Interdisciplinary approaches to combatting antimicrobial resistance

Organisers

• Katherine R. Duncan (University of Newcastle, UK)
• Serge Mostowy (The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)

Date

Wednesday 26 March 2025

As part of the overarching Biologists @ 100 conference, Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM) will host a one-day programme on antimicrobial resistance.

Registrants wishing to attend only this particular scientific track of the conference should select the day pass, choose Wednesday, and select the ‘Interdisciplinary approaches to combatting antimicrobial resistance’ conference track.

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About the DMM-hosted programme

By 2050, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is expected to be responsible for 10 million deaths globally, every year, making it the largest single threat to human health in many of our lifetimes. The COVID-19 pandemic taught us that new antimicrobial agents are needed against emerging pathogens, yet the drugs we use to combat existing pathogens for many decades have become increasingly less effective. Accelerated antibiotic discovery, in combination with greater understanding of resistance mechanisms and spread, is required to answer the call to arms against AMR. In this AMR meeting, we will highlight three major themes: (i) drug discovery in the ‘omics era, (ii) cellular mechanisms of AMR and (iii) detecting and tackling AMR in the environment and clinics. With this holistic overview, we offer innovative and impactful science providing solutions to enable a step change in our thinking and approaches towards antibiotics, resistance and global health impact.

Topics will include:

• Cellular mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance
• Detecting antimicrobial resistance / persistence in the environment, clinical case studies, solution science, impact and innovation
• Drug discovery and ‘omics

View the preliminary programme

• Jessica Blair, University of Birmingham, UK
• Susanna Dunachie, University of Oxford, UK
• Maximiliano Gutierrez, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
• Roger Linington, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Iruka Okeke, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
• Nadine Ziemert, University of Tübingen, Germany