Antibiotics Webinar | Structural Aspects of AMPs and Antimicrobials Ⅲ
the chair
Dear colleagues,
It is a pleasure to welcome you to this webinar, part of a series of online presentations, entitled “Structural Aspects of AMPs and Antimicrobials Ⅲ”.
Antimicrobial peptides or AMPs are natural and/or synthetic peptides with inhibitory activities against micro-organisms, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses.
AMPs are very diverse in terms of sequence, mechanism of synthesis/maturation, and structures. The goal of this series of webinars on “Structural Aspects of AMPs and Antimicrobials” is to present recent and important findings regarding the discovery and characterization of AMPs.
For today’s webinar, I am happy and honored to welcome Dr. Yanyan Li and Prof Octavio Franco. Dr. Li is a principal investigator and group leader in the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). She obtained her PhD in chemistry from the University of Cambridge, UK, and received postdoctoral training at the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN), France, and the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Germany. Her main research interest is focused on the discovery, biosynthesis, and mechanism of action studies of bacterial antimicrobial peptides. Her presentation today will be about the “Mode of action of antibacterial ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs)”. Prof Franco is a professor and coordinator of the Biotechnology Program at Universidade Católica Dom Bosco. He holds a PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Brasília and completed postdoctoral training at Embrapa and the University of Edinburgh. A CNPq Level 1A Researcher, he has published over 550 scientific papers in leading journals and holds nearly 40 patents, including the anti-aging product OS-1. He co-founded Peptidus, Lumis, and SO Biotech, focusing on biotechnology and health. He has supervised over 120 graduate students and is actively involved in science communication through lectures, media, and social media platforms. His presentation today will be about the “Generation of novel antibiotics from natural products by using digital platforms”.
I hope you will be able to join and enjoy the webinar.
Regards,
Dr. Marc Maresca
Date: 15 December 2025
Time: 2:00 pm CET | 8:00 am EST
Webinar ID: 812 1768 8919
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Meet the Event Chair
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. Octávio Luiz Franco
1. Center for Proteomics and Biochemical Analysis, Postgraduate Program in Genomic Sciences and Biotechnology, Catholic University of Brasília, Brazil; 2. Postgraduate Program in Biotechnology, S-Inova Biotech, Dom Bosco Catholic University, Brazil;
Octávio Luiz Franco is a professor and coordinator of the Biotechnology Program at Universidade Católica Dom Bosco. He holds a PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Brasília and completed postdoctoral training at Embrapa and the University of Edinburgh. A CNPq Level 1A Researcher, he has published over 550 scientific papers in leading journals and holds nearly 40 patents, including the anti-aging product OS-1. He co-founded Peptidus, Lumis, and SO Biotech, focusing on biotechnology and health. He has supervised over 120 graduate students and is actively involved in science communication through lectures, media, and social media platforms.
Dr. Yanyan Li
Laboratory Molecules of Communication and Adaptation of Microorganisms (MCAM), French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), France;
Dr. Yanyan Li is a principal investigator and group leader in the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). She obtained her Ph.D in chemistry from the University of Cambridge, UK, and received postdoctoral training at the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN), France and the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Germany. Her main research interest is focused on the discovery, biosynthesis and mechanism of action studies of bacterial antimicrobial peptides.
10th Antibiotics Webinar
Structural Aspects of AMPs and Antimicrobials Ⅲ
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Dear Colleagues,
It is a pleasure and an honor to welcome Prof. Octavio Franco (from the Catholic University of Brasília, Brazil) and Dr. Yanyan Li from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) to the webinar today. Prof. Franco is an expert in the design and optimization of antimicrobial peptides using Artificial Intelligence (AI). His pioneer works in this topic led to the discovery of AMPs with higher activity and/or lower toxicity, highlighting the relationship between sequences or structures of AMPs and their activity. Dr. Yanyan Li is an expert on AMPs produced by bacteria and their uses to treat infection. Her works allowed the discovery and the understanding of the link between the structures of those peptides and their activity, related to their interaction with key enzymes and/or cellular structures.
Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Structural Aspects of AMPs and Antimicrobials
Edited by J. Michael Conlon, Marc Maresca, Bong-Jin Lee and Aurélie Tasiemski
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/antibiotics/topical_collections/DN4VI999FP