DAY 1: Monday 02 September

0830: Registration

0930: Housekeeping

0935: Welcome by Professor Martha Clokie

Phage therapy and antimicrobials-I

0940: Professor Aidan Coffey, Munster Technological University, Ireland
Bacteriophage and Gram-positive endolysin research at Munster Technological University

1000: Dr Mariam Dadiani, Phage Therapy Center, Georgia
Top Challenges: Respiratory and Urinary Tract Infections at the EPTC

1020: Professor Heather Allison, University of Liverpool, UK
Title TBA

1040: Dr Antonia Sagona, University of Warwick, UK
Isolation, characterization and genetic modification of novel Escherichia coli phages to target intracellular pathogenic E. coli

1100: Refreshment break, networking and posters

1130: Dr Alison Low, University of Edinburgh, UK
Predictive phage therapy: a proof of principle study and future directions

1150: Dr Janine Zara Bowring, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
The complicated relationship between phage resistance and antibiotic susceptibility in Staphylococcus aureus

1210: Dr Sabrina Green, KU Leuven, Belgium
Making Antibiotics Great Again: Phage resistance in vivo correlates to resensitivity to antibiotics in pan-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

1230: Professor Pablo Bifani, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Morphotype switching, a mechanism of phage resistance in Mycobacterium abscessus

1250: Lunch and networking

1350: Mr Theodore Josephs (short presentation), University of Leicester, UK
Phages and their ecological strategies to advance phage therapy

1400: Ms Rizka Jariah (short presentation), University of Leicester, UK
Phage Cocktail to Treat ESBL-producing Klebsiella in Urinary Tract Infections

Molecular and  in  silico  tools

1410: Dr Peter Braun, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Germany
Recombinant receptor binding proteins of bacteriophages as versatile tools for pathogen detection

1430: Dr Antoine Culot, Rime Bioinformatics, France
Bacteriophage genome annotation: comparing automatic and manual approaches

1450: Ms Dorien Dams (short presentation),  Ghent University, Belgium
A VersaTile approach to reprogram and broaden the specificity of R2 tailocins towards  Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae

1500: Mr Sebastian Kachel (short presentation), Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Germany
Rapid Detection and Real-Time Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Yersinia pestis Using Recombinant Reporter Phages

1510: Ms Rita Domingues (short presentation), University of Minho, Portugal
Heat-induced genome reduction strategy for Acinetobacter baumannii-infecting phages

1520: Refreshment break, networking and posters

1550: Professor Andrey Shkoporov, University College Cork, Ireland
Long-read Nanopore sequencing reveals multiple modes of capsid-mediated mobilisation of bacterial genomic DNA

Phage therapy and antimicrobials-II

1610: Mr Christian Fitch, University of Exeter, UK
Systematically designing broad-spectrum phage products to enhance clinical trials and up-scale UK phage therapy for chronic lung infection

1630: Miss Carmen Chen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumanniican be killed by a combination of phages and complement

1650: Dr Libby Duignan, University of Liverpool, UK
Phage Therapy for Antibiotic-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Overcoming Manufacturing Barriers in the UK

1710: Professor Paul Bollyky (V), Stanford University, USA
A blueprint for broadly effective phage therapy cocktails against bacterial infections

1730: Close of Day 1

1740: Accordion by Professor Aidan Coffey: “Aidan Coffey is an Irish traditional accordionist from Co. Waterford. He recorded with Irish traditional fiddle players Seamus Creagh and Frankie Gavin and with accompanists Mick Daly, Seán Ó Loingsigh, Alec Finn and Arty McGlynn and he was a member of the traditional band De Dannan from 1988 to 1995.”

1915: Networking dinner – (on a ‘pay-as-you-eat’ basis – please check your email for further details)

DAY 2: Tuesday 03 September

0900: Accommodation checkout

Host-phage/molecular interactions

0940: Mr Lingchen He, Imperial College London, UK
Tail assembly interference is a common strategy in the repertoire of prokaryotic immune systems

1000: Mr Xu Kuang, Imperial College London, UK
Mobilization of anti-phage systems via lateral transduction

1020: Miss Michelle Yin, University of Oxford, UK
Unlocking the potential of plasmid dependent bacteriophage PRD1 to block last resource AMR conjugative plasmids

1040: Miss Maria Lopes, University of Minho, Portugal
Early life skin and intestinal Staphylococcus epidermidis phages: Prevalence, characterisation, and maternal relationship

1100: Refreshment break, networking and posters

1130: Mr Jesper Mauritzen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Anti-Quorum Sensing Phages Rescue Galleria mellonella Larvae from Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection

1150: Miss Dea Mariette Müller, Stanford University, USA
Receptors determine lytic phage host range in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

1210: Miss Henni Tuomala, University of Helsinki, Finland
vB_SauP_EBHT, a lytic phage with a production host-dependent host specificity

1230: Mr Zhen (Daniel) Ye Sin, Imperial College London, UK
Exploring arbitrium-mediated crosstalk between bacteriophages

1250: Dr Daniel Cazares, University of Oxford, UK
Evolutionary interplay of the donor-specific phage PRD1 and the promiscuous multidrug resistance plasmid RP4

1310: Lunch and networking

Food and Biotech

1350: Ms Talia Backman, University of Utah, USA
Molecular warfare in wild plant pathogens

1410: Dr Hansjörg Lehnherr, PTC-Phage GmbH, Germany
A bacteriophage product against Staphylococcus aureus to treat bovine mastitis

1430: Ms Márcia Braz, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Bacteriophages as biocontrol agents against foodborne bacteria in different food matrices

1450: Mr Slawomir Michniewski (short presentation), University of Leicester, UK
Development of a phage cocktail for the shelf-life extension of Nephrops novegicus

1500: Dr Hannah Sampson (short presentation), University of Leicester, UK
Isolation, characterisation and investigation of novel bacteriophages therapeutic potential

1510: Professor Martha Clokie, University of Leicester, UK
Application of phages to reduce pathogens in the poultry food chain

1530: Summary and closing remarks by Professor Clokie

1550: Close of conference