Programme 2023
08:45
Registration & Coffee
Plenary session | ROOM ATHENE B/C
Chair: Wilbert Bitter & Clara Belzer
09:30
Opening
09:35
Recent progress with a higher efficacy malaria vaccine
Adrian Hill (UK)
10:10
Westerdijk Award ceremony & Van Leeuwenhoek Award ceremony
10:25
From petri dish to patient
Graham Hatfull (USA)
11:00
Coffee/ tea break
Exhibition hall
11:30 | Parallel session 1 - Anthology from the Research Agenda of the NVMM | ROOM ATHENE B/C
Chairs: Juliëtte Severin & Jan Sinnige
11:30
What is the added value of influenza/respiratory virus rapid diagnostics with regard to clinical and health-economic outcome parameters?
Olivier Vandenberg (Belgium)
12:00
Mind the (knowledge) gap: how can patient participation prevent infections?
Robbert Bentvelsen (Amphia Hospital)
12:15
Mind the (knowledge) gap for STD care: The added value for patients of an eHealth/POCT approach
Bas Mourik (LUMC)
12:30
Rapid diagnostics of joint infections using Molecular Culture
Dries Budding
12:45
From a Case-Control Survey to selecting a Diagnostic Viral Gastroenteritis Panel for testing of General Practioners’ patients
J. Flipse
11:30 | Parallel session 2 - Microbial Interactions | ROOM SYDNEY
Chairs: Cornelia Welte & Matti Gralka
11:30
Formation of structurally-defined biofilm aggregates in methanogenic cocultures is associated with the increased expression of signal transduction and chemotaxis genes
Anna Doloman
11:45
Fundamental metabolic strategies of heterotrophic bacteria
Matti Gralka
12:00
Extracellular polymeric substance from seawater-adapted aerobic granular sludge: enrichment of polyanionic fraction and exploration into its potential application for sepsis treatment
Le Min Chen
12:15
“Candidatus Siderophilus nitratireducens”: a low-temperature, Nap-dependent nitrate-driven iron oxidizer within the new order Siderophiliales
Francesc Corbera- Rubio
12:30
What drives the diversity of electrogenic cable bacteria?
Philip Ley
12:45
Meta-omics analyses reveal insights into the ecology and physiology of Thorarchaeia in anoxic Aarhus Bay sediments
Jolanda ter Horst
11:30 | Parallel session 3 - Evolution of microbial lineages | ROOM 4/5
Chairs: Patricia Geesink & Daniel Tamarit
11:30
Blow the archaeon down! Microbial interactions of the deep biosphere
Alexander Probst (Germany)
12:00
Symbiotic archaea and the archaeal tree of life
Anja Spang (NIOZ)
12:30
Gene gain facilitated endosymbiotic evolution of Chlamydiae
Stephan Köstlbacher
12:45
Genomic DNA transfer in Mycobacterium marinum
Sita Coenraads
11:30 | Parallel session 4 - The vaginal microbiome in health and disease | ROOM 8/9
Chair: Remco de Kort (VU)
11:30
Shotgun sequencing based insights into the vaginal, and related, microbiomes
Paul Cotter (Ireland)
12:00
Vaginal microbiota and preterm birth
Heleen Schuster (Amsterdam UMC)
12:15
The role of the endometrium microbiome in IVF/ICSI success
Janneke van de Wijgert (UMC Utrecht)
12:30
Pathogenic properties of vaginal Prevotella strains: impact on vaginal dysbiosis and HIV susceptibility
Karin Strijbis (Universiteit Utrecht)
12:45
Glycogen metabolism of vaginal bacteria
Rosanne Hertzberger (VU)
13:00
Lunch
Exhibition hall
13:00 | KNVM Business Meeting | ROOM 8/9
14:00 | Parallel session 5 - Mucins in health and disease | ROOM ATHENE C
Chairs: Clara Belzer & Karin Strijbis
14:00
From infancy to adulthood: Exploring the barrier function of membrane mucins in the small intestine
Thaher Pelayesed (Sweden)
14:30
Preserving influenza A virus motility in mucus and on cells
Erik de Vries (Utrecht University)
15:00
Formation of microbial communities in the glycan landscape of the early life intestine
Athanasia Ioannou (Wageningen University)
15:15
Regulation of intestinal epithelial barrier integrity by MUC13
Celia Segui Perez (Utrecht University)
14:00 | Parallel session 6 - To sequence or not to sequence: using regional WGS-based surveillance of multidrug resistant microorganisms to guide local infection prevention policy | ROOM 8/9
Chairs: Pepijn Huizinga & Jeroen Tjhie
14:00
Challenges in investigating transmission of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium: tracking clonal and horizontal relatedness
A. Schürch (UMC Utrecht)
14:30
"Using genomic surveillance to alter infection prevention policy for LA-MRSA: opportunities and challenges"
T. Habben Jansen (Rezisto)
14:45
A six-year regional outbreak of MRSA detected by multi-centre routine whole-genome sequencing
V. Weterings (Amphia Hospital)
15:00
Multi-centre implementation of routinely using whole-genome sequencing of multidrug-resistant micro-organisms: implications for infection control
J. Stohr (ETZ & Amphia Hospital)
14:00 | Session 7: Infection biology & host-microbe interactions | ROOM SYDNEY
Chairs: Girbe Buist & Aldert Zomer
14:00
Salmonella O-antigen Protects Against Kupffer Cell-Mediated Clearance During Bloodstream Infections
Bas Surewaard
14:15
The Salmonella adhesin Rck mediates entry through the EGF receptor in a MUC13-dependent manner
Shaofang Xu
14:30
IgM GlcNAc-targeting antibodies are more functionally cross-reactive than IgG
Remy Muts
14:45
Fusobacterium nucleatum secretes metabolites that induce autophagy and cell death in colorectal cancer cells
Coco Duizer
15:00
Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus reciprocally promote virulence
Raymond Pasman
15:15
New Anti-mycobacterial Compound with a novel Target shows Cooperativity and Synergy with approved Antibiotics
Eva Habjan
14:00 | Parallel session 8 - Aquatic microbiology of natural and engineered ecosystems | ROOM 4/5
Chairs: Martyna Glodowska & Maider Echeveste
14:00
How physical processes influence microbial communities and biogeochemical cycling in lakes
Jakob Zopfi (Switzerland)
14:30
Influence of filter age on Fe, Mn and NH4+ removal in dual media rapid sand filters used for drinking water production
Alje Boersma (Radboud University)
14:45
Rapid (online) monitoring of microbiological water quality in bathing and drinking water
Nikki van Bel (KWR)
15:00
Define moderate? Exploring the proton stress mechanisms of the acidophilic sulfate reducer Acididesulfobacillus acetoxydans
Reinier Egas (Wageningen University)
15:15
Seasonal dynamics of microbial methane removal in the water column of marine Lake Grevelingen
Jessica Venetz (Radboud University)
14:00 | Parallel session 9 - Streptococcal infections: from molecular epidemiology to public health interventions | ATHENE B
Chairs: Nina van Sorge & Bart Vlaminckx
14:00
Translating surveillance into prevention of group A streptococcal disease
Theresa Lamagni (UK)
14:30
Increasing burden of neonatal streptococcal infectionsin the Netherlands; NOGBS study
Merijn Bijlsma (Amsterdam UMC)
15:00
Relevance of species discrimination for Group A streptococcal infections and prophylaxi; SDSE infection: on the rise and in disguise
Koos Korsten (Amsterdam UMC)
15:15
Molecular surveillance of group A streptococcal infections in the Netherlands: clonal sweep by the M1UK lineage
Lidewij Rumke
15:30
Coffee/ tea break
Exhibition hall
16:00 | Parallel session 10 - Host genetics and infectious diseases | ROOM ATHENE C
Chairs: András Spaan & Amelieke Cremers
16:00
Gut microbiome and immune dysregulation in COVID
Helen Leavis (UMC Utrecht)
16:30
Host genetics as a guide to targeted immunotherapy in COVID-19
Frank van de Veerdonk (RadboudUMC)
17:00
Human OTULIN haploinsufficiency impairs cell-intrinsic immunity to staphylococcal -toxin
András Spaan (UMC Utrecht)
17:15
The establishment of a controlled human pneumococcal infection model in the Netherlands.
Lucille van Beek
16:00 | Parallel session 11 - Antibiotic Resistance Reservoirs and Evolution | ROOM ATHENE B
Chairs: Ferry Hagen & Rob Willems
16:00
What is heteroresistance, actually?
Dan Andersson (Sweden)
16:30
Uncovering reservoirs of antibiotic resistance in the human gut microbiota
Willem van Schaik (UK)
17:00
MetaMobilePicker, exploring the context of mobile genetic elements associated with antibiotic resistance in metagenomics
Jesse Kerkvliet (UMC Utrecht)
17:15
Diversity of cfr-carrying plasmids in livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from humans in the Netherlands
Thera Habben Jansen
16:00 | Session 12: Clinical Virology | ROOM SYDNEY
Chair: Bart Haagmans & Marc Shamier
16:00
Seroprevalence and risk modeling of future outbreaks for mpox among men who have sex with men in the Netherlands
Marc Shamier
16:15
Impact of COVID-19 on the Euregio Meuse-Rhine: remarkable seroprevalence differences between Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany
Daniëlle Hanssen
16:30
Valganciclovir for congenital cytomegalovirus infection in infants with isolated hearing loss (CONCERT): a nationwide non-randomized, controlled, phase 3 trial
P.K. Chung
16:45
Molecular epidemiology of an outbreak of Parainfluenza Type 3 virus among patients on a haematology unit.
Laura Hughes
17:00
The immunological effects of COVID-19 vaccination after past infection in lung transplant recipients
Coretta Van Leer Buter
17:15
Respiratory epithelial cytokine responses are pathogen specific and differ per anatomical region of the upper respiratory tract.
Esther Van Woudenbergh
16:00 | Parallel session 13 - Microbes as models for complex biology | ROOM 4/5
Chairs: Jolien van Hooff & Taco Kooij
16:00
The origin of animals. A unicellular perspective
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo (Spain)
16:30
Diversity of cell division dynamics
Agathe Chaigne (Universiteit Utrecht)
16:45
The curious case of Tetrahymena thermophila: investigating an atypical ciliate kinetochore
Emine Ali (Hubrecht instituut)
17:00
Endogenous viral elements in shrew genomes provide insights into Flaviviridae ancient history
Sebastian Lequime
17:15
Global mapping of protein localisation in the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii reveals molecular signatures for cellular innovations among dinoflagellates
Eelco Tromer (University of Groningen)
16:00 | Parallel session 14 - Therapeutic microbiome interventions for clinical application | ROOM 8/9
Chairs: Ed Kuijper & Jannie Henderickx
16:00
Approved Feces Microbiota Transplantation and live biotherapeutic products for Clostridioides diificile infections
Erik Dubberke
16:30
Development of a product with Akkermansia muciniphila; for which diseases?
Clara Belzer (WUR)
17:00
Treatment of Parkinson Disease with feces microbiota transplantation; background and interim analysis
Vlada Chernova (LUMC)
17:15
Microbiome interventions to strengthen immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy for melanoma
Jessica Borgers (NKI)
Supplementary session | ROOM 4/5
Real time microbiële sequentie datadeling binnen Nederland
17:30
Op weg naar een nieuw datasurveillance landschap in Nederland
Presentatoren: Paul Savelkoul en Caroline Schneeberger
17:30
Stellingen over het huidige typering surveillance netwerk in NL
17:40
SeqNeth: Toegevoegde waarde van moleculaire typering bij uitbraakbestrijding: GGD-praktijkvoorbeelden
Ewout Fanoy (Arts Maatschappij + Gezondheid)
17:50
TypeNed: Regional, national and international surveillance of antimicrobial resistance
Antoni Hendrickx (moleculair microbioloog)
18:05
Paneldiscussie olv Toos Waegemaekers (arts M&G, Coördinator Regionaal Arts Consulent(RAC); GGD/RIVM)
Panel: Gunnar Andriessen (NVMM); Ewout Fanoy (GGD); Antoni P.A. Hendrickx (RIVM); Mariette Edema (RIVM); Paul Savelkoul (NVMM)
17:30 | ROOM SYDNEY
Poster session: Odd numbers & Drinks
18:00
Opportunity to say goodbye to Margo Kusters, director NVMM
18:30 | ROOM SYDNEY
Poster session: Even numbers & Drinks
19:30
Restaurant
Dinner & meet-the-expert
21:00
Dessert | ROOM SYDNEY
21:30 | ROOM SYDNEY
Poster award ceremony
21:45
Party | ROOM SYDNEY
08:00
Meet-the-Expert Breakfast
08:30
Registration & Coffee
Plenary session | Room Athene B/C
Chair: Bart Vlaminckx
09:00
Scrub typhus: an overview of the cell biology, pathogenesis, and unmet clinical need of a prevalent but neglected bacterial disease
Jeanne Salje (UK)
09:35
Leeuwenhoek medal ceremony
09:45
Genes and genetic exchange involving extrachromosomal elements with potential roles in the functioning and evolution of archaea
Leeuwenhoek Medal winner: Jill Banfield
10:20
Kiem Award Ceremony
10:30
Coffee/ tea break
11:15 | Parallel session 15 - Clinical cases in medical microbiology: an interactive session | ROOM ATHENE B/C
Chairs: Harold Thiesbrummel
11:15 | Parallel session 16 - 300 years after Antoni van Leeuwenhoek passed away: Introduction AvL 300 year | ROOM 4/5
Chairs: Joop van Doorn & Margot Koster
11:15
Introduction of the winner of the Van Leeuwenhoek medal 2023
Laura Villanueva (NIOZ/Utrecht University)
11:30
Leeuwenhoek’s Comptoir: Space, Access, and Validation in the Early Modern Laboratory
Douglas Anderson (Huygens Institute)
12:00
Leeuwenhoek's observations in historical perspective
Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute)
12:15
Insights into bacterial structure and behavior- from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek’s first observations to today’s molecular understanding
Ariane Briegel (Leiden University)
11:15 | Session 17: Bacteriology from different angles | ROOM 6/7
Chair: Karlijn Houkes & Jaco Verweij
11:15
Reduction of waste after patient discharge from the intensive care unit using results of admission screening for highly resistant microorganisms
Cynthia Haanappel
11:30
Staphylococcus aureus : colonization of burn wounds and the innate defense
Bouke Boekema
11:45
Double-blinded randomized controlled trial assessing the effect of three consecutive faecal microbiota transplantations on hepatic steatosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Bas Groenewegen
12:00
A one year pilot surveillance of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae in Dutch patients
Karuna Vendrik
12:15
Population size directs alternative trajectories of antibiotic resistance evolution
Arjan De Visser
12:30
Monoclonal antibodies effectively potentiate complement activation and phagocytosis of Staphylococcus epidermidis in neonatal human plasma
Coco Beudeker
11:15 | Parallel session 18 - Microbial Metabolomics across disciplines | ROOM 8/9
Chairs: Robert Jansen
11:15
Plant-microbe interactions/ Microbiome Model Systems
Daniel Petras (Germany)
11:45
Discovery of new stress response metabolites in M. tuberculosis
Pieter van der Velden (Radboud Universiteit)
12:00
Discovery of new lipopeptide antibiotics in Paenibacillus through multi-omics approaches
Nataliia Machushynets (Universiteit Leiden)
12:15
Enteric colonization by antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli and the role of the human gut microbiome and metabolome
Quinten Ducarmon (Germany)
12:30
Salt Stress: discovering osmoregulation in freshwater anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea
Maider Junkal Echeveste Medrano
11:15 | ROOM SYDNEY
BaMa Symposium
10:30
Coffee/tea break
11:15
Welcome
11:18
The Staphylococcus aureus ArlRS two-component system is involved in regulation of TarS mediated glycosylation of wall teichoic acids.
Emma Tusveld
11:32
The influence of Usutu virus infection on the apoptosis pathways in blackbirds
Veerle de Nijs
11:46
Production of Volatile Fatty Acids from Lignocellulosic Grass via Rumen Microorganisms
Kemal Koc
12:00
Immunogenic potential of diversely killed Candida albicans hyphae
Fay Bruggeman
12:14
Long-read Sequencing to Explore the Impact of Vancomycin Treatment on the Microbiome and its Resistome in Healthy Volunteers
Iuri Mimoso
12:28
Mike Jetten award ceremony
Mike Jetten
12:45
Lunch with poster presentation
12:45
Lunch
Exhibition hall
14:00 | Parallel session 19 - New guideline “Malaria diagnostics for Dutch laboratories”; what is the scientific evidence? | ROOM ATHENE C
Chairs: Foekje Stelma & Guido Bastiaens
14:00
Malaria Diagnosis in Non-Endemic Settings: Clinical parameters, pitfalls and opportunities
Andreas Neumayr (Switzerland)
14:30
RDT stand alone in a non-endemic setting, what are the risks?
Guido Bastiaens (Rijnstate Hospital)
14:45
Fast detection and quantification of Plasmodium species infected erythrocytes in a non-endemic setting by using the Sysmex XN-31 analyzer
Tania Khartabil (Erasmus mc)
15:00
Malaria-screening in a non-endemic setting
Jorrit Hofstra (Certe)
15:15
How important is parasitemia in the acute work-up of a Plasmodium falciparum infection in a non-endemic setting?
Merel Smit (Radboudumc)
14:00 | Parallel session 20 - Viruses of Microorganisms | ROOM ATHENE B
Chairs: Corina Brussaard & Kyle Mason-Jones
14:00
The use of bacteriophages to control infectious biofilms: advances and limitations
Joana Azeredo (Portugal)
14:30
Accumulation of phage defense systems in phage resistant strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Stan Brouns (TU Delft)
15:00
Co-transfer of functionally related genes in lambdoid phages
Anne Kupczok (WUR)
15:15
Infection mechanisms of haloarchaeal viruses
Tessa Quax (RUG)
14:00 | Parallel session 21 - Marine Microbiology: New challenges in function, diversity and evolution | ROOM 4/5
Chairs: Laura Villanueva
14:00
The biosynthetic landscape of marine sponge microbiomes
Detmer Sipkema (WUR)
14:30
Resolving functional roles among the smallest predators in lakes and oceans
Susanne Wilken (UvA)
15:00
Lipid remodelling induced by nutrient availability and high hydrostatic pressure in a piezotolerant Marinifilaceae bacteria isolated from the Black Sea
Anandi Tamby (NIOZ):
15:15
Chronic bottom trawling in the North Sea partially explains taxonomic and functional shifts in benthic microbial communities
Guido Bonthond
14:00 | Session 22: Molecular microbial ecology | ROOM 6/7
Chairs: Cornelia Welte
14:00
The promiscuous alcohol dehydrogenases of Desulfofundulus kuznetsovii strains 17T and TPOSR
Lukas Friedeheim
14:15
Alcaligenes faecalis accumulates hydroxylamine as a central intermediate during heterotrophic nitrification
Wouter Lenferink
14:30
The morphological plasticity of the plant endophyte Chitinophaga pinensis
Janine Liedtke
14:45
Craspase is a self-regulating protease that is sequence-specifically activated by viral RNA
Sam Van Beljouw
15:00
Endocytosis-like DNA uptake by cell wall-deficient bacteria
Renée Kapteijn
15:15
Unraveling the ability of Aeromonas sp. to degrade and utilize the biopolymer chitin
Claudia Tugui
14:00 | Parallel session 23 - Climate change and migration: the risk for (re)-emerging infections | ROOM 8/9
Chairs: Corine Geurts van Kessel & Jutte de Vries
14:00
Global change, biodiversity, ecosystems and health: the risk of cross-species transmission
Kris Murray (UK)
14:30
Global spread of highly pathogenic avian Influenza strains, should we prepare for the next pandemic?
Arjan Stegeman (UU)
14:45
Mosquitos are buzzing at the border - West Nile Virus and other arboviruses
Dirk Eggink
15:00
Human migration: are we at risk for a re-emergence of infectious diseases such as measles
Rogier Bodewes
15:15
Imvanex vaccination induces low levels of monkeypox virus-neutralizing antibodies but strong virus-specific T-cell responses
Luca Zaeck
14:00 | ROOM SYDNEY
BaMa Symposium
14:00
Investigating the growth of Nitrospina spp. under limited oxygen conditions and their bacteriohopanepolyol biosynthesis
Seamus O'sullivan
14:14
Chlamydia trachomatis screening in wastewater using droplet digital PCR – a pilot study
Joanne Kreutzkamp
14:28
Investigating the role of ALPK1 in DNA damage response
Raghuvandhanan Kumarasamy Sivasamy
14:42
Transcriptional dynamics of a virophage - giant-virus interaction during co-infection of a marine protist
Giuseppe Peyroche
14:56
Identification of host associated genes in Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli
Thijmen Van Brenk
15:10
Prizes best poster/presentation Closing BAMA meeting
15:30
Coffee/tea break
16:00
End of meeting
15:30
Coffee/ tea break
Exhibition hall
16:00
NVMM Business meeting | ROOM 6/7