| Wednesday, September 4, 2019 | |
| 14.00 – 16.00 | Registration |
| Opening Ceremony | |
| 16.00 | Introduction and Welcome |
| Beate Averhoff (Germany) | |
| 16.30 | Opening Lecture: Acinetobacter baumannii: from the clinical management to the non-antimicrobial approaches |
| Jerónimo Pachón (Seville, Spain) | |
| Session 1 | Population genetics, evolution and comparative genomics |
| 17.00 | Keynote Lecture 1: Tracking lineages of extensively antibiotic resistant GC1 and GC2 A. baumannii |
| Ruth Hall (Sydney, Australia) | |
| 17.30 – 18.30 | Oral communications |
| 17.30 | Oc 1 |
| 17.45 | Oc 2 |
| 18.00 | Oc 3 |
| 18.15 | Oc 4 |
| 18.30 | Welcome Reception |
| Thursday, September 5, 2019 | |
| Session 2 | Insights into Acinetobacter baumannii virulence and pathogenicity |
| 9.00 | Keynote Lecture 2: Iron and Acinetobacter baumannii pathogenicity |
| Paolo Visca (Rome, Italy) | |
| 9.30 – 10.30 | Oral communications |
| 9.30 | Oc 1 |
| 9.45 | Oc 2 |
| 10.00 | Oc 3 |
| 10.15 | Oc 4 |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 3 | Emergence and genetics of antibiotic resistance |
| 11.00 | Keynote Lecture 3: Role of rapid diagnostics in prevention and control of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter |
| Laurent Poirel (Fribourg, Switzerland) | |
| 11.30 – 12.30 | Oral communications |
| 11.30 | Oc 1 |
| 11.45 | Oc 2 |
| 12.00 | Oc 3 |
| 12.15 | Oc 4 |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 – 14.30 | Poster Session 1 |
| Session 4 | Genetics and regulation of infection |
| 14.30 | Keynote Lecture 4: Regulation of a virulence switch in Acinetobacter baumannii |
| Phil Rather (Atlanta, GA, USA) | |
| 15.00 – 16.00 | Oral communications |
| 15.00 | Oc 1 |
| 15.15 | Oc 2 |
| 15.30 | Oc 3 |
| 15.45 | Oc 4 |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Coffee Break |
| Session 5 | Metabolism and regulation |
| 16.30 | Keynote Lecture 5: Laboratory evolution made EASy: expanding metabolism in Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 |
| Ellen Neidle (Athens, GA, USA) | |
| 15.00 – 16.00 | Oral communications |
| 15.00 | Oc 1 |
| 15.15 | Oc 2 |
| 15.30 | Oc 3 |
| 15.45 | Oc 4 |
| 18.30 | Buses depart from the Biologicum for conference dinner |
| 19.00 | Conference Dinner |
| Friday, September 6, 2019 | |
| Session 6 | Adaptation and persistence |
| 9.00 | Keynote Lecture 6: Dry and salty: how Acinetobacter copes with low water stress |
| Volker Müller (Frankfurt, Germany) | |
| 9.30 – 10.30 | Oral communications |
| 9.30 | Oc 1 |
| 9.45 | Oc 2 |
| 10.00 | Oc 3 |
| 10.15 | Oc 4 |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 7 | Global and local epidemiology of Acientobacter |
| 11.00 | Keynote Lecture 7: Molecular epidemiology of clinical, animal, and environmental isolates of A. baumannii |
| Paul Higgins (Cologne, Germany) | |
| 11.30 – 12.30 | Oral communications |
| 11.30 | Oc 1 |
| 11.45 | Oc 2 |
| 12.00 | Oc 3 |
| 12.15 | Oc 4 |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 – 14.30 | Poster Session 1 |
| Session 8 | New therapeutic approaches |
| 14.30 | Keynote Lecture 8: Future alternatives to treat infections caused by Acinetobacter baumannii |
| Jordi Vila (Barcelona, Spain) | |
| 15.00 – 16.00 | Oral communications |
| 15.00 | Oc 1 |
| 15.15 | Oc 2 |
| 15.30 | Oc 3 |
| 15.45 | Oc 4 |
| 16.00 | End of Symposium and Farewell |
| Beate Averhoff |
