Programme
Wednesday, 15th October 2025
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Registration opens |
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome and opening by Prof. Falk Schreiber and Prof. Jian Li |
Session 1: AI-Driven Drug Design / Chemoinformatics
Session Chairs: Prof. Mark Cronin and Prof. Jian Li
| 09:10 - 09:35 | Prof. Mark Cronin (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) When AI met toxicity, getting predictions of complex effects accepted |
| 09:35 - 09:45 | Discussion |
| 09:45 - 10:10 | Prof. Tony Velkov (Monash University, Australia) Smarter scaffolds: Harnessing AI for lipopeptide innovation |
| 10:10 - 10:25 | Discussion |
| 10:20 - 10:55 | Coffee break |
| 10:55 - 11:10 | Eva Wehrhahn (Uppsala University, Sweden) Time-lapse imaging and machine learning to quantify the ciprofloxacin effect on E. coli morphology changes and bacterial killing (10min talk + 5min Q&A) |
| 11:10 - 11:25 | Kaijie Mu (Monash University, Australia) Lipid phase separation within outer membrane vesicles mediates bacterial resistance to antimicrobial peptides (10min talk + 5min Q&A) |
| 11:25 - 11:50 | Asst. Prof. Jiawei Wang (University of Bath, UK) Learning protein languages from microbes across different ecosystems |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Discussion |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
Session 2: Bioinformatics and Omics
Session Chairs: Prof. Tony Velkov and Assoc. Prof. Marco Fondi
| 14:00 - 14:25 | Dr. Sebastian Lobentanzer (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany) Accessible biomedical AI: open-source frameworks for trustworthy agentic systems |
| 14:25 - 14:40 | Discussion | 14:40 - 15:05 | Assoc. Prof. Yuguang Mu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) End-to-end AI-based preclinical drug discovery platform |
| 15:05 - 15:15 | Discussion |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Coffee break | 16:00 - 16:25 | Dr. Diyuan Lu (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany) Machine learning for antibiotic resistance prediction in H. pylori: insights from whole-genome sequencing |
| 16:25 - 16:35 | Discussion |
| 16:35 - 17:00 | Conclusion Day 1 |
| 19:30 | 🍽 Conference Dinner |
Thursday, 16th October 2025
Session 3a: AI-Driven Pharmacometrics
Session Chairs: Dr. Amy Cheung and Asst. Prof. Nicholas Smith
| 09:00 - 09:25 | Prof. Sebastian Wicha (University Hamburg, Germany) From therapeutic drug monitoring to model-informed precision dosing for antibiotics |
| 09:25 - 09:40 | Discussion |
| 09:40 - 10:05 | Assoc. Prof. Gauri Rao (University of Southern California, USA) Modeling host immune dynamics in response to bacterial infection |
| 10:05 - 10:20 | Discussion |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Coffee break |
| 10:40 - 11:05 | Dr. Radu Botgros (European Medicines Agency) PK/PD and AI in the approval of antibiotics in the European Union. |
| 11:05 - 11:20 | Discussion |
| 11:20 - 11:35 | Miklas Martens (University of Hamburg, Germany) In vitro pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model assessing the effect of fosfomycin on clinical multi-resistant Enterobacterales isolates (10min talk + 5min Q&A) |
| 11:35 - 11:50 | Haini Wen (Uppsala University, Sweden) Informing sampling design for lung distribution studies using a pulmonary population pbpk model (10min talk + 5min Q&A) |
| 11:50 - 12:15 | Assoc. Prof. Xiaojie Wu (Fudan University / Huashan Hospital, China) Model-informed drug development in China for antimicrobial agents |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
Session 3b: AI-Driven Pharmacometrics
Session Chairs: Prof. Sebastian Wicha and Assoc. Prof. Gauri Rao
| 14:00 - 14:25 | Dr. Yaxin Fan (Fudan University, China) Machine learning-enhanced model-informed precision dosing of antimicrobials in clinical practice |
| 14:25 - 14:40 | Discussion | 14:40 - 15:05 | Dr. Amy Cheung (Certara Drug Development Solutions) The strength and opportunities for model-informed drug development (MIDD) for antimicrobials |
| 15:05 - 15:15 | Discussion |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 - 16:25 | Asst. Prof. Nicholas Smith (University at Buffalo, USA) Translational PK/PD to optimize the use of complex biological and biotic agents as anti-infectives |
| 16:25 - 16:35 | Discussion |
| 16:35 - 17:00 | Conclusion Day 2 |
Friday, 17th October 2025
Session 4: Molecular Dynamics Simulations & Virtual Cell / GSMM & Imaging
Session Chairs: Prof. Falk Schreiber and Assoc. Prof. Yuguang Mu
| 09:00 - 09:25 | Assoc. Prof. Marco Fondi (University of Florence, Italy) Modelling the emergence and spreading of antimicrobial resistance in microbial communities |
| 09:25 - 09:40 | Discussion |
| 09:40 - 10:05 | Prof. Patrick Müller (University of Konstanz, Germany) AI phenomics to decode antimicrobial mechanism and toxicity from spatiotemporal embryo images |
| 10:05 - 10:20 | Discussion |
| 10:20 - 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Dr. Sabrina Jaeger-Honz (University of Konstanz, Germany) Aggregation and visualisation of interaction fingerprints for molecular dynamics simulation data (10min talk + 5min Q&A) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Wendong Ma (Monash University, Australia) Lipid A modifications in Klebsiella pneumoniae: impairing polymyxin penetration via distinct mechanisms (10min talk + 5min Q&A) |
Session 5: Round Table Discussion
Session Chairs: Prof. Jian Li and Prof. Falk Schreiber
| 11:15 - 12:45 | Round table discussion: Antimicrobial pharmacology in 2035 |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Conclusion |
| 13:00 - 18:00 | Lunch / Networking / Free Afternoon / Visiting Prato |
ICAComP 2025 is organised by Monash University, Melbourne, Australia and University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Contact
ICAComP 2025 local organiser (icacompconference@gmail.com)
Monash University Prato Campus, Prato, Italy