Dear Colleagues and friends
In the last years, there is a great concern about the problem of bacterial resistance to antibiotics used in human medicine as well as in veterinary.
The use of antibiotics constitutes an important factor for selection of resistance, not only among pathogenic bacteria but also among the commensal ones. Antimicrobial resistance is a major problem in public health due to the possibility in therapeutic failure.
Appearance of multiresistant bacteria is probably accompanied by co-contamination of the environment, leading to a major clinical and public health concern within the lifetime of most people living today. The extensive use has heightened concerns about the expression of antimicrobial resistance, which impacts human and animal safety, food safety and environmental exposure. Antibiotic resistance is an emergent problem, and for this reason the WHO appealed for an urgent and concerted action by governments, health professionals, industry, civil society and patients to slow down the spread of drug resistance, limit its impact today and preserve medical advances for future generations. In the latest years much investigation was developed to understand the emergence of the resistance genes and their spread but this fact does not let us to control totally this problem. In this conference an attempt has been made to present the latest research on possibilities to manage this question.
The primary objective of this meeting is to bring together researchers involved in antibiotic resistance prevention and control. The meeting will take an integrated approach to research and it will bring about researchers specializing in different subjects related to antibiotic resistance. We expected to present a universal vision of the importance of antimicrobial resistance in different ecosystems and what can be done about it.
During diverse sessions, all aspects related to epidemiology of resistance in animal and zoonotic pathogens, mobile elements containing resistance genes, proteomics of antimicrobial resistance, emerging antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, control of resistant infections, antimicrobial resistance in animal pathogens and its exchange with humans, organizing antibiotic surveillance, policies to stimulate drug development and discovery and alternatives strategies to overcome the problem of antimicrobial resistance worldwide will be discussed.
Yours truly
J. L. Capelo
C. Lodeiro
Conference chairs
On behalf of the organizing and scientific committee
Plenary Speakers
Affiliation: Indiana University Bloomington (USA)
Title: How Pharma has Responded to the Explosion of New Beta-Lactamases
Affiliation: Vice President, Scientific Affairs Cepheid (USA)
Title: Molecular Diagnostics for Antimicrobial Resistance to Improve Antimicrobial Stewardship
Affiliation: Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK)
Title: Contending with the Black Swans of Resistance
Affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur (France)
Title: Aminoglycoside resistance by target modification
Affiliation: VU University Medical Center (The Netherlands)
Affiliation: Escola Paulista de Medicina/Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo (Brazil)
Affiliation: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
Title: Biofilm-associated
KPRK Talks
Affiliation: M.G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University (Canada)
Title: Pushing the envelope in Gram-negative bacteria
Affiliation: Center for Anti-Infective Research & Development Hartford Hospital (USA)
Keynote Speakers
Affiliation: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Washington (USA)
Affiliation: University of Fribourg, Medical Department, Fribourg (Switzerland)
Affiliation: McGill University (Canada)
Title: Why even the newest antibiotics stop working
Affiliation: Head of Medical Microbiology Laboratory | Applied Biomolecular Sciences (LAQV) – REQUIMTE | Veterinary Science Department, School of Agrarian and Veterinary Sciences, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real (Portugal)
Title: Dalbavancin as a drug to combat resistant Gram- positive biofilms in osteomyelitis in rats
Affiliation: Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Goes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Title: Evolution of macrolide resistance among Streptococcus pneumoniae strains in Brazil: 1988 to 2015 with PCV10 in between
Affiliation: Bar-Ilan University (Israel)
Affiliation: Hospital Ramon y Cajal (Spain)
Affiliation: Dept of Pathology and Lab Medicine, University of Calgary (Canada)
Title: The role mobile genetic elements in the global spread of carbapenemases
Robert Hodges, PhD
Affiliation: University of Colorado (USA)
Title: On the Road to Commercialization of Antimicrobial Peptides to Treat Gram-negative Bacterial Infections
Symposium Subjects
- Rise of Antimicrobial Resistance and Epidemiology: Concerns on Pathogen Resistance and Public Health
- A public health approach to antimicrobial Resistance
- Genetics of antimicrobial resistance
- Proteomics of antimicrobial resistance
- The emergence of antimicrobial resistance in animals
- Antimicrobial resistance in animal pathogens and its exchange with humans
- How antimicrobial resistance may be affected by the use of antibiotics in food and agriculture
- Mechanisms of Antibacterial Resistance
- Organizing antibiotic surveillance
- Policies to stimulate drug development and discovery
- Alternative Strategies to overcome the problem of antimicrobial resistance worldwide
- Control of resistant infections
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We look forward to seeing you soon.
With kindest regards
The BIOSCOPE Team