IOI ECR Conference 2024
Thursday, 14 March 2024

Saïd Business School, Oxford

The IOI is pleased to welcome early- and mid-career researchers to its annual Early Career Researcher (ECR) conference on Thursday 14 March at Saïd Business School, Oxford.

The conference will feature poster presentations and flash talks from early-career researchers; and longer talks from senior AMR researchers from across all disciplines.

Registration has now closed for this event.

Agenda

08:45 – 09:15 Registration and coffee 

09:15 – 09:30 Opening remarks 

 

Session 1

09:30 – 09:50 Harnessing the power of genomics to combat AMR and control infectious diseases | Dr Elita Jauneikaite, Imperial College London 

09:50 – 10:10 Susceptibility to potentiated penicillins in major Staphylococcus epidermidis lineages | Dr Ibrahim Ba, University of Cambridge 

10:10 – 10:20 Flash talk – PhageLimp: An interventional study using bacteriophages to combat the AMR dissemination in hospitals from Brazil | Dr Willames Martins, Ineos Oxford Institute 

10:20 – 10:30 Flash talk – Lost in translation: a story of hypomodified tRNA and increased survival to antibiotics of mycobacteria | Andrea Majstorovic, Imperial College London 

10:30 – 10:40 Flash talk – Modelling drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in the gastrointestinal tract | Dr Ffion Hammond, University of Oxford 

10:40 – 11:30 Break and morning poster session

 

Session 2

11:30 – 11:50 Ethical Stewards: Antimicrobial stewardship policies and justifications for coercive action | Dr Tess Johnson, University of Oxford 

11:50 – 12:10 Nonribosomal antimicrobial peptides that target multi drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria | Dr Stephen Cochrane, Queens University Belfast 

12:10 –12:20 Flash talk – Genomic epidemiology and evolution of globally distributed carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii | Dr Ben Pascoe, Ineos Oxford Institute  

12:20 –12:30 Flash talk – Quantifying the use of antimicrobials across the poultry production system in South and Southeast Asia | Sophie Hedges, Royal Veterinary College 

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

 

Session 3

13:30 – 13:50 Open Source Artificial Intelligence for antimicrobial drug discovery | Dr Miquel Duran-Frigola, Ersilia Open Source Initiative 

13:50 – 14:10 Using participatory systems mapping to identify hotspots for AMR interventions in aquaculture | Dr Lucy Brunton, Royal Veterinary College 

14:10 – 14:20 Flash talk – The global ecological landscape of Enterobacteriaceae within the human gut microbiome | Dr Qi Yin, University of Cambridge 

14:20 – 14:30 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 

14:30 – 14:40 Flash talk – Development of broad-spectrum MBL inhibitors | Dr Monisha Singha, Ineos Oxford Institute 

14:40 – 15:30 Break and afternoon poster session  

 

Session 4

15:30 – 15:50 Genetically modified bacteriophages can clear intracellular infections | Dr Antonia Sagona, University of Warwick 

15:50 – 16:10 Measuring the global response to antimicrobial resistance | Dr Jay Patel, University of Leeds 

16:10 – 16:20 Flash talk – Plasmid-mediated transmission and stability of tet(X3) and tet(X4) mediating tigecycline resistance | Nadira Rakhi, Ineos Oxford Institute 

16:20-16:30 Flash talk – Quantitative evaluation of ultrasound-mediated antibiotic therapy in S. aureus and P. aeruginosa biofilms | Dr Sara Keller, University of Oxford 

 

Session 5

16:30 – 16:50 Keynote speaker | Prof Diane Ashiru-Oredope, Lead Pharmacist at UK Health Security Agency 

16:50- 17:00 Closing Remarks 

17:00-17:50  Drinks reception in atrium 

Poster presentations

Morning Poster Session (10:40-11:30)

Poster number - Presenter

1 - Alessia Bono 

3 - Amy Cooke 

5 - Anneira Moore 

7 - Ayomikun Kade 

9 - Cameron Phillips 

11 - Carolina Borrelli 

13 - Charlotte Gray-Hammerton 

15 - Dan Shelley 

17 - Edward Portal 

19 - Elizabeth Cummins 

21 - Frances Colles 

23 - Ibrahim Kamara 

25 - James Amos 

27 - Jennifer Cole 

29 - Jordan Mathias 

31 - Kate Cook 

33 - Lena Dalal 

35 - Marco Albanese  

37 - Maria Nieto Rosado 

39 - Muhammad Usman Qamar  

41 - Olivia Goode 

43 - Pareena Verma 

45 - Pok-Man Ho 

47 - Raja Alqudah 

48 - Rasha Elshewany 

49 - Rupika Gulati 

51 - Sophie Hedges 

53 - Teresa Iannetelli 

55 - Yanina Borzykh 

 

Afternoon Poster Session (14:40-15:30)

Poster number - Presenter

2 - Alistair Witheford 

4 - Amy Price 

6 - Anuj Tiwari 

8 - Caitlin Farley 

10 - Carlos Reding Roman 

12 - Chaima Abdellaoui 

14 - Chy Akpulu 

16 - Edward Mak 

18 - Elitsa Penkova 

20 - Eva Benyei 

22 - Ian Boostrom 

24 - Innocent Benjamin 

26 - Jawaria Aziz 

28 - Joana Mends 

30 - Julia Rzaska 

32 - Kristina Kordova 

34 - Lisa Juliane Kahl 

36 - Maria Batool 

38 - Mei Li 

40 - Natasha Reddy 

42 - Oluwatosin Orababa 

44 - Phoebe Do Carmo Silva 

46 - Rachael Barton 

50 - Seungwon Ko 

52 - Suzan Nakalawa 

54 - Vincent Fideli