Provisional Agenda
(subject to change)
Day 1: Wednesday 07th September, Vernon Harcourt Room
0930-1020: Registration and welcome coffee
1025: Housekeeping
1030: Welcome by Professor Martha Clokie
Session 1: Phage Antimicrobials and Delivery – Chair Professor Grzegorz Wegrzyn
1040: Dr Anders Nilsson, Stockholm University, Sweden
Roadblocks to the application of phage therapy
1110: Prof Petar Knezevic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
Is Pseudomonas virus Pap3 a usable species in phage therapy?
1140: Dr Bharathi Sriram, Gangagen Biotechnologies Ltd, India
P128, a novel bacteriophage derived ectolysin with antistaphylococcal therapeutic potential
1210: Professor Martha Clokie, University of Leicester, UK
Developing bacteriophages to make Clostridium difficile less difficult to treat
1240: Miss Wichuda Phothichaisri, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Isolation of bacteriophage via induction of Clostridium difficile lysogens
1300: Lunch, networking, posters
Session 1 (contd): Phage Antimicrobials and Delivery – Chair Dr Krystyna Dąbrowska
1400: Dr Stefan Miller, Lisando GmbH, Germany
Targeted elimination of bacterial pathogens is leading to a faster wound healing
1430: Dr Toby Jenkins, University of Bath, UK
Stimuli Responsive Hydrogel Films for Bacteriophage Delivery
1500: Dr Philip Webber, Dehns Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys (Oxford), UK
Patenting of phage-based inventions
1530: Refreshments, networking, posters
Session 2: Genomics and Evolution – Chair Dr Anders Nilsson
1600: Professor Alfonso Jaramillo, University of Warwick, UK
TBA
1630: Dr Henrike Zschach, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Genomics approaches for the analysis of therapeutic bacteriophages
1700: Mr Alex Betts, University of Oxford, UK
The effects of phage cocktail diversity on phage and bacterial growth and resistance evolution
1730: Miss Aurelija Grigonyte, University of Warwick, UK
Engineering and directed evolution of phages with retargeted host specificities
Session 3: Food and Biotechnology – Chair Dr Hansjoerg Lehnherr
1750: Dr Andrew Miller, University of Warwick, UK
Genomic diversity of bacteriophages associated with cattle slurry
1810: Close of Day 1
1900: Networking dinner (by invitation or prior booking)
Day 2: Thursday 08th September, Vernon Harcourt Room
0855: Housekeeping
Session 3 (contd): Food and Biotechnology – Chair Dr Hansjoerg Lehnherr
0900: Professor Gianluigi Mauriello, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Bacteriophages: a novel bullet to fight spoilage and pathogenic microorganisms in meat
0930: Professor Mathias Middelboe, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Potential and challenges of using phages for pathogen control in aquaculture
1000: Dr Tatiana Lehnherr, PTC Phage GmbH, Germany
PTC GmbH: six years in the field of bacteriophage application
1030: Refreshments, networking, posters
Session 4: Molecular virology, immunology and Therapy – Chair Professor Martha Clokie
1100: Mr Nathaniel Storey, University of Reading, UK
Characterisation of a novel phiKMV-like phage phiNV3
1120: Dr Krystyna Dąbrowska, Inst of Immunology & Experimental Therapy, Poland
Induction of antibodies by bacteriophages
1150: Professor Lone Brøndsted, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Diversity of Salmonella and their phages: Implications for phage therapy
1220: Professor Grzegorz Wegrzyn, University of Gdansk, Poland
The exo-xis region of lambdoid phage genome – underestimated and forgotten, but important genes
1250: Dr Prachi Sawant, University of Leicester, UK
Mutate and Survive: How Bacteria fight Viruses
1310: Closing remarks by Professor Martha Clokie
1320: Lunch and close
