4th International Caparica Conference in Antibiotic Resistance 2021

14th – 17th June 2021 | Caparica | Portugal

Plenary Speakers

Karen Bush, PhD

Affiliation: Indiana University Bloomington (USA)

Title: Do We Still Need New Antibiotics to treat MDR Enterobacterales?

David Livermore, PhD

Affiliation: Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK)

Title: No respite in the war: resistance to the newest antibiotics.

Patrice Courvalin, PhD

Affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur (France)

Alessandra Carattoli, PhD

Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine and Farmacology, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)

Title: Plasmids and the spread of antibiotic resistance.

Fernando Baquero, PhD

Affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal University Hospital (Spain)

Title: Ecological Coalescence of Intestinal Microbiota and Antibiotic Resistance.

John Elmerdahl Olsen, PhD

Affiliation: Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

Title: Treatment with antibiotics – does it affect conjugative transfer of resistance plasmids?

Olga Lomovskaya, PhD

Affiliation: Senior Vice President, Discovery and Clinical Microbiology, Qpex Biopharma (USA)

Patrícia Poeta, PhD

Affiliation: University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real (Portugal)

Could COVID-19 lead to an increase in antimicrobial resistance?

Tim Tolker-Nielsen, PhD

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

Biofilm-associated antimicrobial tolerance