Both commensal and pathogenic bacteria must interact with the host immune system during colonisation. In recent years there have been significant steps forward in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that determine the interaction between a bacterium and the host immune system. In this meeting, we will explore our current understanding of how commensal and pathogenic bacteria interact with the host immune system during infection, and the consequences of these interactions in health and disease.
This Focused Meeting is being jointly hosted by the Microbiology Society Irish Division and the Irish Society of Immunology (ISI), and will take place from 1–2 September 2016 at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Rochestown, Cork, Ireland.
Approved by the Royal Society of Biology for purposes of CPD, this event may be counted as 54 CPD credits.
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Registration is now closed.
Please note: online registration made after midday on Friday 26 August 2016 will need to be confirmed onsite to receive a name badge and delegate bag.
You can extend your networking opportunities at this meeting by attending the conference dinner. If you book for supper, you will enjoy a meal at the Rochestown Park Hotel with other delegates. Please secure your place when registering for the meeting as places are limited.
The Society offers funds via the Conference Grant schemes to support the attendance of members at all stages of their careers:
The closing date for applications is Wednesday 3 August 2016. See the relevant pages for further details including application forms and full terms and conditions.
Book before Sunday 21 August to take advantage of the early bird rate.
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Student Member including dinner |
£90 |
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Full ISI Member |
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The member rate for ISI members is only available for those who are active members of the Irish Society of Immunology. A list of registrations under the ISI membership rate will be supplied to the ISI for approval.
Upon registration you should receive an automated confirmation email. Please contact [email protected] if after 24 hours this has not been received.
If you need a letter of invitation for a visa application, we will be happy to supply this after we have received full payment.
To find out if you need a visa to visit the UK, please visit the UK visa and immigration website.
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Please note that all conference delegates are responsible for their own travel and visa arrangements; the Microbiology Society will not take any responsibility for travel or visa problems.
All registration fees must be paid in full BEFORE arrival at the meeting. Any outstanding registration fees must be paid before admittance will be granted to the meeting.
Refunds will not be provided.
Substitutions of attendees can be made at any time by contacting [email protected].
International speakers are invited to present their work in this field of microbiology. Each person below is highly recognised.
Jose completed his degree in Biology and acquired further specialisation in Microbiology at the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain). His work provided compelling evidence for the notion that the surface of pathogenic bacteria contains distinct features absent in the surface of non-pathogenic micro-organisms. In 1998, he took a postdoc position in the laboratory of Professor Mikael Skurnik (Turku, Finland) to study the molecular basis of bacteria surface regulation and its impact on bacterial pathogenicity. In 2002, after obtaining a Miguel Servet Tenure Track contract, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Health, Jose started his independent research career at University Son Dureta (Palma de Mallorca, Spain), focusing on respiratory infections caused by Klebsiella. In 2007, he earned a tenure position in the Spanish Research Council (CSIC). Jose joined Queen's University Belfast in July 2013, as Professor of Molecular Microbiology and he is currently the Director of the Centre for Experimental Medicine.
Audrey Gueniche
Audrey obtained her Pharmacy degree and PhD in skin biology more than 20 years ago. She is an expert on immunology and microbiology. Her main expertise is on skin topical treatment and food supplements for the health of skin and hair, especially through the use of probiotics, natural extracts and bacterial extracts. She is currently a Senior Clinical Expert at L'Oréal Research and Innovation, France. She has complete experience in the active through formulations, in vitro evaluations and preclinical studies to clinical trials. Her passion is to always reinvent evaluation and find new fields of area in terms of activities to promote. Audrey has published over 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals, five chapters in books, and two special issues in journals as the invited editor. She has presented in over 61 international congresses and was personally invited to give more than 20 plenary talks.
Ed Lavelle
Ed graduated with a BSc in Microbiology from University College Galway and a PhD in Immunology from the University of Plymouth. He carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Nottingham on nano and microparticles as vaccine adjuvants. This was followed by further postdoctoral positions at the Rowett Research Institute and Trinity College Dublin on vaccine adjuvants and immunomodulators. He was appointed as a Lecturer in 2004, Associate Professor in 2012 and Professor in Immunology 2015. His main research area is the mechanism by which particulate adjuvants modulate innate and adaptive immune responses with a strong focus on translating this work in order to develop novel adjuvants for injectable and mucosal vaccines. His work has been published in journals including Immunity, PNAS, J. Exp Med, PLOS Pathogens and Nature Immunology. The group works closely with a number of biotech companies and also with international pharma engaged in vaccine research. He has published 90 peer-reviewed papers and reviews, is an inventor on five patents and collaborates with leading academic groups throughout Europe and the US.
Lydia Lynch
Lydia's lab is interested in understanding the cross-talk between the innate immune system and the metabolic system, and the key molecules involved. A major focus is the effects of metabolic disorder, such as obesity and the tumor microenvironment, on innate immune cell functions. The lab focuses on NK cells, and ‘unconventional’ non-MHC restricted T cells including iNKT cells and gd T cells. Lydia received a PhD in Immunology at UCD and trained in the labs of Professor Michael Brenner and Professor Uli von Andrian in Harvard. Lydia is the recipient of a UNESCO-L’Oréal International Woman in Science Award, a Marie Curie International Fellowship, and American Diabetes Faculty Award, and an ERC Starting grant.
Eric Martens
Eric is Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan. He obtained his BA (1997) from Washington University in St. Louis and his PhD (2005) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Eric began investigating the mechanisms through which human gut bacteria digest diet- and host-derived glycans during his postdoctoral work with Jeffrey Gordon at Washington University. He continues to pursue this topic at the University of Michigan Medical School with a focus on members of the Bacteroidetes, one of only a few numerically dominant phyla of human gut bacteria that are particularly adept at polysaccharide degradation. Additional projects in the lab are focused on the role of dietary fibre metabolism by the microbiota and how it relates to aspects of health and disease, especially susceptibility to bacterial pathogens and the development of inflammatory bowel disease.
Rachel McLoughlin
Rachel is Assistant Professor in Immunology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She received her PhD in Immunology from the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK. She undertook postdoctoral training at the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA, before obtaining a faculty position as Assistant Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. In 2010, she was awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship, which facilitated a move to Trinity College Dublin where she established the Host–Pathogen Interactions Group within the School of Biochemistry and Immunology. Rachel’s research is focused on understanding the host immune response to Staphylococccus aureus infection, with a particular focus on adaptive cellular immunity. She has published extensively in this field and her research has made a significant global impact. Rachel has raised substantial research funding from both national (Science Foundation Ireland, Health Research Board, Irish Research Council) and international (The Wellcome Trust, Marie Curie Actions) funding agencies to support her research programme.
Kingston Mills
Kingston is Professor of Experimental Immunology at the School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI), Trinity College Dublin (TCD). He is Head of the Immunology, Inflammation and Infection research theme at TCD and Head of the Centre for the Study of Immunology in TBSI. He trained at as a Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London and the MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, before joining the Scientific Staff of NIBSC, Herts, UK. He was appointed to a Personal Chair at TCD in 2001 and was Head of the School of Biochemistry and Immunology from 2008–2011. He is a co-founder of university spin-out companies Opsona Therapeutics and TriMod Therapeutics. His research focuses on the role of T cells in immunity to infection, cancer and autoimmunity.
John O'Shea
John has received numerous awards, including: the NIH Director's Award four times; the US Public Health Service Physician Researcher of the Year Award; the Irish Immunology Public Lecture Award; the Arthritis Foundation's Howley Prize; the Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine; and the Daniel Drake Prize. He has also received Danny Thomas, Lockey, Cochrane, Talmadge and Stone lectureships. He was nominated to give a lecture at the Nobel Forum and was a Distinguished Lecturer at this year’s American Association of Immunology annual meeting. He was designated as one of the “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2003–2014” by Thompson Reuters. John is a member of the American Association of Physicians, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles and has been on the editorial boards of many journals including the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Blood, Journal of Immunology, Immunity and the Journal of Experimental Medicine. John is a founding Director of the NIH/Oxford Graduate Program in Biomedical Science and a Professor of Pathology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Fergus Shanahan
Fergus is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Director of the APC Microbiome Institute at University College Cork (UCC). The APC, which investigates host–microbe interactions in health and disease, has a membership of more than 200 staff, scientists and students, and is funded by Science Foundation Ireland and by research alliances with companies within the food and pharmaceutical sectors. Dr. Shanahan has published over 500 scientific papers and has co-edited several books. His interests include mucosal immunology, gut microbiota, inflammatory bowel disease, and most things that affect the human experience.
Douwe van Sinderen
Douwe holds an MSc degree in Biochemistry and a PhD degree (1994) in Molecular Genetics from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Since 1996, he has been an academic staff member of the School (formerly Department) of Microbiology, University College Cork, Ireland. He is also a Principal Investigator of the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre. His research interests include the comparative genomics and molecular biology of bacteriophages infecting lactic acid bacteria. In addition, a significant part of his research activities is dedicated to investigations into comparative and functional genomics of bifidobacteria, which represent common gut commensals of mammals with many reported health benefits. He is a co-author of over 300 peer-reviewed papers, 15 book chapters, editor of two books, has acted as (co)supervisor of over 30 PhD students and is listed as an inventor of seven patents.
Vincent Young
Vincent is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases Division at the University of Michigan Medical School. He received his undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his MD and PhD from Stanford University. He completed his clinical training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He was previously on the faculty at Michigan State University prior to joining the University of Michigan in 2007. Vincent has a long-standing interest in understanding the pathogenesis of bacterial infections of the gastrointestinal tract and the role of the normal microbiota in human health and disease. Current research in the Young Lab includes a “team science” effort to understand the pathogenesis Clostridium difficile infection by an integrated approach that combines clinical research, bacterial genomics, microbial ecology and immunology/host response projects.
We have been able to secure a discount on a selection of rooms at the Rochestown Park Hotel. Please see the rates below, available for delegates attending our meeting in September.
€110 for a Single Room with Breakfast
€120 for a Double/Twin Room with Breakfast
To get your discounted rate, you will need to visit the Rochestown Park Hotel's website, select your arrival date (between 31 August–1 September), and put in the promotional code micro16 in the (promobox).
Please note that this discount code is only for delegates attending this meeting. A list of registered delegates will be provided to the hotel before the event.
If you would like to stay elsewhere, please see below for some alternative options.
Travelodge Cork – from €68 per night (11 minute drive to the venue)
Cork Airport Hotel – from €99 per night (11 minute drive to the venue)
Jurys Inn Cork – from €138 per night (9 minute drive to the venue)
Please check each hotel's website for their terms and conditions, and what is included in your stay.
The conference will be held at the Rochestown Park Hotel:
Rochestown Park Hotel
Rochestown Road
Douglas
Cork
Ireland
General enquiries: +353 21 489 0800
Email: [email protected]
The closest airport is Cork Airport, which is just over 7 kilometres (4.5 miles) away from Rochestown Park Hotel. There are no direct buses from the airport to the hotel, but the Air Coach Service (route 226) can take you to the city centre, where you can catch the 223 local bus to right outside the hotel (17 mins).
It is also possible to fly to Dublin Airport, then catch an Air Coach service to Cork Airport.
Cork Ringaskiddy Ferry Port is located 13.4 kilometres (8.3 miles) away from the venue (approx. 17 mins).
If travelling from Dublin: Trains from Dublin's Heuston rail station to Kent Station in Cork run regularly.
If travelling from Galway: There are no direct trains from Galway rail station to Kent Station, but there are connection trains.
Please see Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail)'s website for timetables and more information.
Please see Bus Éireann's website for more information.
Badges are issued by the Microbiology Society and are only to be used by the named person. For security purposes, badges must be worn at all times during the meeting.
A certificate of attendance can be requesed following the event by emailing [email protected]
Please ensure your mobile phone is switched to silent mode or off during the scientific sessions.
Lunch and refreshments will be served in the Kiltegan Suite. Please see the scientific programme for specific times. If you have registered for the conference dinner, this will take place on Thursday night at 19:30.
While every effort has been made to ensure the programme is accurate, changes are unavoidable and we will ensure updates are provided throughout the meeting online.
The Society may carry out filming and photography throughout the meeting. The images and videos will be used to promote the meeting and the activities of the Society. They may be used online, in Society publications, or for other PR and marketing purposes.
Only recording set up with prior permission is authorised.
All disclosed dietary requirements made at the point of registration have been shared with the catering team in advance. However, please ensure you ask for advice if required and the catering team will do their best to accommodate your needs.
Delegates, exhibitors and speakers tweeting from the conference are invited to include the hashtag #MISinterface in their tweets. You can follow the Society on Twitter @MicrobioSoc.
The Wi-Fi onsite is free.
Please direct any questions to [email protected]
Our collaborators, the Irish Society for Immunology (ISI), will be managing the exhibition for this event.
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Trade Stand Package (€1,000)
Package includes:
For further information, please contact Beth Brint at [email protected]
