Chairmen: Mohammed Al Ahdal (Saudi Arabia), Piero Cappuccinelli (Italy)

Aysegul Karahasan Yagci
Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Microbiology
Istanbul, Turkey
Pseudomonas aeruginosa: an update

Athanassios Tsakris
Medical School of University of Athens, Greece
Emergence of carbapenemases in Europe: phenotypic strategies for prompt detection and differentiation

John Wain
Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Tracking Bacterial Pathogens Using Next Generation Sequencing - Replacing Culture.

David Kelvin
University Health Network, Toronto, Canada, Institute of Infection and Immunity, Shantou, China
From Bird Flu to Zika: Transmission of Emerging Infectious Diseases