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REVIVE Webinar: Natural product-inspired antibiotics: Successes and future prospects

28 April 2026 - EVENT

BEAM Alliance

This webinar will explore the successes of natural product-inspired antibiotics and examine their continued potential for the discovery and development of new antimicrobials to address the growing crisis of resistance.

Speakers:

  • Mark Butler, Director, MSBChem Consulting and University of Queensland (Australia)
  • Christine Beemelmanns, Head of the Department of anti-infectives from Microbiota, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (Germany)

Moderator: Jennifer Herrmann, Senior Scientist, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, (Germany)

Presentation 1: The contribution of natural products to antibiotic discovery (Mark Butler)
An overview of natural products antibiotics drug discovery
Natural product antibacterial discovery today
Future prospects

Presentation 2: Advances in natural product-inspired antibiotic discovery approaches (Christine Beemelmanns)
Examples of symbiosis inspired natural product and drug discovery
Examples on using metagenomic inspired discovery

Date and time:
28 April 2026 at 09:30 – 11:00 CEST

Dedicated registration link here

BEAM Alliance