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Scientific Program of The USERN Congress 2024

Auditorium I (floor 1, Auditorium complex of MU-Plovdiv)14-15:30

Opening session

Welcome Messages – President of USERN, Rector of Medical University of Plovdiv, Founder of USERN

Keynote Lecture – Joseph Firth, UK

IFPPP Festival 

Chairs: Mariya Tokmakova, Marianna Murdjeva

Auditorium I (floor 1, Auditorium complex of MU-Plovdiv)16-18:00

Oral presentation session 1

Translational science – present state and future perspectives

Keynote Lecture 2– Alexander Leemans, the Netherlands

Chairs: Tommaso Dorigo, Mariya Ivanovska

Department of Medical Microbiology and Clinical Immunology, hall 316-18:00Workshop 1. Art agar with microbial world
Exhibition Area (floor 1, Auditorium complex of MU-Plovdiv)16-18:00Poster presentation session 1. Medical Sciences

 

Auditorium I

9-10:30

Keynote Lecture 3 – Nima Rezaei, Iran

Oral presentation session 2 – TBD

Chairs: Hassan Abolhassani, Marianna Murdjeva

11-12:30

Keynote lecture 4: Elissaveta Naunova, Bulgaria

Oral presentation session 3. Immune dysregulation (joint session with the Bulgarian association of clinical immunology and J project)

Chairs: Nima Rezaei, Ellisaveta Naumova

Simulation training center of Medical University –Plovdiv (floor 3)

9-10:30

Workshop 2.

Simulation medical training – virtual experience

Mentors: TBD

Chairs: Milena Sandeva

Hall 3 (Department of Microbiology and Immunology)

11-12:30

Workshop 3.

mPCR in detection of respiratory, kidney, CNS and sexually-transmitted diseases

Mentors: Yordan Kalchev, Andeana Angelova (Dept. Microbiology and Immunology)

Chairs: Hassan Abolhassani, Michael Petrov

Auditorium IV

9-10:30

Oral presentation session 3

11-12:30

Keynote Lecture 5Frank Selke, USA

Oral presentation session 4 – TBD

Chairs: Joseph Firth, Hristo Ivanov

Exhibition Area (lounge, floor 2, Auditorium complex of Medical University of Plovdiv)

9-10:30

Poster presentation session 2. 

Chairs: Alexander Leemans, Ralitsa Raycheva

11-12:30

Poster presentation session 3. TBD

Chairs: Alexander Leemans, Emil Slavov

Roundtable (floor 2, Auditorium V, Auditorium complex of MU-Plovdiv)

9-10:30

Meet the Expert 1.

How to Prepare a Scientific Project for Funding? 

Radmilla Fileva, project consultant, MU-Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Meet the Expert 2.

Surgery – Challenges and Opportunities in Life

Frank Selke, Chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Rhode Island Hospital, USA

11-12:30

Meet the Expert 3.

 How AI could affect the future of research worldwide?

Tommaso Dorigo, USERN President, Italy

Meet the Expert 4.

Immunogenetics – new challenges

Hristo Ivanov, Department of Medical Genetics, Bulgaria

 

Auditorium I

13:30 – 15:00

Oral presentation session 5.

Strategic Innovation program of MU-Plovdiv-1. WP 3. Modern approaches in diagnosis of infectious syndromes and inflammatory disorders 

Chairs: Frank Selke, Nikoleta Traykova

 

15:30 – 17:00

Keynote Lecture 6Hassan Abolhassani, Sweden

 

Oral presentation session 6 – TBD

 

Chairs: Tommaso Dorigo, Drozdstoy Stoyanov

Hall 3, Department of Microbiology and immunology

13:30 – 15:00

Workshop 4. 

Molecular diagnosis of mitochondrial dysfunction

Mentor: Yordan Sbirkov, Maria Gevezova

Chairs: Hassan Abolhassani, Maria Kazakova

 

Exhibition Area (lounge, floor 2, Auditorium complex of Medical University of Plovdiv)

13:30-15:00

Poster presentation session 4– TBD

Chairs: Tommaso Dorigo, Joseph Firth

 

15:30 – 17:00

Poster presentation session 3– TBD

 

Chairs: Frank Selke, Nikolay Mehterov

Roundtable (floor 2, Auditorium V, Auditorium complex of MU-Plovdiv)

13:30-15:00

Meet the Expert 5.

Science and Pseudoscience: Current Challenges

Nima Rezaei, USERN Founder, Head of Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Iran

Meet the Expert 6. 

Challenges in Medical Imaging

Alexander Leemans, Associate Professor, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

15:30 – 17:00

Meet the Expert 7.

Mariya Spassova

 

Meet the Expert 8.

Joseph Firth

Auditorium IV

15:30 – 17:00

Oral presentation session 5.

Strategic innovation program of MU-Plovdiv-2. Immune deficiencies and translational science – present state and future perspectives

 

Chairs: Hristo Taskov, Margarita Genova

 

 

Auditorium I

9-10:30

USERN Festival 

Chairs: Nima Rezaei, Mariya Ivanovska

11-12:30

USERN Laureates Talks

Closing Ceremony

Chairs: Nima Rezaei, Tomasso Dorigo, Maria Tokmakova, Marianna Murdjeva

12:30-14

Lunch