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With the rapid spread of antimicrobial resistance, bacterial infections represent an increasingly urgent threatto human health worldwide. To be able to meet future health care challenges it will be mandatory to obtain acomprehensive understanding of the physiology and behavior of bacterial pathogens in vivo and of thecomplexity of antimicrobial therapy in patients. This international conference will focus on the currentknowledge on bacterial persistence and its impact on antimicrobial therapy. It will strive to unite basicresearch on persistence with clinical and applied efforts to control infections.
Key topics and confirmed speakers
Keynote SpeakersBruce LevinKim LewisGisela Storz
Emory University, Atlanta, USANortheastern Univ., Boston, USANational Institutes of Health, USA
Clinical Manifestations ofBacterial Persistence
Annelies ZinkernagelBarbara KazmierczakWolf-Dietrich Hardt
Univ. Hospital Zürich, SwitzerlandYale Univ., New Haven, USA ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Microbial PersistenceNathalie BalabanJan MichielsJohn McKinney
Hebrew University, IsraelUniversity of Leuven, BelgiumEPF Lausanne, Switzerland
Mechanisms ofPersistence
Sophie HelaineAlexander HarmsLaurence Van Melderen
Imperial College London, UKCopenhagen Univ., DenmarkBruxelles University, Belgium
Stress and MetabolismMatthias HeinemannTerence HwaTanel Tenson
Groningen Univ., NetherlandsUniv. Calif. San Diego, USAUniversity of Tartu, Estonia
Antibiotics Tolerance andResistance
Dan I. AnderssonManoshi Datta
Uppsala University, SwedenIsrael Inst. of Technology, Israel
Technology and Innovative Treatment Strategies
Petra DittrichMan-Wah TanGlenn Dale
ETH Zürich, SwitzerlandGenentech, USAPolyphor, Switzerland
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Bacterial Persistence and Antimicrobial TherapyAscona, Switzerland - June 10-14, 2018