Principal Investigators from the Wageningen University groups of Animal Sciences and Host-Microbe Interactions jointly published their collaborative work on in vivo transcriptomes of Streptococcus suis in Virulence. 

The PIGSs consortium meeting was a great succes! Virginia Aragon and Jordy Casal are the workpackage leaders from IRTA-CReSA and shared there experience on their website.

On April 11, 2019, Virginia Aragon presented at the National Institute for Agrifood Research (INIA).

The 4^thInternational Workshop on Streptococcus suis and 12^thannual symposium of the Swine and Poultry Infectious Diseases Research Centre (CRIPA) was organized by the University of Montreal and eleven investigators of the PIGSs consortium presented their work (some even as keynote speaker) to the worldwide S. suis community. 

Over 35 attendees participated in the previous PIGSs scientific consortium meeting in Sitges, Spain.

At this moment the PIGSs scientific consortium and general assembly meeting is ongoing. More news and updates will follow soon ...

The PIGSs consortium was invited by the Research Executive Agency in Brussels for a project review meeting on 22 February 2019 with three independent expert reviewers. 

Professor Peter Valentin-Weigand, WP2 leader in the PIGSs project presented results at the 4th German Pneumococcal and Streptococcal Symposium Berlin on S. suis projects which are related to the PIGSs project. His group also presented different in vitro models by poster presentations and an overview on capsular-dependent interactions of streptococci (S. suis, group B streptococcoi) with influenza A virus in co-infections of respiratory cells. 

The outline and consortium of the PIGSs project presented at the 25th International Pig Veterinary Society Congress (IPVS 2018) and 2018 International Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Symposium in June 2018. 

The PIGSs project introduced at the bi-annual symposium of the bi-annual symposium of the Section Bacteriology & Mykologie ("Fachgruppe Bakteriologie & Mykologie") of the DVG  (“Deutsche Veterinärmedizinische Gesellschaft”) in Hannover.