Program

JPS 2019 Program

Wednesday, March 6
Time	Session/Lecture info
09:00-09:45	Registration & Coffee
09:00-09:45
09:45-10:45	Opening Session Chair: Prof. Benny Geiger, Weizmann Institute of science
09:45-10:00	Opening remarks: Benny Geiger, WIS Roi Avraham, WIS Leviah Passwell
10:00-10:45	Stewart Cole, Pasteur Institute Changing face of tuberculosis drug discovery
10:45-12:15	The crisis of antibiotic resistance Chair: Prof. Ohad Gal-Mor, Sheba medical center
10:45-11:15	Roy Kishony , Technion Predicting Antibiotic Resistance
11:15-11:45	Yehuda Carmeli , Ministry of Health Measures to confront the burden of resistance
11:45-12:15	Zarir Udwadia , Hinduja Hospital Totally-drug resistant TB: challenges and opportunities
12:15-14:00	Lunch
12:15-14:00
14:00-16:05	Novel antimicrobials discovery Chair: Dr. Zvi Hayouka, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
14:00-14:30	Slava Epstein , Northeastern University Antibiotics from microbial dark matter
14:30-15:00	Greg Basarab , H3D, University of Cape Town AMR Drug Discovery - The Shifting Sands Between Genomics Approaches, Phenotypic Approaches and Approaches In-between
15:00-15:30	Ron Dagan, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines as a tool for reducing antibiotic pressure in the community
15:30-15:50	Moran Shalev Ben-Ami, Weizmann Institute of Science On Bugs, Revolution and a Very Sweet Solution
15:50-16:05	Israel Nissan, National Public Health Laboratory Delftibactin-A, a novel Non Ribosomal Peptide with a Broad Antimicrobial Activity
16:15-17:30	Joint Plenary with ISM: Andreas Baumler (UC Davis) Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
16:15-17:30	Andreas Baumler , UC davis Dietary copper shifts the gut microbiota to reconfigure pathogen growth
17:30-18:45	Small discussion group The David Lopatie Conference Centre
17:30-18:45

Thursday, March 7
Time	Session/Lecture info
08:30-09:00
08:30-09:00	Registration & coffee
09:00-11:30	Novel therapeutics Chair: Shula Michaeli, Bar Ilan University
09:00-09:30	Udi Qimron , Tel Aviv University Optimizing delivery of CRIPSR-Cas by phage particles for reversing antibiotic resistance
09:30-10:00	Ronen Hazan , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The promise of phage therapy
10:00-10:30	Rotem Sorek, Weizmann Institute of Science Understanding and targeting the immune system of bacteria
10:30-11:00	Irit Sagi, Weizmann Institute of Science Protecting immune derived ECM damage during infectious disease outlines novel therapeutic strategy
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-13:30	Targeting virulence at the Host Pathogen interface Chair: Dr. Amy Barczak, Ragon Institute
11:30-12:00	Anat Herskovits , Tel Aviv University Pathogen-phage cooperation during mammalian infection
12:00-12:30	Roi Avraham , Weizmann Institute of Science Prediction of bacterial infection outcome using single cell RNA-seq analysis of human immune cells
12:30-13:00	Wolf-Dietrich Hardt , ETH Zurich Tissue-lodged antibiotic tolerant Salmonella cells are a reservoir for spread of resistance plasmids
13:00-13:30	Victor Nizet , University of California, San Diego Collaborating with Innate Immunity to Treat Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs
13:30-14:30	Lunch
13:30-14:30
14:30-17:45	Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance, persistence and tolerance Chair: Prof. Ilan Rosenshine, Hebrew University
14:30-14:45	Itay Katzir, Weizmann Institute of Science Prediction of ultra-high-order antibiotic combinations based on pairwise interactions
14:45-15:00	Aviram Rasouly , New York School of Medicine Rifampicin resistance desensitizes the elongating RNA polymerase to ppGpp signaling
15:00-15:30	Nathalie Balaban , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Antibiotic Tolerance and Persistence as Precursors of Resistance
15:30-16:00	Ronen Ben-Ami , Sourasky Medical Center Non-inherited antimicrobial resistance: a clinician?s perspective
16:00-16:30	Ada Yonath , 2009 Nobel laureate in Chemistry,Weizmann Institute of Science Next generation, species specific and eco-friendly antibiotics
16:30-16:40	Closing remarks
16:40-17:45	Beer & snacks
17:45-18:45	Joint Plenary with ISM Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
17:45-18:45	Alan Grossman , MIT A journey across boundaries: Communication and the control of bacterial sex

Organizing committee

Dr. Roi Avraham
Weizmann Institute of Science
Prof. Benny Geiger
Weizmann Institute of Science

Coordinator

Irit Veksler
+972-8-934-4245
irit.veksler@weizmann.ac.il

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JPS 2019 Program

Wednesday, March 6

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