Honorary patronage:  H.E. Olexander Motsyk, Ambassador of Ukraine in Republic of Poland
                                      Prof. Zbigniew  Religa, Minister Zdrowia
                   Prof. Michał Seweryński, Minister Nauki i szkolnictwa Wyższego
•    MONDAY - 24 SEPTEMBER 

               11:00 - Visit to the Monuments of Taras Schevchenko  and Fryderyk Chopin
   ~
(Cristal Hall - Aula Kryształowa, WAU-SGGW, Nowoursynowska 166)

    •       14:00 - Opening of the Conference: prof. Marek Niemiałtowski, prof. Andriy Sybirny
-  Rector of the Warsaw Agricultural University-SGGW: prof. Tomasz Borecki
-  Ambassador of the Ukraine in Republic of Poland: H.E. Olexander Motsyk
-  Vicepresident of the Polish Academy of Sciences: prof. Andrzej Górski
-  Chairman of the Division II, Polish Academy of  Sciences:
    prof. Andrzej B.Legocki
-  President of the Polish Socjety of Microbiologists: prof. Waleria Hryniewicz
-  The Rector of the Medical Academy in Warsaw: prof. Leszek Pączek
-  Chairman of the Committee for Veterinary Sciences, Division V,
 - Polish Academy of Sciences: prof. Włodzimierz Kluciński
 - Special Guests of the Weigl Conference: prof. Jerzy Chmielowski,                           prof. Valentyn Pidhorsky, prof. Volodymyr Shyrobokov,  prof. Wacław Szybalski
- Honorary Membership of the Committee on Microbiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences for Professor Felicja Meisel-Mikołajczyk
 - The Professor Kazimierz Bassalik Award of the Committee on Microbiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences for Microbiological Research in 2006 Chair: prof. Mirosława Włodarczyk, prof. Marian Truszczyński) with financial support of Olympus Polska Sp. z o.o.

         ♦     SESSION I: PROFESSOR RUDOLF STEFAN WEIGL - SCIENTIST, HUMANIST, MAN (Chair: prof. Jerzy Chmielowski, prof. Andriy Sybirny)
15:00   Prof. Wacław Szybalski (Madison, USA) “Celebration of life of  Rudolf S. Weigl
            (1883-1957), a Leopolitan conqueror of typhus: 50th Anniversary of his passing”
15:30   Dr. Svitlana Hnatush (Lviv, UA), Prof. Rostyslav Stoika  (Lviv, UA) “Professor R.S. Weigl and scientific centres in Lviv”
16:00   Prof. Felicja Meisel-Mikołajczyk (Warszawa, PL) “Memories about Professor Rudolf Weigl in wartime”
16:30  Ms. Krystyna Weigl-Albert  (Zabrze, PL), Miss Ewa Weigl-Poznańska (Zabrze, PL) „Professor Rudolf S.Weigl - family reminiscences”
16:45  Ms. Barbara Duhl (Rzeszów, PL) “The laboratory of Prof. Weigl Instituteof Wysocko Wyżne in the East Carpathian Mountains. The reminiscences of  Dr. Janina Duhl”
17:00  Rudolf S. Weigl as seen by young microbiologists from the Faculty of Biology, University of  Łódź (Chair: prof. Wiesława Rudnicka [Łódź, PL])

17:15 Break ›

17:30 FILM:  CASE OF PROFESSOR WEIGL  ( Producer: Piotr Załuski, TVP 1)
           Conducted by Mr. Piotr Załuski (Wrocław, PL) and Mr. Stanisław Kosiedowski 
           (author of  www.lwow.eu/rudolf-weigl.html; Gdańsk, PL)


 ♦  SESSION II (Chair: prof. Wiesława Rudnicka, prof. Andriy Sybirny)
18:30   Prof. Valentyn Pidhorsky (Kyiv, UA), Andriy Sybirny (Lviv, UA)
                         “Centres of microbiological research in Ukraine”
19:00  Prof. Marek Niemiałtowski (Warsaw, PL) “Microbiology in Poland:
                                     focus on the Committee on Microbiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences”

            Break 

19:30   Concert

TUESDAY - 25 SEPTEMBER  
 (Cristal Hall - Aula Kryształowa WAU-SGGW, Nowoursynowska 166)

                    ♦ SESSION III: ADVANCES IN VACCINOLOGY
                                (Chair: doc. Krzysztof J.Wojciechowski [UNFAO], dr. Oleh Stasyk)
9:00  Prof. Lidia Brydak (Warsaw, PL) “Human influenza and its prophylactic
            measurements”
9:30  Dr. Oleh Stasyk (Lviv, UA) “Construction of efficient producer of hepatitis B
            surface antigen in the yeast Hansenula polymorpha”
10:00  Prof. Katarzyna Jagusztyn-Krynicka (Warsaw, PL) “The current status
           of Helicobacter  vaccines - influence of genomics and proteomics
           on identification Helicobacter gene products as potential vaccine candidates”
10:30  Dr. Olena Polishchuk (Kyiv, UA) “Justification of the changes in National
           calendar of vaccination in Ukraine”

        ♦ SESSION IV: ADVANCES IN MICROBIAL GENETICS
                                                  (Chair: prof. Bohdan Matselukh [UA], prof. Mirosława Włodarczyk [PL])
11:00 Prof. Andriy Sybirny (Lviv, UA) “Genetic control of selective autophagic
          peroxisome degradation (pexophagy) in yeasts”

11:30 Prof. Adam Jaworski (Łódź, PL) “Integrons and superintegrons: the origins of bacterial multidrug resistance”
12:00 Dr. Yuriy Boretsky (Lviv, UA) “Genetic engineering in construction of modern riboflavin producers”
12:30 Prof. Małgorzata Łobocka (Warsaw, PL) “Genomics of big bacteriophages
           - expectations and surprises”

13:00 - 14:00 Break 

 ♦ 14:00-15:00 POSTER SESSION
                    (Chair: prof. Daria V.Fedorovych [UA], prof. Antoni Schollenberger [PL])

♦ SESSION V:  ADVANCES IN MICROBIAL SYSTEMATICS AND ECOLOGY
               (Chair:  prof. Volodymyr Ivanytsya [UA], prof. Izabela Krystyna Wolska [PL])
15:00  Prof. Ryszard J.Chróst (Warsaw, PL) “Microbial metabolism of free,
            extracellular nucleic acids (FENA) in lakes along an eutrophication gradient
            (Mazurian Lake District, Poland)”
15:30   Andriy Halushka, M.S. (Lviv, UA) “Bacteria of sulfur cycle: morphological
            and physiological characteristics, the role in production and utilization
            of hydrogen sulfide”
16:00  Prof. Wiesław Barabasz (Kraków, PL) “Microorganisms - human friendly
companions in changing environment”
16:30  Prof. Volodymyr Ivanytsya (Odessa, UA) “The resistance formation for chemical
pollutants and antibiotics in aquatic bacteria under the anthropogenic pollution”

        ♦ SESSION VI: ADVANCES IN MICROBIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
                    (Chair: prof. Andriy Sybirny , prof. Wacław Szybalski)
17:00  Dr. Vera Ubiyvovk (Lviv, UA) “Study of regulation of GSH homeostasis
           in yeasts as tool for construction of superproducers of this tripeptide”
        17:30  Prof. Wacław Szybalski (Madison, USA) “Vectors for amplification
                                     and sequencing of DNA. Amplifiable BAC technology: principle and
                                     applications”
18:00 Dr. Andriy Voronovsky (Lviv, UA) “Metabolic engineering for construction of yeast producers of fuel ethanol from lignocellulosics”
18:30 Prof. Łucja Łaniewska-Trokenheim (Olsztyn, PL) “Lactic acid and propionic
                                    acid bacteria in biotechnology of food and fodder”

•    WEDNESDAY - 26 SEPTEMBER
        (Ursynów Palace: Senate Hall - Sala Senatu, WAU-SGGW, Nowoursynowska 166)

               ♦ SESSION VII: ADVANCES IN ZOONOSES CONTROL
                (Chair: prof. Stanisława Tylewska-Wierzbanowska [PL], prof. Oleksandra
     Tarasyuk [UA])
9:00  Prof. Stanisława Tylewska-Wierzbanowska, Dr. Edyta Podsiadły (Warsaw, PL) ”Bartonelloses - new emerging and re-emerging diseases in humans”
9:30  Prof. Daria V.Fedorovych (Lviv, UA) “New approaches for construction
         of the yeast overproducers of flavin nucleotides”
10:00 Prof. Jan F. Żmudziński (Puławy, PL) “Rabies and BSE as threats for
                                    human health”                                      
10:30 Dr. Ihor Lozynsky (Lviv, UA) “Monitoring of especially dangerous transmissible
                                    infections in Ukraine”

    ♦ SESSION VIII: ADVANCES IN THE FIGHT AGAINST INFECTIONS IN HUMANS
                    (Chair: doc. Marek Gniadkowski  [PL], prof. Bohdan Matselukh [UA])
                11:00 Prof. Zofia Zwolska (Warsaw, PL) “Modern microbiological diagnostic methods of tuberculosis in clinical practice in Poland”

11:30 Prof. Bohdan Matselukh (Kyiv, UA) “A new antitumor antibiotic landomycine”
                12:00 Prof. Magdalena Chmiela (Łódź, PL) “H. pylori – Nobel Prize 2005: achievement and challenge”
12:30 Prof. Volodymyr Shirobokov, Dr. Oleksandr Yevtushenko (Kyiv, UA)
          ”Enteroviruses and pregnancy”

13:00 – 14:00 Break  ›

        ♦ SESSION IX: ADVANCES IN IMMUNOLOGY
                     (Chair: prof. Rostyslav Stoika [UA], prof. Maria Nowaczyk [PL])
        14:00 Prof. Marek Jakóbisiak (Warsaw, PL) “Advances in gene therapy”
14:30 Dr. Rostyslav Bilyy, Prof. Rostyslav Stoika (Lviv, UA) “Novel approaches
          for apoptosis measurement at autoimmune diseases”
15:00 Prof. Marek Niemiałtowski (Warsaw, PL) “Smallpox - new look at an old
          problem in the context of model studies with  ectromelia (‘smallpox of mice’)
          virus”
15:30 Dr. Tetyana Filipova (Odessa, UA) “Clostridium perfringens bacteriophage effect  on macrophages functional activity and TNF-α production in vivo and in vitro”

        ♦ SESSION X: ADVANCES IN MODERN MICROBIAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
                        AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
                      (Chair: prof. Marian Binek [PL], prof. Mykhaylo Gonchar [UA])
16:00  Prof. Jacek Osek (Puławy, PL) “Modern methods in diagnosis of  bacterial  infections in humans and animals”
16:30  Prof. Mykhailo Gonchar (Lviv, UA) “Enzyme- and cells-based biosensors
for  assay of formaldehyde in vaccines”
17:00  Doc. Jarosław Dziadek (Łódź, PL) “DNA repair in pathogenesis of tubercule bacillus”
17:30  Prof. Albert Vinnikov (Dnipropetrovsk, UA) “Transport of antibiotic resistance
                                     genetic determinants during transduction”
       
♦ 18:15  ROUND TABLE DISSCUSSION: SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION  BETWEEN
              POLISH AND UKRAINIAN MICROBIOLOGISTS
             (Chair: prof. Waleria Hryniewicz [PL], prof. Andriy Sybirny [UA],
              prof. Valentyn Pidhorsky [UA], prof. Marek Niemiałtowski [PL]

                           Closing of the Conference    


(-) ANDRIY SYBIRNY                                 (-) MAREK NIEMIAŁTOWSKI