7th Joint Microbiology & Infection Conference of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM) and the Association of General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM)

The 7th joint conference "Joint Microbiology & Infection Conference 2024" of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM) and the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM) offers a unique platform for this! From 2-5 June 2024, nationally and internationally renowned speakers and young scientists, as well as representatives from industry, will meet in Würzburg to exchange information on current developments in science and clinical practice.

As part of this year's DGHM & VAAM joint conference, we are looking forward to our FungiNet session on

Wednesday, 5 June 2024
09:00-10:30 am
Room: Salon Beatrix

With presentations by:

• Corissa Visser and Maximilian Knott: "The role of host cell-derived extracellular vesicles during Aspergillus fumigatus infection".
• Linda Heilig and Fariha Natasha: "Immune recognition of Aspergillus fumigatus by human natural killer cells. "
• Tim Schille and Beatriz Cristovão: "Molecular characterisation of Candida albicans attributes mediating intestinal translocation and the effects of immunotherapy."
• Jennifer Patitz: "The role of neutrophil extracellular vesicles in C. albicans escape from phagocytosis. "
• Alexandra Freitag: "Glycolytic control of the neutrophil immune response to Candida albicans infection."
• Christoph Saffer: "Spatio-temporal modelling reveals cellular contributions to the uptake of Aspergillus fumigatus in the human lung."

In addition to these scientific topics, our Joint Microbiology & Infection Conference will also offer opportunities to discuss topics such as new forms of publication, promotion of young scientists or communication of scientific work and to enable informal exchange with colleagues.