SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

	THURSDAY DECEMBER 19TH
10:00	MEETING REGISTRATION OPENS
10:30–12:30	PRE-MEETING SYMPOSIUM: ORAL PRESENTATIONS Room: Cámara Moderator: Sandra Pascual. University of Alicante (UA), Spain.
13:00-14:00	Lunch break - Hall
14:00-16:00	POSTER PRESENTATIONS Room: Cristal Evaluators: Pascual Martinez. University of Alicante (UA), Spain.
17:00-17:30	SYMPOSIUM WELCOME Amparo Navarro Faure. Dean of the University of Alicante (UA). Jordi Cano Ochando. President of the Symposium (A-WISH). Silvia Sanchez Ramon. President of the Spanish Society for Immunology (SEI). Marina Pollan Santamaria. Director of the National Institutes of Health Carlos III (ISCIII).
17:30-18:00	KEYNOTE SPEAKER Room: Cámara Moderator: Paulette Esperanza. Hospital Universitario Puerta del Hierro, Spain. Circular Health: sustainable development goals to fight Antimicrobial Resistance. Ilaria Capua. Senior Fellow for Global Health, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Europe, Italy.
18:00-20:00	SESSION 1. EMERGING PARASITES, BACTERIA AND FUNGI Room: Cámara Moderator: Claudia Rita. Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Spain. Antimicrobial resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Iñaki Comas. Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, Spain. One health approach for surveillance of tick-borne diseases. José Antonio Oteo. Center of Rickettsiosis and Arthropod-Borne Diseases, Spain. Emerging fungal pathogens. Ana Alastruey. National Institutes of Health Carlos III, Spain. First Report on Mycetoma in Turkana (Kenya). Maria Francisca Colom. Miguel Hernandez University, Spain
	FRIDAY DECEMBER 15TH
9:30-11:00	SESSION 2. EMERGING VIRUS Room: Cámara Moderator: Josefa Antón Botella. University of Alicante, Spain. Immunology of Ebola Virus Disease. Cesar Muñoz Fontela. Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Germany. Monkeypox as a zoonotic disease in Africa. Juan Jose Badiola. University of Zaragoza, Spain. Longevity of human immune memory to poxviruses. Margarita del Val. Centro De Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa-CSIC, Spain. Lung innate immune signature remodeling after influenza virus infection. Michael Schotsaert. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA.
11:00-11:30	Coffee break - Hall
11:30-13:30	SESSION 3. NEW THERAPIES AND CLINICAL DETECTION METHODS Room: Cámara Moderator: Mónica Martínez Gallo. Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Spain. Edge Artificial Intelligence for tropical diseases quantification. Jose Miguel Rubio. National Institutes of Health Carlos III, Spain. Fighting against multidrug resistant emerging bacteria with new antimicrobials. Jordi Vila. Hospital Clinic School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Spain. Development of the West-Nile Virus Vaccine. Jorge Carrillo. IRSICAIXA, Spain Universal influenza virus vaccine. Adolfo Garcia Sastre. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA.
14:00-15:00	Lunch break - Hall
15:00-17:00	SESION 4. ONE HEALTH AND PUBLIC POLICIES Room: Cámara Moderator: David Navarro Ortega. University of Valencia and Clinic University Hospital, Spain. Lessons from Antarctic Expeditions. Antonio Alcami. Centro De Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa-CSIC, Spain. Impact of climate change on the emergence of vector-borne infectious diseases. Ana Vazquez. National Institutes of Health Carlos III, Spain. Emerging Pathogen and Organ Donation in Transplantation. Mario Fernández-Ruiz. University Hospital 12 de Octubre, Spain. One Health and emerging pathogens. Maria Neira. World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland.
17:00-17:30	Coffee break - Hall
17:30-20:00	CLOSING SESSION AND AWARD CEREMONY Room: Cámara Moderators: Oscar de la Calle. Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain. Africa Gonzalez. University of Vigo, Spain. Isabel Jado. Director of the National Microbiology Center at ISCIII Discovery and applications of CRISPR. Francisco Mojica. University of Alicante, Spain. Modulation of innate immunity by viruses of human health interests. Ana Fernandez-Sesma. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA.