A new NDPIA course on zoonotic infections will be organized at Uppsala University 24-27 October 2016. The course will provide a broad view of zoonotic bacterial (1 ECTS) and parasitic (1 ECTS) infections and touch upon epidemiological and molecular mechanisms of zoonotic infections. It will also provide a platform for informal meetings for researchers in the field of zoonotic infections.

Registration deadline: 7 October, 2016.

Link to additional information and registration

As a result from feed-back from participants at the second NDPIA Network Meeting in Gothenburg in April this year, an open NDPIA LinkedIn group (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8522449) has been established with the aim of facilitating networking among NDPIA participants and between NDPIA members and other scientists studying infections and/or antibiotics. All NDPIA members have received an invitation to join this new LinkedIn group. Everybody who joins the group can invite relevant (non-NDPIA) persons to the group. Initially no activities will be announced via the group (this is done as before via www.ndpia.se and via the NDPIA Facebook group).

As previously announced, this 1 ECTS combined lecture course and experimental workshop on model systems for studying microbial infections will be organized via the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) at Umeå University 22-25 August, 2016.

A series of lectures will describe and discuss the use of: C. elegans; zebrafish; chicken embryos; cell cultures, including organotypic models – organoids; mice; as well as in vivo imaging methodology, for studies of infections and host responses. The experimental workshop will include laboratory work demonstrating the use of C. elegans, zebrafish and chicken embryos for studies of bacterial infections.

Link to final schedule

Registration deadline: 10 June, 2016.

Link to additional information and registration
(for both NDPIA and non-NDPIA members)