Detail
Legionella Management Symposium
June 13, 2024 - June 14, 2024, 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Eawag Dübendorf, Forum Chriesbach

We are excited to welcome you to the Legionella Control in Building Plumbing Systems Symposium at Eawag (CH) on June 13-14! The symposium aims to bring together a selected group of established and early-career Legionella researchers to map the current state of knowledge on Legionella in building plumbing systems and to delineate future research needs.
During the two-days, a series of keynote presentations and interactive discussion sessions will be held on four different topics:
- Environmental epidemiology
- Risk assessment in relation to buildings
- Environmental factors on growth
- Ecology of Legionella
Program
Thursday 13 June:
08:00 | Welcome and coffee |
08:45 | Symposium opening |
Session 1: Environmental epidemiology
Chair: Daniel Mäusezahl
09:00 | Investigating the root causes of rising legionellosis incidence in New York State and beyond (Ursula Lauper) |
09:30 | Finding the environmental sources for L. pneumophila, should we broaden our horizon? (Paul van der Wielen) |
10:00 | Sampling of potable water and detection of Legionella from private homes (Melina Bigler) |
10:30 | Workshop session 1 (parallel):
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12:00 | Lunch |
Session 2: Risk assessment in relation to buildings
Chair: Tim Julian
13:30 | Quantitative microbial risk assessment in broad context (Charles Haas) |
14:00 | Quantitative microbial risk assessment of Legionella pneumophila relating shower monitoring results to infection risk (Lizhan Tang) |
14:30 | Legionella risks, trade-offs, and decisions: where do we go from here? (Kerry Hamilton) |
15:00 | Workshop session 2 (parallel):
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17:00 | Poster session |
18:30 | Joint dinner |
Friday 14 June
Session 3: Environmental factors on growth
Chair: Hannah Greenwald Healy
09:00 | Water and energy conservation in building water systems without increasing the risk of Legionella (Michele Prevost) |
09:30 | Environmental factors driving initial colonisation of Legionella in biofilms (Céline Margot) |
10:00 | Stagnation isn’t going away: are we stuck with Legionella? (Michael Waak) |
10:30 | Workshop session 3 (parallel):
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Session 4: Legionella ecology
Chair: Marco Gabrielli
13:30 | Amoebae and their potential role in Legionella growth in water systems (Yann Héchard) |
14:00 | What microbial interactions can tell us: ecological insights and new potential mitigation strategies against Legionella in engineered aquatic systems (Alessio Cavallaro) |
14:30 | Microbial community dynamics in cooling towers (Sébastien Faucher) |
15:00 | Workshop session 4:
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16:30 | Wrap-up (Frederik Hammes) |
Organizing committee:
Frederik Hammes, Antonia Eichelberg, Marco Gabrielli, Tim Julian and Daniel Mäusezahl
Sponsors:
The LeCo project, Eawag discretionary funding, SNF
For any question, please contact: Antonia Eichelberg (antonia.eichelberg@cluttereawag.ch)