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