CANS Day 2025

Photo: Mostphotos/Aiman Dairabaeva

Dear all CANS members, researchers, students, PhDs, postdocs and associates! This year's CANS Day will be held in SAS Radisson Blu in Tromsø city centre on 27 March.

The registration is now closed and we invite all participants to get ready for an exciting day packed with presentations, poster sessions, cross disciplinary discussions, networking, lunch and dinner! 

PhDs and postdocs have been invited to submit abstracts (max 300 words). The authors of the best abstracts will be invited to participate in the poster session or to give an oral presentation onstage.

Summary of abstracts with numbers (pdf)

There is no registration fee. Lunch and dinner at the hotel will be covered by CANS.

Programme

The conference starts at 08.30. Scientific programme including poster session until 17.00 (5 PM). 
You can download the programme here (pdf). 

Dinner is at 19.00 (7 PM)

Keynote speakers

Timothy Walsh:
"The human burden of AMR in a global context"

Independent Chief Scientific Consultant, International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance solutions (ICARS- Partnering for impact). Director of Biology, Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research; Professor of Medical Microbiology, Department of Biology, University of Oxford.

Sílvio Santos
“Bacteriophages in the Fight Against AMR”

Assistant Researcher (tenured), Centre of Biological engineering, the Bacteriophage Biotechnology Laboratory, Universidade do Minho, Portugal.

Organising committee

Klara Stensvåg
Veronika K. Pettersen
Gabriel Magno de Freitas Almeida
Marius Haugland-Grange
Teppo Rämä
Christian Lentz
Arnfinn Sundsfjord
Lise Nordgård
Gaute Hovde Bø

The 2025 CANS Day will be held at Radisson Blu in Tromsø city centre, behind Rorbua pub (the red building). Photos by Radisson Blu/Sebastian Bless: