The emergence of antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens is a considerable threat to the way we practice medicine. Patients currently experience significant delays in diagnosing drug resistance, and by the time the resistance is recognized patients may have already suffered considerable disability. Even when it is recognized often the therapies that clinicians can offer are much more limited or have unfavorable side effect profiles.
This symposium brings together thought leaders from academic to industry pursuing innovative strategies driven by large scale data such as genomics, transcriptomics, phenomics, health-services databases or internet and social media sources. Their common goals are the prevision use and development of antibiotics to counter drug resistance. The day is organized into three main thematic areas focusing on diagnostics, big data, and therapeutics.
Date
Wednesday, June 13, 2018, 8:00 am – 6:00 pm ET
Location
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur, Boston
Registration
REGISTER HERE via Eventbrite (conference is free but space is limited)
Optional: Purchase bagged lunch while registering
Lodging
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The Inn at Longwood Medical
342 Longwood Avenue, Boston MA 02135 Click here to reserve at the group rate of $219/night. Group code: DATA2018
Cut off date: May 20, 2018
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Questions?
Contact Libby Williams at libby@hms.harvard.edu
Conference Agenda
| Time | Topic & Speaker(s) |
|---|---|
| 8:00–9:00am | Check-In (coffee available) |
| 9:00-9:15am |
Welcome — Maha Farhat & Michael Baym, Harvard Medical School |
| 9:15-9:30am |
Opening Remarks — George Q. Daley, Dean, Harvard Medical School |
| 9:30-10:10am |
Synthetic biology-based diagnostics for infectious diseases Jim Collins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 10:10-10:30am | BREAK |
| 10:30-11:10am |
Using better data to perform more sophisticated determinations of antibiotic susceptibility and resistance Romney Humphries, Accelerate Diagnostics |
| 11:10-11:50am |
The international spread of antimicrobial resistant Shigella Stephen Baker, University of Oxford |
| 11:50-1:00pm | LUNCH (optional bagged lunch available for purchase) |
| 1:00-1:40pm |
Open data and the future of antibiotic resistance surveillance John Brownstein, Boston Children's Hospital |
| 1:40-2:20pm |
Using electronic healthcare record data to inform and evaluate interventions targeting healthcare associated infection across the healthcare economy Céire Costelloe, Imperial College London |
| 2:20-2:40pm | BREAK |
| 2:40-3:20pm |
Mining the antibiotic resistome for new drug discovery opportunities Gerry Wright, McMaster University |
| 3:20-4:00pm |
Innovations in high throughput technologies for new antibiotic development Deborah Hung, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
| 4:00-4:40pm |
Omics Approaches for Antibacterial Discovery Alita Miller, Entasis Therapeutics |
| 4:40-5:00pm | Closing Remarks — Isaac Kohane, Harvard Medical School |
| 5:00-6:00pm | Cocktail Reception |