Monday, 11 May 2026
12:45 – 17:45 CET (Check-In: 12:45 CET)
Tuesday, 12 May 2026
8:50 – 18:15 CET
Wednesday, 13 May 2026
08:50 – 15:00 CET (Conference Dinner: 20:00 CET)
Thursday, 14 May 2026
08:50 – 12:15 CET
※ Please note that the schedule is subject to change.
Detailed Schedule
Day 1 – Monday, 11 May 2026
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from 12:45 |
Check-In |
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13:45-14:00 |
Opening Ceremony |
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Innovation in Antimicrobial Stewardship and Optimized Clinical Strategies Chaired by Márió Gajdács |
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14:00-14:30 |
Jean-Michel Bolla |
Efflux Pump-Based Diagnostic Approach for Accelerated Antibiotic Resistance Detection |
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14:30-14:45 |
Lina I. Alnajjar |
The Impact of Intensive Care Unit Stewardship on the Appropriateness of Meropenem Prescription at a Tertiary Hospital: A Quasi-Experimental Study |
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14:45-15:00 |
Samantha Yulanda Walker |
An Assessment of Factors Impacting Choice of Antibiotics in the Management of Neonatal Infections in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in a Resource-Limited Setting – A Pilot Project in Quality Improvement |
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15:00-15:15 |
Andrea Szabó |
Current State of Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Hungarian Human and Veterinary Health Sectors |
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15:15-15:30 |
Márió Gajdács |
Does The Problem Begin At The Beginning? Assessment Of Antimicrobial Resistance-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, And Practices Among Health Science Students: A Questionnaire-Based, Single-Centre, Cross-Sectional Study |
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15:30-16:00 |
Evelina Tacconelli |
Rethinking Clinical Trials for Difficult-to-Treat Resistant Gram-Negative Infections in Europe |
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16:00-16:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Antimicrobials, Antimicrobial Resistance, Ethnopharmacology and One Health (part 1) Chaired by Marc Maresca |
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16:30-16:45 |
Maggie Liu |
The Impact of Novel Antimicrobial Three-Dimensional Printing (3DP) Dentures on Salivary Biofilm Formation: An In Vitro Study |
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16:45-17:00 |
Lissette Díaz-Gamboa |
Occurrence and Removal of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Urban Wastewater Treatment Plants: A One Health Perspective |
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17:00-17:15 |
Arseniy Sinichich |
New Insights into the Action of Natural Lipoglycopeptides: Gausemycins |
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17:15-18:00 |
Mariana Castanheira |
Where Resistance Meets Drug Development: Lessons from 20 Years of Antimicrobial Research |
Day 2 – Tuesday, 12 May 2026
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09:19-09:45 |
Aurélie Tasiemski |
Bioinspired Antimicrobial Strategy: An Extremophile Deep Sea Peptide to Combat Cystic Fibrosis Infections Caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus |
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Antimicrobial Resistance Mechanisms Chaired by Sara Soto |
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09:45-10:00 |
Roger de Pedro Jove |
Potential Efflux Pump Inhibition by the Cyclic Peptide MV6 Restores Netilmicin Activity in Acinetobacter baumannii |
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10:00-10:15 |
Bela Kocsis |
Investigations Of Delafloxacin Resistance Mechanisms in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae Clinical Isolates |
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10:15-10:30 |
Pol Oliveras Julia |
Antibiotic Resistance in Enterotoxigenic and Enteroaggregative E. coli Causing Traveler’s Diarrhoea: A Genotypic and Phenotypic Correlation Study |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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Conventional and Novel Approaches in the Discovery of New Antimicrobial Agents (part 1) Chaired by Domenico Schillaci |
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11:00-11:30 |
Patrice Nordmann |
Emerging Antibiotic Resistances Worldwide |
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11:30-11:45 |
Umama Qasim |
A novel cyclic peptide CAP-18 and its enantiomer cyclic D-CAP-18 as potential agents against multi-drug resistant bacteria |
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11:45-12:00 |
Cristina Prudêncio |
An Application Of Cluster Analysis With The Affinity Coefficient And Euclidean Distance To Bacteria Antimicrobial Resistance Profile |
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12:00-12:15 |
Ceyda Kula |
Metabolic Signatures of Antibiotic Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: A Systems Biology Approach to Rational Adjuvant Therapy Design |
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12:15-12:45 |
Markus Weingarth |
Cracking Nature’s Recipes to Design Lipid-Targeting Antibiotics |
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12:45-14:45 |
Group Photo |
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Conventional and Novel Approaches in the Discovery of New Antimicrobial Agents (part 2) Chaired by Stephen Hawser |
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14:45-15:00 |
Richard Yi-Tsun Kao |
Flufenamic Acid Potentiates Host Clearance of Staphylococcus aureus via Dual Inhibition of the Agr Quorum-Sensing System and NLRP3 Inflammasome |
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15:00-15:15 |
Nikolet Ilieva Pavlova |
Bioinformatics and Genomic Analysis for the Potential of mRNAs as Antibacterial Drug Targets in ihe Genome of Macrolide-Resistant Strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae Infecting Humans for Novel Antisense Oligonucleotide Design |
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15:15-15:30 |
Federica Parisi |
In Silico Design Of Synthetic Peptides Inspired By Natural Peptides Scaffolds From A Mediterranean Medical Plant Charybdis pancration (Steinh.) Speta, With Predicted Activity Against Relevant Pathogens |
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15:30-15:45 |
Tigran Ugujyan |
Epidemiological Features of Catheter-Associated Bloodstream Infections in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a Category III Maternity Hospital in Armenia |
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15:45-16:00 |
Domenico Schillaci |
Marine Fungi As A Source Of Antibacterial, Antifungal And Antibiofilm Agents |
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16:00-16:30 |
Coffee Break & Poster Session A |
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Antimicrobials, Antimicrobial Resistance, Ethnopharmacology and One Health (part 2) Chaired by Stephen Hawser |
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16:30-17:00 |
Efstathios Giaouris |
Silencing Bacterial Communication With Lactic Acid Bacteria Metabolites: An Eco-Friendly Approach Against Foodborne Pathogenic Biofilms |
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17:00-17:15 |
Alessio Fontanot |
Antimicrobial Peptides SET-M33L And SET-M33L-PEG Are Promising Agents Against Strong Biofilm-Forming Clinical Strains of P. Aeruginosa, Including Multidrug-Resistant Isolates |
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17:15-17:30 |
Miguel I Uyaguari |
Genes on the Move: Exploring Microbiomes Within Aquatic Ecosystems of First Nation Communities in Manitoba |
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17:30-17:45 |
Preetu Parimal |
Antifungal and Antivirulence Activity of Antimicrobial Peptide Oreoch-1 Against Candida albicans |
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17:45-18:00 |
Jordan Pratt |
More Than a Prescription: Behavioural Drivers of Antimicrobial Use in Companion Animals |
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Daphne León |
Participatory Interventions to Reduce Antibiotic Misuse on Small- and Medium-Scale Laying Hen Farms in Peru |
Day 3 – Wednesday, 13 May 2026
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08:50-09:45 |
Tim Walsh |
Clinical and Financial Burden of Global AMR |
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Conventional and Novel Approaches in the Discovery of New Antimicrobial Agents (part 3) Chaired by Jordi Vila |
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09:45-10:00 |
Francesca Berini |
Genome Mining as a Tool for Identifying Novel Glycopeptide Antibiotics: Insights from Kineomicins |
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10:00-10:15 |
Núria Martín-Vilardell |
PLP-3: A Novel Bicyclic Peptide Active Against Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria |
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10:15-10:30 |
Wangxue Chen |
Bacteriophage Depolymerases as a Novel Alternative to Antibiotics: Their Promises and Challenges |
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10:30-10:45 |
Betul Zehra Temur |
Overcoming Resistance Mechanisms via Membrane Disruption with Newly Developed Antimicrobial Peptides |
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10:45-11:15 |
Coffee Break & Poster Session B |
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Antimicrobials, Antimicrobial Resistance, Ethnopharmacology and One Health (part 3) Chaired by Márió Gajdács |
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11:15-11:45 |
Luisa Peixe |
Are We Measuring or Controlling AMR? Carbapenemases as a One Health Sentinel from Food Systems to Environmental Policy |
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11:45-12:00 |
Clare Harkins |
The Impact of Sewer Biofilms on Antibiotic Stability and Antimicrobial Resistance Signals in Wastewater |
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12:00-12:15 |
Alba A Trespalacios |
A One Health Perspective on Helicobacter pylori Along the Bogotá River Basin: Environmental and Clinical Genotyping Reveals Virulence Profiles and Clarithromycin Resistance |
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12:15-12:30 |
Ziming Wu |
Mobile Resistance Genes in Archaea: Genomic Evidence and One Health Implications |
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12:30-12:45 |
Laura Espina |
Tracking AMR Transmission Throughout the Food Chain |
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12:45-13:15 |
Carmen Torres |
Antimicrobial Resistance From the One Health Perspective. The Environment in the Equation. |
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13:15-15:00 |
Lunch Break & Poster Session B |
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Afternoon At Leisure
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at 20:00 |
Conference Dinner Address: Catalonia Boulevard. C/ del Rosselló, 249, 08008 Barcelona |
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Day 4 – Thursday, 14 May 2026
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08:50-09:30 |
Adnane Remmal |
Real-World Insights: Breaking Resistance to Amoxicillin–Clavulanic Acid with 1,8-Cineole |
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Antimicrobials, Antimicrobial Resistance, Ethnopharmacology and One Health (Part 4) Chaired by Manuel Simões |
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09:30-09:45 |
Manel Camps |
IncQ Plasmids Facilitate the Integration of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in the Chromosome |
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09:45-10:00 |
Cleménce Cochard |
How Bacteria Survive Their Own Antimicrobial Peptides? The DdD Protein Defines a New Safety Mechanism in Leaderless Bacteriocins |
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10:00-10:15 |
Krassimira R. Hristova | Bacillus Subtilis-Derived Peptides As Antibiotic Alternative Treatment Of Multidrug-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus: Mechanistic Study |
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10:15-10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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10:45-11:00 |
Temesgen Abera Bafa |
Efflux-Modulating Antimicrobial Peptide Combinations Restore Ciprofloxacin Activity Against Clinical Escherichia coli |
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11:00-11:15 |
Manuel Simões |
The Action Of Phytochemical Products In Antibiotic Potentiation And Biofilm Control |
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11:15-11:45 |
Walter Luyten |
Why Are There Virtually No Antibiotics in Clinical Use Based on Bioactive Compounds from Plants? |
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11:45-12:15 |
Closing & Award Ceremony |
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