1st Day | Monday, 10 March 2025

09.30

Registration

10.30

Opening by Ulrich Schaible (speaker of LRA INFECTIONS, RC Borstel, Germany)

10.40

Welcome address by tbn (ISAS, Dortmund, Germany)

10.50

Welcome address by tbn

Session I: Drivers of AMR: overuse, underuse, abuse, stewardship

11.00

Keynote: Till Baernighausen  (Heidelberg University, Germany)

11.40

Lena Merkel  (BNITM/GIGA, Germany)
AMR Challenges: Examining Self-Medication and Confidence in Prescribing in West Africa

11.55

Christina Hölzel  (Kiel University, Germany)
Antimicrobial resistance genes in livestock - which are relevant for humans, and why?

12.20

Lunch & Coffee

13.20

Hans-Peter Grossart  (IGB, Germany)
Dynamics of AMR in aquatic systems and interactions with pollutants

13.45

Denise Dekker (BNITM, Hamburg, Germany)
Epidemiology of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in Ghana and Tanzania: through the lens of One Health

14.10

Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam  (IfW Kiel, Germany) 

Drivers of Antimicrobial Resistance: Economic Inequality, Corruption and Access to Antibiotics in 204 Countries & Territories

14.20

Bernd-Alois Tenhagen (BfR Berlin, Germany)
Use drives resistance - or is it more complex?

14.45

Coffee

Session II: Evolution of AMR mechanisms

15.15

Keynote: Michaela Lackner  (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

Unraveling Azole Resistance in Fungal Pathogens: Insights into Mechanisms and Implications for One Health

15.55

Claire Taylor  (RCB, Germany)
Fate of AMR microbes in mixed bacterial-fungal consortia

16.10

Margo Diricks  (RCB, Germany)

Evolution of antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium abscessus isolated from cystic fibrosis patients

16.35

Break

16.55

Baban Kolte  (DSMZ, Germany)
Resistance determinants against therapeutic antibiotics from public Clostridioides difficile genome sequences

17.10

Ulrich Nübel  (DSMZ, Germany)
AMR evolution over epidemic timescales

17.35

Matthias Merker  (RCB, Germany)
Long-term evolution of β-lactam resistance in Haemophilus influenzae

18.00

Social get-together & dinner

19.00

Poster session & Meet the Speakers

21:00                

End of today’s program

2st Day | Tuesday, 11 March 2025

Session III: Epidemiology and ecology of AMR transmission and AMR detection

09.00                            

Keynote: Stefan Schwarz (FU Berlin, Germany)

The role of mobile genetic elements in the dissemination of oxazolidinone resistance genes

09.40

Thomas Berendonk  (TU Dresden, Germany)
Antibiotic resistance in the environment - monitoring, mechanisms and processes

10.05

Megarsa Bedasa Jaleta  (ATB, Germany)

Tracking antimicrobial resistance genes in weaner pigs: the abundance and mitigation

10.20

Anja Silge  (IPHT, Jena, Germany)
Shedding light on antimicrobial resistance and host response: how Raman spectroscopy offers new opportunities in diagnostics.

10.45

Coffee

11.15

Pau De Yebra Rodó  (IGB/IZW, Germany)
Aquatic Ecosystems: habitat for Antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs)

11.30

Doreen Werner (ZALF/DSMZ, Germany) (tbc)

11.45

Lisa Eichler  (IOER, Germany)
Spatial Habitat Modelling supporting Environmental Risk Assessment for Antimicrobial Resistant Microorganisms - the vector Musca domestica as an example

12.10

Jan Buer  (UK Essen)

New Challenges in Clinical Infectious Diseases

12.35

Lunch

Session IV: Empty Chair Panel discussion: Policy strategies to overcome the global AMR crisis

13.35

Keynote tbn

14.15

3‘ Pitch Talks by

14.30

• ·Anand Anandkumar  (Co-Founder & CEO of Bugworks, India) (tbc)·        

• Renate Hartwig  (RWI Essen, Germany)

• Ramanan Laxminarayan (The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, USA)(tbc)

• Michael Stolpe  (IfW Kiel, Germany)

• Heiman Wertheim  (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherland) (tbc)

15.55

Wrap-up, lessons learned

16.30

Farewell: End of Symposium