Invited Speaker

Jeronimo Rodríguez Beltrán, Evodynamics Lab

10:00 - 10:30
Plasmid evolution: a (copy) numbers game

Jerónimo Rodríguez Beltrán, Evodynamics Lab

10:00 - 10:30
Offered Talk

10:30 - 10:45
Offered Talk: The evolution of gut colonisation strategies of widespread high-risk E. coli clones

Pramod K Jangir

10:30 - 10:45
Offered Talk

10:45 - 11:00
Offered Talk: Inflammation-like environments limit the loss of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Evolutionary insights from host-mimicking experiments

Taoran Fu

10:45 - 11:00
Break

11:00 - 11:30
Break

11:00 - 11:30
Invited Speaker

Liam Shaw, University of Oxford

11:30 - 12:00
Invited Speaker: Plasmids and cancer: insights into the evolutionary roles of extrachromosomal DNA

Liam Shaw, University of Oxford

11:30 - 12:00
Offered Talk: Dissecting pOXA-48 fitness effects in clinical Enterobacterales using plasmid-wide CRISPRi screens

Alicia Calvo-Villamañán

12:00 - 12:15
Offered Talk

12:00 - 12:15
Offered Talk: The role of anti-phage defence systems in shaping the genomes of temperate phages

Aleksei Agapov

12:15 - 12:30
Offered Talk

12:15 - 12:30

Lunch, networking and poster viewing

12:30 - 14:00

Wednesday 26 November, Afternoon

Poster Session

14:00 - 15:30

Drivers and dynamics of evolution in microbial communities

Evening Session

Thursday 27 November, Morning

Predicting microbial evolution

Lunch, networking and poster viewing

12:30 - 14:00

Thursday 27 November, Afternoon

Applications of microbial evolution

Closing of talks and presentation of poster prize

16:15 - 16:25

Lecture View

Wednesday 26 November, Morning

Drivers and dynamics of genome evolution

Wednesday 26 November, Afternoon

Drivers and dynamics of evolution in microbial communities

Evening Session

Thursday 27 November, Morning

Predicting microbial evolution

Chair(s): Epidemiology

Thursday 27 November, Afternoon

Applications of microbial evolution

Wednesday 26 November

Thursday 27 November

Registration

Welcome Talk

EC Forum Introduction

Invited Speaker

Plasmid evolution: a (copy) numbers game

Offered Talk

Offered Talk: The evolution of gut colonisation strategies of widespread high-risk E. coli clones

Offered Talk

Offered Talk: Inflammation-like environments limit the loss of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Evolutionary insights from host-mimicking experiments

Break

Break

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker: Plasmids and cancer: insights into the evolutionary roles of extrachromosomal DNA

Offered Talk: Dissecting pOXA-48 fitness effects in clinical Enterobacterales using plasmid-wide CRISPRi screens

Offered Talk

Offered Talk: The role of anti-phage defence systems in shaping the genomes of temperate phages

Offered Talk

Lunch, networking and poster viewing

Poster Session

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker: Vancomycin-resistant enterococci colonise the antibiotic-treated intestine by occupying overlapping but distinct nutrient- and metabolite-defined intestinal niches

Offered Talk

Offered Talk: Donor-dependent Escherichia coli invasion dynamics across Human gut microbiotas using an in vitro gut simulator

Offered Talk: Evolutionary tradeoffs in facultative symbiosis; reciprocal effects of phage predation and nodulation on rhizobia

Offered Talk

Refreshments, networking and poster viewing

Refreshments, networking and poster viewing

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker: Evolutionary Trajectories Are Largely Independent of Community Context in Microbial Cocultures

Offered Talk

Offered Talk: Evolution induced state shifts revealed by a long term microbial community experiment

Offered Talk

Offered Talk: Arbitrium phages can manipulate each other’s lysis - lysogeny decisions

Drinks Reception

Drinks Reception

Meeting Dinner

Meeting Dinner

Chair(s): Epidemiology

Invited Speaker: Epidemiology

Invited Speaker: Antibiotic use drives AMR… right? Rethinking the importance of selection in the real world

Invited Speaker

Offered Talk: Long-range sequence context shapes mutational bias in Escherichia coli

Offered Talk: Long-range sequence context shapes mutational bias in Escherichia coli

Offered Talk

Offered Talk: Using Genome-Scale Metabolic models to predict community coexistence, stability and resource use

Offered Talk

Offered Talk: Using Genome-Scale Metabolic models to predict community coexistence, stability and resource use

Refreshments, networking and poster viewing

Refreshments, networking and poster viewing

Refreshments, networking and poster viewing

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker: Plasmids modelling / epidemiology

Invited Speaker: Predictable effects of environmental stress on microbial communities

Offered Talk: Increased plasmid copy number reduces establishment probability of beneficial mutations

Offered Talk

Offered Talk: Increased plasmid copy number reduces establishment probability of beneficial mutations

Offered Talk: From noise to novelty: Selecting de novo genes from random sequence in E. coli

Offered Talk: From noise to novelty: Selecting de novo genes from random sequence in E. coli

Offered Talk

Lunch, networking and poster viewing

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker: Within-patient evolution of ciprofloxacin resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa across a large-scale clinical trial

Offered Talk: Phage-steering of bacterial evolution permits antibody-mediated clearance of Escherichia coli K1 from the gut

Offered Talk

Offered Talk: Phage-steering of bacterial evolution permits antibody-mediated clearance of Escherichia coli K1 from the gut

Offered Talk

Offered Talk: Exploring community and plasmid dynamics in the hospital sink drain microbiome

Offered Talk: Exploring community and plasmid dynamics in the hospital sink drain microbiome

Break

Break

Break

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker

Invited Speaker: Harnessing growth-coupling and evolutionary engineering to establish novel chemistries in bacteria

Offered Talk: Molecular Drivers of Within-Host AMR Evolution in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Offered Talk

Offered Talk: Molecular Drivers of Within-Host AMR Evolution in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Closing of talks and presentation of poster prize

Registration