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Early Career Researcher conference: Multidisciplinary Approaches to AMR

Hosted by the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research

Date: Wednesday 13 September 2023
Venue: St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford

Time	Agenda	Speaker
09.00 - 09.30	Registration and coffee
09.30 - 09.40	Opening remarks	Prof Chris Schofield, Ineos Oxford Institute
Session 1
9.40 - 10.00	Harnessing the power of genomics to combat AMR and control infectious diseases	Dr Elita Jauneikaite, Imperial College London
10.00 - 10.20	Susceptibility to potentiated penicillins in major Staphylococcus epidermidis lineages	Dr Ibrahim Ba, University of Cambridge
10.20 - 10.30	Flash talk - PhageLimp: An interventional study using bacteriophages to combat the AMR dissemination in hospitals from Brazil	Dr Willames Martins, Ineos Oxford Institute
10.30 - 10.40	Flash talk - Loss of an epitranscriptional modification leads to multiform AMR in mycobacteria	Andrea Majstorovic, Imperial College London
10.40 - 10.50	Flash talk - Modelling drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in the gastrointestinal tract	Dr Ffion Hammond, University of Oxford
10.50-11.40	Break and Morning Poster Session
Session 2
11.40 - 12.00	The bug or the bully?: Antimicrobial stewardship policies and justifications for coercive action	Dr Tess Johnson, University of Oxford
12.00 - 12.20	Nonribosomal antimicrobial peptides that target multi drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria	Dr Stephen Cochrane, Queens University Belfast
12.20 -12.30	Flash talk - Genomic epidemiology and evolution of globally distributed carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii	Dr Evangelos Mourkas, Ineos Oxford Institute
12.30 -12.40	Flash talk - Quantifying the use of antimicrobials across the poultry production system in South and Southeast Asia	Sophie Hedges, Royal Veterinary College
12.40 - 12.50	Flash talk - An Antibiofilm Therapy for UTIs	Dr Ashraf Zarkan, University of Cambridge
12.50 - 13.40	Lunch
Session 3
13.40 - 14.00	Pills, Pigs, Policies - tackling AMR as a biosocial problem	Dr Claas Kirchelle (virtual), University College Dublin
14.00 - 14.20	Using participatory systems mapping to identify hotspots for AMR interventions in aquaculture	Dr Lucy Brunton, Royal Veterinary College
14.20 - 14.30	Flash talk - The global ecological landscape of Enterobacteriaceae within the human gut microbiome	Dr Qi Yin, University of Cambridge
14.30 - 14.40	Flash talk - The importance of genotypic and phenotypic characterization of uropathogens in low- and middle-income countries: a case study from Egypt	Mohamed Eladawy, Nottingham Trent University
14.40 - 14.50	Flash talk – Development of broad-spectrum MBL inhibitors	Dr Monisha Singha, Ineos Oxford Institute
14.50-15.40	Break and Afternoon Poster Session
Session 4
15.40 - 16.00	Genetically modified bacteriophages can clear intracellular infections	Dr Antonia Sagona, University of Warwick
16.00 - 16.20	Time-resolved ligand dynamics in a β-lactamase observed using drop-on-chip mixing at synchrotrons and XFELs	Dr Catherine Tooke, University of Bath
16.20 - 16.30	Flash talk – Using native mass spectrometry to characterise enzymes involved in antimicrobial resistance	Dr John Young, University of Oxford
16.30 - 16.40	Flash talk	Nadira Rakhi, Ineos Oxford Institute
16.40 - 16.50	Flash talk - Quantitative evaluation of ultrasound-mediated antibiotic therapy in S. aureus and P. aeruginosa biofilms	Dr Sara Keller, University of Oxford
Session 5
16.50 - 17.10	Keynote speaker	Prof Diane Ashiru-Oredope, Lead Pharmacist at UK Health Security Agency
17.10 - 17.15	Closing Remarks
17.15-18.00 Drinks reception in Common Room