:59

Parallel session 12: Selected abstracts (Gut health & microbiome)

Time: 14:00 - 15:15

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Parallel session 11: Desinformation in science

Time: 14:00 - 15:15

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Parallel session 10: Biofiltration for drinking water production

Time: 14:00 - 15:15

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Parallel session 9: Shaping the future of fungal diagnostics

Time: 14:00 - 15:15

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Parallel session 8: Vaccination and immunogenicity

Time: 14:00 - 15:15

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Parallel session 7: Bacteria-Fungi interactions from cell biology to plant growth promotion

Time: 14:00 - 15:15

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KNVM General Assembly

Time: 13:00 - 13:05

Lunch

Time: 12:45 - 12:59

Parallel session 6: Selected abstracts (Plasmids and genomics)

Time: 11:30 - 12:45

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Parallel session 5: Microbial adaptation in an environmental context

Time: 11:30 - 12:45

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Parallel session 4: Genetic engineering of non-model microbes for biotech

Time: 11:30 - 12:45

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Parallel session 3: The awakening of spores, carriers of life from soils to gut

Time: 11:30 - 12:45

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Parallel session 2: Controlled human infection models in The Netherlands

Time: 11:30 - 12:45

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Parallel session 1: How biofilms shape infectious diseases and treatment

Time: 11:30 - 12:45

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Coffee / tea break

Time: 11:00 - 11:29

Rise and fall of multidrug-resistant enterococci in Germany

Time: 10:10 - 10:45

Prof. Dr. Guido Werner (Robert Koch Institut)

Kiem Award Ceremony

Time: 10:00 - 10:10

‘Rethinking global health security in the post-COVID crisis era — Are we better prepared?’

Time: 09:25 - 10:00

Maria van Kerkhove

Opening by Clara Belzer

Time: 09:15 - 09:24

Clara Belzer

Registration & Coffee

Time: 08:30 - 09:12