Conferences
19–27 October 2019, Les Pensières, Annecy (France)
The 4th International Course on Antibiotics and Resistance (ICARe)
The emergence and spread of bacteria resistant to many drug classes seriously threaten all branches of modern medicine. There is currently no course providing advanced instruction on antibiotics and resistance. The specific goal of ICARe is to bring leaders in academics and industry together with trained scientists at the dawn of their careers. Cutting-edge approaches for the study of resistance and antibiotic discovery will be examined.
Objective:
The faculty, composed of 40 internationally recognized scientists and physicians who have made important contributions to antibiotic development, infectious diseases, and resistance management, will be in residence for a minimum of 2 days for informal interactions. Graduates will emerge with a stateof-the-art understanding of existing antibiotics (modes of action, mechanisms of resistance), approaches for mining
chemical space, advancing hits to leads, the application of nucleic acidbased technologies and bioinformatics
for antibiotic discovery and resistance detection.The course aims to build an international cadre of collaborative, well networked, and highly trained specialists.
The Themes of the Conferences:
- Current infectious disease management and antibiotic use
- Modes of action and mechanisms of resistance of existing classes : Cell wall, Ribosome, Nucleic acid synthesis / replication / transcription, efflux
- Origin, mutations, and identifications of antibiotic resistance mechanisms
- Antibiotic discovery
- Antibiotic chemical matter : Natural products, synthetics
- Antibiotic development and approval
- New topics in antibiotic discovery
- Strategies for more focused applications of antibiotics
- New technologies for determination of susceptibility and detection of resistance
- New antiinfective strategies
Audience:
ICARe is designed for early career scientists - assistant professors, new industry scientists, MDs, and postdoctoral research associates - as well as members from developing areas contending with the practical challenge of managing the antibiotic resistance problem with limited resources. Attendance will be limited to 40 students and will reflect the global nature of the problem.
https://www.pasteur.fr/en/international-course-antibiotics-and-resistance-icare
