5th International Caparica Conference in Antibiotic Resistance 2022

05th – 08th September 2022 | Caparica | Portugal

Keynote Speakers

Tatiana Pinto, PhD

Affiliation: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Title: Increasing occurrence of multidrug-resistant bacteria colonization among pregnant women in Brazil after the onset of COVID-19 pandemic.

Emilia Caselli, PhD

Affiliation: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)

Title: Sulfonamidoboronic acids as cross-class inhibitors of ADC-33 and OXA-24/40 beta-lactamases to combat resistance in A. baumannii

Matthias Tacke, PhD

Affiliation: University College Dublin (Ireland)

Title: SBC3 – A Novel Silver-Based Antibiotic Drug Candidate against Resistant Bacteria and Fungi.

Elisabeth Grohmann, PhD

Affiliation: Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin (Germany)

Title: Thermophilic composting of human excreta: Microbial community shifts and decline of antimicrobial resistance

Simonetta Grilli, PhD

Affiliation: Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (Italy)

Title: The Biofilm Electrostatic Test: a new platform for rapid evaluation of biofilm formation.

Dilip Shah, PhD

Affiliation: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis (USA)

Eric T. Harvill, PhD

Affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens (USA)

Title: Natural history, ecology and antibiotics in model respiratory and middle ear pathogens.

Baltasar Mayo, PhD

Affiliation: IPLA-CSIC (Spain)

Title: Antibiotic resistance of lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria from dairy and human sources.

Zvi Hayouka, PhD

Affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)

Title: Development of novel “resistance proof” antimicrobial peptides.

Elena Gomez Sanz, PhD

Affiliation: ETH Zurich, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH), Laboratory of Food Microbiology (Switzerland)

Title: Multispecies host range of staphylococcal phages isolated from wastewater

Robert A. Bonomo, PhD

Affiliation: Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine (USA)

Title: The Renaissance of beta-lactamase Inhibitors

Anderson Rocha, PhD

Affiliation: University of Campinas (Brazil)

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