Fecha: del 21 al 23 de noviembre de 2012
Propuesta comunic.: 04/10/2012
Lugar: Lisboa – Portugal
Secretaría Científica
Formatex Research Center
Persona(s) de contacto: Antonio Mendez-Vilas (amvilas@formatex.org )
Secretaría Técnica
Formatex Research Center
Persona(s) de contacto: Rosa Corchero (info@icar-2012.org )
The II International Conference on Antimicrobial Research (ICAR2012) will be a forum for the presentation, exchange and dissemination of information and experiences on anti-microbe strategies, in biotic or abiotic environments, in planktonic or adhered states, in biologically specific or unespecific ways, in vitro or in vivo, in a general context marked by the threat posed by the increasing antimicrobial resistance of pathogenic microorganisms. “Anti” is here taken in a wide sense as “against cell cycle, adhesion, or communication”, when harmful for the human health, industry or economy (infectious diseases, chemotherapy, food, biomedicine, agriculture, livestock, biotechnology, water systems…). It will cover topics on antimicrobial resistance, (early) microbial and resistance detection, enhancement of innate defences against pathogens, as well as methods & techniques.
This second edition is the natural continuation of the first one which took place in Valladolid, Spain, on 2010, and which gathered more than 500 professionals and researchers from more than 60 countries, who presented a total of about 700 research works during the different sessions.
It is in the spirit of this new conference series to attract researchers from a broad range of academic disciplines which are contributing in the fighting against harmful microorganisms, not only those more traditionally involved in this research area (microbiologists, biochemists, genetists, clinicians…), but also experimental and theoretical/computational chemists (rational design of antimicrobial compounds, chemical synthesis, analogs, surface modification of materials…), physicists (radiation, nano-emulsions (surface tension), ultrasounds, antimicrobial materials, properties of nano-materials…) or engineers (technologies).
