5th Advances Against Aspergillosis Conference: Day 2

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Friday 27 January 2012 – Day 2

Session 6: Astellas Symposium
Chair: Katsuhiko Kamei, MD, PhD

08.00 – 09.00      Controversies in management: prophylaxis or diagnostics

                          Andrew Ullman, MD

                          Drosos E. Karageorgopoulos, MD

Session 7: Genomics and Proteomics
Chairs: Elaine Bignell, PhD & David S. Perlin, PhD

09.15 – 09.40      Aspergillus adhesions

                          Don Sheppard, MD

09.40 – 10.05      mRNAs in Aspergillus

                          Michelle Momany, PhD

10.05 – 10.30      RNAseq

                          Antonis Rokas, PhD

10.30 – 10.55      Alternative approaches to drug discovery in Aspergillus fumigatus

                          Michael Bromley, PhD

10.55 – 11.20      Targets for broad spectrum antifungal vaccines? Quantitative proteomic comparisons of Aspergillus & Co.

                          Markus Kalkum, PhD

11.20 – 11.50      Coffee / Tea Break

Session 8: Management of Aspergillosis
Chairs: John E. Bennett, MD & Volkan Korten, MD

11.50 – 12.15      Management of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis

                          Koichi Izumikawa, MD, PhD

12.15 – 12.40      Update on biologicals for ABPA and asthma

                          Richard B. Moss, MD

12.40 – 13.05      Paediatric aspergillosis

                          Andreas Groll, MD

13.05 – 13.15      Aspergillus bronchitis in non-immunocompromised patients – case series, response to treatment and criteria for diagnosisTimothy Felton, MD

13.15 – 14.15      Lunch

14.15                  CONFERENCE SOCIAL EVENT: Tours followed by Dinner