Agenda

Multidisciplinary Approaches to AMR

Conference for early- and mid-career researchers

Tuesday, 22 November 2022
ICL Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Oxford

Agenda

12:30-13:00 - Registration and Poster drop off
Location: Inorganic Chemistry Lecture Theatre

Session 1

Location: Inorganic Chemistry Lecture Theatre

Chair: Dr. Kirsty Sands, Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research, University of Oxford

13:00 Welcome remarks
Prof. Chris Schofield, Director of Chemistry, Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research, University of Oxford

13:10 Cryptic susceptibility to penicillins and clavulanic acid in MRSA
Dr. Ewan Harrison, Head of the Respiratory Virus and Microbiome Initiative, Wellcome Sanger Institute

13:30 Computational assays for studying the action of antimicrobials
Prof. Syma Khalid, Professor of Computational Microbiology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford

13:50 BARNARDS: Prevalence of antibiotic resistance against commonly used treatment for neonatal sepsis in low- and middle- income countries and future research
Dr. Katy Thomson, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research, University of Oxford

14:10 Flash talks (4x, selected from abstracts)

14:30-15:00 Tea and coffee break

Session 2

Location: Inorganic Chemistry Lecture Theatre

Chair: Dr. Matthew Beech, Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research, University of Oxford

15:00 The global spread of antimicrobial resistance and the role of scientific discourse in framing this spread
Prof. Alena Kamenshchikova, Assistant Professor, Maastricht University

15:20 Development of small-molecule inhibitors of bacterial DNA repair
Dr. Thomas Lanyon-Hogg, Career Development Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford

15:40 Antibiotics damage the intestinal microbiome, but at what cost? Accounting for bacterial ecology in health-economic evaluation of interventions for antibiotic resistance control
Dr. David Smith, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut Pasteur

16:00 Flash talks (6x, selected from abstracts)

Poster session

Location: Atrium and Wolfson Room, Chemistry Research Laboratory

16:40-17:50 Posters presentation and drinks reception

17:50 Poster and flash talk prizes, and closing remarks
Dr. Alistair Farley, Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research, University of Oxford

18:00 Meeting ends