7th International Caparica Conference in Antibiotic Resistance 2026

06th – 10th September 2026 | Caparica | Portugal

Keynote Speakers

Pei Zhou, PhD

Duke University School of Medicine, Durham (UK)

LpxH: A Novel Antibiotic Target for Combating Gram-Negative Pathogens

Li Hongna, PhD

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

Molecular-level degradation of antibiotic resistance genes in electrochemical oxidation

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)

Mechanisms of Cross-Species Transfer of Antimicrobial Resistance

Satoshi Nishida, PhD

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

Evolution of Virulence and Resistance in Outbreak Strains: Lessons from Clinical Genomics

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)