Invited & Abstracts Programme

The IMMEM programme offers extensive learning opportunities through lectures, panel discussions, plenary, debate and bioinformatics sessions. The committee selects the most compelling and cutting-edge topics and esteemed speakers to guarantee a great experience for all attendees. The preliminary programme details will be posted here soon.

Invited Programme Objectives

The Programme Committee focuses on the below objectives to provide you with the most comprehensive and cutting-edge Programme of the conference: 

  • Understand plasmid epidemiology
  • Typing: when, how, and where?
  • Genomics implementation
  • Environmental surveillance for public health
  • Antimicrobial susceptibility through genotyping
  • Updates in bioinformatics
  • Novel typing and nomenclature
  • Data sharing and equity
  • Vaccine-driven evolution

Preliminary programme

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Abstracts Submission

The call for abstract submissions will open from 1 to 14 March 2025, and submitters will be notified of the decision in April 2025. Late-breaker abstract submissions will take place from 5 to 23 May 2025, and submitters will be notified in July 2025.

Abstract topics

  1. New or updated bioinformatics tools
  2. Resistance profiling using genomics data
  3. Strain or plasmid epidemiology
  4. Novel typing methods
  5. Genomics for public health
  6. Evolution of vaccine-preventable pathogens 

Please Note: All topics, no restrictions, guarantee flexibility of the program to accommodate orals (e.g. predict a session for early and late decisions)