Session 1: Special Symposia - Connecting bioaerosol science with respiratory physiology and medicine

Chair(s): Richard Thomas, ECR Chair(s): Charlotte Reston & Gözde Işık
Keynote speech: Clearing the air about vaccines and transmission of infectious pathogens

Prof. Adam Finn - University of Bristol

10:15 - 11:00
Exhaled viruses and particles during acute upper respiratory infection

Marcus Liljenberg - Lund University

11:15 - 11:30
Assessing spatiotemporal trends in environmental influenza virus contamination during human infection in a tightly controlled indoor setting

Karin Brett - Duke University

11:30 - 11:45
Longitudinal Study of Respiratory Aerosol Emissions from Individuals and the Consequences for Understanding the Indoor Transmission of Respiratory Pathogens

Nan Zhou - University of Bristol

11:45 - 12:00

Lunch and networking

12:00 - 13:15

Session 2: Sources and characterisation of bioaerosols

Tuesday 09 June, Afternoon

Session 2: Sources and characterisation of bioaerosols

Break and refreshments, posters and exhibtion stalls (stand by posters)

15:00 - 16:15

Evening Icebreaker: Aperitifs & Drinks - Thomas Ambler Suite Foyer

17:30 - 18:30

Wednesday 10 June, Morning

Session 3: Bioaerosol transport and environmental sampling

Morning Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

10:30 - 11:30

Lunch, posters and exhibition stalls/ ECR event1 (stand by posters)

12:30 - 14:00

Wednesday 10 June, Afternoon

Session 4: Bioaerosol surveillance and detection

Afternoon Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

15:30 - 16:15

Meeting Dinner - Thomas Ambler Suite

19:00 - 21:30

Thursday 11 June, Morning

Session 5: Transmission and mitigation

Morning Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

10:30 - 11:15

Lunch, posters and exhibition stalls/ ECR event2 (stand by posters)

12:00 - 13:00

Tuesday 09 June, Morning

Session 1: Special Symposia - Connecting bioaerosol science with respiratory physiology and medicine

Chair(s): Richard Thomas, ECR Chair(s): Charlotte Reston & Gözde Işık

Session 2: Sources and characterisation of bioaerosols

Chair(s): Natalie Garton, ECR Chair(s): Robert Alexander & Anita Grasso

Tuesday 09 June, Afternoon

Session 2: Sources and characterisation of bioaerosols

Chair(s): Natalie Garton, ECR Chair(s): Robert Alexander & Anita Grasso

Wednesday 10 June, Morning

Session 3: Bioaerosol transport and environmental sampling

Chair(s): Jonathan Reid, ECR Chair: Ouyang Hui

Wednesday 10 June, Afternoon

Session 4: Bioaerosol surveillance and detection

Chair(s): Simon Clark, ECR Chair(s): Emily Heath & Etelka Chung

Thursday 11 June, Morning

Session 5: Transmission and mitigation

Chair(s): Simon Gubbions, ECR Chair(s): Darryl Angel & Haftay Tadesse

Session 6: Novel modelling approaches to bioaerosol challenges and policy development

Chair(s): Paul Dabisch, ECR Chair(s): Elizabeth Klug & Alexandra Longest

Thursday 11 June, Afternoon

Session 6: Novel modelling approaches to bioaerosol challenges and policy development

Chair(s): Paul Dabisch, ECR Chair(s): Elizabeth Klug & Alexandra Longest

Tuesday 09 June

Wednesday 10 June

Thursday 11 June

Registration, refreshments and networking

Microbiology Society: How to Get Involved

Opening Remark

Chair(s): Richard Thomas, ECR Chair(s): Charlotte Reston & Gözde Işık

Keynote speech: Clearing the air about vaccines and transmission of infectious pathogens

Exhaled viruses and particles during acute upper respiratory infection

Assessing spatiotemporal trends in environmental influenza virus contamination during human infection in a tightly controlled indoor setting

Longitudinal Study of Respiratory Aerosol Emissions from Individuals and the Consequences for Understanding the Indoor Transmission of Respiratory Pathogens

Lunch and networking

Chair(s): Natalie Garton, ECR Chair(s): Robert Alexander & Anita Grasso

Keynote speech: Atmospheric Incursions of Plant Pathogens: From Leaf Surfaces to Continental Transport

Chair(s): Natalie Garton, ECR Chair(s): Robert Alexander & Anita Grasso

An investigation of the physical and biological characteristics of dental aerosols generated during routine dental care in community dental clinics in Ireland

Characterising Speech‑Generated Aerosol Emission Using Commensal Bacterial Shedding and Multi‑Modal Sampling

Assessment of the role of handwash basins in the airborne transmission of multi-drug-resistant organisms in clinical and non-clinical settings

Break and refreshments, posters and exhibtion stalls (stand by posters)

Respirable NTM from showers: persistence, viability and the role of ventilation

Streptococcus: an Aerobiologist’s Best Friend

Characterisation of seasonal trends in airborne fungal communities

From Barn to Breeze: Characterising the Airborne Microbiome and Antimicrobial Resistance in Irish Livestock Environments

Break and refreshments, posters and exhibtion stalls (stand by posters)

Evening Icebreaker: Aperitifs & Drinks - Thomas Ambler Suite Foyer

Chair(s): Jonathan Reid, ECR Chair: Ouyang Hui

Keynote speech: Bioaerosols as vital monitoring tool for One Health assessments of antimicrobial resistance

A novel aerosol chamber provides insight into how droplet composition strongly shapes respiratory virus viability kinetics in the air

Investigation of novel methods to study the survival of foot-and-mouth disease virus in aerosols

Quantifying and modeling surrogate bacteria inactivation in respiratory droplets

Morning Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

Stability of Airborne Rhinovirus in different levels of Relative Humidity

Impact of relative humidity, ozone, and simulated sunlight on the stability of infectious bioaerosols

Effects of pH-altering gaseous species on aerosol pH during engineered inactivation of viral aerosols

Assessing stability of supercharged proteins in single levitated microdroplets

Morning Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

Lunch, posters and exhibition stalls/ ECR event1 (stand by posters)

Chair(s): Simon Clark, ECR Chair(s): Emily Heath & Etelka Chung

Keynote speech: Decoding the air microbiome with nanopore sequencing and real-time metagenomics

Nationwide Bioaerosol Metagenomic Repository for Environmental Health Research

A cross-matrix approach to airborne microbiome, virome and antimicrobial resistance analysis

Airborne pathogen detection via MASC-On - a novel and innovative Technology

Afternoon Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

Towards Real-Time Identification of Pathogenic Bioaerosols

Aerosol sampling performance of bacterial and viral simulants using an ESP-EWOD system

A low burden broad-spectrum electrochemical pathogen sensor in a field trial

The effect of filter air sampling on DNA quality for microbial detection

Afternoon Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

Meeting Dinner - Thomas Ambler Suite

Chair(s): Simon Gubbions, ECR Chair(s): Darryl Angel & Haftay Tadesse

Keynote speech: Epidemiology of respiratory virus transmission

Air pollution exposure enhances host-to-host transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Pre‑existing immunity shapes influenza A virus replication and airborne shedding kinetics in ferrets

Bioaerosol Studies to Optimize Efficacy Test Methods for Air Treatment Technologies

Morning Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

Quantifying airborne microbe inactivation rates by far-UVC, one droplet at a time

Best Practices for Large-Scale Chamber Testing of In-Room Germicidal UV Systems

Inhibition of tuberculosis transmission to guinea pigs (GPs) by direct far-UV-C222 ultra-violet irradiation

Morning Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

Lunch, posters and exhibition stalls/ ECR event2 (stand by posters)

Chair(s): Paul Dabisch, ECR Chair(s): Elizabeth Klug & Alexandra Longest

Keynote speech: Can we create an infection resilient environment?

Chair(s): Paul Dabisch, ECR Chair(s): Elizabeth Klug & Alexandra Longest

Environmental Detection of Plant Pests at Borders

Including farm particulate information in the dispersion modelling of foot and mouth disease virus

Assessing the placement of HEPA air cleaners in a multi-zone hospital ward to reduce infection risk using CONTAM modelling

Autochthonous Theta: A Refractory Index of Airborne Disease Transmissibility

Closing remark

Registration, refreshments and networking

Microbiology Society: How to Get Involved

Opening Remark

Keynote speech: Clearing the air about vaccines and transmission of infectious pathogens

Exhaled viruses and particles during acute upper respiratory infection

Assessing spatiotemporal trends in environmental influenza virus contamination during human infection in a tightly controlled indoor setting

Longitudinal Study of Respiratory Aerosol Emissions from Individuals and the Consequences for Understanding the Indoor Transmission of Respiratory Pathogens

Lunch and networking

Keynote speech: Atmospheric Incursions of Plant Pathogens: From Leaf Surfaces to Continental Transport

An investigation of the physical and biological characteristics of dental aerosols generated during routine dental care in community dental clinics in Ireland

Characterising Speech‑Generated Aerosol Emission Using Commensal Bacterial Shedding and Multi‑Modal Sampling

Assessment of the role of handwash basins in the airborne transmission of multi-drug-resistant organisms in clinical and non-clinical settings

Break and refreshments, posters and exhibtion stalls (stand by posters)

Break and refreshments, posters and exhibtion stalls (stand by posters)

Respirable NTM from showers: persistence, viability and the role of ventilation

Investigation of novel methods to study the survival of foot-and-mouth disease virus in aerosols

Investigation of novel methods to study the survival of foot-and-mouth disease virus in aerosols