Young NCOH networking workshop

Registration Annual Scietific Meeting

Welcome by Rens de Jong (event moderator)

Opening by Annemarie Rebel,  Wageningen Bioveterinary Research

Pandemic preparedness -are you ready?

NCOH: stronger together by Dick Heederik, chair of Executive Board NCOH

PhD pitches: 

1. Auke de Jong - KNAW: The mystery of Candida auris
2. Eleanor Marshall - Erasmus MC: Models to study and prioritize neuropathogenic arboviruses
3. Jesse Kerkvliet - UMC Utrecht: MetaMobilePicker: computational identification of mobile genetic elements in metagenomes

Keynote: A more natural future for the Netherlands in 2120 - by Tim van Hattum, Wageningen University & Research

Panel discussion: Natural versus technology: integrate versus segregate with Simon Oosting - Animal Production Systems, WUR, Aneesh Chauhan - Agrorobotica, WUR, and Hidde Boersma,  science journalist and ecomodernist

Lunch break

PhD students' laptop poster walk

PhD Pitches:

4. Lucille van Beek - Radboudumc: Establishing a controlled human pneumococcal infection model in the Netherlands – PIM study
5. Manu Bilsen - LUMC: Distinguishing urinary tract infection from asymptomatic bacteriuria in older women
6. Mari-Lee Odendaal - RIVM: Host factors and health outcomes associated with the upper respiratory tract (URT) microbiota

Keynote Pandemic Preparedness & Learnings and actions - by Marion Koopmans, EMC & Miriam Kretzschmar, UMCU

Panel discussion: Preparing for the next pandemic, with Wim van der Poel -  WVBR WUR, Arjen van der Giessen - RIVM, Marleen Bekker - WUR.

Tea break

PHD Pitches: 

7. Warner van Kersen - Utrecht University: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on physical and mental health in relation to chronic disease
8. Luca Bordes - Wageningen University & Research: Infection of wild red foxes with HPAI H5N1 virus and emergence of adaptive mutations
9. Jaime Brizuela Gabaldon - Amsterdam UMC: Using genomics to characterize the emergence of zoonotic S. suis lineages

Keynote: Behavior change in One Health - by Anja Schreijer, PDPC and Danilo Lo-Fo-Wong, WHO

Awards ceremony

Closure by Annemarie Rebel

Drinks & small bites