Sunday July 10, 2011
14:00 - 17:00 
Room: 302B
Meeting of the International Collaboration on Gonococci
The International Collaboration on Gonococci (ICG) is an informal international collaboration which provides a focus and resource for those with an interest in the control of gonorrhoea through the application of laboratory-based approaches. The particular areas of interest of the ICG are laboratory diagnosis of gonococcal disease, typing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in the gonococcus. The website for the ICG is www.icgngo.org.

Co-chairs: Magnus Unemo and Jo-Anne Dillon

14:00	-	14:20	Commemoration of Dr. John Tapsall, Inaugural Director of the ICG Magnus Unemo and Jo-Anne Dillon
14:20	-	14:40	Mechanisms of emergence and international spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in N. gonorrhoeae Magnus Unemo, Gonococcal Reference Laboratory, Sweden
14:40	-	15:00	The global predicament with GC AMR: the need of enhanced surveillance! Ye Tun, CDC, USA
15:00	-	15:20	WHO perspectives and global response plan Francis Ndowa, WHO HQ, Switzerland
15:20	-	15:40	Coffee Break
15:40	-	16:00	US response to the emergence of cephalosporin resistant gonorrhea Hillard Weinstock/Robert Kirkcaldy, CDC, USA
16:00	-	16:20	Gonococcal Antimicrobial Susceptibility Surveillance Program (GASP) in Latin America and the Caribbean: Emerging trends in AMR  and  research needs in strain typing and resistance determinant characterization Jo-Anne R. Dillon, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
16:20	-	16:40	Possible treatment strategies in an era of multi-drug resistant gonorrhoea David Lewis, STIRC, South Africa
16:40	-	17:00	General discussion