Scientific Symposia - Antimicrobial Resistance & Therapeutic Innovation

2pm – 3pm GMT, 23 March 2026 ‐ 1 hour

Room: Kilsyth - located on level 0

Symposia Session

Jisa Salim,  University of Exeter and University of West of England Investigating Antibiofilm Activity of Essential Oils against Clinical and Wild-type Isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii Biofilms

Dr Blessing Oyedemi, Middlesex University London Evaluating bioactive-antibiotic synergies as antibiofilm therapeutic leads for future antimicrobial drug discovery

Mahdia Rahman,  The University of Texas at Austin Structure-Based Identification of Inhibitors Targeting Staphylococcus aureus D-Alanine:D-Alanine Ligase Using Virtual Screening

Dr Leonard Uzairue,  De Montfort University, Leicester Impact of the COVID-19-pandemic and Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Practices on multidrug resistance(MDR) bacterial infections in Nigerian Hospitals.