Online Registration is available for the SMBE Satellite Meeting:
Evolutionary Biochemistry of Insect Antimicrobial Peptides

The SMBE Satellite Meeting on Evolutionary Biochemistry of Insect
Antimicrobial Peptides will be held on Oct 13-15, 2025. Registration
to attend online is still open. Online registrants can listen to
all talks and participate in breakout sessions. To register for
the online version of the conference, please visit the link below:?
https://uh.edu/nsm/biology-biochemistry/news-events/smbe-meeting/
 A
limited number of in person registrants can still be accepted to attend
the conference in Houston, TX. If you are interested in attending in
person, please contact InsectAMPs@bucknell.edu as soon as possible.?

Additional information:

Microbes that cause disease to humans, livestock, crops, and wild
species are incredibly diverse and rapidly evolve resistance to existing
antibiotic drugs. Naturally occurring insect antimicrobial peptides have
tremendous promise to help address the challenge of antibiotic resistance,
but realizing this potential requires transdisciplinary collaboration
across disciplines including genomics, microbiology, biochemistry, data
science, and engineering. The conference will promote growth in this
area by bringing together researchers from a variety of disciplines and
career stages to understand modes of action and potential applications
of insect AMPs as novel antibiotic agents.

Research areas covered by this conference will include:
- Phylogenetic and comparative genomics of arthropod
  antimicrobial peptides
- Novel antimicrobials, biomimetics design, and peptide biochemistry
- Microbiology, in vitro and in vivo experimentation
- Machine learning and data science
- Translational research

There will be multiple breakout sessions at the conference, which we
intend to use to develop at least one white paper on Insect Antimicrobial
Peptides and Antibiotic Drug Design.

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