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Programme 2023

Tuesday 04 Apr

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

Wednesday 05 Apr

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