In the face of rising levels of antibiotic resistance, this international live streamed event will explore alternative strategies to infection control.
Oral abstract submission deadline August 10th 2016
Early registration deadline September 20th 2016
Poster submissions deadline October 25th 2016
INSTRUCTIONS
- How to submit your abstract – www.lifescienceevents.com/abstracts
- How to submit your poster – www.lifescienceevents.com/submission-poster-presentation
Meeting description: The ever increasing rise in drug resistance has been described as a major threat not only to public health, but also to global security. The emergence of resistant and multi-resistant strains of infectious diseases is largely attributed to antibiotic misuse in both the human and animal populations, along with spread between human and non-human sources. This event will consolidate recent research into the development and spread of antibiotic resistance and its clinical impact, and explore a range of approaches to tackle rising levels, including methods for infection control and monitoring of resistant strains, as well as novel therapeutic intervention strategies to reduce conventional antibiotic use.
Who Should Attend: This event is targeted at those with an interest in the rising levels of antibiotic resistance and in strategies aimed at overcoming drug resistance and developing new antimicrobial therapies, including academics, clinicians and pharmaceutical professionals.
The event will be recorded and available for all registered delegates up to a month after the event. So if you can’t manage all the days, or the different time zones, you can still have access to the full event.
Invited speakers and their talks Include
Talk Title | Speaker | Affiliation | Country |
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Antivirulents instead of antibiotics | Dr Menachem Shoham | Cleveland, OH | United States |
Disarming Pathogens: Benefits and Challenges of developing antimicrobials that target virulence instead of viability | Dr. Makrina Totsika | Queensland University of Technology | Australia |
Novel enzyme-based antibacterials against Gram-negative pathogens that do not provoke resistance development | Dr Yves Briers | Gent | Belgium |
Talk title to be confirmed | Dr Carolina Santillán Torres Torija | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Mexico |
High-Throughput Screening of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Picodroplets | Dr. Clive Smith | Sphere Fluidics Limited | United Kingdom |
Complementary and Alternative Medicine as an alternative to antibiotics | Dr. Mubashir Arain | University of Calgary | Canada |
New strategies for detection and control of antibiotic resistant bacteria | Dr. Iryna Sorokulova | Auburn University | United States |
Extremely thermostable enzymes of bacteriophage origin - their use against Gram-negative bacteria | Dr Magdalena Plotka | University of Gdansk | Poland |
Novel antivirulence agents against bacterial pathogens | Dr.Menachem Shoham | Case Western Reserve University | United States |
Talk title to be confirmed | Dr Manuel Jose Vieira Simões | Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto | Portugal |
Beyond conventional antibiotitics | Dr. Deborah Hung | Harvard Medical School | United States |
New perspectives to fight Burkholderia cenocepacia, a very dangerous Cystic Fibrosis pathogen | Dr Silvia Buroni | University of Pavia | Italy |
Talk title to be confirmed | Professor Conrad Lichtenstein | Nemesis Bioscience Ltd | United Kingdom |
Curcumin's derivatives as potential alternative agents to antibiotics on farm | Dr. Maria Grazia Cusimano | University of Palermo | Italy |
Guar gum as a new antimicrobial peptide delivery system against diabetic foot ulcers Staphylococcus aureus isolates | Tania Raquel Martins dos Santos | Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária | Portugal |
Bacteriophages as Natural, Self-Regulating and Self-Limiting Antimicrobials | Dr Elizabeth Martin Kutter | The Evergreen State College | United States |
Quorum sensing inhibition to control bacterial disease: aquaculture as a case study | Professor Tom Defoirdt | Ghent University | Belgium |
The viability of using bacteriophages to target infectious disease | Dr. Jim O'Mahony | Cork Institute of Technology | Ireland |
Bacteriophage therapy- still promising, but not yet delivering | Dr. David R. Harper | Evolution Biotechnologies | United Kingdom |
New molecules interfering with Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation | Dr. Stella Maria Cascioferro | Università degli Studi di Palermo | Italy |
Developing antibiotics alternatives: A discussion of new approaches to overcoming antimicrobial resistance has an open abstract session:
Abstracts can be submitted on any subject related to antibiotics, antibiotic alternatives and antibiotic resistance
Advisory Board Members
Name | Affiliation | Country |
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Professor Robert Allaker | Barts and The London School of Medicine & Dentistry | United Kingdom |
Dr Domenico Schillaci | Università degli Studi di Palermo | Italy |
Dr Stephen Mortlock | Q2 Solutions | United States |
Dr Ron Dixon | University of Lincoln | United Kingdom |
This is an International Life Science Community Internet event and has CPD accreditation
FAQs about our Live Streamed Events
Why attend a Live Streamed Event
As Euroscicon are the first to run virtual Life Science conferences we thought you might be unfamiliar with the benefits of attending.
Please view these meetings as you would a usual conference, but with the following advantages
- Less travel time means more time for you at work and at home`
- Access the whole event from the comfort of your own home or office
- Registration Fees are much less than a “bricks and mortar” event
- No expenditure on hotels and sundries
- Connect with a larger and more global audience, many of whom may have not attended due to cost and travel constraints
- Catch up on missed talks in the evening or your free time
- No flight delays, passport control or security checks
- Juggle work demands with conference attendance
- Dip in and out of talks without being noticed
- No packing and unpacking and wondering whether your luggage will make it through to the other side
- Access all conference materials and audio online for 1 month after the event
- Easily locate conference attendees and arrange a conference call, rather than searching hotel lobbies for your clients
- Save hundreds of thousands of gallons of air fuel because of the aggregate efforts of attendees