7th International Caparica Conference in Antibiotic Resistance 2026

06th – 10th September 2026 | Caparica | Portugal

Scientific Committee

Carlos Lodeiro Espiño, PhD

LAQV-REQUIMTE, FCT- University NOVA of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)

 

José Luís Capelo Martínez, PhD

LAQV-REQUIMTE, FCT- University NOVA of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)

 

Hugo Miguel Santos, PhD

LAQV-REQUIMTE, FCT- University NOVA of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)

 

Elisabete Oliveira, PhD

LAQV-REQUIMTE, FCT- University NOVA of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)

Javier Fernández Lodeiro, PhD

LAQV-REQUIMTE, FCT- University NOVA of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)

 

Adrían Fernández Lodeiro, PhD

LAQV-REQUIMTE, FCT- University NOVA of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)

Gilberto Igrejas, PhD

University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, ECVA-DGB | LAQV-REQUIMTE (Portugal)

 

Zvi Hayouka, PhD

Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)

Patrícia Poeta, PhD

University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, ECVA-DGB | LAQV-REQUIMTE (Portugal)

 

David Livermore, PhD

University of East Anglia (UK)

Shahriar Mobashery, PhD

University of Notre Dame (USA)

Laurent Poirel, PhD

University of Fribourg (Switzerland)

Amir Mitchell, PhD

Department of Systems Biology University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester (USA)

AI-guided discovery of new antibiotics

Pei Zhou, PhD

Duke University School of Medicine, Durham (UK)

Alessandra Carattoli, PhD

Dept. of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome (Italy)

Li Hongna, PhD

Institute of Agricultural Environment and Sustainable Development, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (China)

Telma Susana Lopes de Sousa, PhD

Microbiology and Antibiotic Resistance Team (MicroART), University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry, University NOVA of Lisbon (Portugal)

Satoshi Nishida, PhD

Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo (Japan)

Latania Logan, PhD

Emory University School of Medicine (USA)

Igor Polikarpov, PhD

Sao Carlos Institute of Physics, University of Sâo Paulo, São Paulo (Brazil)

Complex carbohydrate-active enzymes and their use for bacterial biofilm degradation

Yuan Ganjun, PhD

Biotechnological Engineering Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang (China)

One Earth-one health to address antimicrobial resistance based on the self-regulation and reconstruction of ecosystems: theory, directions/measures and practice

Ken Burch, PhD

Laboratory for Assembly and Spectroscopy of Emergence, Boston College, Boston (USA)

Yuk Sham, PhD

Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, Medical School Director of Graduate Studies, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, University of Minnesota, Minnesota (USA)

Tomasz Jarzembowski, PhD

University of Gdańsk (GUMed), Gdánsk (Poland)

Saji George, PhD

McGill University, Quebec (Canada)

Shahriar Mobashery, PhD

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame (USA)

Rosemary Dorrington, PhD

Rhodes University, Makhanda (South Africa)

Silvia Zorrilla López, PhD

Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas, Madrid (Spain)