Program

15:00 Welcome

Session I Chair: Karsten Becker

15:30 Pandemic preparedness – implementing lessons learned, but how exactly?
Isabelle Bekeredjian-Ding (online)

16:00 Host microbiomeinteraction in health and disease
Eran Elinav (online)

16:30 Host-directed therapy: potential targets against obligate intracellular bacteria
Thomas Rudel (Würzburg)

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break

18:00 PUBLIC LECTURE
Chair: Ansgar Lohse
Future challenges of AMR - the ongoing  pandemic
Lothar Wieler (Berlin)

19:30 Speakers‘ Dinner

Session II Chair: Sebastian Günther

9:00 One drug – multiple bugs approach in antiviral chemotherapy
Chris Meier (Hamburg)

9:30 Approaches towards innovative anti-infectives from microbes
Rolf Müller (Saarbrücken)

10:00  Genetics of mobile oxazolidinone resistance genes among bacteria from humans and animals
Stefan Schwarz (Berlin)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

Session III Chair: Uwe Völker

11:00 The A and O of enterobacteriaceal gut  colonization
Wolf-Dietrich Hardt (Zürich)

11:30 Staphylococcus aureus colonization and infection – fighting the enemy within
Andreas Peschel (Tübingen)

12:00 Mammalian DNases and their role in the tug of war between Staphylococcus aureus and the host
Victor Torres (New York)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

Session IV Chair: Sven Hammerschmidt

13:30 Unique structures of virulent and antimicrobial amyloids assist or kill pathogens 
Meytal Landau (Haifa)

14:00 Monoclonal antibodies to prevent and treat viral infections
Florian Klein (Köln)

14:30 Antibody profiling to define correlates of immunity
Galit Alter (Boston)

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

Session V Chair: Anca Dorhoi

15:30 Increase of antimicrobial resistance after COVID-19: we need alternative solutions!
Fabio Bagnioli (Siena)

16:00 Unlocking the Power of Macrophages in Immunity against Pulmonary Infections
Maziar Divangahi (Montreal)

16:30 Cholesterol - a pleiotropic therapeutic agent in pneumonia and sepsis
Michael Bauer (Jena)

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break

9:00 – 12:00 Internal Discussion
(AWH members only)