Program

NOTE: Program is subject to change.

KEY:
Plenary Workshop Symposium Satellite Symposium Other Poster

Sunday, 7 September 2008
10:00 Staphylococcal Small-Colony Variants (SCVs) as Emerging Pathogens
Meeting Room 2
Insight into Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec): Structures and their Evolution
Hall A
         
12:00              
13:00 Staphylococcus aureus Nomenclature: How to Name Strains?
Hall A
Strategy for Recalcitrant MRSA Infections          
15:00              
16:30 Opening Followed by Welcome Drinks
Hall A
18:00              

Monday, 8 September 2008
08:30 Plenary
Hall A
09:30 Morning Tea and Trade Exhibition
Halls B, C and D
10:30 Symposium 1 - Interface with the Environment: Slime, Envelope and Cell Wall
Hall A
12:00 Novartis Sponsored Symposium
Hall A
13:30              
14:00 Symposium 2 - Staphylococcal Virulence and Resistance
Hall A
           
15:00 Afternoon Tea and Poster Session 1
Halls B, C and D
         
15:30 Slime, Cell Wall
Halls B, C and D
Virulence and Resistance
Halls B, C and D
Host
Halls B, C and D
     
16:30        
17:00 Symposium 3 - Staphylococcal Host Interactions
Hall A
18:30              

Tuesday, 9 September 2008
07:00 ISC MRSA WG Seminar
Hall A
08:30 Staphylococcal vaccines: The holy grail
Hall A
09:30 Morning Tea and Trade Exhibition
Halls B, C and D
10:30 Symposium 4 - Community MRSA Epidemiology and New Developments
Hall A
12:00              
12:10 Lunch Symposium - PVL Does it Matter?
Hall A
13:20              
13:30 Symposium 5 - Search and Destroy
Hall A
15:00 Afternoon Tea and Poster Session 2
Halls B, C and D
Community MRSA
Halls B, C and D
Search and Destroy
Halls B, C and D
PVL
Halls B, C and D
Hospital MRSA
Halls B, C and D
MRSA
Halls B, C and D
Staphylococcus
Halls B, C and D
16:30              
18:30 Conference Dinner
23:00              

Wednesday, 10 September 2008
07:00 Late Breaker Abstracts
Hall A
08:30 Plenary 3
Hall A
09:30 Morning Tea and Trade Exhibition
Halls B, C and D
10:30 Symposium 7 - Molecular Diagnostic Assays and Recent Advances in Typing
Hall A
12:00 Janssen-Cilag Lunch Symposium
Hall A
13:30 Symposium 8 - Treatment Issues
Hall A
Symposium 9 - Veterinary Aspects of Staphylococcus
Meeting Room 2
         
15:00 Afternoon Tea and Poster Session 3
Halls B, C and D
Diagnostic
Halls B, C and D
Treatment
Halls B, C and D
Veterinary
Halls B, C and D
Diagnostic Nonmolecular
Halls B, C and D
Clinical
Halls B, C and D
 
16:30 Symposium 10 - Changing Patterns of Staphylococcal Disease
Hall A
18:00 ISSSI 2010
Hall A
18:15 Closing Followed by Farewell Drinks
Hall A
19:00