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9 December, 2009
Scientific meeting of the Netherlands Society for Medical Mycology

Venue: Donauzaal J1.51, Centrum Jonkerbosch, directly adjacent to Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Weg door Jonkerbosch 100, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; map see below. Participation is free of charge. Coffee and tea will be available at no costs.

PROGRAMME:

12.45-13.00: Ledenvergadering

AGENDA
1. Introductie voorzitter (Meis)
2. Rapport secretaris (IJzerman)
3. Rapport penningmeester (Dammer)
4. Voorstel tot vervanging van de bestuursleden Meis, IJzerman en Dammer door Verweij, De Hoog, Curfs-Breuker
5. Website (onderhoud en update)
6. Voorjaarsvergadering Papendal
7. Rondvraag

13.00-17.00: Scientific meeting.

1300-13.15

Vania Vicente1,2, Conceição Pedroso1, Sirlei Marques1, Maria Aparecida Resende1, Flavio Queiroz Telles1 and Javad Najafzadeh2 (1Department of Basic Pathology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil, 2CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands): Chromoblastomycosis: the disease, its environmental agents, and environmental counterparts.

13.15-13.30

Jiufeng Sun (Department of Dermatology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China andCBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands): LAMP / RCA, a novel technique for fungal diagnosis.

13.30-13.45

Corné Klaassen, Hanneke de Valk, Ilse Curfs and Jacques F. Meis (Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen): Real time detection of mutations conferring triazole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus.

13.45-14.00

Nina Gunde-Cimerman (Biothechnical Faculty, Biology Dept., Ljubljana, Slovenia): Ecology and physiology of Hortaea werneckii, halophilic agent of human tinea nigra.

14.00-14.15

Hanneke A. de Valk-van Haren1, Katrien Lagrou2, Johan Maertens2, Corné H.W. Klaassen1 and Jacques F. Meis (1Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen University Hospital, Leuven): Direct genotyping of Aspergillus fumigatus from patients with invasive aspergillosis.

14.15-14.30

Tom Sprong, Joost Engel and Jacques F. Meis (Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen): Een patient met Aspergillus flavus mastoididtis.

14.30-14.45 Break

14.45-15.00

Simone Camps1, J. Peter Donnelly2, Nicole M.A. Blijlevens2, Willem, J.G. Melchers1, Paul E. Verweij1 (1Department of Medical Microbiology and 2Hematology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen): Cluster of infection due to azole resistant Aspergillus fumigatus in a hematology ward.

15.00-15.15

Wendy W.J. van de Sande1, Ahmed H. Fahal2, Irma A.J.M. Bakker-Woudenberg1 and Alex van Belkum1 (1Erasmus MC Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Rotterdam and 2Mycetoma Research Centre, Khartoum, Sudan): Madurella mycetomatis is not susceptible to the echinocandin class of antifungal agents.

15.15-15.30

Marie Machouart1, Cecile Gueidan2, Montarop Sudhadham3, Sybren de Hoog2 (1Service de Parasitologie-Mycologie, CHU de Brabois, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France; 2CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 3National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology BIOTEC, Pathumthani Thailand): Distribution of ribosomal introns and correlation with pathogenicity in Exophiala dermatitidis.

15.30-15.45

Eveline Snelders1, Anna Karawajczyk2, Paul E. Verweij1, Gijs Schaftenaar2,  Willem J. G. Melchers1 (1Departments of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen; 2Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Nijmegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands): Site directed mutagenesis of the A. fumigatus Cyp51A gene to elucidate the molecular mechanism of azole resistance.

15.45-16.00 Break

16.00-16.15

Hamid Badali 1, 2, Sybren de Hoog1, Ilse Curfs-Breuker 3, Corné H. Klaassen3 and Jacques F. Meis 3 (1CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 2Department of Medical Mycology and Parasitology, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran; 3Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands): In vitro activities of antifungal drugs against dangerous black yeast-like fungi, related to fatal brain infections.

16.15-16.30

E. Mavridou1, J. Meletiadis3, W.J.G. Melchers1, P.E. Verweij1, J.W. Mouton2 (1Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, and 2Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, 3Laboratory for Clinical Microbiology, Attikon University General Hospital, Athens, Greece): In vitro-in vivo correlation for posaconazole and voriconazole against aspergillosis.

16.30-16.45

Rolf Boesten1, Gijs Dingemans2, Bart Kraak1, Ferry Hagen1, Bart Theelen1, Saulo Aflitos1, Guus Simons2, and Teun Boekhout1 (1CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Yeast Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 2PathoFinder B.V., Maastricht, The Netherlands): Novel Candida Diagnostics based on Comparative Genomics.

16.45-17.00

Javad Najafzadeh1,2,3, Jiufeng Sun1,4, Vania Vicente1,5, Bert Gerrits van den Ende1, Sybren de Hoog1,2,6 (1CBS–KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 2Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 3Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran; 4Department of Dermatology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China; 5Department of Basic Pathology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil; 6Peking University Health Science Center, Research Center for Medical Mycology, Beijing, China): Fonsecaea nubica, a new agent of human chromoblastomycosis revealed using molecular data.