The 4th International Electronic Conference on Antibiotics
Challenges and Strategies for the Antibiotic Resistance Crisis
Conference Closed and Winner Announcement
The Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards of ECA 2025 have been evaluated. Please refer to the Winner Announcement.
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We expect that participants of this conference will be able to exchange novel, provocative ideas by presenting short oral presentations on research and development and discoveries, as well as emphasizing challenges facing antibiotic resistance as a public health crisis.
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Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Manuel Simões,
Dr. Marc Maresca,
CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, Centrale Marseille, iSm2, Marseille, France
Chairs of the 4th International Electronic Conference on Antibiotics
Meet the Event Chairs
Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineFeb 21, 2025
- Abstract acceptance notificationMar 21, 2025
- Registration end dateMay 16, 2025
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. Cesar de la Fuente
Presidential Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, USA;
Cesar de la Fuente is a Presidential Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He has pioneered computational approaches that have greatly accelerated antibiotic discovery, yielding numerous preclinical candidates. He has received over 80 major awards, has published over 160 papers including in Science, Cell, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Cell Host Microbe, and PNAS, and is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), becoming one of the youngest ever to be inducted.
Assoc. Prof. Markus Weingarth
NMR Spectroscopy, Department of Chemistry, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, https://www.weingarth-group.net/;
Markus Weingarth (1982) is Associate Professor of NMR Spectroscopy at Utrecht University with a fundamental interest in the molecular mechanism of antibiotics. Employing integrative structural biology approaches, firmly anchored in the core expertise solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Weingarth’s group dissects the action of antimicrobials that attack bacterial cell envelopes. His team has discovered novel supramolecular killing mechanisms, which has shifted the conventional ‘1 drug : 1 target’ paradigm. In addition, Weingarth has spearheaded the development of solid-state NMR methods to study the truly native action of antibiotics directly in intact bacteria and at high-resolution, i.e., in medically relevant conditions. For his antibiotics research, Weingarth has received several distinctions, including an ERC Consolidator grant (2022) and the ‘Founders’ Medal’ (2022) of the ‘International Council on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems’.
Prof. Dr. Octávio Luiz Franco
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Genômicas e Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil, S-Inova Biotech, Pós-Graduação em Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica Dom Bosco, Campo Grande, Brazil;
Octávio Luiz Franco holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Ceará (1998) and a PhD in Biological Sciences (Molecular Biology) from the University of Brasília (2001). He conducted his initial post-doctoral research in 2001 at Embrapa, followed by another at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He has undertaken work missions in numerous countries, including Australia, Israel, Portugal, Cuba, the Netherlands, and others. Dr. Franco completed his first sabbatical at the University of Wisconsin (USA) and the second at the University of British Columbia (Canada), focusing on infectious disease control. Currently, he serves as a professor at Universidade Catolica de Brasilia and University Catolica Dom Bosco. Additionally, he coordinates the National Institute of Science and Technology Bioinspir for bioinspired products. Dr. Franco holds the position of Researcher 1A and serves as a consultant to the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Furthermore, he is a member of the Brazilian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SBBq), The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), ASM (American Society of Microbiology), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). His
research is concentrated on developing bioproducts and bioprocesses, with a particular emphasis on controlling pathogenic microorganisms. Dr. Franco has authored nearly 500 papers, advised hundreds of students, and held dozens of patents for products that have entered the cosmetic and animal health markets.
Prof. Dr. Ute Römling
Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;
- S1. Antibiotics Stewardship and Antimicrobial Use in Healthcare Settings
- S2. Antibiotics and One Health
- S3. Epidemiology, Prevalence and Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance and Cross-Resistance
- S4. Novel Antimicrobial Agents: Discovery, Design, Synthesis and Action
- S5. Multidisciplinary Antimicrobial Strategies: Materials, Peptides, Bacteriophages and Repurposing
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ECA 2025 DAY 1
Session 5. Multidisciplinary Antimicrobial Strategies: Materials, Peptides, Bacteriophages and Repurposing and
Session 6. Antibiotic Clinical Studies, Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
Flash Poster Presentation Sessions
Session 4. Novel Antimicrobial Agents: Discovery, Design, Synthesis and Action
Flash Poster Presentation Session
ECA 2025 DAY 2
Session 7. Clinical and Environmental Impact of Bacterial Biofilms
Flash Poster Presentation Session
Session 8. Artificial Intelligence Strategies to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance
Flash Poster Presentation Session
ECA 2025 DAY 3
S3. Epidemiology, Prevalence and Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance and Cross-Resistance
Flash Poster Presentation Session
S2. Antibiotics and One Health
S1. Antibiotics Stewardship and Antimicrobial Use in Healthcare Settings
Flash Poster Presentation Sessions
On behalf of the Scientific Committee of the ECA 2025, we are pleased to announce the winners of the Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards.
The Best Oral Presentation Awards have been awarded to
· Dr. Catarina Roma-Rodrigues—sciforum-115692, Isolation of Soil Microorganisms for the Synthesis of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles for Antimicrobial Applications
· Dr. Ilaria D'Agostino—sciforum-106718, A Multidisciplinary Study Towards Ciprofloxacin Hybrids: Harnessing Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibition in Pseudomonas aeruginosa for Next-Generation Antibacterial Agents
The Best Poster Awards have been awarded to
· Manuel Böhmann—sciforum-114841: Targeting Enterococci—How to Overcome β-Lactam Resistance
(https://sciforum.net/paper/view/22985)
· Zoobaria Zahid—sciforum-115973: Potentiation of Antibacterial Activity of Cefixime in Synergy with Cirsium Arvense (L.)
(https://sciforum.net/paper/view/22934)
· Nikolet Ilieva Pavlova—sciforum-118706: Design of novel antisense oligonucleotide targeting the flavin mononucleotide riboswitch in Staphylococcus aureus
(https://sciforum.net/paper/view/22891)