Cornell Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Education Symposium

Antimicrobial Resistance : Research Synergies in Human and Animal Medicine

22-23 March, 2023
Uris Auditorium, Weill Cornell Medicine New York, NY

Register here for this 2-day event. Food, travel, and accomodations provided.

Wednesday, 22 March 2023

7 am Bus departure from Ithaca (arrival in NYC about 11 am)

11:30 am Lunch

12:15 pm Welcome and Introductions (Symposia Co-Chairs)

12:30 pm Session 1: Back to basics- understanding the ‘M’ of AMR

Presentations by Cornell faculty (25 minutes)

Session Keynote (60 minutes)

All presentations to be broadcast via zoom

John Helmann, Professor, Department of Microbiology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Bacterial stress responses

Tobias Dörr, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Cell wall physiology and antibiotic susceptibility and tolerance

Heather Feaga, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Ribosome physiology

Sabine Ehrt, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Weill Cornell Medicine

Physiologic mediators of intrinsic antibiotic resistance

Session Keynote

Mary Dunlop, Associate Professor, College of Engineering, Boston University

Mary Dunlop, Ph.D.

4:30 pm Poster Session with Refreshments (beer/wine and light snacks)

7 pm Dinner at Griffis Faculty Club

Thursday, 23 March 2023

7:30am Breakfast

8:30 am Session Keynote

Yonatan Grad, Melvin J. and Geraldine L. Glimcher Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/yonatan-grad/

10:00 am Session 2: Taking stock and sizing up the OneHealth ecology of AMR

Presentations by Cornell faculty (25 minutes)

Session Keynote (60 minutes)

All presentations to be broadcast via live stream

Lars Westblade, Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases; Director of Clinical Microbiology, New York-Presbyterian Hospital- Weill Cornell Medicine

Antimicrobial resistance detection in clinical microbiology

Martin Wiedmann, Gellert Family Professor, Department of Food Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Antimicrobial resistance among foodborne pathogens

Ilana Brito, Assistant Professor, Mong Family Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in Biomedical Engineering, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering

Antimicrobial resistance in the microbiome

Renata Ivanek, Associate Professor, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine

Determining antimicrobial use in animal agriculture

Amelia Greiner Safi, Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, College of Veterinary Medicine

Antimicrobial resistance, perceptions and behavior change

12 pm Lunch with Working Groups

WG1 Collaborative Opportunities for Novel Therapy Development

Goals:

Identify clinical problems (“data gaps”) of tolerance and resistance that need to be addressedCreate collaborations between applied/clinical scientists and basic scientists to develop integrated translational program projects.Create new antibiotics based upon novel targetsDevelop alternatives to antibiotics that target the pathogen or the host responseWG2 Collaborative Opportunities in Pathology, Pharmacy and the Clinical Environment

Goals:

Develop new means to track resistant organisms and their resistance genesProvide rapid and accurate susceptibility tests to aid clinical decisionsWG3 Epidemiology/Public Health/Stewardship

Goals:

Monitor antimicrobial resistance in pathogens of medical and veterinary importanceDevelop public health strategies to prevent the emergence of antimicrobial resistance based upon these dataIdentify antimicrobial stewardship practices that ensure enhanced clinical outcomes in animal and human populations1 pm Session 3: Taking the ‘R’ out of AMR- Innovative approaches to targeting resistant pathogens

Presentations by Cornell faculty (30 minutes)

Session Keynote (60 minutes)

All presentations to be broadcast via live stream

Craig Altier, Professor of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine

Novel approaches to targeting animal to human transmission of foodborne pathogens

David Russell, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine

Host-pathogen-based approaches to antibacterial development

Kyu Rhee, Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College

Transmission blocking strategies against antimicrobial resistance

Sunny Jung, Professor, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Fluid dynamics-based approaches to microbial decontamination

Ailong Ke, Robert J. Appel Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

CRISPR interference and riboswitch-based approaches to antimicrobial resistance

Session Keynote

Carl Nathan, R.A. Rees Pritchett Professor of Microbiology, Weill Cornell Medicine

https://research.cornell.edu/researchers/carl-f-nathan

4:30 pm Summary and Concluding Remarks (Co-Chairs)

4:45 pm Meeting adjourned

5 pm Bus departure for Ithaca

Boxed meals for traveling guests

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