Thursday, 17th September 25th International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference 2026

Keynote Speaker: Cyntia Cornelissen - Georgia State University, USA

• How the pathogenic Neisseriae make a living within their obligate human hosts: overcoming nutritional immunity - Cynthia Cornelissen
• Mucosal ACP vaccine formulated with the STING agonist diABZI drives protective Th1/Th17 responses and serum bactericidal antibodies against Neisseria gonorrhoeae - Aleksandra E Sikora
• A Recombinant Neisseria lactamica Controlled Human Infection Model to Investigate Mucosal Immunity against Meningococcal Carriage - Jay R Laver
• Global epidemiology of the factor H binding protein (fHbp) on meningococcal serogroup B  (MenB) invasive isolates and protection predicted for vaccines containing a bivalent fHbp (MenB-fHbp) component against diverse circulating fHbp peptides. - Jamie Findlow

• A single adolescent dose of 4CMenB effectively boosts immune responses up to 19 years after priming in infancy: Results from a phase 3b, open-label, multicenter study - Pavitra Keshavan
• Immune responses following a 1-dose 4CMenB booster in adolescents primed as infants, and following a 2-dose series in naïve adolescents: a cross-study analysis. - Phil Watson
• Non-classical vaccine candidates for IMD identified through functional patient-derived hmAb screening - Fadil A Bidmos
• Controlled human infection with Neisseria lactamica induces Neisseria meningitidis-specific CD4⁺ T cells associated with reduced colonisation density. - Adam P Dale

Keynote Speaker: Hank Seifert - Northwestern University - Feinberg School of Medicine, USA

• Neisseria antigenic variation and genome dynamics - Hank Seifert
• Application of antigenic cartography to predict vaccine coverage and antigenic relationships in Neisseria meningitidis - Odile B Harrison
• Genomic epidemiology of the meningococcus - the application of LIN Codes for research and public health management - Martin CJ Maiden

• A Manually Curated Pathway and Genome Database for Neisseria meningitidis MC58 - Brendan Wilson-Mortier
• Polyamine Homeostasis Reprograms Meningococcal Antioxidant Defences to Promote Survival in the Host - Tiyasa Haldar
• The impact of genome variability in Neisseria gonorrhoeae Biology - Daniel C Stein