Welcome to AMRU-Asia Pacific 2023

It is our great pleasure to announce the 1^st Research Conference on AMR/AMU in Food Animals in the Asia-Pacific Region (AMRU-Asia Pacific) to be held on 6-8 February 2023. AMRU-Asia Pacific 2023 is our first research conference that will be a platform for bringing together stakeholders from industry, academia, and government as well as other interested parties all over the world in the same virtual conference for research on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antimicrobial use (AMU) in Asian and Pacific food animal production.

The AMRU–Asia-Pacific 2023 will be virtually held allowing global participation of AMR/AMU researchers and experts. It focuses on research projects/studies on AMR and AMU for food animal production conducted in Asia and the Pacific. The scientific program was designed to focus on key subject interests presented by high-quality keynote and guest speakers covering the following three areas:

AMR emergence and spread in food animals in the Asia-Pacific Region: surveillance, molecular epidemiology and transmission dynamics
AMU monitoring and alternatives to antimicrobials for AMU reduction in food animals in the Asia-Pacific Region
Bridging innovations and AMR mitigation in food animals

Three topics will be addressed in depth through scientific lectures, expert panel discussions, and electronic poster presentations.

What to expect during the virtual conference?

Keynote presentations: Keynote speakers from distinguished experts in the research on AMR and AMU will be presenting key trends in research on monitoring and surveillance of AMR and AMU.
Oral presentation by invited speakers. Invited expert speakers from the region and around the world will be speaking on several key areas and interests of AMR and AMU.
Invited E-Poster Electronic poster presentation by invited researchers. The abstract is required and will be in the proceeding. In case that you have substantial results and wish to submit them for abstract and E-poster, please send a request to amru.asiapacific@gmail.com
Research sharing forum e-poster presentation. Any researchers with research on AMR and AMU for food animal production that has been undertaken in Asia Pacific are welcome to use the "Research Sharing Forum" as a platform for sharing their findings with others as an electronic poster (RS E-Poster-No abstract is needed).

The AMRU–Asia-Pacific 2023 is jointly organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Chulalongkorn University (CU), specifically the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, and the FAO Reference Centre for AMR, CU Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

Keynote Speakers

Timothy R. Walsh

University of Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

One Health AMR surveillance: Dream or Scream?

Patrick McDermott

Food and Drug Administration, United States of America

The use of genomics for monitoring antimicrobial resistance in foodborne bacteria: The experience of the US National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System.

Hyun Lillehoj

US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, United States of America

Mitigation Strategies to Enhance Poultry Production in the Post-Antibiotic Era: Challenges and Progress

Filip Van Immerseel

University of Ghent, Belgium

Vaccines as alternatives to antibiotics for food producing animals, with emphasis on poultry

Till Bachmann

Chair, Scientific Advisory Board JPIAMR, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR)

Armando Heriazon

International Development Research Centre, Canada

InnoVet AMR: Innovative Veterinary Solutions for antimicrobial resistance

Invited Speakers

6 February 2023

Session: AMR emergence and spread in food animals in the Asia-Pacific region: surveillance, molecular epidemiology and transmission dynamics

Hein Min Tun

The University of Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong SAR

Yang Wang

China Agricultural University, China

Darren Trott

University of Adelaide, Australia

Aihua Li

Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Syed Mashkoor Mohsin Gilani

University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Rungtip Chuanchuen

Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Can Wang

Tianjin University, China

Gunnaporn Suriyaphol

Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Daniel Schar

USAID Regional Office, Thailand

7 February 2023

AMU monitoring and alternatives to antimicrobials for AMU in food animals in the Asia-Pacific region

Jeon Byeonghwa

University of Minnesota, United States of America

Inkyung Park

US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, United States of America

Masaru Usui

Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan

Channarong Rodkhum

Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Tanmoy Gon Choudhury

College of Fisheries, India

Juan Carrique-Mas

FAO, Vietnam

Jancy Gupta

National Dairy research Institute, India

Md. Zohurul Islam

Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh

Ayesha Ahmed

Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh

Jonathan Bastard

Columbia University, United States of America

8 February 2023

Bridging innovations and AMR mitigation in food animals

Puji Latif

Biotechnology laboratory, BPMSPH, Indonesia

Evangelyn Alocilja

Michigan State university, United States of America

Jaap Wagenaar

Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Valeria Mariano

WOAH, France

Natrah Fatin Mohd Ikhsan

University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Jane Payumo

Michigan State University, United States of America

Jo Coombe

Australian Industries’ Antimicrobial Stewardship R, D & E Strategy, Australia

Sam Abraham

Murdoch University, Australia

Countdown to AMRU-Asia Pacific 2023

6-8 February 2023

Important dates

Conference dates might will be on the second week of
February 2023 (6^th - 8^th)

Registration deadline:	3 February 2023 (Extended)
Abstract submission deadline:	22 January 2022
Invited E-poster submission deadline:	29 January 2023
RS E-poster submission deadline:	29 January 2023