PhD student Tomáš Strečanský was invited by the organizers of the Romanian Microbiological Society and BIOgenetiX, the local representative of Oxford Nanopore Technologies in Romania, to present PARADiX – a verification methodology for rapid and hypothesis-free diagnostics of pathogens and their antimicrobial resistance directly from clinical samples within 1-3 hours. The conference took place on March 5, 2026 at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Bucharest, Romania.