| Thursday, March 29Â Â Â |
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| 7:30 pm |
Opening Plenary Session: Candida Vaccines: Who, What, When and How |
| 8:30Â pm |
Welcome Mixer |
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| Friday, March 30Â |
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| 8:15 - 9:45 am |
Session 1. Staying in Touch: Environmental Signalling and Regulatory Networks
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| 9:45 - 10:30 am |
Break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 pm |
Session 2. Seeing the Forest: Systematics and Systems Biology
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| 12:00 - 1:30 pm  |
Lunch |
| 1:30 - 3:00 pm |
Session 3. The Arms Race: Antifungal Agents and Resistance
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Clinical talk: Role of Antifungal Resistance in the Treatment of Candida Infections
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| 4:00 - 6:00 pm  |
Poster Session |
| 8:00 - 9:30 pm |
Concurrent Evening Sessions |
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         Cool Tools     |
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      Metabolism
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         Chromatin and Epigenetics |
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         Apoptosis and ROS
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| Saturday, March 31 |
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| 8:15 - 9:45 am |
Session 4. Crust and Mantle: The Yeast Cell SurfaceÂ
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| Â | Clinical talk: Non-culture Based Methods of Diagnosing Invasive Candidiasis
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| 9:45 - 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 pm |
Session 5. Embracing the Enemy: Immune Recognition and Response
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| Â | Clinical Talk: Genetics of Human Susceptibility to Candidiasis
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| 12:00 - 1:30 pm |
Lunch Session: Rodent model session 1Â |
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         Oropharyngeal candidiasis
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         Vulvovaginal candidiasis
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         Drug resistance in lab and patients
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| 1:30 - 3:00 pm |
Session 6. Coping with Adversity: Virulence Factors and Growth in vivo
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| 4:00 - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session |
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| Sunday, April 1Â |
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| 8:15 - 9:45 am |
Session 7. The Preemptive Strike: Vaccines and Host Response
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| 9:45 - 10:30 am  |
Break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 pm |
Session 8. Immigration and Naturalization: Signalling and Adaptation to the Host  |
| 12:00 - 1:30 pm |
Lunch Session:Â Rodent model session 2Â |
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         Dissemination from the GI Tract
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         Infections in non-immunocompromised patients/neonates
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         Catheter infections |
| 1:30 - 3:00 pm |
Session 9. Sex and Identity: Cell Cycle, Morpology and Development
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| 4:00 - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session |
| 7:00 - 11:00 pm |
Banquet |
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| Monday, April 2Â |
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| 8:15 - 9:45 am |
Session 10. Loving Your Neighbor as Yourself: Biofilms and Microbial Communities
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| 9:45 - 10:30 am |
Break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 pm |
Session 11. Moving with the Times: The Evolving Genome
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| Â | Clinical Talk: Epidemiology of Candida Infections
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| 12:00 - 1:00 pm |
Lunch, Summary Discussion and Evaluation
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