Oral Contributions

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Dr. Elisabeth Grohmann

Affiliation: Department of Life Sciences and Technology, Microbiology, Forum Seestraße, Berlin (Germany)
Title: Molecular insights in antibiotic resistance transfer among Gram-positive pathogens

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Dr. Marcos Quintela Baluja

Affiliation: Newcastle University (UK)
Title: Antibiotic resistance dynamics in the Urban Water Cycle

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Dr. Adelaide Almeida

Affiliation: Departamento de Biologia, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro (Portugal)
Title: Photodynamic inactivation for blood disinfection by immobilized photossensitizers

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Dr. Max Maurin

Affiliation: Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Hygiène Hospitalière, Institut de Biologie et de Pathologie CHU de Grenoble, Grenoble (France)
Title: Antibiotic resistances in Francisella tularensis

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Dr. Thomas Schwartz

Affiliation: Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Bioprocess technology and Biosystems Department Microbiology / Molecular biology (Germany)
Title: AImpact of UV/ozone treatment on antibiotic resistant bacteria as part of the wastewater effluent microbiom

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Dr. Ashraf Hakim

Affiliation: Microbiology & Immunology Department, National Research Centre (Egypt)
Title: Screening of Multi drug Resistant Food Poisoning Bacteria among Ready to eat Pork by products in Egyptian Stores

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Dr. Frank Schweizer

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Assistant Professor Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba (Canada)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Keith Poole

Affiliation: Department of Biomedical & Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University Kingston, ON (Canada)
Title: Potentiation of antimicrobial activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa by targetting resistance-promoting stress responses

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Dr. Christian Melander

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry North Carolina State University, North Carolina (USA)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Mingdi Yan

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry University of Massachusetts Lowell (USA)
Title: Glyconanomaterials: New Platform for Targeting Bacteria

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Dr. Mark Papich

Affiliation: College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University (USA)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Anna Roujeinikova

Affiliation: Dept. of Microbiology and Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University (Australia)
Title: New targets for the old drugs: exploring the antimicrobial potential of sulfonamide carbonic anhydrase inhibitors?

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Dr. Tapan Majumdar

Affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Agartala Government Medical College (India)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Silvia Moreno

Affiliation: Plant Pharmacology Laboratory, National Scientific and Technical Research Council, CONICET, Maimónides University, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Title: Natural compounds present in Rosmarinus officinalis to overcome bacterial resistance

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Dr. Cynthia Whitchurch

Affiliation: The ithree institute, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney (Australia)
Title: Exploiting morphotype plasticity mechanisms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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Dr. Clyde Smith

Affiliation: Stanford University, Stanford (USA)
Title: Mechanisms of Antibacterial Resistance

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Dr. Abdelaziz Touati

Affiliation: Bejaia University, Béjaia (Algeria)
Title: OXA-48 carbapenemase in Algeria: Prevalence in different niches and literature review

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Dr. Zunita Zakaria

Affiliation: Deputy Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra (Malaysia)
Title: ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND THE EMERGENCE OF Staphylococcus aureus SEQUENCE TYPE 177 ISOLATED FROM HORSE WOUNDS

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Dr. Swapan Banerjee

Affiliation: Bureau of Microbial Hazards, HPFB, Health Canada (Canada)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Renata Piccinini

Affiliation: Department of Veterinary Science and Public Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano (Italy)a
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. A. Anas

Affiliation: CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography Regional Centre Kochi (India)
Title: Antibiotic resistant vibrios in marine environment and their ecological significances

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Dr. Sheila Sadeghi

Affiliation: Dept. of Life Sciences & Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin (Italy)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Lucy Palmer

Affiliation: Department of Medicine, Stony Brook School of Medicine (USA)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Andreas Vilcinskas

Affiliation: LOEWE Center for Insect Biotechnology & Bioresources (Germany)
Title: Development of Insect-derived > antimicrobial peptidesfor therapeutic applications

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Dr. Catherine Bennett

Affiliation: Deakin University, Melbourne (Australia)
Title: Prevalence and transmission of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant strains (MRSA) among mothers and newborn babies in Australia

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Dr. Asmat Ahmad

Affiliation: The National University of Malaysia (Malaysia)
Title: High multiple antibiotic resistance among marine bacteria isolates

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Dr. Christian Penny

Affiliation: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Environmental Research and Innovation (ERIN) Department (Luxembourg)
Title: How novel whole-genome sequencing, bioinformatics and mass spectrometry tools help screening antimicrobial resistance profiles in the food- and waterborne pathogen Campylobacter sp

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Dr. Ana Guedes Frazzon

Affiliation: Microbiology, Imunology and Parasitology Departament. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Porto Alegre, RS (Brazil)
Title: Antibiotic resistance of enterococci isolated from fecal samples of wild marine animals in the Southern Coast of Brazil

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Dr. Niels Nørskov-Lauritsen

Affiliation: Department of Clinical Microbiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus (Denmark)
Title: Clinical significance and development of antimicrobial resistance in Achromobacter

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Dr. Ganjun Yuan

Affiliation: College of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University (China)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Albert Berghuis

Affiliation: Departments of Biochemistry and Microbiology& Immunology, McGill University (Canada)
Title: Antibiotic resistance in atomic detail

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Dr. Ayush Kumar

Affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba (Canada)
Title: Transcriptional regulators of bacteria: a promising drug target

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Dr. Anne-Catrin Uhlemann

Affiliation: Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Columbia University Medical Center, New York (USA)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Béla Kocsis

Affiliation: Semmelweis University, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Budapest (Hungary)
Title: Ciprofloxacin induced qnrD expression in Morganella morganii

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Dr. Thirumala Govender

Affiliation: Discipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Title: Novel pH responsive antibiotic nano delivery systems to overcome bacterial resistance

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Dr. Vera Manageiro

Affiliation: National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon (Portugal)
Title: The use of Whole-Genome Sequencing to predict antibiotic resistance: practical cases

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Dr. Ghulam Dhabaan

Affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Dammam-KSA (Saudi Arabia)
Title: Imipenem induced Type IV pili gene expression in Acinetobacter baumannii: Disarming the bacteria instead of killing it

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Dr. Daniel Abugri

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Department of Biology, Laboratory of Ethnomedicine, Parasitology and Drug Discovery, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama (USA)
Title: Anti-Toxoplasma gondii Activity of Agolingo Number one (TP) Plant Extracts used in African Traditional Medicine

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Dr. Christina Holzel

Affiliation: LMU, Veterinary Faculty, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Munich (Germany)
Title: Changes of antimicrobial resistance genes in the pig microbiome during and after antimicrobial therapy – implications for environmental monitoring

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Dr. Stanley Mukanganyama

Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)
Title: The multifaceted effects of selected phytochemicals on selected microbes: possible roles in prevention and reversal of antimicrobial drug resistance

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Dr. Rahul Kohli

Affiliation: Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Title: Targeting the SOS Pathway to Combat Acquired Antibiotic Resistance

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Dr. Evi Stegmann

Affiliation: University of Tuebingen, Microbiology/Biotechnology, Tuebingen (Germany)
Title: Peptidoglycan modification in antibiotic producers: Resistance or more?

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Dr. Andreas Herrmann

Affiliation: University of Groningen, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Department of Polymer Chemistry, Groningen (The Netherlands)
Title: Fast Synthetic Routes to Complex Antibiotics and Carrier Systems

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Dr. Birte Vester

Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern (Denmark)
Title: The cfr and cfr-like multiple resistance genes – here and there and everywhere

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Dr. Carla de Carvalho

Affiliation: BB-Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
Title: Phenotypic adaptations of Staphylococcus aureus during exposure to antibiotics

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Dr. Dao Nguyen

Affiliation: Department of Medicine, McGill University, Meakins Christie Laboratories, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (Canada)
Title: Targeting bacterial stress responses to overcome antibiotic tolerance

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Dr. Alex O’Neil

Affiliation: School of Molecular & Cellular Biology,Garstang Building, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds (UK)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Miha Skvarc

Affiliation: Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Title: How to narrow the gap till confirmed bloodstream infection with molecular methods and fight antimicrobial resistance

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Dr. Alice Vrielink

Affiliation: School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Western Australia (Australia)
Title: Combating multidrug resistance. Structure of an endotoxin modifying enzyme

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Dr. Marina Nisnevitch

Affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials, Ariel University (Israel)
Title: Eradication of resistant bacteria by photodynamic chemotherapy

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Dr. Constança Pomba

Affiliation: Department of Clinics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Mikhail Metelev

Affiliation: The Institute for Nanobiotechnologies
Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnic University (Russia)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Ester Boix Borrás

Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain)
Title: Human host defence ribonucleases as antimicrobial agents

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Dr. Karen Bush

Affiliation: Indiana University Bloomington (USA)
Title: Carbapenem Resistance in Middle America

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Dr. Alexio Savchenko

Affiliation: Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto (Canada)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. David Wareham

Affiliation: Queen Mary University of London, London (UK)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Justin Nodwel

Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto (Canada)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Dariusz Wasyl

Affiliation: Department of Microbiology, National Reference Laboratory for Salmonellosis and Antimicrobial Resistance, National Veterinary Research Institute, (Poland)
Title: Quinolone, cephalosporin, carbapenem, and colistin resistance in Escherichia coli isolated from animals – official resistance monitoring data, Poland, 2014 – 2016

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Dr. James Herrick

Affiliation: Department of Biology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg VA (USA)
Title: Plasmids captured from uncultivated stream bacteria encode resistance to multiple human clinical antibiotics

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Dr. Vagner Rodrigues Santos

Affiliation: Laboratory of Microbiology and Biomaterials School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Monica Sparo

Affiliation: Clinical Department-Medicine, UNCPBA (Argentina)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Peter Oelschlaeger

Affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona (USA)
Title: Virtually screened inhibitors of metallo-beta-lactamases

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Dr. Michael Murphy

Affiliation: Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Title: Insights from the structure of BcnA, a bacterial lipocalin from Burkholderia cenocepacia that contributes to antibiotic resistance

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Dr. Miraz Rahman

Affiliation: Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King’s College London, London (UK)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Jon Dennis

Affiliation: Dept. of Biological Sciences, Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (Canada)
Title: Alternative treatments for highly antibiotic resistant bacteria

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Dr. Etinosa Igbinosa

Affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Benin, Benin (Nigeria)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Cristiano Bizarro

Affiliation: Faculdade de Biociências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul – PUCRS (Brazil)
Title: Recombineering and whole-genome sequencing for target identification and validation in tuberculosis drug discovery

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Dr. Catherine Courvalin

Affiliation: Institut Pasteur (France)
Title: Contribution of Ade-RND efflux pumps to fitness and pathogenesis of Acinetobacter baumannii

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Dr. Jessica Blair

Affiliation: Institute of Microbiology and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham (UK)
Title: Multidrug Efflux Pump Systems in Salmonella Typhimurium: Impact of Redundancy on Drug Design

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Dr. Gabriela Silva

Affiliation: Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Coimbra, Center of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Coimbra (Portugal)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Yasunori Tanji

Affiliation: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Biotechnology, Tokyo (Japan)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Victoria Siarkou

Affiliation: Lab. of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Dongyan Niu

Affiliation: Beef Research Scientist, Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, Alberta, (Canada)
Title: Isolation and Characterization of Multi-drug resistant (MDR) Bacterial Pathogens that Cause Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) in Feedlot Cattle

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Dr. Daniel Zurawski

Affiliation: Wound Infections Department, Bacterial Diseases Branch Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD (USA)
Title: Narrow Spectrum Therapeutics for the Treatment of Acinetobacter baumannii

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Dr. Sheng Zhang

Affiliation: School of Stomatology Shandong University, Jinan (China)
Title: The Investigation of the Underlying Mechanisms of Small Molecule Compounds Synergize Amphotericin B Against Candida albicans Biofilms

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Dr. Antonella Agodi

Affiliation: Department GF Ingrassia, University of Catania, Catania (Italy)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Mingyu Wang

Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, (China)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Wolgang Heizmann

Affiliation: Orgamed GmbH, University of Tubingen (Germany)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Magdalena Rzewuska

Affiliation: Department of Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Ciszewskiego (Poland)
Title: Antimicrobial resistance in Trueperella pyogenes

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Dr. Jeverson Frazzon

Affiliation: Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia dos Alimentos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Title: Essential oil of Baccharis psiadioides with antimicrobial potential against multi-resistant Enterococcus faecalis and Listeria monocytogenes

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Dr. Maria Tarnberg

Affiliation: Dept. of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linkoping University (Sweden)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Yukching Tse Dinh

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Florida International University (USA)
Title: Targeting Bacterial Topoisomerase I as Countermeasure for Antibiotic Resistance

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Dr. Mainul Haque

Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine and Defense Health, National Defense University of Malaysia (Malaysia)
Title: Antimicrobials: a global alliance for optimizing their rational use in intra-abdominal infections (AGORA)

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Dr. Maria Paola Costi

Affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Sergei Vakulenko

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (USA)
Title: Class D carbapenemases of Acinetobacter baumannii

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Dr. Isabelle Schalk

Affiliation: CNRS/University of Strasbourg, Illkirch (France)
Title: Iron uptake pathways in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: targets for new antibiotics

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Dr. Tanel Tenson

Affiliation: University of Tartu (Estonia)
Title: Phenotypic heterogeneity impacts antibiotic uptake by bacteria

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Dr. Ramzan Ataee

Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences (Iran)
Title: Streptococcus pneumoniae and vancomycin

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Dr. Adriana Rosato

Affiliation: Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute (USA)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Pei Zhou

Affiliation: Duke University Medical Center, (USA)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Vu Truong

Affiliation: Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (USA)
Title: Anti-Infective Immunotherapy Using Human Monoclonal Antibodies

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Dr. Qingguo Qi

Affiliation: School of Stomatology Shandong University (China)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Tim Tolker-Nielsen

Affiliation: Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences , University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Title: Multifaceted aminoglycoside antibiotic tolerance in biofilms

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Dr. Anca Farkas

Affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj (Romania)
Title: Tracking antimicrobial resistance in aquatic environments: how much natural and how much anthropogenic?

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Dr. Tatiana Pinto

Affiliation: Institute of Microbiology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Title: Evolution of penicillin resistance among carriage isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae recovered in Brazil over a period of 20 years: from 1995 to 2014 with PCV10 in between

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Dr. Ruth Lekalakala

Affiliation: Microbiology Department, NHLS -Polokwane & Univ of Limpopo, Sovenga (South Africa)
Title: Antimicrobial stewardship and infection control: The promising regimen

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Dr. John Cadwell

Affiliation: FiberCell Systems Inc. (USA)
Title: The Hollow Fiber Infection Model, Principles and Practice

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Dr. Muna Anjum

Affiliation: Department of Bacteriology, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Weybridge, New Haw, Addlestone (UK)
Title: Detection of the mcr-1 gene encoding transferable colistin resistance in enteric bacteria from pigs in Great Britain.

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Dr. Christina Stallings

Affiliation: Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine (USA)
Title: Chemical disarming of isoniazid resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Dr. Cheston Cunha

Affiliation: Medical Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (Rhode Island Hospital & Miriam Hospital), Division of Infectious Disease, Rhode Island Hospital (USA)
Title: Nitrofurantoin Effectiveness in Treating Acute Uncomplicated Cystitis in Hospitalized Adults with Renal Insufficiency: Antibiotic Stewardship Implications

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Dr. Marta Aires de Sousa

Affiliation: Escola Superior de Saúde da Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa (Portugal)
Title: MRSA: the attack of the clones

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Dr. Manish Kumar

Affiliation: Department of Biophysics, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi (India)
Title: Development of knowledge base of Beta-lactamases for mining their functional characters and reaction dynamics

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Dr. Qi Zheng

Affiliation: Texas A&M School of Public Health, College Station, Texas (United States)
Title: A new way to probe into M. tuberculosis strains of the Beijing genotype

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Dr. Mattew Wand

Affiliation: Technology Development Group, National Infection Service, Microbiology Services Centre, Public Health England (UK)
Title: Increased resistance to chlorhexidine and its potential links to antibiotic resistance.

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Dr. Paul Brown

Affiliation: Department of Basic Medical Sciences, FMS Teaching and Research Complex, University of the West Indies at Mona (Jamaica)
Title: Dam Methylation and Antibiotic Resistance in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli

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Dr. Mire Zloh

Affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Postgraduate Medicine, University of Hertfordshire (UK)
Title: Rational design of novel aryldiketo acids to optimize antibacterial activity against multidrug resistant bacterial strains

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Dr. Ana Catarina Lopes

Affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, UFPE, Recife-PE (Brasil)
Title: Occurrence of qnrB1 and qnrB12 genes, mutation in gyrA and ramR, and expression of efflux pumps in isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae carriers of blaKPC-2 from human infection and colonization

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Dr. Bo Peng

Affiliation: Yat-sen Sun University, Guangzhou (China)
Title: Reprogramming Metabolomics to eliminate antibiotic-resistant bacteria

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Dr. Hui Li

Affiliation: Yat-sen Sun University, Guangzhou (China)
Title: Myo-inositol-enabled eliminating of balofloxacin-resistant Escherichia coli by host

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Dr. Joshua Mbanga

Affiliation: Department of Applied Biology & Biochemistry, National University of Science and Technology (Zimbabwe)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Anca Keul

Affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Tim McAllister

Affiliation: Agriculture and Agri-Food (Canada)
Title: Microbiome and resistome of beef production systems and associated environments across the One Health continuum

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Dr. Refaat Mahfouz

Affiliation: Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University (Egypt)
Title: Quantum – Chemical Investigation on 5-Fluorouracil Anti-cancer Drug

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Dr. Xiangmin Lin

Affiliation: Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou (China)
Title: Protein lysine succinylation affect antibiotics resistance in Aeromonas hydrophila

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Dr. Airat Kayumov

Affiliation: Department of Genetics, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics of Microorganisms, Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan Federal University (Russia)
Title: Fighting with staphylococcal biofilms using ficin, a nonspecific plant protease

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Dr. Thien-Fah Mah

Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON (Canada)
Title: Discovery of a novel transcriptional repressor of multiple antibiotic resistance mechanisms in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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Dr. Oleg Reva

Affiliation: Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBCB), Department of Biochemistry, University of Pretoria, Pretoria (South Africa)
Title: Computer Based Identification of Possible Molecular Targets for Induction of Drug Resistance Reversion in Multidrug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Dr. Alexander Firsov

Affiliation: Gause Institute of New Antibiotics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow (Russia)
Title: PK/PD-based prediction of the “anti-mutant” antibiotic exposures

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Dr. Cristina Rodriguez

Affiliation: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, General Services B42 (Belgium)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Jie Feng

Affiliation: Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
Title: A multi-player game: species of Clostridium, Acinetobacter, and Pseudomonas are responsible for the persistence of antibiotic resistance genes in manure-treated soils

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Dr. Eduard Babiychuk

Affiliation: Institut of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bern (Switzerland)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Hanne Ingmer

Affiliation: University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Title: Bacteriophage mediated transfer of antibiotic resistance genes in Staphyloccocus aureus

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Dr. Khine Swe Swe

Affiliation: University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Yuansong Wei

Affiliation: Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Abdelaziz Touati

Affiliation: Laboratoire de Microbiologie Appliquée, FSNV, Université A/MIRA de Béjaia (Algeria)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. John Osei

Affiliation: Antimicrobial Resistance Unit, School of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Ahmed Nadeem

Affiliation: Carle Foundation Hospital, North Tower 8, Pediatrics, Urbana, Illinois (USA)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Lian Hui Zhang

Affiliation: Institut of Molecular and Cell Biology (Singapore)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Sebastian Méndez-Álvarez

Affiliation: Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de La Laguna (Spain)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Hongping Wei

Affiliation: Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei (China)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. João Paulo Tardivo

Affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina do ABC (Brazil)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Wim Quax

Affiliation: University of Groningen, Groningen (The Netherlands)
Title: Quorum quenching acylases reducing bacterial virulence

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Dr. Noureddine Khiar

Affiliation: Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas (Spain)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Michael Meijler

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)
Title: Chemical Information Warfare between Species

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Dr. Monika Biernant

Affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Wroclaw Medical Univeristy, Wroclaw (Poland)
Title: Molecular patterns of resistance among H. pylori strains in South-Western Poland.

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Dr. Xiao-Ying Zhang

Affiliation: Northwest A & F University, College of Veterinay Medicine (China)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Maria Selmer

Affiliation: UPPSALA UNIVERSITY : Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (Sweden)
Title: Substrate recognition by aminoglycoside (3’’)(9) adenyl transferase AadA from Salmonella enterica

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Dr. Magdalena Zajac

Affiliation: National Veterinary Research Institute, Department of Microbiology (Poland)
Title: Whole genome sequencing characterisation of mcr-1 positive Escherichia coli isolated from turkeys and chickens

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Dr. Giuseppe Celenza

Affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche Applicate e Biotecnologiche, Università degli Studi dell’ Aquial (Italy)
Title: The SOS response in bacteria and the LexA transcriptional repressor: withstanding drug resistance by inhibiting the bacterial mechanisms of adaptation to antimicrobials

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Dr. Maria Teresa Machini

Affiliation: Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química – Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Marie-Cécile Ploy

Affiliation: Université de Limoges, Faculté de Médecine, EA3175, Limoges (France)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Roger Beuerman

Affiliation: Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore SRP Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders, Duke-NUS, Singapore Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Aidan Coffey

Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Cork Institute of Technology, Bishopstown, Cork (Ireland)
Title: Characterization and applications of bacteriophage-derived peptidoglycan hydrolase enzymes targeting MRSA and antibiotic resistant Clostridium difficile

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Dr. Shahla Mansouri

Affiliation: Microbiology Department, Kerman University of Medical sciences, Kerman (Iran)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Margaret Ip

Affiliation: Dept of Microbiology
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin (Hong Kong)
Title: Available Soon

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Dr. Marina Nisnevitch

Affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials, Ariel University (Israel)
Title: Photodynamic and sonodynamic chemotherapy for eradication of sensitive and resistant to antibiotics Gram-positive bacteria

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Dr. Yu Chen

Affiliation: University of South Florida, Department of Molecular Medicine (USA)
Title: Structure-based design of broad-spectrum inhibitors targeting both serine and metallo carbapenemases

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Dr. Tracy Raivio

Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton (Canada)
Title: The Cpx stress response controls the expression of electron transport chain protein complexes at the inner membrane to mediate adaptation to envelope stress and alter antibiotic resistance

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Dr. Jonathan Frye

Affiliation: US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Athens, Georgia (USA)
Title: The Genomics of Mobile Genetic Elements Carrying Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Salmonella associated with U.S. Food Animals.

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Dr. Maria Teresa Machini

Affiliation: Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química – Universidade de São Paulo , São Paulo (Brazil)
Title: Available Soon.

Dr. Danila Zimenkov

Affiliation: Engelhardt institute of molecular biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russia)
Title: Dynamic population structure and acquisition of resistance by MDR and XDR M. tuberculosis during medical treatment

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Dr. Gangathra Prabhu

Affiliation: Department of Microbial Technology, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University (India)
Title: Why not chemo therapy and perspective of Phop/q therapy to Multi Drug Resistant Salmonella.spp

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Dr. Mark Ibekwe

Affiliation: Research Microbiologist, U. S. Salinity Lab, 450 W. Big Springs Rd, (USA)
Title: Antibiotic resistance genes from different animal environments through metagenomics

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Dr. Alexey Egorov

Affiliation: M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, “NVO Immunotek”, Moscow (Russia)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Modestas Ruzauskas

Affiliation: Microbiology and Virology Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (Lithuania)
Title: Resistome of microbiota in European herring gulls (Larus argentatus)

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Dr. Eleazar Cohen

Affiliation: National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases (USA)
Title: Implications for antibiotic resistance of the signaling mechanism of Amphotericin B

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Dr. Claudio Miranda

Affiliation: Departamento de Acuicultura, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo (Chile)
Title: Use of Antimicrobial Agents in the Chilean Salmon Farming Industry and Current Status of Knowledge of Associated Antimicrobial Resistance

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Dr. Tina Plankar

Affiliation: University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Department of Infectious Diseases, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Title: Risk factors for colonization with resistant bacteria in the hospital

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Dr. Krasimir Vasilev

Affiliation: School of Engineering and Future Industries institute, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes (Australia)
Title: Antibacterial Coatings Facilitated by Plasma Techniques

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Dr. Tina Plankar

Affiliation: University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Department of Infectious Diseases, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Title: Risk factors for colonization with resistant bacteria in the hospital

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Dr. Thilo Kohler

Affiliation: University of Geneva, Geneva (Switzerland)
Title: Alternative pathways for transport of antibiotics into Gram-negative bacteria

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Dr. Sybille Schwendener

Affiliation: Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern (Switzerland)
Title: Novel methicillin resistance gene mecD in Macrococcus caseolyticus

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Dr. Olga Genilloud

Affiliation: Fundación MEDINA, Granada (Spain)
Title: Discovering novel antibiotics from microbial natural products to fight antimicrobial resistance

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Dr. Zahid Rehman

Affiliation: King Abdullah University of science and technology (Saudi Arabia)
Title: Quorum Quenching Activities of Bacteria Isolated from Red Sea Sediments

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Dr. Lorenzo Proia

Affiliation: Ecology of Aquatic Systems – Universitè Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
Title: Available Soon.

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Dr. Anzhela Galstyan

Affiliation: European Institute for Molecular Imaging, Waldeyerstr (Germany)
Title: Light against antibiotic resistance – photoinduced killing of bacterial pathogens using conjugated phthalocyanines

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Dr. David Pulido-Gomez

Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona (Spain)
Title: Positional Scanning Combinatorial Library applied to the human ECP N-terminus reveals novel and potent

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Dr. Ivan Barisic

Affiliation: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Molecular Diagnostics, Vienna (Austria)
Title: DNA-based infectious disease characterisation using a single diagnostic test

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Dr. Elena Medvedeva

Affiliation: Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics KazSC RAS, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan (Russia)
Title: Molecular bases of antimicrobial resistance of Acholeplasma laidlawii

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Dr. Isabel Henriques

Affiliation: Biology Department and CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro (Portugal)
Title: Fate of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae in a full-scale wastewater treatment plant and potential impact of UV disinfection

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Dr. Christy Manyi-Loh

Affiliation: Institute of Technology, University of Fort Hare, Alice Campus (South Africa)
Title: Microbial antibiotic resistance of environmental samples: a call for public health concern

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Dr. Ana Belen Fernández

Affiliation: Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit and Pain Therapy. NSD Candelaria University Hospital (HUNSC). Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife (Spain)
Title: VILLAINSINTHE CRITICALLYILLPATIENT, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANTGRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIA , AND THE BIRTH OF NEW SUPERANTIBIOTICS

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Annarita Mazzariol, PhD

Affiliation: University of Verona, Verona (Italy)
Title: Research of 11109 Da peak on Maldi-Tof for rapid detection of KPC producing strains. Useful epidemiological tool in KPC endemic setting to monitoring the emergence of other carbapenemases

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Per-Anders Mårdh, PhD

Affiliation: Institute of Clinical Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lund University, Sweden Lund University (Sweden)
Title: Where should we focus to save the efficiency of antibiotics?

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Pamela Yeh, PhD

Affiliation: University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles (USA)
Title: Higher-order drug combinations and emergent properties

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Marie Archambault, PhD

Affiliation: Université de Montréal, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec (Canada)
Title: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in swine and poultry: uma história bem diferente!