SATURDAY |
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Keynote Address |
| Discussion Leader: Eric Rubin (Harvard University School of Public Health) |
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Bavesh Kana (University of Witwatersrand)
"Stretching the bacterial skin: Do we really know how mycobacteria grow?"
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3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session I |
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Bacteria and Host Pathways |
| Discussion Leaders: Babak Javid (Tsinghua University School of Medicine) and Veronique Dartois (UMDNJ) |
5:30 pm - 5:50 pm | Dominic Böth (Karolinska Institutet)
"The Great Wall: β-lactams to trick mycobacterial defense"
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5:50 pm - 6:00 pm | Discussion |
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm | Mariam Sharaf (Singapore MIT alliance for Research and Technology)
"Translational Control of the Antibiotic Stress Response in Mycobacteria"
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6:20 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm | Indra Mani Sharma (Indian Institute of Science)
"Mycobacterial persistence: studies with a dual active protein that 'makes and breaks' a second messenger c-di-GMP"
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6:50 pm - 7:00 pm | Discussion |
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm | Scott Irwin (Colorado State University)
"Use of the C3HeB/FeJ Mouse Model with Necrotic Granulomas to Augment Drug Screening Efforts" |
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
SUNDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Old Drugs and New Drugs |
| Discussion Leaders: Omonike Olaleye (Texas Southern University) and Fatima Vergara (Infectious Disease Research Institute) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Shashank Gupta (Johns Hopkins University)
"Pharmacokinetic Studies of Verapamil Co-administered with Rifampin in mouse model"
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9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Zeljka Maglica (EPFL)
"Real-time single-cell tracking of antibiotic effects on intracellular ATP" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Ines Rudolph (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
"SAR studies with the novel class of strongly antimycobacterial benzothiazinones"
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10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 10:50 am | Kendra Harris (Weill Medical College of Cornell University)
"Elucidating the Mechanism of Action of a Novel Antimycobacterial"
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10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Alternative Approaches to Target ID and Drug Discovery |
| Discussion Leaders: Giovanna Poce (Sapienza University of Rome) and Patrick Arthur (University of Ghana) |
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Santiago Ramon-Garcia (University of British Columbia)
"New potential TB therapies identified by High Throughput Synergy Screens of clinically approved drugs" |
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Sebastien Kicka (Geneva University)
"Establishment and validation of whole-cell based fluorescence assays to identify anti-mycobacterial compounds using amoeba and Mycobacterium marinum host-pathogen system"
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2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |