Our upcoming congress offers numerous symposia and workshops that will provide a platform to update and appreciate the current state of the art in microbiology. Take part in the discussion at FEMS 2017 on how microbiology can contribute to the challenges facing us globally, for instance these sessions on Antibiotic Resistance:

tuesday 11 july | Symposium: Antibiotics, novel approaches

Chair I: Oscar Kuipers, The Netherlands Developing noval antimicrobials against Gram-negative pathogens Chair II: Kim Lewis, USA Antibiotics for killing persister cells Speaker-1: Man Wah Tan, USA Engineering antibody-antibiotic conjugate to direct bacterial infections Speaker-2: Rolf Muller, Germany Innovative antibiotics from myxobacteria and actinomycetes

 

 

 

 

 

 

wednesday 12 july | Workshop Antimicrobial resistance and environment	wednesday 12 july | Symposium: AMR, public awareness, policies
Chair I: Csaba Pal, Hungary, Hungary Acadamy of Science Antimicrobial peptides and the evolution of resistance Chair II: Roy Kishony, Israel, Israel Institute of Technology Can we predict the evolution of antimicrobial resistance?	Chair I: Jos van der Meer, The Netherlands Chair II: Ursula Theuretzbacher, Austria Chair III: Rens van Dobbenburg, The Netherlands/EU Speaker-2: Elta Smith

Thursday 13 july | Symposium: SEM-SEIMC: Antimicrobial stewardship: from the lab to the patients

Chair I: Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn, Spain Concept of One Health Antimicrobial Stewardship Chair II: Jose Miguel Cisneros, Spain The PIRASOA, a model of integration of hospital and community antimicrobial stewardship and infection control programs    Speaker-1: Rafael Canton, Spain Role of microbiology laboratory in antimicrobial stewardship programs Speaker-2: Celine Pulcini, France Antimicrobial stewardship programs: the European perspective