Preliminary Programme
CESAR 2025, September 22-25, 2025, Zadar, Croatia
DAY 1 – Monday, September 22, 2025
| 12:00-17:00 | Registration |
| 16:30-17:00 | Opening ceremony |
Opening Session
| 17:00-17:30 | IL1 | Fernando Baquero (Spain): From Pharmacology to Antechology, the Dynamics and Kinetics of Antimicrobial Resistance |
Session 1 Molecular Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance
| 17:30-18:00 | IL2 | Csaba Pál: Antibiotics of the future are prone to bacterial resistance |
| 18:00-18:30 | IL 3 | Patrick van Dijck (Belgium): Antifungal resistance mechanisms in the human fungal pathogen Candida auris and the discovery of collateral sensitivity as possible treatment option |
| 18:30-18:45 | OP1 | |
| 18:45-19:00 | OP2 | |
| 19:30 | Welcome reception – Buffet |
DAY 2 – Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Session 2 Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals, Food and Environment
| 08:30-09:00 | IL4 | Célia Manaia (Portugal): Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment: When Bacterial Success Means Failure for Public Health |
| 09:00-09:30 | IL5 | Irena Zdovc (Slovenia) |
| 09:30-10:00 | IL6 | Renata Karpiškova (Czech Republic): Genetic diversity and dissemination of MRSA CC398 in animals and humans in the Czech Republic |
| 10:00-10:15 | OP3 | |
| 10:15-10:30 | OP4 | |
| 10:30-10:45 | OP5 | |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee break |
Session 3 Quorum Sensing and Biofilm
| 11:15-11:45 | IL7 | Miguel Cámara (UK): Disruption of quorum sensing in biofilm-associated infections |
| 11:45-12:15 | IL8 | Edit Urbán (Hungary): Title to be confirmed |
| 12:15-12:30 | OP6 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Break for lunch |
Session 4 Laboratory Methods, Diagnostics and Control of Resistant Infections
| 13:30-14:00 | IL9 | Ivana Gudelj (UK): Drug-mediated metabolic tipping between antibiotic resistant states in a mixed-species community |
| 14:00-14:30 | IL10 | Bojan Papić (Slovenia): Integrating (meta)genomic sequencing data into AMR risk assessment |
| 15:00-15:15 | OP7 | |
| 15:15 -16:00 | OP8 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30-17:30 | Poster Session |
DAY 3 – Wednesay, September 24, 2025
Session 5 Epidemiology and Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance
| 08:30-09:00 | IL11 | Suzana Bukovski (Croatia): Title to be confirmed |
| 09:00-9:30 | IL12 | Luca Guardabassi (Denmark): Aminoglycoside resistance in porcine enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli: a truly One Health problem |
| 09:30-10:00 | IL13 | Bruno González-Zorn (Spain): Title to be confirmed
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| 10:00-10:15 | OP9 | |
| 10:15-11:00 | OP10 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30-13:30 | Poster session | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Break for lunch | |
| 14:30-20:00 | Excursion | |
| 21:00 | Symposium dinner |
DAY 4 – Thursday, September 25, 2025
Session 6 New Antimicrobial Drugs and Strategies to Overcome Resistance
Chaired by Miguel Camara
| 9:00-9:30 | IL14 | Mzia Kutateladze (Georgia): Bacteriophages against multidrug resistant bacterial infections: challenges and perspectives |
| 09:30-10:00 | IL15 | Helena Bujdakova (Slovakia): Photodynamic inactivation as a strategy to overcome antimicrobial resistance: mechanism and effect |
| 10:30-10:45 | OP11 | |
| 10:45-11:00 | OP12 | |
| 11:00 -11:30 | Coffee break
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| 11:30-12:00 | Announcement of best poster; Closing ceremony and conclusions of CESAR2025 | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch (optional)
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