Program

Sunday 9/24/2023
4:00 - 6:00pm | Registration
6:00 - 8:00pm | Welcome and Networking Reception

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Monday 9/25/2023

8:00 - 9:00am  |  Registration / Breakfast
9:00 - 12:00pm  |  Session - Therapeutics / Antimicrobial Resistance / Diagnostics
12-00 - 1:30pm  |  Mentoring Lunch - sponsored by Ngo Research Society
1:30 - 4:00pm  |  Session - Therapeutics / Antimicrobial Resistance / Diagnostics continued
4:00 - 5:30pm  |  Poster Session 1 / Happy Hour
5:30 - 8:00pm  |  Dinner On Your Own
8:00 - 10:00pm  |  Workshop (TBD) / Poster Talks

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Tuesday 9/26/2023
8:00 - 9:00am  |  Registration / Breakfast
9:00 - 12:30pm  |  Session - Vaccines 
12:30 - 2:30pm  |  Sponsored Lunch
2:30 - 4:30pm  |  Sessions - Vaccines and Host Response
4:30 - 6:00pm  |  Poster Session 2 / Happy Hour
6:00 - 8:00pm  |  Dinner On Your Own
8:00 - 10:00pm  |  Workshop (Genomics) / Poster Talks

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Wednesday 9/27/2023
8:00 - 9:00am  |  Registration / Breakfast
9:00 - 12:30pm  |  Session - New Technologies and Novel Therapeutics– Boston Biotech Community Panel
12:30pm  |  On your Own to Explore Boston - See Conference Sponsored Activities

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Thursday 9/28/2023
8:00 - 9:00am  |  Registration / Breakfast
9:00 - 12:00pm  |  Session - Epidemiology and Clinical Disease
12:00 - 2:00pm  |  Lunch 
2:00 - 4:30pm  |  Session - Host Response
7:00pm  |  Conference Gala Dinner (State Room, Boston, MA)

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Friday 9/29/2023

8:00 - 9:00am  |  Registration / Breakfast
9:00 - 12:00pm  |  Session - Bacterial Physiology/Genomics
12:00pm  |  Meeting Adjourns (Announcement of next IPNC Meeting)

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TOPIC AREAS

1. Therapeutics/Antimicrobial Resistance/Diagnostics.  Includes studies on detection, prevention, and development of new antimicrobials to combat resistance, novel therapeutic approaches to combat infection, and diagnostics.

2. Vaccines.  Includes studies on development, evaluation, and implementation of vaccine strategies in preclinical settings and in vivo, and vaccination outcomes and impact on reinfection and transmission.

3. Host Responses to Infection.  Includes studies of host molecular, cellular, and immunological responses to Neisseria in vitro and in vivo and how these can guide studies on the evaluation of therapeutics and vaccines.

4. Bacterial Physiology, Genomics and Responses.  Includes studies on bacterial responses to the environment in vitro and in vivo including animal model and human studies.

5. Epidemiology/Clinical Disease.  Includes studies on epidemiology of meningitis and gonorrhea worldwide, with particular focus on developing countries, evaluation and definition of clinical disease, and strategies for prevention of transmission.
    

Subject to Change.