Programme
EVENT SCHEDULE PLAN
ATTENTION:
Language Guidelines for Presentations
All presentation slides should be prepared in English. However, presenters are encouraged to deliver their talks in their native language, whether Portuguese or Spanish.
This guideline has been established to align with the requirements of the funding grants supporting the event. By allowing presentations in native languages, we aim to enhance the practical applicability of the training for healthcare professionals who work directly with patients in frontline health services.
This approach ensures that vital information is conveyed effectively to all participants, fostering a more inclusive and comprehensive learning environment.
10 DECEMBER 2024
December 10, 2024– Morning Session
7:30 – Registration
8:00 – Opening Ceremony
9:00 – Welcome Conference: “Local Experiences in Facing PCM” – Anamaria Paniago (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil)
Chaired by James Venturini (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil)
10:00 – ROUND-TABLE: “CLINICAL CHALLENGES IN PCM”
Chaired by Angela Tobon (Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical, Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia) and Rinaldo “Tietê” Pôncio Mendes (UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil)
1. “Association between PCM and tuberculosis” – Angela Tobón (Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical, Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia)
2. “Involvement of the central nervous system in PCM patients” – Rinaldo “Tietê” Pôncio Mendes (UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil)
3. “Juvenile PCM – Experience in Argentina” – Gustavo Giusiano (Instituto de Medicina Regional, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Resistencia, Argentina)
11:30 – Country side experience – “Sertanejo Experience in the Big City: Visit to the Municipal Market of Campo Grande”
December 10, 2024 – Afternoon Session
13:30 – ROUND-TABLE: “CLINICAL CHALLENGES IN PCM”
Chaired by : Angela Tobon (Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical, Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia) and Rinaldo “Tietê” Pôncio Mendes (UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil)
4. “PCM in AIDS patients” – Gil Benard (Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
5. “Association of PCM with solid neoplasms” – Rinaldo “Tietê” Pôncio Mendes (UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil)
6. “PCM in pregnancy” – Priscila Marques de Macedo (Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
7. “Malabsorption syndrome in PCM” – Rinaldo “Tietê” Pôncio Mendes (UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil) e Renata Rebello Mendes Gomes (Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Aracaju, Brazil)
8. Should we worry about TDM in Paracoccidioidomycosis – Adriana Kono (Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
15:30 – COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER PITCH PRESENTATION
16:00 – ROUND-TABLE: “CLINICAL CHALLENGES IN PCM” (Continuation)
Chaired by Angela Tobon (Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical, Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia) and Rinaldo “Tietê” Pôncio Mendes (UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil)
9. “Cost-effectiveness in the treatment of PCM: a comparison between itraconazole and cotrimoxazole” – Ricardo de Souza Cavalcante (UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil)
10. “Clinical Experiences with PCM in Paraguay” – Joaquín R. Villalba Ramos (Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Paraguay, Asunción, Paraguay) and Jose G. Pereira Brunelli (Center for Dermatological Diseases – Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare, Paraguay)
11. “Clinical Experiences with PCM in Bolivia” – Roxana Claudia Iquize Condore (Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Cidade do México, México)
12. “Dermatological involvement in PCM-usual findings and diagnostic challenges” – Priscila Marques de Macedo (Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
13. “Difficulties of Diagnosing PCM in a Non-Endemic Setting” – Jacques Meis (Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Netherlands)
11 DECEMBER 2024
December 11, 2024 – Morning Session
8:00 – LECTURE: “TAXONOMY OF THE PARACOCCIDIOIDES GENUS: GENOMIC, DIAGNOSTIC AND OTHER VIEWS”– Oliver Keatinge-Clay (Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia)
Chaired by Diego Cáceres (IMMY, Bogotá, Colombia)
8:40 – COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER PITCH PRESENTATION
9:00 – ROUND TABLE: “ECO-EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PCM”
Chaired by Vânia Vicente (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil)
- “Challenges and Perspectives of the Mycobiome for Understanding the Ecology of Paracoccidioides spp” – Eduardo Bagagli (UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil)
- “Fungal Footprints in Forgotten Corners: Paracoccidioidomycosis Emerging in Brazil’s Overlooked Landscapes” – Marcus M. Teixeira (Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil) – Marcus M. Teixeira (Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil)
- “Infection in animals” – Igor Massahiro de Souza Suguiura (Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina Brazil)
- “NAVIO Project (‘Navegação Ampliada para a Vigilância Intensiva e Otimizada’), an overview – Luiz Alcântara (Fiocruz Minas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
11:00 – LECTURE: “THE TIME FOR ACTION IN NOW! THE WHO FUNGAL PRIORITY PATHOGEN LIST”
Speaker: Joshua Nosanchuk (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA)
Chaired by Clayton L. Borges (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brasil)
December 11, 2024– Afternoon Session
13:30 – ROUND-TABLE: “PCM DIAGNOSIS: PRESENT AND FUTURE”
Chaired by Rosely Zancope (Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Jose Pereira Brunelli (Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, Asunción, Paraguay)
- “Conventional methods for the Diagnosis of PCM” – Beatriz Gómez (Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia)
- “Challenges in the Production of Paracoccidioides spp exoantigens” – Adriana Pardini Vicentini (Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, Brazil)
- “Use of bioinformatics as a strategy in the development of new diagnostic tests” – Juan G. McEwen (University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia)
- “Development of molecular tests for PCM diagnosis” – Anderson M Rodrigues (Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
15:00 COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER PITCH PRESENTATION
15:30 – ROUND-TABLE: “PCM DIAGNOSIS: PRESENT AND FUTURE” (continuation)
- “To be defined” – Diego Cáceres (IMMY, Bogotá, Colombia)
- “Immunobioinformatics in the development of new diagnostic tests” – Clayton Luiz Borges (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil)
- “Development of a point-of-care test for PCM” – Simone S. Weber (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil)
- “Monitoring the cellular immune response during antifungal treatment: development of Interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA-PCM) and beyond” – Marcelo De Carvalho Bittencourt (Université de Lorraine, Nancy, França)
17:15 – ROUND-TABLE: “NEW ANTIFUNGAL DRUGS FOR PCM TREATMENT: PRECLINICAL STUDIES”
Chairman: Anamelia L. Bocca (Fiocruz São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil)
- ” New targets and strategies for antifungal development in PCM “ – Érika Seki Kioshima Cotica (Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Brazil)
- “Molecules targeted to thioredoxin reductase: results and challenges” – Maria Sueli Soares Felipe (Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil)
12 DECEMBER 2024
December 12, 2024– Morning Session
8:00 – ROUND TABLE “PARACOCCIDIOIDES-HOST INTERACTION”
Chaired by Eva Burger (Universidade Federal de Alfenas, Alfenas, Brazil)
- “Extracellular Vesicles” – Rosana Puccia (Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
- “Exploring the complexity of mono- and polymicrobial fungal biofilms: in vivo, ex-vivo, and in vitro models for discovering virulence factors and anti-virulence drugs” – Maria José Soares Mendes Giannini (UNESP, Araraquara, Brazil)
- “Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) and Paracoccidioides: Identification of a Fungal Escape Mechanism from NETs” – Luciane Alarcão Dias-Melicio (UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil)
- “COVID-19 and PCM: murine experimental model” – Anamelia L. Bocca (Fiocruz São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil)
- “Immunological Dynamics in Patients with Paracoccidioidomycosis Before, During, and After Antifungal Treatment” – James Venturini (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil)
10:00 – COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER PITCH PRESENTATION
10:30 – RROUND TABLE “EPIDEMIOLOGY AND SURVEILLANCE OF PCM”
Chaired by Gil Benard (Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
- “Morbidity and mortality rates due to PCM in Brazil, a non-compulsory notification disease” – Ziadir F. Coutinho (Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- “PCM Surveillance Program in Brazil” – Maria Aparecida Shikanai Yasuda (Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
11:30 – LECTURE: “MICROBIOLOGICAL CULTURE COLLECTION – EXPERIENCES FROM THE TAXONLINE FUNGUS COLLECTION”
Speaker: Vânia Vicente (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil)
Chaired by Marcia Melhem (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul and Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
December 12, 2024– Afternoon Section
13:30 – LECTURE: “VACCINES FOR CONFRONTING PCM”
Speaker: Carlos Pelleschi Taborda (Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
Chaired by Rosana Puccia (Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
14:10 WORKING GROUP ON CLINICAL TRIAL FOR THE TREATMENT OF PULMONARY FIBROSIS IN PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS.
Chaired by Anamaria Mello Miranda Paniago (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil) e Ricardo de Souza Cavalcante (UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil)
14:20 PART I – LECTURE: “EXPLORING SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF ITRACONAZOLE AND PENTOXIFYLLINE AND OTHER IMMUNOMODULATORY COMPOUNDS IN THE TREATMENT PULMONARY FIBROSIS IN PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS: EVIDENCE-BASED STRATEGIES FOR ADVANCING THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES”
Speaker: Angel Gonzales (Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia)
Chaired by James Venturini (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil)
15:00 COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER PITCH PRESENTATION
16:00 PARTE II ROUND TABLE: “PULMONARY SEQUELAE IN PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS”
Chaired by Rinaldo Poncio Mendes (UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil)
- “Disease Severity Assessment in Pulmonary Sequelae in Paracoccidioidomycosis: An Image Evaluation-Based Classification” – To be confirmed
- “Assessing Pulmonary Function in Pulmonary Paracoccidioidomycosis” – Andre Natan Costa (Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
- Prognostic Serum Biomarkers for Evaluation of Pulmonary Sequelae in Paracoccidioidomycosis” – James Venturini (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil)
13 DECEMBER 2024
December 13, 2024– Morning Section
8:00 WORKING GROUP ON CLINICAL TRIAL FOR THE TREATMENT OF PULMONARY FIBROSIS IN PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS (continuation)
Chaired by Anamaria Mello Miranda Paniago (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil) and Ricardo de Souza Cavalcante (UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil)
08:00 PART III – LECTURE: “CLINICAL TRIALS AND ENDEMIC MYCOSES”
Speaker: Flávio Queiroz Telles (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil)
Chaired by Gustavo Giusiano (Instituto de Medicina Regional, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Resistencia, Argentina)
8:40 COFFEE BREAK
9:10 PART IV – HEALTHCARE SERVICE PRESENTATION
Argentina: Gustavo Giusiano
Bolívia: Roxana Claudia Iquize
Brazil – Centro de Medicina Tropical de Rondônia: Rui Rafael Durlacher
Brazil – INI-Fiocruz: Priscila Marques de Macedo
Brazil – UFPR: Flávio Queiroz Telles
Brazil – Unesp/Botucatu: Ricardo de Souza Cavalcante e Silvio A. Marques
Brazil – Unicamp: Plinio Trabasso
Brazil – Universidade de São Paulo: Adriana Satie G. Kono, Marcello Magri, André Costa Natan e Gil Benard
Brazil – Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul: Anamaria Mello Miranda Paniago
Brazil – USP-RP: Rodrigo Santana
Colombia: Angela Tobón
Paraguay: Joaquín R. Villalba Ramos and Jose G. Pereira Brunelli
December 13, 2024– Período da Tarde
14:00 – WORKSHOP “COLLABORATING FOR PROGRESS: DISCUSSION AND PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT TO DRIVE POSITIVE AGENDA”
Chaired by Anamaria Mello Miranda Paniago (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil), Ricardo de Souza Cavalcante (UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil), and James Venturini (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil)
- “Clinical Trial for the use of Itraconazole and Pentoxifylline in the management of pulmonary sequelae”
- “Multicenter study to assess the incidence and severity of sequelae in paracoccidioidomycosis”
- “Interferon Release Assay for Paracoccidioidomycosis: A Multicentric Study on Development and Validation for Treatment Monitoring”
- Other topics to be proposed by the participants.
Registration Options: In-Person and Online Attendance
We are excited to offer two registration options for the “International Conference on Paracoccidioidomycosis: Challenges & Milestones in the 21st Century (PCM XXI)”: in-person and online attendance.
Each option is designed to provide unique benefits to accommodate your needs and preferences.
In-Person Attendance
Attending the conference in person offers a reduced registration fee to help offset the costs of accommodation and travel to Campo Grande. This option provides a more immersive experience with greater opportunities for networking, collaboration, and direct engagement with experts in the field. Enjoy face-to-face interactions, participate in real-time discussions, and experience the vibrant atmosphere of the conference firsthand.
Online Attendance
For those who prefer the flexibility of remote participation, our online attendance option allows you to attend the conference from anywhere in the world. As an online attendee, you will have access to all conference sessions and materials remotely. Additionally, you can watch the recorded sessions at your convenience for up to six months after the event. This option ensures that you won’t miss any valuable content, even if you have scheduling conflicts during the live sessions.
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(***) Payment Fees: Credit Card: R$15,00, PIX: R$5,00 (available only in Brazil), Boleto: R$5,00 (available only in Brazil).
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