Welcome and Introductions

Peter Cotgreave (Microbiology Society, UK) & Conor Meehan (Nottingham Trent University, UK and Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Microbial Genomics)

Invited Talk: Bacteriophages and Microbiome Management

Spyridon Megremis (University of Leicester, UK)

Offered Talk: Predatory bacteria in plant health: biocontrol potential and coevolutionary dynamics of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus

Rebecca Palmer (University of Manchester, UK)

Offered Talk: Exploring the influence of phage cocktail composition on polymicrobial disease communities

Elspeth Smith (University of Sheffield)

Offered Talk: Myxobacterial predators can protect farmed insects from entomopathogens

David Whitworth (Aberystwyth University, UK)

Flash Talk: Investigating the effect of quorum sensing (QS) and genes related to biofilm formation by CRISPRi in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Mariklairi Kiourkou (University of Nottingham, UK)

Exhibitor Talk: Ogibiotech

Chiara Gandini (Ogibiotec, UK)

Editor Talk: Pitch a paper and meet the Editors

Eva Heinz (University of Strathclyde Glasgow, UK and Editor-in-Chief, Microbial Genomics)

Group photo

Offered Talk: Genetic profiling of the type VI secretion system in clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates and characterisation of an antibacterial toxin deployed in microbial competition

Luke Allsopp (Imperial College London, UK

Offered Talk: Investigating How Pseudomonas aeruginosa Escapes Predation by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus

Sourav Das (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

Offered Talk: Bacteriocins for the treatment of urinary tract infections

Sarah Mawer (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

Offered Talk: Engineering probiotics: Harnessing the role of 7α-dehydroxylation in resistance against Clostridioides difficile

Hannah Partington (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

Offered Talk: Functional bacteriocin diversity drives selective colonisation resistance among commensal Escherichia coli against diarrhoeagenic E. coli

Roop Dhillon (University of Birmingham, UK)

Exhibitor Talk: PCRbiosystems

Holly Ross (PCRbiosystems, UK)

Invited Talk: Mechanisms of gut microbiota-mediated colonisation resistance to restrict pathogen growth

Julie McDonald (Imperial College London, UK)

Offered Talk In search of prey: polyamine usage by Bdellovibrio as a chemosensory ligand and regulator of bacterial predation

Laura Hobley (University of Nottingham, UK)

Flash Talk: Using predatory bacteria as alternative treatments of biofilms

Carey Lambert (University of Nottingham, UK)

Offered Talk: Elucidating Bacteriophage Resistance in Enterococcus

Lucy Evans (University of Birmingham, UK)

Flash Talk: Trimeric autotransporter adhesin-mediated autoaggregation protects bacteria from phagocytosis

Jack Leo (Nottingham Trent University, UK)