Schedule

Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance | Friday, October 30th, 2026 — Fischer Hall, Trafalgar Square
Time Speaker & Affiliation Presentation Title
09:00 AM Introductions
09:15 AM – 10:00 AM Ivo Gomperts Boneca
Pasteur Institute, France
AI-driven high content phenotypic screening for prediction of mode of action of drugs
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM Mayland Chang
University of Notre Dame, USA
Breaking the cycle of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM Tanja Schneider
University of Bonn, Germany
Breaking the Wall: Mechanistic Insights into Novel Cell Wall Targeting Antibiotics
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM Nathaniel Martin
Leiden University, The Netherlands
A Next-Generation Glycopeptide Antibiotic with Best-in-Class Potential
12:15 PM – 02:00 PM Lunch Break
02:00 PM – 02:45 PM James Spencer
University of Bristol, UK
Combining Experiment and Simulation to Study β-Lactamase Mechanism and Inhibition
02:45 PM – 03:30 PM Shahriar Mobashery
University of Notre Dame, USA
How Run-of-the-Mill Staphylococcus aureus Became Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
03:30 PM – 04:15 PM David Roper
University of Warwick, UK
Exploring the role of FtsEX-PcsB during Cell Division in Streptococcus pneumoniae
04:15 PM – 04:45 PM Coffee & Tea Break
04:45 PM – 05:30 PM Christian Melander
University of Notre Dame, USA
Combination Approaches Toward Combating Antibiotic Resistant Infections
05:30 PM – 06:15 PM Keynote: Christopher Schofield
University of Oxford, UK
New approaches to combating AMR in Gram-Negative Bacteria
06:15 PM Closing Remarks