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ESCMID Mobile Lab

Bringing the bench to ESCMID Global, the ESCMID Mobile Lab allows participants to get hands-on training with various microscopy-based and molecular techniques guided by experts in the field. These small group workshops focus on giving trainees and early-career researchers a chance to develop a new skill while attending ESCMID Global. Learn more and register for these unique and innovative sessions.

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  1. Log in via the “Individual Registration” using the same email address you used for your congress registration to access your personal space.
  2. There, you will see an overview of the tickets you have already booked.
  3. To add workshops, click “Buy” at the top of the page next to the shopping cart.


Please make sure not to book any overlapping courses, as you can only attend one course per time slot.

Programme

Continuing our successful onsite hands-on workshops, the ESCMID Mobile Lab is returning to ESCMID Global 2027 in Stockholm. Microscopy-based trainings will once again explore topics in parasitology organised and led by Claire Rogers, from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom. Additionally there will be again sessions organised in collaboration with the ESCMID Fungal Infections Study Group (EFISG) which will explore fungal infection topics.

Time

Title

Description

Focus

Instructor

08:30-10:30 CEST

Introduction to fungal culture (beginner)

No previous knowledge required

Introduction to key fungal media, basic staining and basic microscopic recognition. Identify yeast and mould colonies, examine morphology of colonies, use and interpret basic stains, understand how microscopy aids presumptive diagnosis

EFISG: Angelika Bauer & Rosalie Sacheli

13:30-15:30 CEST

Introduction to fungal culture (beginner)

No previous knowledge required

Introduction to key fungal media, basic staining and basic microscopic recognition. Identify yeast and mould colonies, examine morphology of colonies, use and interpret basic stains, understand how microscopy aids presumptive diagnosis

EFISG: Angelika Bauer & Rosalie Sacheli

13.30-15.30 CEST

Anaerobic bacteriology essentials: culture systems, identification and AST

No previous knowledge required

A hands-on course for clinical microbiologists including trainees, as well as lab technicians and anyone interested in anaerobic bacteriology, designed as both an introduction for beginners and a refresher on the latest methodologies. Participants will learn about anaerobic culture systems, identification workflows including colony morphology, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (practical course components include demonstrations of cultures and an opportunity to experience the function of an anaerobic workstation).

ESGAI: Mervenur Demir, Michael Buhl, Roberta Maria Antonello, Trefor Morris

16:15-18:15 CEST

Microscopical identification of main structures and species from culture (advanced)

Basic knowledge on fungal diagnostics required

Hands-on microscopy of hyphae, conidogenesis, and other structures as chlamydospores, Hülle cells, ascomata, etc., differentiate main Aspergillus, Fusarium, Mucorales, Scedosporium and yeast (Candida and Cryptococcus) species

EFISG: Laura Alcázar-Fuoli, Jochem Buil

16:15-18:15 CEST

Anaerobic bacteriology essentials: culture systems, identification and AST

No previous knowledge required

A hands-on course for clinical microbiologists including trainees, as well as lab technicians and anyone interested in anaerobic bacteriology, designed as both an introduction for beginners and a refresher on the latest methodologies. Participants will learn about anaerobic culture systems, identification workflows including colony morphology, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (practical course components include demonstrations of cultures and an opportunity to experience the function of an anaerobic workstation).

ESGAI: Mervenur Demir, Michael Buhl, Roberta Maria Antonello, Trefor Morris

Time

Title

Description

Focus

Instructor

08:30-10:30 CEST

Microscopical identification of main structures and species from culture (advanced)

Basic knowledge on fungal diagnostics required

Hands-on microscopy of hyphae, conidogenesis, and other structures as chlamydospores, Hülle cells, ascomata, etc., differentiate main Aspergillus, Fusarium, Mucorales, Scedosporium and yeast (Candida and Cryptococcus) species

EFISG: Laura Alcázar-Fuoli, Jochem Buil

13:30-15:30 CEST

Malaria differential diagnosis (beginners)

Basic knowledge required (eg life cycle stages, previous experience of examining thin blood films)

Pf, Pv, Po, Pm and % parasitaemia

Claire Rogers

16:15-18:15 CEST

Morphological diagnosis of Leishmania, Trypanosomes and Microfilariae

No previous knowledge required

Examination of tissue smears for the presence of amastigotes Examination of thin and thick blood films for the presence of trypomastigotes. Differential diagnosis of Tb vs Tc Examination of thick blood films for microfilariae. Differential diagnosis of common microfilariae species

Claire Rogers

Time

Title

Description

Focus

Instructor

08:30-10:30 CEST

Malaria differential diagnosis (advanced)

Experience of looking at thin blood films for malaria

Pf, Pv, Po, Pm and Pk, anti-coagulant effects

Claire Rogers

13.30-15.30 CEST

Morphological diagnosis of faecal protozoa

No previous knowledge required

Morphological features of protozoal cysts

Claire Rogers

16.15-18.15 CEST

Faecal examination (eggs and cysts-advanced)

Previous experience of examination of faeces for ova, cysts and parasites

Examination of faecal specimens and differential diagnosis of protozoal cysts and helminth eggs and larvae

Claire Rogers

Time

Title

Description

Focus

Instructor

08:30-10:30 CEST

Malaria differential diagnosis (beginners)

Basic knowledge required (eg life cycle stages, previous experience of examining thin blood films)

Pf, Pv, Po, Pm and % parasitaemia

Claire Rogers

13:30-15:30 CEST

Malaria differential diagnosis (advanced)

Experience of looking at thin blood films for malaria

HandPf, Pv, Po, Pm and Pk, anti-coagulant effectss-on microscopy of hyphae, conidogenesis, and other structures as chlamydospores, Hülle cells, ascomata, etc., differentiate main Aspergillus, Fusarium, Mucorales, Scedosporium and yeast (Candida and Cryptococcus) species

Claire Rogers

16:15-18:15 CEST

Diagnosis of malaria by thick film

Previous experience of diagnosing malaria from thin blood films

Benefits of thick films, identification of malaria parasites, basic differential diagnosis

Claire Rogers

Time

Title

Description

Focus

Instructor

08:30-10:30 CEST

Morphological diagnosis of Leishmania, Trypanosomes and Microfilariae

No previous knowledge required

Examination of tissue smears for the presence of amastigotes Examination of thin and thick blood films for the presence of trypomastigotes. Differential diagnosis of Tb vs Tc Examination of thick blood films for microfilariae. Differential diagnosis of common microfilariae species

Claire Rogers