Oral Speakers
Jonathan Frye, PhD
Affiliation: U.S. National Poultry Research Center, USA
Title: Cassette structures associated with antibiotic resistance genes in Salmonella enterica isolates associated with U.S. food animals.
John Cadwell, PhD
Affiliation: FiberCell Systems Inc., USA
Title: The Hollow Fiber Infection Model: Principles and Practice
María Cecilia Becerra, PhD
Affiliation: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Title: Gold nanoparticles as alternative therapy for antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains.
Xiangmin Lin, PhD
Affiliation: Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, China
Title: The effect of post-translational modification on bacterial antibiotics resistance
Sanjay Bhattacharya, PhD
Affiliation: Tata Medical Center, India
Title: Effect of multi-faceted diagnostic, therapeutic and infection control strategies on multi–drug resistant bacteremia rates in an oncology setting in India
Nelson Enrique Arenas, PhD
Affiliation: Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia.
Title: Emergence of antibiotic resistance through livestock practices in Colombia
Latania K. Logan, PhD
Affiliation: Rush University Medical Center, Rush Medical College, USA
Title: Environmental Influences and Community Origins of Multi-Drug Resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Children
Silvia Batista, PhD
Affiliation: Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Uruguay
Title: Detection of antibiotic resistance genes and their association with horizontal gene transfer elements in Antarctic microorganisms
Andreza Francisco Martins, PhD
Affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Title: Antimicrobial resistance profile of E. coli from pigs and chicken in Brazil: One Health Approach
Patricia Keen, PhD
Affiliation: University of British Columbia, Canada
Title: Recent Advances in Investigations of Antimicrobial Resistance in Wastewater Treatment Processes
Claudia Ibacache Quiroga, PhD
Affiliation: Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile
Title: Evolution of high-level aminoglycoside resistance in Escherichia coli under high and low mutation supply rates.
Olga Lomovskaya, PhD
Affiliation: Qpex Biopharma, LLC San Diego, CA
Title: New generation beta-lactamase inhibitors: stormy waters require a bigger boat
Maria Teresa T. Fernandez, PhD
Affiliation: Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Spain
Title: Drug Resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in a Rural Setting in Angola.
Joanne Pennock, PhD
Affiliation: Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, UK
Title: Hiding in plain sight; How S aureus evades antibiotic treatment
Isabel Santos, PhD
Affiliation: University of Lisbon, Portugal
Title: Food borne Proteins and peptides with strong antibacterial activity: are they a turning point against bacterial resistance?
Manni Bhatti, PhD
Affiliation: Environmental and Geomatic Engineering Department, University College London, UK
Title: Superhydrophobic surfaces for the elimination and treatment of resistant microbes.
Engeline van Duijkeren, PhD
Affiliation: Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands
Title: ESBL; the chicken or the egg
Akke Vellinga, PhD
Affiliation: School of Medicine, NUI Galway
Title: Available soon.
Felipe Piedade Neves, PhD
Affiliation: Biomedical Institute, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Title: Impact of the universal PCV10 use on carriage with drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae among children in Brazil
Dennis Wright, PhD
Affiliation: School of Pharmacy, University of Conecticut, USA
Title: Targeting Antifolate Resistance Mechanisms in Pathogenic Bacteria
Daniel Zurawski, PhD
Affiliation: WRAIR/Wound Infections/Bacterial Diseases Branch, USA
Title: Available soon.
Focco Van den Akker, PhD
Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Title: Structural studies related to peptidoglycan metabolism and b-lactam antibiotic resistance
Dragana D. Božić, PhD
Affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Pharmacy, Serbia
Title: Available soon.
Diana Alves, PhD
Affiliation: CEB – Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal
Title: The fate of adhering bacteria to antimicrobial surfaces: investigating the potential development of resistance towards antimicrobials immobilised
Youjun Feng, PhD
Affiliation: Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
Title: Action and Mechanism for Mobile Colistin Resistance
Bennie Lindeque, PhD
Affiliation: University of Colorado, School of Medicine, USA
Title: Antibiotic resistance and treatment resistance in Non Tuberculous Mycobacteria(NTM)
Irmak Baran, PhD
Affiliation: Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Turkey
Title: Phenotypic tests for the detection of carbapenemases
Zeynep Gülay, PhD
Affiliation: Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, Turkey
Title: Available soon.
Paul H Roy, PhD
Affiliation: Centre de Recherche en Infectiologie, Canada
Title: Insights into the recruitment of AMR genes into integron cassettes
Manel Camps, PhD
Affiliation: University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Title: Genetics of Antibiotic Resistance: a Tale of Contingency and Epistasis
Yoshimasa Yamamoto, PhD
Affiliation: Osaka University, Japan
Title: Dissemination of colistin-resistant bacteria with mobile resistance gene mcr in a rural community of Vietnam
Magdalena Rzewuska, PhD
Affiliation: Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
Title: Resistance to colistin in Escherichia coli isolates from companion animals
Dorota Chrobak-Chmiel, PhD
Affiliation: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
Title: Detection of methicillin-resistant coagulase-positive staphylococci in horses.
Meenakshi Gautham, PhD
Affiliation: London School of Hygiene and tropical Medicine, UK
Title: Challenges of Operationalizing Antibiotic Stewardship in Low and Middle Income Countries
Viera Karaffová, PhD
Affiliation: Institute of Pathological anatomy, The University of Veterinary medicine and pharmacy, Slovak Republic
Title: Influence of Lactobacillus reuteri on the regulation of inflammasome genes expression during campylobacteriosis in broiler.
Patricia Severino, PhD
Affiliation: Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein, Brazil
Title: Associations between infection and colonization and opportunistic antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
Isabelle Schalk, PhD
Affiliation: Université de Strasbourg, France
Title: Which iron uptake pathway is the best for uptake of antibiotics via a Trojan horse strategy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Tonya Duarte, PhD
Affiliation: Institute of Health Science, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Title: GENETIC DIVERSITY AND SPACIAL DISTRIBUITION OF Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Gabriela Gomes, PhD
Affiliation: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Title: Accounting for individual fitness variation in the characterisation of antimicrobial resistance
Yulia Gerasimova, PhD
Affiliation: University of Central Florida, USA
Title: Highly selective DNA probes and circuits for the analysis of drug-resistant genotypes in bacterial pathogens.
Vishwanath Venketaraman, PhD
Affiliation: College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Western University of Health Sciences, USA
Title: Available soon.
Livia Barenghi, PhD
Affiliation: Integrated Orthodontic Services S.r.l., Italy
Title: Strategies to improve infection control and to limit antibiotic resistant infectious agents in dentistry
Ligia M. Saraiva, PhD
Affiliation: ITQB-NOVA, Portugal
Title: Carbon Monoxide Releasing Molecules- Towards a novel antimicrobial therapeutic drug
Toni Poole, PhD
Affiliation: Southern Plains Area Research Center, USA
Title: Methylsulfonylmethane exhibits bacteriostatic inhibition of Escherichia coli, and Salmonella enterica Kinshasa, in vitro
Dmitry M. Kolpashchikov, PhD
Affiliation: University of Central Florida, USA
Title: Development of DNA nanomachines for diagnosis of drag resistant bacteria
Lenita Moura Stefani, PhD
Affiliation: State University of Santa Catarina State, Brazil
Title: Risks for the dissemination of mobile genetic elements from the food chain up to man.
Jesús Navas, PhD
Affiliation: Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
Title: Antimicrobial resistance of Corynebacterium spp. in the clinical setting
Paul Dunman, PhD
Affiliation: University of Rochester School of Medicine, USA.
Title: Development of a broad-spectrum antimicrobial for the therapeutic intervention of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa corneal infections.
John Buynak, PhD
Affiliation: Southern Methodist University, USA
Title: Atypical Carbapenem Antibiotics which Display Improved Properties Against Resistant Pathogens.
Florencia Laura Pantozzi, PhD
Affiliation: Faculty of Veterinary Sciences. National University of La Plata, Argentina.
Title: Wild-type minimal inhibitory concentration distributions and genotypic evaluation of tetracycline resistance in strains of Escherichia coli of animal origin.
Flavia Huygens, PhD
Affiliation: Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Title: MRSA pathogenesis and colonization – community onset vs hospital acquired strains
Randall Wolcott, PhD
Affiliation: Surgery Texas Tech School of Medicine and Founder of the Southwest Regional Wound Care Center, USA
Title: Biofilm’s phenotypic tolerance to antibiotics poses a significant clinical barrier to the management of chronic wounds and other chronic infections.
Patricia Licznar, PhD
Affiliation: University of Montpellier, France
Title: Antimicrobial resistance in urban water
Eva M. Ogens, PhD
Affiliation: Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA
Title: Taking Antibiotics: A Model of How It Works
Maria Tärnberg, PhD
Affiliation: Dept. of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Sweden
Title: Susceptibility testing of colistin – practical challenges when comparing different methods of Enterobacteriaceae
Oleg Reva, PhD
Affiliation: University of Pretoria, South Africa
Title: Available soon.
Bela Kocsis, PhD
Affiliation: Semmelweis University, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Budapest, Hungary
Title: Different roles of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance determinants in low-risk and high-risk Klebsiella pneumoniae clones
Ana Frazzon, PhD
Affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Title: Available soon.
Maria de Lourdes da Cunha, PhD
Affiliation: Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Brazil
Title: Available soon.
Alison Freifeld, PhD
Affiliation: University of Nebraska, USA
Title: Available soon.
Alberto Quesada, PhD
Affiliation: Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
Title: Spread potential of colistin resistance from strains of Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli isolated from animals intended for human consumption in Spain
Jianhua Wang, PhD
Affiliation: Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Title: Antimicrobial peptides and their repression toward the antibiotic resistance from pathogenic bacteria
Yuejuan Zheng, PhD
Affiliation: Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China
Title: Epoxide micheliolide protects mice from carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae-induced sepsis by inhibiting inflammatory response via targeting IKKα/β
Nihal Engin Vrana, PhD
Affiliation: NSERM Unit 1121 Biomaterials and Bioengineering Strasbourg, France
Title: Polymeric antimicrobial coatings for implants to prevent per-implantitis without induction of resistance
Xiaohui Zhou, PhD
Affiliation: Department of Pathobiology & Veterinary Science, The University of Connecticut, USA
Title: Mechanisms of β-lactam resistance in Vibrio parahaemolyticus.
Francisco M. Goycoolea Valencia, PhD
Affiliation: School of Food Science & Nutrition, University of Leeds, UK
Title: Soft nanotechnology biopolymer-based formulations: Alternative therapies against antibiotic resistant bacteria?
Qazi Mohd. Rizwanul Haque, PhD
Affiliation: Department of Biosciences, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi, India
Title: Occurrence of the mcr-1 conferred colistin resistance among bacterial isolates from sewage water in India.
Susanne Schiffmann, PhD
Affiliation: Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Germany
Title: Immunomodulation by antibiotics – a mechanism to overcome antibiotic resistance
Silvia T. Cardona, PhD
Affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease, University of Manitoba, Canada
Title: Genomic approaches to uncover the mechanism of action of antibiotic molecules
Wolfgang Kruger, PhD
Affiliation: Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Clinics of Constance, Constance, Germany
Title: Selective digestive decontamination in the ICU: a life-saving concept, but only for selected countries
Monika I. Konaklieva, PhD
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, American University, Washington, DC 20016, USA
Title: Development of antimycobacterial lead compounds
Rietie Venter, PhD
Affiliation: School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, The University of South Australia, Australia
Title: The use of biocides could result in biocide tolerance and antibiotic resistance
James B. Herrick, PhD
Affiliation: James Madison University, Harrisonburg, USA
Title: Environmental Reservoirs of Transmissible Antibiotic Resistance
Mingdi Yan, PhD
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Title: Combating Antibiotic Resistance: Glyconanomaterials, Nanoantibiotics andDrug Repurposing
Piklu Roy Chowdhury, PhD
Affiliation: University of Technology, Sydney, Faculty of Science, Australia
Title: Transposon Tn6242 and its distribution within globally emerging drug resistant uropathogenic Escherichia coli-ST405
Lucia Birošová, PhD
Affiliation: Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
Title: Antibiotic resistant coliform bacteria in humans and environment
Alexander Efimov, PhD
Affiliation: Tampere University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Finland
Title: Antimicrobial phthalocyanine activated by indoor light
Zeljko Petrovski, PhD
Affiliation: LAQV-REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Title: Ionic Liquids derived from β-Lactam Antibiotics against Resistant Bacteria
Thilo Köhler, PhD
Affiliation: Geneva University Hospitals, Service of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medical Specialties, Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva, Switzerland
Title: A Pseudomonas aeruginosa in vitro lung infection model to assess bacteriophage and antibiotic treatments
William T. Doerrler, PhD
Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, USA
Title: A DedA/Tvp38 family membrane protein is required for Klebsiella pneumoniae colistin resistance.
Wim. J. Quax, PhD
Affiliation: University of Groningen, Dept. Chemical & Pharmaceutical Biology, The Netherlands
Title: Fighting bacterial virulence with quorum quenching acylases.
Zorana Kovacevic, PhD
Affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Title: Knowledge and attitudes on antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance among veterinary and agriculture students.
Maria Leonor Faleiro, PhD
Affiliation: University of Algarve, Center for Biomedical Research, Portugal
Title: Antibiotic susceptibility of Bacteroides spp. isolated from children with Type 1 Diabetes.
Boutheina Mardassi, PhD
Affiliation: Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis
Title: Drug resistance in Ureaplasma spp. Tunisian isolates: A twelve-year retrospective analysis.
Shchepetkina Svetlana, PhD
Affiliation: Saint-Petersburg State Academy of Veterinary Medicine, Russian Federation
Title: Principles of organization of the antimicrobial control system in veterinary medicine and agriculture of the Russian Federation.
Veena Venugopalan, PhD
Affiliation: University of Florida College of Pharmacy, FL, USA
Title: Assessing Antimicrobial Stewardship Initiatives: Impact of a Carbapenem Preservation Strategy on Outcomes in Patients with Bloodstream Infections from AmpC producing Organisms.
Stefan Miller, PhD
Affiliation: Lisando GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
Title: Artilysin®: Highly effective tools to combat MDR pathogens combined with a very low risk of resistance development.
Patricia Licznar-Fajardo, PhD
Affiliation: University of Montpellier, France
Title: Antimicrobial resistance in urban water.
Maruxa Zapata-Cachafeiro, PhD
Affiliation: University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Title: Magnitude and determinants of antibiotic dispensing without prescription in Spain: a simulated patient study.
Sandra Carvalho, PhD
Affiliation: Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Title: Carbon Monoxide Releasing Molecules – Towards a novel antimicrobial therapy.
Beatrice Bercot, PhD
Affiliation: University Paris Diderot, France
Title: Molecular epidemiology of penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates in France
Maíra Pompeu Martins, PhD
Affiliation: Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Title: Multidrug-resistance genes encoding ABC transporters in dermatophytes.
Yvonne Agersø, PhD
Affiliation: Chr. Hansen Holding A/S, Denmark
Title: Antimicrobial susceptibility testing, tentative epidemiological cutoff values and intrinsic resistance in five Bacillus species.
Florencia L. Pantozzi, PhD
Affiliation: Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, National University of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Title: Wild-type minimal inhibitory concentration distributions and genotypic evaluation of tetracycline resistance in strains of Escherichia coli of animal origin.
Ana Lima, PhD
Affiliation: Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, Portugal
Title: Food borne Proteins and peptides with strong antibacterial activity: are they a turning point against bacterial resistance?
Richard Kao, PhD
Affiliation: Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, China
Title: A non-antibiotic approach to combat antibiotic resistance.
Helmi Mardassi, PhD
Affiliation: Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia
Title: Intrinsic propensity of the Haarlem genotype to evolve into successful MDR-TB clones, Northern Tunisia.
Javier Fernández, PhD
Affiliation: Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Spain
Title: Usefulness of AMR/SEPSIS FLOW CHIP for identification of antimicrobial genes in Gram negative bacilli.
Anabela Borges, PhD
Affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
Title: Antibacterial and antibiofilm activities of the NSAID acetylsalicylic acid against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus.
Vera Manageiro, PhD
Affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health Dr Ricardo Jorge, Portugal
Title: Genomic epidemiology of NDM-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Portugal.
Valentin Rybenkov, PhD
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, USA
Title: Targeting drugs to chromosome packing.
Will Goessens, PhD
Affiliation: Dept. of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Title: Detection of KPC, NDM, OXA-48-like and VIM-carbapenemases in E. coli and K. pneumoniae by High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry.
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