The theme of SMIDDY 2014 was Systems Biology of Antibiotic Resistance. The meeting was organized by the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) and took place at the Haus der Universität of the University of Bern on Friday, 12 September 2014.
| 09:15 | Welcome address |
| 09:30 | Evolution of antibiotic resistance at sub-MIC levels of antibiotic Prof. Dr. Dan Andersson Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Sweden |
| 10:20 | The right base at the right time: rapid rates of environmental change can constrain evolution Dr. Jenna Gallie Molecular Microbial Ecology, Eawag, Dübendorf, Switzerland |
| 10:40 | Population pharmacokinetics of the anti-malarial amodiaquine Ali M. Ali Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 | Development of a rapid fluorescent assay to study time-kill kinetics of antimicrobials in Neisseria gonorrhoeae Sunniva Förster Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) and Institute for Infectious Diseases (IFIK), University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 11:50 | The effect of pharmacokinetics and –dynamics on the emergence of antibiotic resistance Helen Alexander Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 12:10 | EvolutionX: Analysing evolution of adaptation to a novel siderophore Dr. Marc Creus Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | The underlying mechanisms of antibiotic interactions Prof. Dr. Tobias Bollenbach Biological Physics and Systems Biology, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) |
| 14:50 | Managing multi-drug resistance using collateral sensitivity cycling Dr. Feng Fu Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 15:10 | Cost/benefit tradeoffs of tetA expression Daniel Angst Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 | Quantification of antimicrobial usage in different animal species in Switzerland Luís Pedro Carmo Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 16:20 | Early immune discrimination between pathogenic and commensal bacteria Miguelangel Cuenca Institute for Infectious Diseases (IFIK), University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 16:40 | Closing address |
| 17:00 | Apéro |