Sponsored by a FEMS Meeting Organizer Grant

The continuous and ever-increasing resistance to antibiotics represents a major challenge to global public health. In this context, there is an urgent need to identify novel potential antimicrobials, to dissect their molecular mechanism(s) of action, and to characterize their function in the context of complex immune responses. Antimicrobial peptides represent a class of antibiotic molecules that display targeted activity against microorganisms, which are produced by living organisms as diverse as bacteria, fungi, plants, insects and vertebrates, and which can be as well artificially designed and synthesized.

AMP2024 will bring together the world’s leading experts in the field to discuss the most recent research advances on: a) the discovery, biosynthesis pathways and bioengineering of novel antimicrobial peptides, b) the mechanisms of antimicrobial activities and bacterial resistance, c) immune modulation by antimicrobial peptides, d) the interplay between antimicrobial peptides & microbiota, and e) antimicrobial peptides as an ecological and evolutionary point of view.

Invited speakers

Charles BEVINS – University of California – Davis, USA
Eugene CHANG – University of Chicago, USA
Svetlana DUBILEY – Toulouse Biotechnology lnstitute, France
Cesar de la FUENTE – University of Pennsylvania, USA
Peter MERGAERT – University of Paris-Saclay, France
Ines NEUNDORF – University of Cologne, Germany
Anna ZAIDMAN-REMY – University of Lyon, France

Scientific Committee

Charles BEVINS- University of Davis, USA
Jean-Michel BOLLA – Aix-Marseille University, France
Svetlana DUBILEY – Toulouse Biotechnology lnstitute, France
Yannick FLEURY – University of Occidental Bretagne, France
Cesar DE LA FU ENTE – University of Pennsylvania, USA
Katy JEANNOT – University of Bourgogne, France
Michael LAFOND – Aix-Marseille University, France
Ines NEUNDORF – University of Cologne, Germany
Javier PIZARRO-CERDA- Pasteur lnstitute, France
Aurélie TASIEMSKI – University of Lille, France
Anna ZAIDMAN-REMY – University of Lyon, France
Séverine ZIRAH – National Museum of Natural History, France