Meeting Program
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| Sunday, February 14 | ||
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| 3:00 - 7:30 PM | Registration | Promenade |
| 6:30 - 7:30 PM | Refreshments | Promenade |
| 7:30 - 8:30 PM |
Keynote Address Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/14/2010 |
Mesa A-B |
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Gerry Wright,
McMaster University, Canada
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Patrice Courvalin,
Institut Pasteur, France
Evolution and Dissemination of Antibiotic Resistance: The Glycopeptide Model |
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| Monday, February 15 | ||
| 7:00 - 8:00 AM | Breakfast | Chamisa |
| 8:00 - 11:00 AM |
The Problem of Antibiotic Resistance and the Need for New Drugs Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/14/2010 |
Mesa A-B |
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Julian Davies,
University of British Columbia, Canada
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Donald E. Low,
Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada
Bacterial Pathogens in the Clinics and Community: The need for New Antibiotics |
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Valerie Mizrahi,
University of the Witwatersrand - MMRU, South Africa
New Tools for Tuberculosis Drug Discovery: Development of Novel Screening Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Application in Target-Based Approaches |
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Michael G. Surette,
University of Calgary, Canada
The Clinical Challenge of Microbial Communities |
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Gerry Wright,
McMaster University, Canada
Antibiotic Resistance: Where Does it Come from and What Can We Do About it? |
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| 9:20 - 9:40 AM | Coffee Break | Promenade |
| 11:00 AM- | On Own for Lunch and Recreation | |
| 11:00 AM- 1:00 PM | Poster Setup | Mesa C/Chamisa |
| 1:00 - 10:00 PM | Poster Viewing | Mesa C/Chamisa |
| 4:30 - 5:00 PM | Coffee Available | Promenade |
| 5:00 - 7:00 PM |
Success and Barriers in Modern Antibacterial Drug Discovery Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/14/2010 |
Mesa A-B |
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Stewart L. Fisher,
AstraZeneca R&D Boston, USA
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Julian Davies,
University of British Columbia, Canada
Where will New Antibiotics Come From? |
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Mike Barbachyn,
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, USA
The Natural History of the Oxazolidinones |
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Patricia Bradford,
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, USA
Difficulties and Success in Bringing the 3rd Generation Tetracyclines to Market |
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| 7:00 - 8:00 PM | Social Hour w/ Lite Bites | Chamisa |
| 7:30 - 10:00 PM |
Poster Session 1 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/14/2010 |
Mesa C/Chamisa |
| Tuesday, February 16 | ||
| 7:00 - 8:00 AM | Breakfast | Chamisa |
| 8:00 - 11:00 AM |
Mining Known Pathways as Targets for New Antibiotics Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/14/2010 |
Mesa A-B |
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Deborah Hung,
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
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Stewart L. Fisher,
AstraZeneca R&D Boston, USA
DNA Replication: Opportunities and Challenges |
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Suzanne Walker,
Harvard Medical School, USA
New Targets for Antibiotics |
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Peter J. Tonge,
Stony Brook University, USA
Slow Onset Inhibitors of Bacterial Fatty Acid Biosynthesis: Residence Time, in Vivo Activity and in Vivo Imaging |
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Thomas A. Steitz,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, USA
From the Structures of Ribosome-Antibiotic Complexes to New Antibiotics |
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Ronald W. Woodard,
University of Michigan, USA
Short Talk: HTS Assay Developments in the KDO Pathway |
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| 9:20 - 9:40 AM | Coffee Break | Promenade |
| 11:00 AM- | On Own for Lunch and Recreation | |
| 11:00 AM- 1:00 PM | Poster Setup | Mesa C/Chamisa |
| 1:00 - 10:00 PM | Poster Viewing | Mesa C/Chamisa |
| 4:30 - 5:00 PM | Coffee Available | Promenade |
| 5:00 - 7:00 PM |
New Molecules for New (and Old) Challenges Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/14/2010 |
Mesa A-B |
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Eric D. Brown,
McMaster University, Canada
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Christopher T. Walsh,
Harvard Medical School, USA
Posttranslational Maturation of Thiazolyl Peptide Antibiotics |
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Mark J. Macielag,
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, USA
What Makes a Good Antibiotic? The Chemistry Perspective. |
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Chris Abell,
University of Cambridge, UK
Application of Fragment-Based Approaches to the Discovery of New Agents Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
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Mervyn Bibb,
John Innes Centre, UK
Short Talk: Actinomycete Lantibiotics: An Untapped Clinical Resource? |
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| 7:00 - 8:00 PM | Social Hour w/ Lite Bites | Chamisa |
| 7:30 - 10:00 PM |
Poster Session 2 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/14/2010 |
Mesa C/Chamisa |
| Wednesday, February 17 | ||
| 7:00 - 8:00 AM | Breakfast | Chamisa |
| 8:00 - 11:00 AM |
New Antibiotic Targets - Virulence and Quorum Sensing Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/14/2010 |
Mesa A-B |
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Michael G. Surette,
University of Calgary, Canada
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Robert E.W. Hancock,
University of British Columbia, Canada
Modulation of Host Immunity as an Anti-Infective Strategy |
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Helen E. Blackwell,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Expanding the Language of Bacterial Quorum Sensing using Synthetic Ligands |
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Vincent T. Lee,
University of Maryland, USA
Are Type 3 Secretion Systems Good Targets for Antimicrobials? |
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Scott Hultgren,
Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Bacterial Adhesion and Biofilm Formation - A Source of Alternate Antibiotic Targets |
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| 9:20 - 9:40 AM | Coffee Break | Promenade |
| 11:00 AM- | On Own for Lunch and Recreation | |
| 4:30 - 5:00 PM | Coffee Available | Promenade |
| 5:00 - 7:00 PM |
New Technology - Systems and Synthetic Biology Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/14/2010 |
Mesa A-B |
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Deborah Hung,
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
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Michael Tyers,
University of Edinburgh, UK
Interrogation of the Genetic Landscape with Small Molecules |
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Eric D. Brown,
McMaster University, Canada
Chemical Genomics: Charting Chemical-Genetic Interactions in Bacteria |
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Frederick M. Ausubel,
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Whole Organism Antibiotic Screening in C. elegans |
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| 7:00 - 8:00 PM | Social Hour w/ Lite Bites | Chamisa |
| Thursday, February 18 | ||
| 7:00 - 8:00 AM | Breakfast | Chamisa |
| 8:00 - 11:00 AM |
New Technology - Real Time Diagnostics and Narrow vs. Broad Spectrum Agents Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/14/2010 |
Mesa A-B |
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Gerry Wright,
McMaster University, Canada
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Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova,
University of Michigan, USA
Turning an Aminoglycoside Resistance Problem into a Solution: New Approaches to Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Antibiotics |
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Roy Kishony,
Harvard Medical School, USA
Inverting the Selective Advantage of Antibiotic Resistance |
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Jose Miguel Trevejo,
Draper Laboratory/Beth Isreal Deaconess Boston, USA
Novel Sensors and Diagnostics for Rapid Identification of Microbial Resistance |
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Vincent A. Fischetti,
Rockefeller University, USA
Using What Phage Have Learned to Kill Gram-Positive Bacteria |
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| 9:20 - 9:40 AM | Coffee Break | Promenade |
| 11:00 AM- | On Own for Lunch and Recreation | |
| 2:30 - 4:30 PM |
Workshop: Submitted Papers |
Mesa A-B |
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Stewart L. Fisher,
AstraZeneca R&D Boston, USA
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Bart Staker,
deCODE biostructures, USA
Ligand Screening at the Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID) |
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Aileen Rubio,
Cubist Pharmaceuticals, USA
Frequency and Distribution of Mutations in mprF in Daptomycin Nonsusceptible Staphylococcus aureus Clinical Isolates |
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Adriana Renzoni,
University Hospital and Medical School of Geneva, Switzerland
Total Genome Sequencing and Complete Genetic Analysis of all SNP-Linked Phenotypes Reveals Novel Clues to the Emergence of Low Level Glycopeptide Intermediate Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus |
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Terence I. Moy,
Cubist Pharmaceuticals, USA
High Rates of Resistance to Three Classes of RNA Polymerase Inhibitors in Staphylococcus aureus |
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Donald T. Moir,
Microbiotix, Inc., USA
Characterization of a Stereo-Specific Class of Inhibitors of Type-Three Secretion |
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M. R. K. Dickon Alley,
Anacor Pharmaceuticals Inc, USA
Structure-Guided Discovery of ABX a 3-Aminomethyl Benzoxaborole: A First in Class Antibacterial for Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections |
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| 4:30 - 5:00 PM | Coffee Available | Promenade |
| 5:00 - 7:00 PM |
What about the Host? Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/14/2010 |
Mesa A-B |
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Stewart L. Fisher,
AstraZeneca R&D Boston, USA
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Deborah Hung,
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Antivirulence Therapy |
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David A. Relman,
Stanford University, USA
The Microbiome: Antibiotic Perturbation, Response, and Human Health |
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Dana Philpott,
University of Toronto, Canada
The Nod Pathway as a Novel Target for Anti-Infectives |
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| 8:00 - 9:00 PM | Social Hour w/ Lite Bites | Mesa Ballroom |
| 8:00 - 11:00 PM | Entertainment | Mesa Ballroom |
| Friday, February 19 | ||
| Departure | ||
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Keystone Symposia would like to thank the sponsor of this meeting for their generous support:

We gratefully acknowledge additional support for this conference from:
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AstraZeneca R&D Boston |
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Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, L.L.C. |
We gratefully acknowledge the generous grant for this conference provided by:
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Grant No. 1R13AI085733-01
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