• Careers session

  Careers session

  09:00 - 10:15

• Invited talk: Early Career Microbes: Building a Healthy Microbiome Start

  Lindsay Hall (University of Birmingham, UK) Invited talk: Early Career Microbes: Building a Healthy Microbiome Start

  10:15 - 10:35

• Break

  Break

  10:35 - 11:10

• Invited talk: Hopes, Aspirations, and Chronic Respiratory Disease

  Jerry Reen (University College Cork, UK) Invited talk: Hopes, Aspirations, and Chronic Respiratory Disease

  11:10 - 11:30

• Offered talk: Hiding in plain sight - RNA polymerase plasticity reveals S. aureus subpopulations

  Dora Bonini (University of Sheffield & The Florey Institute, UK) Offered talk: Hiding in plain sight - RNA polymerase plasticity reveals S. aureus subpopulations

  11:30 - 11:40

• Offered talk: An in-vitro model of late-stage plague infection for the investigation of immune modulating drugs

  Nicola Reece (Dstl, UK) Offered talk: An in-vitro model of late-stage plague infection for the investigation of immune modulating drugs

  11:40 - 11:50

• Offered talk: Tinker, Tailor, Probiotic regulator of SPI: Uncovering hilA modulators of SPI-1 T3SS in Salmonella grown in probiotic cell-free conditioned media.

  John Clark-Corrigall (Newcastle University, UK) Offered talk: Tinker, Tailor, Probiotic regulator of SPI: Uncovering hilA modulators of SPI-1 T3SS in Salmonella grown in probiotic cell-free conditioned media.

  11:50 - 12:00

• Lunch and Poster Session B

  Lunch and Poster Session B

  12:00 - 13:40

• Access Microbiology

  Seána Duggan (University of Exeter, UK) Access Microbiology

  13:40 - 13:45

• Invited talk: Advancing genetic tools for natural product discovery in Basidiomycota fungi

  Fabrizio Alberti (University of Warwick, UK) Invited talk: Advancing genetic tools for natural product discovery in Basidiomycota fungi

  13:45 - 14:05

• Offered talk: Co-Production of blaCTX-M and blaNDM in CRE: An Emerging Crisis in Uropathogens

  Lubna Razaq (University of Karachi, Pakistan) Offered talk: Co-Production of blaCTX-M and blaNDM in CRE: An Emerging Crisis in Uropathogens

  14:05 - 14:15

• Offered talk: Benchmarking strain-level profiling of Escherichia coli in short-read gut metagenomes

  Matthew Galbraith (University of Oxford, UK) Offered talk: Benchmarking strain-level profiling of Escherichia coli in short-read gut metagenomes

  14:15 - 14:25

• Offered talk: Historical isolates provide insights into the evolution of Acinetobacter baumannii international clone 2 and its resistome

  Matthew Neil (University of East Anglia, UK) Offered talk: Historical isolates provide insights into the evolution of Acinetobacter baumannii international clone 2 and its resistome

  14:25 - 14:35

• Offered talk: Reconstructing and redefining an “ancientbiotic” into a modern treatment for chronic bacterial biofilm infections

  Oluwatosin Orababa (University of Warwick, UK) Offered talk: Reconstructing and redefining an “ancientbiotic” into a modern treatment for chronic bacterial biofilm infections

  14:35 - 14:45

• Break

  Break

  14:45 - 15:00

• Invited talk: Twists and Turns: molecular mechanisms of gene expression in picornaviruses

  Chris Hill (University of York, UK) Invited talk: Twists and Turns: molecular mechanisms of gene expression in picornaviruses

  15:00 - 15:20

• Offered talk: Beyond Directed Evolution: A Multidomain Mining Pipeline to Enhance Rhamnolipid Biosynthesis.

  Pavlos Trus (Newcastle University, UK) Offered talk: Beyond Directed Evolution: A Multidomain Mining Pipeline to Enhance Rhamnolipid Biosynthesis.

  15:20 - 15:30

• Offered talk: Prophage-encoded lytic enzymes in Helicobacter pylori and their potential as antimicrobials 

  Rebecca Ojo (Nottingham Trent University, UK) Offered talk: Prophage-encoded lytic enzymes in Helicobacter pylori and their potential as antimicrobials 

  15:30 - 15:40

• Prize Announcement & Closing Remarks

  Prize Announcement & Closing Remarks

  15:40 - 16:00