• SSMM message: Predrag Minic – The excellence in science and role of knowledge in solving today’s problems of fungal diseases
• FEMS message: Branka Vasiljevic – Role of FEMS in the promoting excellence in microbiology
• ISHAM message: Valentina Arsic Arsenijevic -ISHAM and fungi
• ECMM message: Ester Segal -ECMM and fungal infections

• Thomas Walsh: Risk factors and clinical manifestations of fungal infections in neonates
• Lena Klingspor: The importance of Candida and other yeast infections in neonates: epidemiology data and diagnostic options
• Iris Pejicic: Incidence and risk factors for invasive candidiasis in neonatal intensive care unit in the institute of neonatology in Belgrade,Serbia
• Niranjan Nayak: Molecular characterization,virulence determinants and antifungal susceptibility pattern of Trichosporon asahii isolates from new born babies in Nepal

• Mihai Mares: Prevention of Candida transmission to neonates -a multifaceted issue
• Suzana Otasevic: Maternal genital Candida colonization: the major risk for neonates infection-Is it a valid dogma?#
• Irene Grant:In Utero Neonatal Complications with indoor Aspergillus,Penicillium,Chaetomium,Stachybotrys,Trichothecenes Environmental Exposure
• Aleksandar Jurisic: Vulvovaginal candidiasis during pregnancy -single center experience

• Case reports granted by SSMM: Neonates vs. pediatrics cases presentations and laboratory findings
• Decision-making and problem-solving of fungal infections in neonates – role of laboratory

14:00 – 15:00

• Michaela Lackner: Utility of PCR diagnosis of invasive fungal infections in neonates
• Miha Skvarc: Early laboratory biomarkers for sepsis prediction: role of BD glucan in neonatology
• Ljubomir Petricevic: Can Candida be fearsome in pregnancy?#
• Valentina Arsic Arsenijevic: Candida and Fusarium sepsis in pediatric and neonatal units -role of hemoculture
• Jelena Martinovic: Uncommon presentation of Candida infection in newborn infants

• Esther Segal: Packaging methods of antifungal drugs
• Lidija Senerovic: Novel therapeutic strategies for mixed infections: controlling bacterial-fungal interaction,signaling and quorum sensing
• Dragana Janic: Antifungals and current treatment guidelines in pediatrics and neonatology
• Nikola Stojanovic: Virulence factors and susceptibility of Candida spp.-causative agens of neonatal infections

Symposium evaluation; Closing ceremony;