Antibacterial Drug Discovery to Combat MDR

Antibacterial drug discovery: perspective insights.- Section A: The Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance and Tolerance.- Problematic Groups of Multidrug Resistant Bacteria and their Resistance Mechanisms.- Emergence and spread of multi-drug resistance in ocular bacterial pathogens: A current update.- Antibiotic resistance in Campylobacter jejuni: mechanism, status and public health significance.- Mechanisms of biofilm development, antibiotic resistance & tolerance and their role in persistent infections.- Developing in vivo infection models with MDR pathogens for evaluating compound efficacy.- Section B. New antibiotic drug discovery approaches and progress.- Endophytes: a hidden treasure of novel antimicrobial metabolites.- Alternative therapies to antibiotics to combat drug-resistant bacterial pathogens.- In silico molecular modeling: key technologies in the drug discovery process to combat multidrug resistance.- Computationalapproaches for antibacterial drug discovery.- Efflux pump inhibitors and their role in the reversal of drug resistance.- Medicinal plants as a reservoir of new structures for anti-infective compounds.- Essential oils: Potential application in disease management.- Exploration of soil resistome through a metagenomic approach.- Actinomycetes as a continued source of new antibacterial leads.- Are Ancient Remedies the New Answer to Fighting Infections?.- Section C. Alternative antibiotic resistance treatment strategies.- Pre and probiotics: Using functional foods in the fight against microbial resistance to antibiotics.- Combination of drugs: an effective approach for enhancing the efficacy of antibiotics to combat drug resistance.- Targeted delivery of antibiotics using microparticles to combat multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis.- Practical applications of bacteriophage therapy: biofilms to bedside.- Inhibition of

Professor Iqbal Ahmad

Iqbal Ahmad is a Full Professor and former Chair of the Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.  He is also the Coordinator, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, AMU for the BSc (Hons) Agriculture course.  He has extensive teaching and research experience in applied & interdisciplinary microbiology and medicinal plant-derived natural products. His present research interest is in the field of AMR in pathogenic bacteria of environmental and clinical origin and conducting research on interference of quorum sensing-linked virulence factors and biofilms by natural products including medicinal plants as a possible alternative strategy to combat MDR. Dr. Ahmad has published more than 150 original research papers, 10 edited books, and 50 book chapters. In addition, he serves as an active reviewer/member of the editorial board for many prominent research journals. 

Prof (Dr.) Kendra P. Rumbaugh

Kendra Rumbaugh is a Professor at the Department of Surgery, with joint appointments at the Departments of Immunology and Molecular Microbiology and Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas. Dr. Rumbaugh's research focuses on understanding and treating wound infections, and she is especially interested in how biofilms, polymicrobial interactions and quorum sensing contribute to bacterial pathogenesis. She has edited books on quorum sensing (Springer) and antibiofilm agents (Springer), and serves on many international science advisory boards, program committees and the editorial boards of many high ranked journals.

 

Prof (Dr.) Shamim Ahmad