ICAR 2010 - I International Conference on Antimicrobial Research

I International Conference on Antimicrobial Research (ICAR2010), to be held in Valladolid (Spain), during 3-5 November 2010 will provide a new forum in Europe for the presentation, exchange and dissemination of information and experiences on anti-microbe strategies, in biotic or abiotic environments, in planktonic or adhered states, in biologically specific or unspecific ways, in vitro or in vivo, in a general context marked by the threat posed by the increasing antimicrobial resistance of pathogenic microorganisms. “Anti” is here taken in a wide sense as “against life, growth, adhesion, or communication”, when such events are understood to be harmful for human health (infectious diseases, chemotherapy...) and/or industry/economy (food, biomedicine, agriculture, livestock, biotechnology, water systems...). It will include topics on antimicrobial resistance, (early) microbial and resistance detection, enhancement of innate defences against pathogens, as well as methods & techniques.

It is in the spirit of this new conference series to attract researchers from a broad range of academic disciplines which are contributing in the fighting against harmful microorganisms, not only those more traditionally involved in this research area (microbiologists, biochemists, genetists, clinicians…), but also experimental and theoretical/computational chemists (rational design of antimicrobial compounds, chemical synthesis, analogs, surface modification of materials…), physicists (radiation, nano-emulsions (surface tension), ultrasounds, antimicrobial materials, properties of nano-materials...) or engineers (technologies).

CLOSEST KEY DATES:
-> 8 July 2010: Deadline for early registration
-> 22 July 2010: Deadline for abstract submission

PRE-REGISTRATION/EXPRESSION OF INTEREST:
To keep you informed about all conference details, you may fill-in the Pre-registration form, which is available at http://www.formatex.org/icar2010/preregistration.p...

PUBLICATIONS:
-> Abstract Book: A Book of Abstracts will be produced including all abstracts of works presented in the Conference. Each registered participant will receive a copy at the beginning of the Conference. (It will be dispatched to virtual participants shortly after the conference).
-> Proceedings: The conference proceedings will be published as a book entitled “Science and Technology against Microbial Pathogens. Research, Development and Evaluation”, to be published by an international publishing house (to be announced soon). All details on full paper submission for the book can be consulted in the “Call for Papers” section on the conference website. (Submission of a full paper is optional).