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Tuesday 26 September, Morning

Registration and refreshments

09:30 - 10:25

Welcome

Sheila Patrick (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)

10:25 - 10:30

Session 1

Invited Lecture: Complementary or Competitors? Reflections on the introduction of a second Code of Nomenclature for Prokaryotes alongside the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes

Iain Sutcliffe (Northumbria Uninversity, UK)

10:30 - 11:15
Offered talk: What name changes are needed? The role of the code and the importance of taxonomic criteria

Markus Göker (Leibniz Institute DSMZ, Germany)

11:15 - 11:30
Offered talk: A Review of the Type Strains held by the UK National Collection of Type Cultures: A Resource for Microbial Taxonomists

Jake Turnbull (The National Collection of Type Cultures Reference Services, UK and Health Security Agency, UK)

11:30 - 11:45
Invited talk: The Role of IJSEM in Prokaryotic Nomenclature and Name Changes

Martha E. Trujillo (University of Salamanca, Spain)

11:45 - 12:30
Offered talk: Bacterial nomenclature in the age of high-throughput genomics

Mark Pallen (University of East Anglia, UK)

12:30 - 12:45

Lunch and networking

12:45 - 14:00

Tuesday 26 September, Afternoon

Session 2

Invited talk: From Bug to Bedside: The Impact of Nomenclatural Instability on Clinical Microbiology

Susan Butler-Wu (Keck School of Medicine of USC, USA)

14:00 - 14:45
Offered talk: The tuberculosis-causing bacteria: a proposal for clear clinical nomenclature

Conor Meehan (Nottingham Trent University, UK and Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium)

14:45 - 15:00
Invited talk: The impact of nomenclature changes on Food Safety – how do we know who’s who?

Nicola Holden (Scotland's Rural College, UK)

15:00 - 15:45

Session 3

GenomeRxiv: A Rosetta Stone for Whole-Genome Prokaryotic Classification

Leighton Pritchard (University of Strathclyde, UK)

16:00 - 16:45
Offered talk: Family disagreements: what do conflicts between whole-genome, core gene, MLST, and 16S classifications tell us about Streptomyces?

Angelika Kiepas (University of Strathclyde, UK)

16:45 - 17:00
Invited talk: A Conceptual Framework for Nomenclatural Stability and Validity of Medically Important Fungi: A Proposed Global Consensus Guideline for Fungal Name Changes Supported by ABP, ASM, CLSI, ECMM, ESCMID-EFISG, EUCAST-AFST, FDLC, IDSA, ISHAM, MMSA, and MSGERC

Sybren de Hoog (Radboud-CWZ Center of Expertise in Mycology and Foundation Atlas of Clinical Fungi, Netherlands)

17:00 - 17:45

Drinks reception and networking

17:45 - 18:30

Wednesday 27 September, Morning

Registration and refreshments

Welcome

Invited Lecture: Complementary or Competitors? Reflections on the introduction of a second Code of Nomenclature for Prokaryotes alongside the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes

Offered talk: What name changes are needed? The role of the code and the importance of taxonomic criteria

Offered talk: A Review of the Type Strains held by the UK National Collection of Type Cultures: A Resource for Microbial Taxonomists

Invited talk: The Role of IJSEM in Prokaryotic Nomenclature and Name Changes

Offered talk: Bacterial nomenclature in the age of high-throughput genomics

Lunch and networking

Invited talk: From Bug to Bedside: The Impact of Nomenclatural Instability on Clinical Microbiology

Offered talk: The tuberculosis-causing bacteria: a proposal for clear clinical nomenclature

Invited talk: The impact of nomenclature changes on Food Safety – how do we know who’s who?

GenomeRxiv: A Rosetta Stone for Whole-Genome Prokaryotic Classification

Offered talk: Family disagreements: what do conflicts between whole-genome, core gene, MLST, and 16S classifications tell us about Streptomyces?

Invited talk: A Conceptual Framework for Nomenclatural Stability and Validity of Medically Important Fungi: A Proposed Global Consensus Guideline for Fungal Name Changes Supported by ABP, ASM, CLSI, ECMM, ESCMID-EFISG, EUCAST-AFST, FDLC, IDSA, ISHAM, MMSA, and MSGERC

Drinks reception and networking

Overview of discussion topics

Discussion Breakout Groups

Refreshments and networking

Chair(s): Paul Hoskisson (University of Strathclyde and co-Chair of Building Communities Committee at the Microbiology Society, UK)

Summary from Breakout Groups and Round table discussion

Lunch and networking

Introduction to species-level nomenclature

Hands on session - 16S rDNA, Average nucleotide identity, DNA/DNA Hybridisation

Break

Introduction to phylogenomics and typing for species-level separations

Hands on session - Pangenome assessment (ROARY, Panaroo), Recombination (Gubbins) and Phylogenomic trees (RAxML)

Registration and refreshments

Welcome

Invited Lecture: Complementary or Competitors? Reflections on the introduction of a second Code of Nomenclature for Prokaryotes alongside the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes

Offered talk: What name changes are needed? The role of the code and the importance of taxonomic criteria

Offered talk: A Review of the Type Strains held by the UK National Collection of Type Cultures: A Resource for Microbial Taxonomists

Invited talk: The Role of IJSEM in Prokaryotic Nomenclature and Name Changes

Offered talk: Bacterial nomenclature in the age of high-throughput genomics

Lunch and networking

Lunch and networking

Invited talk: From Bug to Bedside: The Impact of Nomenclatural Instability on Clinical Microbiology

Offered talk: The tuberculosis-causing bacteria: a proposal for clear clinical nomenclature

Invited talk: The impact of nomenclature changes on Food Safety – how do we know who’s who?

GenomeRxiv: A Rosetta Stone for Whole-Genome Prokaryotic Classification

Offered talk: Family disagreements: what do conflicts between whole-genome, core gene, MLST, and 16S classifications tell us about Streptomyces?

Invited talk: A Conceptual Framework for Nomenclatural Stability and Validity of Medically Important Fungi: A Proposed Global Consensus Guideline for Fungal Name Changes Supported by ABP, ASM, CLSI, ECMM, ESCMID-EFISG, EUCAST-AFST, FDLC, IDSA, ISHAM, MMSA, and MSGERC

Drinks reception and networking

Overview of discussion topics

Discussion Breakout Groups

Refreshments and networking

Summary from Breakout Groups and Round table discussion

Lunch and networking

Introduction to species-level nomenclature

Hands on session - 16S rDNA, Average nucleotide identity, DNA/DNA Hybridisation

Break

Introduction to phylogenomics and typing for species-level separations

Hands on session - Pangenome assessment (ROARY, Panaroo), Recombination (Gubbins) and Phylogenomic trees (RAxML)