IOI ECR Conference 2024
Thursday, 14 March 2024

Saïd Business School, Oxford

Hosted by the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI), the IOI early career researcher conference brought together over 170 early career researchers across disciplines to share their work to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR). 

Recordings of the morning sessions and afternoon sessions are available on the IOI YouTube channel.

The conference featured 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