Scientific Program
13:00 - 13:30 Welcome & Overview by the Global Innovation Initiative Project Coordinators and Institutional Representatives
Dr. Celso J. B. de Oliveira /UFPB, Brazil, Dr. Oliveira Freitas /UFPB, Dr. Lauro Santos Filho/UFPB UK and Wondwossen Gebreyes /OSU, USA
Global One Health Capacity needs to address Antimicrobial Resistance
Dr. Wondwossen Gebreyes / The Ohio State University, USA
13:30 - 14:20 KEYNOTE - The GenomeTrakr Network for Global Surveillance of Zoonotic Pathogens
Dr. Marc Allard / CFSAN, Food and Drug Administration, USA
14:20 - 15:10 New edge of antimicrobial development: using metagenomics to identify natural antimicrobial compounds from the environment
Dr. Octavio Franco / PUC Brasilia
15:10 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:20 Developing strategies for rapid pint-of-care diagnostics and control the escalating global rate of multi-drug resistance
Dr. Shu-Hua Wang / Medical Director, Ben Franklin Center and Infectious Diseases Physician Scientist - OSU, USA
16:40 - 17:10 Pre-harvest food safety and mitigation of antimicrobial resistant pathogens
Dr. Allen Byrd / Diamond V, USA
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2017
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2017
08:00 - 08:50 Emergence of antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella serovars in Brazil
Dra. Dalia dos Prazeres / Fiocruz Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
08:50 - 09:40 Reduction vs. optimization of antibiotic use in food animals - will science, politics or commerce drive the future?
Dr. Peter Davies / University of Minnesota, USA
09:40 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:50 Innovative feed additive technology to mitigate food-borne pathogens and antimicrobial resistance
Dra. Hilary Pavlidis / Diamond V, USA
10:50 - 11:40 Current topics in Salmonella reduction and control in the Brazilian poultry industry
Dr. Angelo Berchieri Junior / UNESP-Jaboticabal, Brazil
11:40 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 The importance of regulating intetinal inflamation
Dra. Valeria Artuso-Ponte / Phytobiotics Aditives
14:50 - 15:30 Comparative Molecular Epidemiology of MDR Salmonella of Global Origin Using Whole Genome Sequencing
Dr. Wondwossen Gebreyes / The Ohio State University, USA
15:30 - 15:50 Break
15:50 - 16:30 Investigating host-pathogen interactions through a dual RNA-seq approach
Dr. Fabiano S. Pais / René Rachou Institute, FIOCRUZ / Promove College, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
16:30 - 17:30 Genomics approach to assessing the genetic basis of CTX-M, KPC-2 and MCR-1 in Enterobacteriaceae at the animal-human-enviroment
interface, Brazil
Dr. Nilton Lincopan / São Paulo University - USP, Brazil
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2017
08:00 - 08:50 Genomic approaches for the study of virulence and antimicrobial resistance: a case study on beef cattle-associated Salmonella
Dr. Enrique Delgado / Faculty of Veterinary Medicine & Zootechnics, National Autonomous University of Mexico - UNAM, Mexico
08:50 - 09:40 Use of protein-protein interaction network (PIN) of pathogenic bacteria aiming identify essential proteins
Dr. Edson Luis Folador / CBiotec, UFPB, Brazil
09:40 - 10:00 Break
10:15 - 11:00 "Working together: A Holy Grail for microbiome studies"
Dr. Victor Pylro / Brazilian Microbiome Project / Soil Microbiology Laboratory, University of São Paulo - ESALQ/USP
11:00 - 11:40 Special remarks on the Global Innovation Initiative Reserch Projects
ROUND TABLE: UFPB - OSU - UoN future collaborative actions on the mitigation of antimicrobial resistance through Research and Capacity Building / Closing remarks
Universidade Federal da Paraíba
