• Registration Opens

  Registration Opens

  11:00 - 11:30

• Insights and Tips on Scientific Communication for ECRs

  Insights and Tips on Scientific Communication for ECRs

  11:30 - 12:00

• Science Communication – Need to know

  Niall O'Leary (University College Cork, Ireland) Science Communication – Need to know

  12:00 - 12:15

• Lunch

  Lunch

  12:15 - 13:00

• Opening remarks Science Symposium

  Jerry Reen (Chair of Irish Division) and Peter Cotgreave (Microbiology Society CEO) Opening remarks Science Symposium

  13:00 - 13:05

• Plasmid mediated antimicrobials resistance across One Health

  Invited speaker : Fiona Walsh (Maynooth University, Ireland) Plasmid mediated antimicrobials resistance across One Health

  13:05 - 13:30

• Serum triggers increased biofilm formation and antibiotic tolerance in Staphylococcus aureus via two independent mechanisms

  Lizzie Ledger (University College Cork, Ireland) Serum triggers increased biofilm formation and antibiotic tolerance in Staphylococcus aureus via two independent mechanisms

  13:30 - 13:40

• Assessing the presence of foodborne pathogens in Irish horticultural production settings

  Kaye Burgess (Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ireland) Assessing the presence of foodborne pathogens in Irish horticultural production settings

  13:40 - 13:50

• Spaceflight alters host-gut microbiome interactions: lessons from multiomics in space

  Nicholas Brereton (University College Dublin, Ireland) Spaceflight alters host-gut microbiome interactions: lessons from multiomics in space

  13:50 - 14:00

• Seaweed as a source of probiotics

  Invited Speaker : Gillian Gardiner (South Eastern Technological University, Ireland) Seaweed as a source of probiotics

  14:00 - 14:25

• Flash Talks

  Qin Qi; Juan Rivas Santisteban; Aaron Nolan; Brianna Casey; Samuel Fenn; Charlotte Richards; Tudor Onose; Leanne O’Donoghue; Ivan Sugrue; Alison Lee; Monica Cazzaniga; John MacSharry Flash Talks

  14:25 - 14:45

• Sponsors Flash Pitch

  Sponsors Flash Pitch

  14:45 - 14:50

• Break and Poster session 1 (Poster Numbers P001-P055)

  Break and Poster session 1 (Poster Numbers P001-P055)

  14:50 - 16:00

• Embracing Diversity at the Host-Virus Interface

  Invited Speaker : Connor Bamford (Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland) Embracing Diversity at the Host-Virus Interface

  16:00 - 16:25

• Genome-Wide Analysis of Methylation Dynamics in Salmonella enterica Using Oxford Nanopore Technology

  Anna Ershova (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Genome-Wide Analysis of Methylation Dynamics in Salmonella enterica Using Oxford Nanopore Technology

  16:25 - 16:35

• Unmasking the microbial interactions which underpin successful ruminant methane mitigation via novel oxygen-releasing feed additives

  Alison Graham (University of Galway, Ireland) Unmasking the microbial interactions which underpin successful ruminant methane mitigation via novel oxygen-releasing feed additives

  16:35 - 16:45

• Cold Atmospheric Plasma Reprograms Biofilm Susceptibility and Host Responses in Chronic Infection Models

  Thomas Thompson (Queens University Belfast, Ireland) Cold Atmospheric Plasma Reprograms Biofilm Susceptibility and Host Responses in Chronic Infection Models

  16:45 - 16:55

• Short Talks

  Dayle Leonard (UoG); Jianqing Tian (UL); Anik Khan (Teagasc); Jenna Callaway (UoB); Conor Hill (UCC) Short Talks

  16:55 - 17:15

• Sponsors Flash Pitch

  Sponsors Flash Pitch

  17:15 - 17:20

• Pre-panel Drinks Reception

  Pre-panel Drinks Reception

  17:20 - 17:30

• IrD Down Through the Years – Panel Discussion

  Evelyn Doyle; Florence Abram; Vincent O’Flaherty; Brendan Gilmore; Tadhg Ó Cróinín (Chair) IrD Down Through the Years – Panel Discussion

  17:30 - 18:30

• ECR network event : Drop-In Session – What can IrD do for you and vice versa"

  ECR network event : Drop-In Session – What can IrD do for you and vice versa"

  18:30 - 19:30

• Conference Dinner

  Conference Dinner

  20:00 - 22:00

• Bus leaves Hodson Bay Hotel for Radisson Hotel in Athlone

  Bus leaves Hodson Bay Hotel for Radisson Hotel in Athlone

  23:30 - 23:40