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November | 22 – 23

ALARM 2024
Amrita Legion for Antimicrobial
Resistance Management

Hybrid International Symposium on Antimicrobial Resistance

Amrita School of Biotechnology
Amritapuri, Kerala
-Recognized as Centre of Excellence for Antimicrobial Resistance
in Conjunction with IIT Kanpur and CDRI Lucknow

In association with

About

Alarm 24

Amrita Legion for Antimicrobial Resistance Management (ALARM) is a two-day (November 22nd and 23rd, 2024) International Symposium organized by Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri Campus, which has been recognized by DST, as Centre of Excellence for Antimicrobial Resistance, in conjunction with IIT Kanpur and CDRI Lucknow. “Educate. Advocate. Act Now” – the theme for this year’s World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW) by WHO, aligns perfectly with ALARM 2024. The goal of this conference is to educate as well as facilitate the spread of awareness of the exponential rise in global Antimicrobial Resistance crisis.

The Symposium focuses on critical thematic areas including One Health approach, which integrates human, animal, and environmental health to combat AMR holistically. Topics include AMR in clinical settings, as well as environment and veterinary/agricultural sectors, emphasizing the interconnectivity of these areas. Key discussions will explore innovative strategies to combat AMR, such as the use of bacteriophages, advanced diagnostics and devices, discovery of new chemical entities, alongside host-directed therapies.

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Progress Can Be Slow And Gradual. Continue Putting In Effort With Patience, Enthusiasm And Faith.
– Amma
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Events

Thematic Area of Scientific Events
  • One Health
    • AMR in Clinical Settings
    • AMR in Environment
    • AMR in Veterinary / Agriculture
  • Strategies to Combat AMR
    • Bacteriophages
    • Diagnostics and Devices
    • Host Directed Therapies
    • New Chemical Entities, Natural Products and Traditional Medicines
    • Surveillance
  • Invited Talks by National and International Experts
  • Scientific Oral/ Poster Presentations
  • Ideathon
Community Awareness Events
  • AMR Awareness Reels Challenge
  • AMR Digital Art
  • ASBT ALARM Events Pavilion
  • Walk the Talk
  • Collecting the Medicinal Strip and Making Model
Pre-Symposium Workshop

Topic: Applications of Python in Biology

  • Python Basics:
    • Data Types
    • Data Structures
    • Control-flow
    • Regular Expressions and Pattern Recognition
  • Data Analysis & Visualization
    • Pandas & Numpy
    • Human Genome Data
    • Plotnine (ggplot2), Matplotlib, Line plot, Scatter plot, Bar plot, Box plot, Violin plot.
  • BioPython
    • Sequence Analysis
    • Retrieving Sequence
    • Parsing FASTA
    • Files, Alignment etc.
  • Requirements
    • Laptop with a minimal configuration.
    • Python 3 and Python Environment: Anaconda / Miniconda/ Jupyter Notebooks.

Registration Fee for Workshop: Rs. 1500 + GST

Register

Registration is now open! Registration rates are as follows: 

Regular Participant (Academia/ Industry):
Rs. 2500 + GST

Student Participants:
Rs. 1500 + GST

Amrita Participants (Students):
Rs. 1000 + GST

Pre-Symposium Workshop:
Rs. 1500 + GST

Online Participation:
Rs. 1000 + GST

For any Enquiry/contact info:
asbtconferences@am.amrita.edu

Abstract

Abstract Submission Open !

The ALARM 2024 organizing committee will be accepting abstracts from registered participants for either oral presentation / poster presentations and Ideathon. Research topics should focus on the Thematic Area of the Symposium.

Abstract submission is open till November 15, 2024

Guidelines

Speakers

Dr. Anshu Bhardwaj

CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology
Chandigarh

Dr. Achuthan Ambat

Stanford University
USA

Dr. Chittur V Srikanth

Regional Centre for Biotechnology
Faridabad

Dr. Jason Gill

Texas A & M University
USA

Dr. Kartik Chandran

Earth and Environmental Engineering
Columbia University, USA

Dr. Karthik Subramanian

Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology
Thiruvananthapuram

Dr. Sabu Thomas

Centre of Excellence in Microbiome (CoEM)
Thiruvananthapuram

Dr. Victor Nizet

University of California
USA

Dr. R. Krishna Kumar

Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi

Dr. Dwayne Roach

San Diego State University
USA

Dr. Soumya Swaminathan

Chairperson, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
Former Chief Scientist, WHO.
Former Deputy Director General , WHO

Dr. Evgeni Sokurenko

University of Washington
Seattle

Schedule

November 22nd, 2024

Time(inIST)

Event

 Speaker

07:30 AM – 09:00 AM

Registration

  

09:00 AM- 10:00 AM

ALARM 2024 Inaugural Session

 

Swami Shubamritananda Puri

Director, M.A. Centre, Europe

Dr. SabuT homas

Director, Centre of Excellence in Microbiome, Government of Kerala, India

Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed

CEO and Director, C-CAMP

Dr.Bipin Nair

Dean, Amrita School of Biotechnology

10:00 AM- 10:30 AM

Keynote Address

 

Dr. Soumya Swaminathan

Chairperson, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation Former Chief Scientist, WHO.

Former Deputy Director General , WHO

 

10:40 AM-11:00 AM

Tea Break

  

11:00 AM- 11:25 AM (IST)

Nov 21st : 09:30 PM – 09:55 PM (PST)

Invited Talk

Does the Evolution of Resistance Pose a Major Barrier to Successful Phage Therapy?

Dr. Dwayne Roach

Assistant Professor of Biology, San Diego State University, California, USA

 

11:30 AM- 11:55 PM

Invited Talk

Genomic Signatures of Antibiotic 

Resistance in Mycobacterium spp

Dr. Anshu Bhardwaj

Senior Scientist, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh

12:00PM-12:25PM

InvitedTalk

Preventing AMR:Research Updates and Driving Action

 

Dr.SabuThomas

Director, Centre of Excellence in Microbiome,Government ofKerala,India

12:30PM-01:00PM

InvitedTalk

Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance:A Clinician’s perspective

 

  

Dr. R Krishna Kumar

Professorand Headof Department,

Pediatric Cardiology, Amrita School of Medicine,AmritaHospital,Kochi

01:00PM-02:00PM

Lunch

  

02:00PM-04:30PM

Scientificoral/Ideathon-Open Session

  

04:30PM-05:00PM(IST)

06.00AM–06.30AM(EST)

InvitedTalk

Health-related markers in waste microbiomes

  

Dr. Karthik Chandran

Assistant Professor

SanDiego State University

05:00AM-06:00PM

Cultural Programmes

  

November 23rd, 2024

Time

Event

 Speaker

09:00 AM- 09:25 AM (IST)

Nov 22nd: 9:30 PM – 9:55 PM (CST)

Invited Talk

Phage Therapy for Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections

Dr. Jason Gill

Associate Professor Texas A & M University USA

09:35 AM- 10:00 AM

Invited Talk

Beyond the gut- evolving Salmonella

and its unexpected outcomes

 

  

Dr. C V Srikanth

Professor, Regional Centre for Biotechnology, India

10:00 AM- 10:20 AM

Tea Break

  

10:30 AM- 10:55 AM (IST)

Nov 22nd: 09:00 PM – 09:25 PM (PST)

Invited Talk

 

Dr. Victor Nizet

Professor & Vice Chair for Basic Research in the Department of Pediatrics, Professor of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Chief of the Division of Host-Microbe Systems and

Therapeutics at UC San Diego, California, USA

 

11:05 AM- 11:30 AM (IST)

Nov 22nd: 09:35 PM – 10:00 PM (PST)

Invited Talk

‘Bugs Life and Precision Medicine’

 

Dr. Evgeni Sokurenko

Professor

University of Washington

 

11:40 AM- 12:05 PM (IST)

Nov 22nd: 10:10 PM – 10:35 PM (PST)

Invited Talk

Metabolic Tug-of-War: How Gut Microbiome Dynamics Shape the Success of Bacteriotherapy in Clostridioides difficile Infections

 

 Dr. Achuthan Ambat

Post doctoral Scholar, Stanford University USA

12:15 PM- 12:50 PM

Invited Talk

Identification Of Bacterial Kinase Inhibitor As Potential Anti-Microbials For Pneumococcal Infections

 

Dr. Karthik Subramanian

Faculty Scientist, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology Thiruvananthapuram

 

12:50 PM- 02:00 PM

Lunch

  

02:00 PM- 02:25 PM

Invited Talk

Anti-Microbial Resistance: Key Publication Insights From the BMC Series

 

Dr. Rajasree KP

Associate Editor

BMC Series, Springer Nature India

 

02:30 PM – 03.30 PM

Scientific poster presentations

  

03:45 PM – 05:00 PM

ALARM 2024 CONCLUDING SESSION

  

Community Awareness Events

AMR Awareness Reels Challenge

Rules and Regulations:

Theme: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and One Health

Duration: Reels must be between 30 to 60 seconds in length.

Originality: All content (videos, audio, and graphics) must be original and created by the participant. No copyrighted materials allowed.

Educational Value: The reel must convey a clear message about AMR, its global impact, or the One Health approach (connection between human, animal, and environmental health).

Format: Reels should be submitted in MP4 or MOV format with a minimum resolution of 1080p. You need to post the video in any of the following social media Instagram, Facebook or YouTube shorts with the hashtag #ALARM2024 and you need to tag Amrita school of Biotechnology pages (Facebook & Insta: @amritabio, YouTube: @amritabiotech) in the respective platform.

Language: If dialogue or text is used, it should be in English or regional language.

Guidelines

AMR Awareness Reels Challenge

Digital Art Competition

Rules and Regulations:

Theme: The Role of One Health in Combating Antimicrobial Resistance

Format: Art submissions must be digital (e.g., created using graphic design software or AI image generator) and submitted as a JPEG or PNG file, with a resolution of 300 dpi.

Size: The artwork must be in 4:3 width x height ratio dimension.

Content: The artwork must creatively represent the interconnection of humans, animals, and the environment in addressing AMR.

No Plagiarism: Submissions must be original and not copied from existing works or previous entries.

Caption: Each submission must include a brief description (100-200 words) explaining how the artwork relates to the theme.

Guidelines

Digital Art Competition

General Rules for Community Awareness Events

Eligibility: Open to all categories including school students for Reels and Digital Art competitions.

Plagiarism: All entries must be original; plagiarism will result in disqualification.

Submission Deadline: All entries must be submitted by 15th November 2024 to be considered for the competition.

Use of Entries: The organizers reserve the right to use the entries for educational and promotional purposes with proper credit to the participants.

Guidelines

General Rules for Community Awareness Events

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