Detailed information about the course
Title | Growth Control With and Without Antibiotics - Do Bacteria Care? |
Dates | 12 November 2018 |
Responsable de l'activité | Patrick Viollier |
Organizer(s) | Prof. Patrick Viollier, UNIGE Dr. Laurent Falquet, UNIFR |
Speakers | 4 external speakers (to be announced) |
Description | The focus of this one-day symposium will be on antibiotic (hetero)resistance, tolerance and stress adaptation by toxins and other mechanisms in various bacterial model systems and important human pathogens. The symposium will potentially also deal with new antibiotic development and therapies, including siderophore-beta-lactam conjugates, colistins, new drugs and combinatorial treatment of old drugs. |
Program | Session I: Heteroresistance (9h -10:30h):
· Jan-Willem Veening (University of Lausanne,CH, 30 min):
· Yannick Charretier (Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, CH, 30 min): "Mechanisms of (hetero)-resistance to colistin in Acinetobacter baumannii"
· Adriana Renzoni (Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, CH, 30 min):
Session II: Efflux (11h – 12:30h)
· Jürg Dreier (Basilea Pharmaceutica, CH, 30 min):
· Sean Murray (Cal State Northridge University, USA, 30 min):
· Coralie Fumeaux (Harvard Medical School, USA, 30 min):
Session III: TA systems (14h -15:30h):
· Laurent Falquet (University of Frbourg, CH, 30 min):
· Pierre Genevaux (University of Toulouse, FR, 30 min):
· Laurence van Melderen (University of Bruxelles, BE, 30 min):
Session IV: New drugs (16h -17:30h):
· Nicolas Jacquier (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, CH, 30 min):
· Thilo Köhler (University of Geneva, CH, 30 min):
· 2 Short talks from students
Apéro and dinner (18h-21h) |
Location |
UNIGE |
Information | |
Places | 30 |
Deadline for registration | 11.11.2018 |