Future Events
20 October 2024
The poster entitled "Fluorescent Tracer-Based Evaluation of Respiratory Protective Equipment Efficiency Against SARS-CoV-2 Virus Exposure" will be presented by Dr. Paul Scheepers at the ISES Global 2024 Congress in Montreal, Canada from October 20 to 24, 2024.
03 November 2024
Kirsten Lassing will participate at the ICC 2024 Congress in Istanbul, Turkey from November 3 to 6, 2024, and will be presenting two posters during the event
Past Events
08 July 2024
The fourth and final MIST workshop took place on 8th July at the Delft University of Technology.
18 June 2024
Presentation at Annual NVT Meeting 2024;
Title of Poster: Use of a Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment model for airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to evaluate the efficacy of mitigation strategies;
Date: 18-19 June, 2024;
Location: Reehorst, Ede;
Contributors: K Lassing, N Horstink, L Vermeulen, S Herfst, H. F.L. Wertheim, and P. T.J. Scheepers.
05 June 2024
3rd MIST workshop was organised on 5th June, at the venue of the CLAIRE congress (https://claireproject.nl/meedoen/claire-congres/).
22 May 2024
The second MIST workshop, organised by TU Delft on May 22nd, brought together participants from various stakeholders from Orange Climate, bba binnenmilieu, TNO, and Amsterdam UMC. The objective of this workshop was to discuss the personal experiences and challenges faced in the manufacturing, installation, consultation, and use of ventilation, air cleaning, and related systems.
24 April 2024
MIST partners met researchers and industry at the Stockholm International Fairs for Scanvac's RoomVent 2024, on 22-24 April 2024 in Stockholm.
09 April 2024
Title: Exploring respiratory virus microbiology: advancing respiratory protective equipment testing with a fluorescent tracer for airborne virus exposure mitigation.
Presenter: Kirsten Lassing
Contributors: Paul T.J. Scheepers, Nayandra Verzaal, Henk Jan Holterman, and Heiman F.L. Wertheim.
Date: April 9 and 10, 2024
Location: Congrescentre Papendal, Arnhem
03 April 2024
The first Ph.D. took place on April 3rd at the University of Twente. It centred on discussing variations and commonalities in definitions across various fields, followed by a workshop on terminology and a journal club session. Additionally, the event included a lunch lecture led by Stefan van der Vegte from Medspray BV.
19 March 2024
Title: Airborne virus exposure mitigation by advancing respiratory protective equipment testing with a fluorescent tracer.
Presenter: Kirsten Lassing
Contributors: Heiman F.L. Wertheim, Nayandra Verzaal, Henk Jan Holterman, and Paul T.J. Scheepers
Date: 19-21 March, 2024
Location: Berlin, Germany
06 February 2024
The MIST annual meeting occurred on February 2nd, 2024, at the University Theatre hosted by the University of Amsterdam. Partners discussed research progress, followed by interactive sessions where challenges were brainstormed and external invitees shared their experiences.
01 June 2023
Poster session presented at Burgers Symposium 2023, Lunteren, Netherlands.
23 January 2023
The MIST project Kick Off! Mitigation Strategies for Airborne Infection Control - an NWO funded perspectief grant from NWO (Dutch Research Council)...
31 May 2022
Perspective awardees (MIST among the awarded) was presented at the NWO innovation festival TEKNOWLOGY.