Scientific program
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Registration opens and poster placement
Lunch
Welcome and Congress Opening
Nanna Skaarup Andersen, Odense University Hospital
Session 1: Ecology, epidemiology and diagnostics of emerging pathogens: e.g. Anaplasma, Rickettsia, Neoehrlichia, Spiroplasma & Babesia
Chair: Per-Eric Lindgren,(Sweden)
Keynote 1: Christine Wennerås - Neoerlichia and Spiroplasma - new tick-borne causes of human disease
Short break
O1 Anna Grankvist - Risk of transfusion-mediated infection of Neoehrlichia mikurensis- a prevalence and viability study (Sweden)
O2 Helene Mens - Low prevalence of the tick-borne infection Neoehrlichia mikurensis among individuals receiving B-cell depleting therapy in the Capital Region of Denmark – a prospective cohort study (Denmark)
O3 Rima Alsalihi - B-cell responses evoked by Neoehrlichia mikurensis infection (Sweden)
O4 Christine Lingblom - Are there cases of Neoehrlichia mikurensis infection that are misdiagnosed as Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR)? (Sweden)
Poster walk - Session 1 (Posters 1-11): Ecology, epidemiology and diagnostics of emerging pathogens: e.g. Anaplasma, Rickettsia, Neoehrlichia, Spiroplasma & Babesia
Chairs: Karen Krogfelt, Denmark Anna Grankvist, Sweden
Poster walk - Session 3 (Posters 12-22): Borrelia with focus on clinical manifestations and diagnostics
Chairs:Sigurdur Skarphedinsson, Denmark, Steffan Daniel Bos-Haugen, Norway
Session 1 continued
O5 Malin Lager - Spiroplasma ixodetis prevalence in ticks that have bitten humans in Sweden and on the Åland Islands, Finland – what´s the risk of contracting an infection? (Sweden)
O6 Rosalina Rotovnik - Examples of amplicon-based next-generation sequencing for detection of zoonotic vector-borne bacteria and parasites in different host species (Denmark)
O7 Pia Formisano - Developing a recombinant protein ELISA for diagnosis and prevalence studies of human babesiosis, an emerging disease in Scotland (Scotland)
O8 Kristina E M Persson - A new ELISA to measure antibodies against Babesia divergens (Sweden)
End of today. Check-in at hotel
Social event: A citywalk in Nyborg with a fusion of beer and biology. (separate registration)
Dinner at the hotel
Join us for a beerwalk in the ancient city of Nyborg. On this 2 hour walk we will hear about - and taste - the historical significance of Nyborg in the history of Denmark; the Parliament of the Middle Ages, regicide, the Napolean wars and knight tournaments.
On our way, Peter Pelle, a local ranger and nature interpreter, will enlighten us on the unique biodiversity in the area surrounding Nyborg Castle. So come clench your thirst for history, nature and local Danish brews!
Time: Tuesday April 16th from approx. 5PM to 7 PM
Price: 150 DKK per person, including guided tour and alcoholic/non-alcoholic beverages and snacks.
What to bring: shoes for walking, an umbrella if rain
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Session 2
Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBE) - Ecology, epidemiology & molecular biology
Chairs: Anne-Mette Lebech (Denmark), Marika Nordberg (The Ålands Islands)
Keynote 2: Olli Vapalahti - Molecular epidemiology and phylogeography of tick-borne encephalitis virus in Europe
O9 Santseharay Ramirez Almeida - In vitro studies of the activity of broad-spectrum nucleotide analogs against tick-borne encephalitis virus (Denmark)
O10 Sambor Grygorczuk - The factors mediating the blood-brain barrier impairment in tick-borne encephalitis (Poland)
O11 Eszter Tompa - Assessing Age-Related T Cell Dynamics in Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus (TBEV) Vaccination Responses Using FluoroSpot (Sweden)
O12 Patrick Kelly - Leveraging machine-learning algorithms to uncover new risks and potential under-reporting of Tick-Borne Encephalitis (TBE) in Scandinavia (US)
Coffee break in the poster area
Session 2 continues
O13 Urusha Maharjan - Bioinformatics analysis and development of a method for whole genome sequencing of low-level tick-borne encephalitis virus in human and tick samples (Norway)
O14 Alaka Lamsal - Tick-borne encephalitis virus prevalence in questing I.ricinus in southern Scandinavia (Norway)
O15 Hana Orlíková - Increasing incidence of tick-borne encephalitis in the Czech Republic in period 1993-2022 (Czech Republic)
O16 Nicole Barp - Clinical-laboratory features and predictive factors for sequelae of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus infection: a retrospective observational study (Italy)
O17 Anna Maria Florescu - Clinical features in adults with TBE: A Danish nationwide cohort study 2015-2023 (Denmark)
Short break
Session 3:
Borrelia - Ecology, immunology, epidemiology, diagnostics and clinical practice
Chairs: Fredrikke C. Knudtzen (Denmark), Randi Eikeland (Norway)
Keynote speaker: Elling Ulvestad - Immunological aspects of Lyme neuroborreliosis
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Lunch
Session 3 continues
O18 Steffan Daniel Bos-Haugen - Serum neurofilament light chain associates with disease activity in Lyme neuroborreliosis patients - a longitudinal cohort study from Norway (Norway)
O19 Malte M. Tetens - Risk of cardiac conduction disorders, and pacemaker implantations among individuals tested for serum Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies, a matched population-based cohort study (Denmark)
O20 Malte M. Tetens - Repeated doxycycline treatment among patients with neuroborreliosis, a nationwide, matched, registry-based cohort study (Denmark)
O21 Rick Dersch - Systematic review on treatment of so-called post-lyme-disease syndrome (Germany)
O22 Oda van der Berg - Trends in physician-reported incidence of Lyme borreliosis: from tick bite to disease (The Netherlands)
O23 Sara Wide Gustafsson - The risk of developing symptoms and to be diagnosed with a tick-borne disease following a tick bite and its relation to seroconversion (Sweden)
O24 Harald Reiso - TickCheck – a web-based application for assessing skin rashes after tick-bites (Norway)
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Session 2 (Posters 23-32): Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBE) - Ecology, epidemiology & molecular biology
Chairs: Åshild Andreassen, Norway, Nanna Skaarup Andersen, Denmark
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Session 3 (Posters 33-44): Borrelia with focus on epidemiology and pathogenesis
Chairs: Ram Dessau, Denmark Anna J. Henningson, Sweden
Session 4 (Posters 45-56): Tick biology, ecology and interplay with pathogenic microorganisms
Chairs: Lene Jung Kjær, Denmark, Nina Król, Germany
Session 3 continues
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Chairs: Helene Mens (Denmark), Jukka Hytönen (Finland)
O25 Nathalie Boulanger - Proteomics on Borrelia-infected skin: application to a direct diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis in disseminated infection? (France)
O26 Lasse Fjordside - Mass-spectrometry based proteomics as a diagnostic tool for Lyme Neuroborreliosis (Denmark)
O27 Ram Dessau - Measuring Borrelia specific antibodies in the ceresbrospinal fluid using LiaisonXL (Denmark)
O28 Yvonne Adams - Blood-brain barrier organoids to study Lyme neuroborreliosis (Denmark)
O29 Varpu Rinne - Single cell RNA-sequencing based profiling of the extrafollicular response in the lymph nodes of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected mice (Finland)
O30 Nina Król - Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in ticks and Lyme neuroborreliosis – BoTiNe (Germany/Denmark)
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Break
Open lecture: Sigurdur Skarphedinsson - Neuroborreliosis – a multidisciplinary challenge.
End of session 3 included Poster Award.
Gala Dinner
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Session 4: NordTick and Pragmatick joint session - Tick biology, ecology and interplay with pathogenic microorganisms
Chairs: Gabor Foldvari (Hungary), Georg Duscher (Austria)
Keynote 4: Önder Ergönül, CCHF - Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever
Short break
Session 4 continues
O31 Anton de Jong - Rapportera Fästing” – a tool to enhance citizen science-based reporting of tick findings (Sweden)
O32 Jani Sormunen - Citizen Science Monitoring of Tick Contact Areas in Finland – Lessons, Results and Uses for Data (Finland)
O33 Margriet Harms - Tekenradar.nl a citizen science platform for tick bite surveillance in the Netherlands (The Nederlands)
O34 Eva Kallio - Amplification or dilution? Quantifying the role of hosts in tick-Borrelia interplay with natural islands mesocosms (Finland)
O35 Nosheen Kiran - Effects of rodent abundance on ticks and Borrelia – results from an experimental and observational study in an island system (Finland)
Coffee break – take down posters
Session 4 continues
Keynote speaker invited by Pragmatick: Matias PJ Szabo, Factors related to the spread and urbanization of the tick-borne Brazilian Spotted Fever
O36 Theophilus Yaw Alale – Genomic signatures of hybridization between Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus in Finland (Finland)
O37 Pierre Boyer - Evaluating MALDI-TOF MS for Tick Identification and Pathogen Detection: Advancing Shared Scientific Resources (France)
O38 Lene Jung Kjær - Temporal dynamics of tick abundance in Denmark, 2017-2024 (Denmark)
Pictorial review of the Conference
Young Scientist Award
Welcome to NordTick 2026!
End of NordTick 2024
Lunch for NordTick particpants and departure
PRAGMAICK particpants will have lunch on their own.
Afternoon: PRAGMATICK continous. Separate program at the main menu.
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