• Medical_Professionals
• Medical_students
• Nurses

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the ESCMID Study Group on Biofilms (ESGB) and the Organising Committee, it is our great pleasure to invite you to the EUROBIOFILMS 2015 meeting that will be held in Brno (Czech Republic) from 23 to 26 June 2015. This meeting follows the tradition started with the EUROBIOFILMS meetings organised in 2009 (Rome, Italy) and 2011 (Copenhagen, Denmark) and 2013 (Ghent, Belgium).

Our aim is to provide a platform for all scientists studying basic, clinical and environmental aspects of microbial biofilms to present novel data and to exchange new information on bacterial and fungal biofilms. The multidisciplinary program will cover many topics, and will be balanced between basic, environmental and clinical aspects of microbial biofilms. Many leading scientists in the field will be present as speaker and/or chairperson. Talks will be presented during various plenary sessions, integrated symposia and symposia. On 23 June, several educational pre-conference workshops will be organised.

We strongly encourage you to submit an abstract of your work. In each symposium, four abstracts will be selected to be presented as talks. Other abstracts can be presented in one of the poster sessions. Poster prizes will be awarded for the best basic and best medical poster.

The ESGB and the Organising Committee are making every effort to make this an interesting and enjoyable biofilm conference and we hope to see you in the beautiful city of Brno in June 2015!

Sincerely yours,

Veronika Hola (President of the Organising Committee)

Filipr Ruzicka (Vice-president)

Martin Rulik (Vice-president)

EUR

Group registrations not allowed

Accompanying persons not allowed

We don’t accept Online Abstracts

Hotel Voroněž Brno****

18 mins to congress venue by foot & bus

Address: Křížkovského 47, Brno

Book via direct booking link, click here.

Or use an e-mail: info@voronez.cz with reservation code „Eurobiofilms 2015".

 Eurobiofilms 2015 prices

 CZK

 App.€

Standard double room (single room)185867

 Standard double room 2016 73

 Superior double room (single room) 2306 83

 Superior double room 2466 89

Holiday Inn Brno****

23 mins to congress venue by foot & bus

Address: Křížkovského 20, Brno

Book via direct booking link, click here.

Or use an e-mail: reservations@hibrno.cz with reservation code „Eurobiofilms 2015".

Eurobiofilms 2015 prices

CZK

App.€

Standard Single180065

Standard Double220080

Executive Single240087

Executive Double3000109

Submission Info

You are kindly invited to submit abstracts describing research work that you wish to present at the congress, either orally or as a poster. Please read the following guidelines carefully before submitting your abstract by clicking here

All submissions will be evaluated by the scientific committee.

Accepted abstracts will be published in the final programme & abstract book.

Abstracts must be submitted no later than 18 February 2015.

The scientific committee will review all abstracts, and notification will be given by end of March 2015.

Guidelines for submission of abstracts
1. Authors presenting abstracts must register immediately after being notified of acceptance of their abstract.

2. Abstracts must be submitted in English.

3. Titles should be entered in the "title" field (not as part of the abstract) and should contain no more than 20 words or 70 characters including spaces.
4. Please remember to select a topic.

01 - Methods of detection & diagnosis of biofilm infections
Includes new methods in BF both fungal and bacterial, consensus manuscript, novel approaches in detection & diagnosis

02 - Treatment of biofilm infections
Includes different approaches to the treatment of BF infections both fungal and bacterial

03 - Host responses to biofilms
Includes immunity response to the biofilm infection; host - pathogen and pathogen - host interactions in both fungal and bacterial biofilms

04 - Resistance in biofilms and novel approaches to treatment
Includes nanoparticles, novel antibiofilm compounds, resistance in both fungal and bacterial biofilms

05 - Probiotics and new natural and synthetic anti-biofilm compounds
Includes influence of probiotics to common microflora biofilms, influence of probiotics to pathogens in biofilms (both fungal and bacterial)

06 - Mixed species fungal and bacterial biofilm communities
Includes mixed species biofilms on native and artificial surfaces in the host´s body, interaction etc.

07 - Modelling of biofilms and regulation of biofilm development
Includes biofilm models, models of infection and host response etc.

08 - Biomechanics in biofilm and infections
Includes mechanics in infection - interface between biomechanics, biofilms, and infection

09 - Social interactions in biofilms
Includes quorum-sensing, inter species and species specific signalling etc.

10 - Horizontal gene transfer, evolution and heterogeneity in microbial biofilms
Includes evolution in biofilms, gene transfer etc.

11 - Environmental biofilms and human health
Includes dental unit waterlines, water biofilms, air-conditioning, hospital environemt etc.; evolution of the distribution of species (bacteria, fungi and protists) in complex environmental biofilms

12 - Other

5. Abstract text should be entered in the "abstract text" field and should contain no more than 250 words. The system will not allow you to enter more than 250 words.

6. Any tables, graphs or diagrams should be e-mailed to abstracts@ics.dk.

7. Authors' names and institutions should be entered in the appropriate fields. The following data is needed for the "institution" field – name of the institution, department, city and country.

8. The abstract should be informative, containing: a) a statement of the study's objectives; b) a brief statement of methods if relevant; c) a summary of the results obtained and d) a statement of the conclusions reached.

9. Please avoid references. However, if references are used, they should be included in the abstract texts as: authors, journal, year, volume, and pages.

10. Single space all text and do not leave blank lines. Use standard abbreviations. Place a special or unusual abbreviation in parenthesis after the full word the first time it appears. Use generic names of drugs and write numbers as numerals rather than words.

Abstracts, that do not conform with the above guidelines, will not be accepted.

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