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. 

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

Final scientific programme

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Abstracts Submission

Regular and late-breaker abstract submissions are closed now. 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)

For support and any other requests, please contact conferences(at)escmid.org

Integrated Symposia

Our Integrated Symposia partners comprehensive sponsored sessions. The Integrated Symposia details will be published in June 2025.