6th Midlands Molecular Microbiology Meeting (M4)

Programme

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9 September - Polymicrobial interactions and microbial crowdsourcing
Time Session
8.15am Registration
Session 1: CHAIR and ECR Co-chair TBC
9.00am

Invited speaker 1: James McInerney (University of Nottingham)
Pangenomic models and co-occurrence

Society for Applied Microbiology Sponsored Speaker
9.30am 10 Flash posters (3 mins each) - 2,4,6,10,12,14,16,18,20
10am Oral presentation: Augustinas Silale (University of Oxford)
Characterisation of the bacterial DNA transporter involved in natural transformation
10.15am Oral presentation: Jonathan Humphreys (University of Nottingham)
Clostridial strain degeneration: new approaches to an old problem
10.30am Coffee with posters
Session 2: CHAIR and ECR Co-chair TBC
11.15am Oral presentation: Robeena Farzand (University of Leicester)
PAPI-Kp: description of an integrative and conjugative element in Klebsiella pneumoniae, co-occurring and interacting with ICEKp
11.30am Oral presentation: Satpal Chodha (University of Sheffield)
Molecular patterning of Vibrio cholerae chromosome segregation proteins
11.45am 10 Flash posters (3 mins each) - 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19
12.15pm Lunch with posters
1.15pm

Invited speaker 2: Lindsay Hall (Quadram Institute, Norwich UK)
Early life microbiota-host interactions

Microbiology Society Sponsored Speaker
1.45pm 10 Flash posters (3 mins each) - 22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40
2.15pm

Oral presentation: Lillie Purser (University of Leicester)
The role of air pollution and bacteria in COPD
2.30pm

Oral presentation: Sonali Singh (University of Nottingham)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm-associated Polysaccharide Psl Modulates Immunity through Engagement of C-type Lectin Receptors
2.45pm

Invited speaker 3: Simon Foster (University of Sheffield)
Microbial Crowdsourcing: Staphylococcus aureus Infection Dynamics

Microbiology Society Sponsored Speaker
3.15pm Coffee with posters - all odd numbers
Session 4: CHAIR and ECR Co-chair TBC
4pm Oral presentation: Marwa Hassan (University of Warwick)
Predicting antibiotic persistence and associated virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms from an ex-vivo perspective
4.15pm Oral presentation: Ana da Silva (University of Nottingham)
Understanding Phenotypic Diversity of P. aeruginosa in Chronic Diabetic Ulcers
4.30pm 10 Flash posters (3 mins each) - 21,23,25,27,29,31,33,35,37,39
5pm

Invited speaker 4: Lesley Hoyles (Nottingham Trent University)
Microbiomes investigated by microbiomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics

Microbiology Society Sponsored Speaker
5.30pm

Early Career Researcher Led Panel Discussion ‘Career Paths for microbiologists’

Invited Panellists:

  • Lindsay Hall, Quadrum Institute (Academic)
  • Ben Swift, PDP Biotech (Biotech)
  • Jo Slater-Jeffries, National Biofilm Innovation Centre (Knowledge transfer)
  • Rachael Pearson, University of Nottingham (Public engagement)

Chairs: Sonali Singh and Colman O’Cathall

Society for Applied Microbiology Sponsored session
6.30pm

Close and meal in catering atrium, followed by band in Newark Hall Bar

Azotic sponsored

 

10 September - Signalling, virulence and antimicrobial resistance
Time Session
Session 5: CHAIR and ECR Co-chair TBC
9am

Invited speaker 5: Petra Dersch (University of Münster, Germany)
RNA regulators in gastrointestinal bacteria

Microbiology Society Sponsored Speaker
9.30am 20 Flash posters (3 mins each) - 42,44,46,48,50,52,54,56,58,60,62,64,66,68,70,72,74,76,78,80
10.30am Coffee with posters - all odd numbers
Session 6: CHAIR and ECR Co-chair TBC
11.15am 20 Flash posters (3 mins each) - 42,44,46,48,50,52,54,56,58,60,62,64,66,68,70,72,74,76,78,80
12.15pm Lunch with posters - all even numbers
Session 7: CHAIR and ECR Co-chair TBC
1.15pm

Invited speaker 6: Rikke Meyer (Aarhus University, Ianano, Denmark)
Fundamental Mechanisms of bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation

National Biofilm Innovation Sponsored International Frontier Lecture
1.45pm Oral presentation: Louise Corscadden (University of Leicester)
Air pollution differentially affects the Staphylococcus aureus oxidative stress response
2pm Oral presentation: Josh McQuail (Imperial College, London)
An unusual feature in the subcellular landscape of long-term nitrogen starved Escherichia coli
2.15pm Oral presentation: Rebeca Bailo (University of Birmingham)
Path-seq identifies an essential mycolate remodeling program for mycobacterial host adaptation
2.30pm Oral presentation: Robert Cogger-Ward (University of Nottingham)
A conserved protein, BcmA, mediates motility, biofilm formation, and host colonisation in Adherent Invasive Escherichia coli
2.45pm

Invited speaker 7: Jake Malone (John Innes Centre, Norwich)
Bacterial signalling during plant-microbe interactions

Foundazione Edmund Mach Sponsored Speaker
3.15pm Coffee with posters - all odd numbers
Session 8: CHAIR and ECR Co-chair TBC
4pm Oral presentation: Michelle Buckner (University of Birmingham)
Discovery of compounds which reduce transmission of antimicrobial resistance plasmids
4.15pm Oral presentation: Joseph Wanford (University of Leicester)
Hypervirulent, and MDR lineages of Klebsiella replicate in macrophages in vitro, in murine organs, and in an ex vivo model of porcine liver and spleen co-perfusion
4.30pm Oral presentation: Rebekah Jones (University of Warwick)
An intriguing link between membrane lipid remodelling and antimicrobial resistance in pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa
4.45pm Oral presentation: Junior Awards in Microbiology (JAM) finalist Liam Rooney
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5pm

Open Lecture Invited speaker 8: Fernando Baquero (Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid)
Individual-Health, One-Health and Global-Health in Antibiotic Resistance

Society for Applied Microbiology Sponsored Speaker
6-7pm

Closing remarks and wine reception

University of Nottingham Sponsored open reception

School of Life Sciences

The University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD

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