MedVetPATHOGENS 2018

Formerly known as “VetPath”, this conference series was initiated in 2010 by Julian Rood, Ben Adler and a group of international colleagues to fill a major gap in the microbial conference spectrum by bringing together scientists and veterinarians interested in the infection mechanisms of veterinary pathogens.

With the rebranding of the Prato conference as MedVetPATHOGENS we would like in 2018 to attract scientists interested in the biology of bacterial pathogens as a whole, whether veterinary or medical.

The conference retains the focus on animals as a unique source of host-pathogen interaction models, diversity of ecological and evolutionary scenarios, and reservoirs for virulence and resistance traits.

MedVetPATHOGENS is guided by the “one health” ethos in recognition to the fact that the distinction between human and veterinary pathogens is merely artificial; they are not discrete microbial entities but the consequence of niche and host adaptive processes in an evolutionary continuum.

All aspects of bacterial pathogenesis and bacterial infections will be covered, although contributions on antimicrobial resistance and the microbiome will be particularly welcome in this edition.

Keynote speaker: Pascale Cossart, Institut Pasteur, Paris