Preliminary scientific programme

4:00 pm: Registration of participants 5:30 pm: Keynote Lecture Opening by Didier Houssin, Direction générale de la Santé, Paris, France Public health aspects of nosocomial infections

9:00 am. Yehuda Carmeli,Tel-Aviv, Israel Best practices to avoid the dissemination of nosocomial pan-resistant enterobacteria 9:30 am. Didier Guillemot, Paris, France Interaction between antibiotic use and bacterial ‘intrinsic epidemicity' for promoting resistance dissemination 10:00 am. Matthew Samore, Salt Lake City, USA How mathematic modelling or computer simulation will contribute to the control of nososcomial microorganism dissemination 10:30 am. Coffee break 11:00 am. Stephan Harbarth Geneva, Switzerland Can rapid diagnostic tools contribute to the control of the dissemination of antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus? 11:30 am. Alex van Belkum, Labalme, France Humoral immunity and carriage of nasopharyngeal pathogens: consequences for colonisation dynamics 12:30-2:30 pm. Buffet in the hall of CIS + poters session

2:30 pm. Alain Filloux, London, UK Molecular events leading to the establishment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm 3:00 pm. Soeren Molin, Lyngby, Denmark Adaptive stages of Pseudomonas aeruginosa airways infections in cystic fibrosis patients 3:30 pm. Scott Hultgren, St Louis, USA E. coli biofilms, Bottlenecks and Host Responses in Urinary Tract Infection 4:00-4:30 pm. Coffee break 4:30 pm. Vanessa Sperandio, Dallas, USA Quorum-sensing role on establishment of infections 5:00 pm. Philippe Moreillon, Lausanne, Switzerland Establishment of Staphylococcus aureus infectious 5:30 pm. Robin Patel, Minnesota, USA Foreign body infections in orthopedic patients

9:00 am. Olivier Lantz, Paris, France Anti-microbial reactivity of mucosal associated invariant T cells 9:30 am. Harry Sokol, Boston, USA Gut Microbiota-host interaction in Inflammatory bowel disease 10:00 am. Olivier Lortholary, Paris, France Impact of antifungal exposure on the epidemiology of invasive yeast infections in immuno-compromised hosts 10:30-11:00 am. Coffee break 11:00 am. Andrew Koh, Dallas, USA Candida albicans gastrointestinal colonization and dissemination in the immuno-compromised host 11:30 am. Joël Doré, Jouy-en-Josas, France Towards functional metagenomics of the gut microbiota 12:00-2:00 pm : Buffet in the hall of CIS + posters session

2:00 pm. Richard Hotchkiss, St. Louis, USA Uncontrolled inflammatory process in sepsis 2:30 pm. Djillali Annane, Garches, France Neuro-endocrine alteration in sepsis 3:00 pm. Hugo ten Cate, Maastricht, The Netherlands Coagulopathies in sepsis 3:30-4:00 pm. Coffee break 4:00 pm. Peter Ward, Ann Arbor, USA Role of complement in tissue injury in sepsis 4:30 pm. Mervyn Singer, London, UK Organ failure and mitochondria function in sepsis 5:00 pm. Didier Payen, Paris, France Markers of organ dysfunction: from genomic to proteomic