EuroPhages 2012

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• EuroPhages 2012
• Speakers
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• EuroPhages 2012 Summary

  Bacteriophage in Medicine, Food and Biotechnology

  14-26 September 2012, St Hilda's College, Oxford, UK

  EuroPhages 2012 conference addressed commercial and research applications of bacteriophage in medicine, food and biotechnology, and covered a variety of topic, including pharmaceutical production and formulation, medical applications, immunogenicity and toxicology, applications in biotechnology, food technology and bacteriophage molecular biology.

  Keynote Speakers:

  • Prof John McCafferty, Cambridge, UK
  • Dr Mike Mattey, Fixed-Phages, UK

• Distinguished Faculty

  Professor George Salmond
  University of Cambridge, UK
  Conference Chair's Welcome and Introduction

  Professor John McCafferty - Keynote Address
  University of Cambridge, UK
  Title: Generation of antibodies for research and medicine by phage display technology

  Dr Alexandra Henein
  University of Reading, UK
  Title: Development of a range of cytotoxicity assays for testing purified phage preparations

  Professor Dr Elisabeth Haggård-Ljungquist
  Stockholm University, Sweden
  Title: The P2-like integrases, possible tools for directed gene insertions into unmodified eukaryotic genomes

  Professor Dr Grzegorz Wegrzyn
  University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
  Title: Regulation of replication of bacteriophages carrying Shiga toxin genes

  Professor Heather Allison
  University of Liverpool, UK
  Title: Stx phage impacts upon their lysogen

  Professor Martha Clokie
  University of Leicester, UK
  Title: The diversity and infection dynamics of Clostridium difficile bacteriophages

  Professor Ian Connerton
  University of Nottingham, UK
  Title: Understanding the ecology of Campylobacter phage to controlCampylobacter colonisation of poultry

  Professor Dr Pilar Garcia
  IPLA-CSIC, Department of Technology and Biotechnology of Dairy Products (DairySafe Team), Asturias, Spain
  Title: Bacteriophages as new tools in the safety of dairy products

  Professor Adelaide Almeida
  University of Aveiro, Portugal
  Title: Reducing the Salmonella horizontal transmission during eggs incubation by phage therapy

  Dr Steven Hagens
  Micreos Food Safety, The Netherlands
  Title: Bacteriophage field trials

  Professor Angus Buckling
  University of Exeter, UK
  Title: Constraining the evolution of antibiotic resistance using phages

  Professor George Salmond
  University of Cambridge, UK
  Title: Evolution of bacterial anti-viral abortive infection systems

  Dr Michael Mattey - Keynote Address
  Fixed-Phage Ltd, UK
  Title: Product development processes for antimicrobial applications of bacteriophages

  Dr Chloe James
  University of Liverpool, UK
  Title: Modelling the co-evolution of 3 temperate phages and their Pseudomonas aeruginosa hosts in the cystic fibrosis lung

  Dr Umendar Sharma
  GangaGen Ltd, India
  Title: Bacteriphage Tail Associated Muralytic Enzymes (TAMEs) as potential bactericidal therapeutic agents

  Professor Ryszard Miedzybrodzki
  Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland
  Title: The experimental phage therapy conducted in the Phage Therapy Unit in Wroclaw

  Dr Maya Merabishvili
  Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Belgium
  Title: Phage Therapy Experience of Queen Astrid Military Hospital in Brussels

  Dr Carmela Dantas-Barbosa
  UMR INSERM , France
  Title: Antibody Phage Display Libraries: Contributions to Oncology

  Dr Richard Hopkins
  Phylogica Ltd, Australia
  Title: Phage displayed phylomer libraries for the discovery of custom scaffolds suitable for intracellular or extracellular targets

  Dr Miloš Barut
  BIA Separations, Ajdovščina, Slovenia
  Title: Purification of bacteriophages using short monolithic columns – strategies for process development and optimization

  Miss Sadia Sattar
  Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
  Title: Filamentous bacteriophages: functionalized “Nano-particles or Nano-Phages” for applications in diagnostics and vaccine development

  Dr Jinyu Shan
  University of Leicester, UK
  Title: Understanding the relationship between bacteriophages and Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis

  Dr Gilbert Verbaken
  Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Belgium
  Title: Experts’ views on the current regulatory medicinal product framework: Call for a dedicated European bacteriophage therapy directive

• Posters Presented at EuroPhages 2012

  (Presenters in Bold)

  Preliminary studies of the applicability of phage therapy with new isolated bacteriophages in marine fish aquaculture

  Adelaide Almeida, Carla Pereira, Yolanda J Silva, Ângela Cunha, Newton CM Gomes

  Phage-based probiotic cocktail in prophylaxis against foodborne infections

  Aleshkin AV , Volozhantsev NV, Svetoch EA, Afanas’ev SS, Vasil’ev DA, Zolotuhin SN

  Why be latent? - The evolutionary biology of temperate phages and latent viruses

  Thomas W Berngruber, Rémy Froissart, Marc Choisy, Sébastien Lion, and Sylvain Gandon

  Characterization of the receptor-binding domain of bacteriophage T7: generation of mutant phages

  Córdoba L, Garcia-Doval C, van Raaij MJ

  Preliminary investigation on two Stx2-carrying bacteriophages induced from STEC strains isolated from goat milk

  Claudia Picozzi, Silvia Grassi, Ileana Vigentini, Roberto Foschino

  Phage Therapy of Burn Wound Infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli

  Yves P Gauthier, Flavie Pouillot, Cécile Cléry-Barraud, Magali Leroy, Julien Tessier, Michael Dubow and Jérôme Gabard

  What it the lowest growth rate of bacteria needed for the development of bacteriophage T4?

  Piotr Golec, Joanna Karczewska-Golec and Grzegorz Węgrzyn

  Production optimization of Campylobacter phages

  Nika Janez , Eva Zaletel, Andreja Petan, Bojana Stevovic, Matjaz Peterka*, Ales Podgornik

  The influence of the Cystic Fibrosis lung environment on the ecology ofPseudomonas aeruginosa temperate phages

  EV Jones, MA Brockhurst, A Kadioglu, CE James& C Winstanley

  Characterization of bacteriophages against Avian E. coli isolated from Domestic poultry farms in Korea

  Tae Sung Jung, Tae Hwan Kim

  Unique Klebsiella phage vb_KleM-RaK2 representing a novel genus within a family Myoviridae of tailed bacteriophages

  Laura Kaliniene, Eugenijus Šimoliūnas, Lidija Truncaite, Aurelija Zajančkauskaite and Rolandas Meškys

  An investigation of bacteriophage therapy in the prevention of Clostridium difficile infection using an in vitro colon model

  Emma Meader, Melinda Mayer, Dietmar Steverding, Simon R Carding and Arjan Narbad

  Evaluation of transducing ability of the polyvalent staphylococcal phage preparation STAFAL ® by detection and quantification of antibiotic resistance genes in phage particles using qPCR

  Ivana Maslanova, Roman Pantucek, Marian Varga, Jiri Doskar, Josef Bostik, Vitezslav Fuglik and Marek Mosa

  Classification of Pathogenic Strains of Pseudomonas tolaasii for the Bacteriophage Control of Brown Blotch Disease

  Lin-Lin Mu, Soo-Jin Parkand Young-Kee Kim

  Temperate bacteriophages in Burkholderia cepacia complex

  Johannes Wittmann , Johannes Sikorski , Christine Rohde

  Bacteriophages specific to Xanthomonas phaseoli and Pseudomonas phaseolicola causing brown spot and angular leaf spot of haricot

  Tinatin Sadunishvili, Neli Sturua, Naili Giorgobiani, Nanuli Amashukeli, Nani Mchedlishvili, Nino Omiadze, Jose Neptuno Rodrigues-Lopez, Giorgi Kvesitadze

  Molecular studies of the transcriptional switch region of bacteriophage P2

  Wilhelmina Sehlén and Elisabeth Haggård--Ljungquist

  Understanding the relationship between bacteriophages and Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis

  Jinyu Shan, Jiraporn Gatedee, Edouard Galyov, Sunee Korbsrisate and Martha Clokie

  Application of a rapid method for bacteria detection, in order to evaluate the effect of different cultural conditions on the efficacy of phage therapy as an alternative to inactivate pathogenic bacteria in fish farms

  Yolanda Silva, Ricardo Calado, Newton Gomes, Ângela Cunha, Adelaide Almeida

  The control of contamination in fuel bioethanol production via the deployment of bacteriophage

  Christopher Spencer

  Engineering of P22 tailspike protein to monitor Salmonella-derived polysaccharide

  Kerstin Tang and Robert Seckler

  The genotypic and phenotypic impacts of Shiga toxin-encoding bacteriophage interactions with their host cells

  Marta Veses-Garcia, AJ McCarthy & Heather E Allison

  Combination of Bacteriophages for the Biological Control of Various Strains ofPseudomonas tolaasii

  Yeong-Bae Yun and Young-Kee Kim

• TBA