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Meeting Program

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Sunday, February 14
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
* Gerry Wright, McMaster University, Canada
Patrice Courvalin, Institut Pasteur, France
Evolution and Dissemination of Antibiotic Resistance: The Glycopeptide Model
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
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Mesa A-B
* Julian Davies, University of British Columbia, Canada
Donald E. Low, Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada
Bacterial Pathogens in the Clinics and Community: The need for New Antibiotics
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
Michael G. Surette, University of Calgary, Canada
The Clinical Challenge of Microbial Communities
Gerry Wright, McMaster University, Canada
Antibiotic Resistance: Where Does it Come from and What Can We Do About it?
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
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Mesa A-B
* Stewart L. Fisher, AstraZeneca R&D Boston, USA
Julian Davies, University of British Columbia, Canada
Where will New Antibiotics Come From?
Mike Barbachyn, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, USA
The Natural History of the Oxazolidinones
Patricia Bradford, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, USA
Difficulties and Success in Bringing the 3rd Generation Tetracyclines to Market
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Chamisa
7:30 - 10:00 PM Poster Session 1
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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
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Mesa A-B
* Deborah Hung, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Stewart L. Fisher, AstraZeneca R&D Boston, USA
DNA Replication: Opportunities and Challenges
Suzanne Walker, Harvard Medical School, USA
New Targets for Antibiotics
Peter J. Tonge, Stony Brook University, USA
Slow Onset Inhibitors of Bacterial Fatty Acid Biosynthesis: Residence Time, in Vivo Activity and in Vivo Imaging
Thomas A. Steitz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, USA
From the Structures of Ribosome-Antibiotic Complexes to New Antibiotics
Ronald W. Woodard, University of Michigan, USA
Short Talk: HTS Assay Developments in the KDO Pathway
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
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Mesa A-B
* Eric D. Brown, McMaster University, Canada
Christopher T. Walsh, Harvard Medical School, USA
Posttranslational Maturation of Thiazolyl Peptide Antibiotics
Mark J. Macielag, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, USA
What Makes a Good Antibiotic? The Chemistry Perspective.
Chris Abell, University of Cambridge, UK
Application of Fragment-Based Approaches to the Discovery of New Agents Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Mervyn Bibb, John Innes Centre, UK
Short Talk: Actinomycete Lantibiotics: An Untapped Clinical Resource?
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Chamisa
7:30 - 10:00 PM Poster Session 2
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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
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Mesa A-B
* Michael G. Surette, University of Calgary, Canada
Robert E.W. Hancock, University of British Columbia, Canada
Modulation of Host Immunity as an Anti-Infective Strategy
Helen E. Blackwell, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Expanding the Language of Bacterial Quorum Sensing using Synthetic Ligands
Vincent T. Lee, University of Maryland, USA
Are Type 3 Secretion Systems Good Targets for Antimicrobials?
Scott Hultgren, Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Bacterial Adhesion and Biofilm Formation - A Source of Alternate Antibiotic Targets
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
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Mesa A-B
* Deborah Hung, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Michael Tyers, University of Edinburgh, UK
Interrogation of the Genetic Landscape with Small Molecules
Eric D. Brown, McMaster University, Canada
Chemical Genomics: Charting Chemical-Genetic Interactions in Bacteria
Frederick M. Ausubel, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Whole Organism Antibiotic Screening in C. elegans
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
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Mesa A-B
* Gerry Wright, McMaster University, Canada
Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova, University of Michigan, USA
Turning an Aminoglycoside Resistance Problem into a Solution: New Approaches to Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Antibiotics
Roy Kishony, Harvard Medical School, USA
Inverting the Selective Advantage of Antibiotic Resistance
Jose Miguel Trevejo, Draper Laboratory/Beth Isreal Deaconess Boston, USA
Novel Sensors and Diagnostics for Rapid Identification of Microbial Resistance
Vincent A. Fischetti, Rockefeller University, USA
Using What Phage Have Learned to Kill Gram-Positive Bacteria
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
* Stewart L. Fisher, AstraZeneca R&D Boston, USA
Bart Staker, deCODE biostructures, USA
Ligand Screening at the Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID)
Aileen Rubio, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, USA
Frequency and Distribution of Mutations in mprF in Daptomycin Nonsusceptible Staphylococcus aureus Clinical Isolates
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
Terence I. Moy, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, USA
High Rates of Resistance to Three Classes of RNA Polymerase Inhibitors in Staphylococcus aureus
Donald T. Moir, Microbiotix, Inc., USA
Characterization of a Stereo-Specific Class of Inhibitors of Type-Three Secretion
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
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available Promenade
5:00 - 7:00 PM What about the Host?
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Mesa A-B
* Stewart L. Fisher, AstraZeneca R&D Boston, USA
Deborah Hung, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Antivirulence Therapy
David A. Relman, Stanford University, USA
The Microbiome: Antibiotic Perturbation, Response, and Human Health
Dana Philpott, University of Toronto, Canada
The Nod Pathway as a Novel Target for Anti-Infectives
8:00 - 9:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Mesa Ballroom
8:00 - 11:00 PM Entertainment Mesa Ballroom
Friday, February 19
Departure
      *=Session Chair     †=Speaker invited, not yet responded.



Keystone Symposia would like to thank the sponsor of this meeting for their generous support:

We gratefully acknowledge additional support for this conference from:


AstraZeneca R&D Boston



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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In the face of a growing crisis in antibiotic resistance and the emergence of new bacterial pathogens, there is a pressing clinical need for new antibiotics. Paradoxically, this call for new drugs comes at a time when investment in antibiotic development in the pharmaceutical industry is at historically low levels. Despite the promise of the genomic revolution to inform drug development and innovations in drug discovery and the fundamental biology that underpins it, modern control of infectious disease with antibiotics is perilously fragile. This meeting brings together researchers from medicine, academe and industry and from across scientific disciplines to discuss the challenges of antibiotic development in the 21st Century. What is the scope of the problem? What are possible solutions? What are the imperatives for the short and long term and is the traditional antibiotic paradigm in need of an overhaul? These questions will be the focus of the meeting that will help to define the problems and solutions in antibiotic development.