Registration

Welcome

Keynote talk: Intestinal microbes train a healthy immune system

Ramnik Xavier (BROAD Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA)

Offered paper: Evaluation of Ruminococcus gnavus endolysins specificity in a Simplified Human Intestinal Microbiome model

Mariana Perez-Ibarreche (APC Microbiome Ireland and University College Cork, Ireland)

Offered paper: Integrative analysis of extracellular lipocalin-2 and the lung microbiome in smoking and COPD

Claire Healy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Offered paper: Microbiome and medications in inflammatory bowel disease

Marcus Claesson (University College Cork, Ireland)

Break

Invited talk: Microbes, Mucus and Mucins

Marguerite Clyne (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Offered paper: miR-21 negatively impacts the mucus barrier, gut microbiome and subsequent inflammation

Sarah Stiegeler (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Offered paper: The respiratory bacteria Moraxella catarrhalis and Klebsiella pneumoniae promote pathogenicity in myelin-reactive Th17 cells

Stephen Lalor (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Lunch and poster viewing

Invited talk: Using functional genomics to identify the genetic basis for competition within microbiomes

Mark Webber (Quadram Institute, UK)

Offered paper: The transcriptomic response to cannabidiol of Treponema denticola, a phytocannabinoid-resistant mucosal pathogen

David Scott (University of Louisville, USA)

Offered paper: Repurposing the bacterial secondary metabolite aurodox as an anti-virulence therapy for E. coli infections of the gut

Rebecca McHugh (University of Strathclyde, UK)

Break

Invited talk: Phage-bacterial interactions in the mucosal layer

Martha Clokie (University of Leicester, UK)

Offered paper: The in vitro effect of chitin on Listeria monocytogenes pathogenicity: influence on epithelial cell invasion and immune response

Monica Cazzaniga (APC Microbiome Ireland and University College Cork, Ireland)

Offered paper: The UK Crop Microbiome CryoBank resource for antimicrobials and postbiotics mining

Payton Yau (Aberdeen, UK)

Flash Poster Presentations

Poster Session

Reception in the Long Room (with refreshments and canapes)