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5 - 8 July 2010, The Grand, Brighton
Including sessions on:
Biofilms: Buzzwords in Biofilms
Listeria: new perspectives on an old pathogen
Bacteriophages: Applied Bacteriophage Technology
Monday 5 July
14:00 onwards Arrive and register
Workshop session (for students): Science media
18:00 - 18:50 Lewis B Perry Memorial Lecture
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia: in search of the origins and virulence of lung sickness
Robin Nicholas, Veterinary Laboratories Agency
19:00 - 20:00 Drinks reception
20:00 Evening at leisure
21:30 Quiz night
Tuesday 6 July
Session 1: Applied bacteriophage technology
09:00 - 09:35 Phage therapy in human infections
Alexander Sulakvelidze, Intralytix, USA
09:35 - 10:10 Uses of phage in the animal food production chain
Ian Connerton, University of Nottingham
10:10 - 10:45 Bacteriophages for the treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections
David Harper, Biocontrol
10:45 - 11:15 Tea and coffee
11:15 - 11:50 Using bacteriophages to develop DNA vaccines
John March, Big DNA, Edinburgh
11:50 - 12:25 Bacteriophages for the prevention of Listeria monocytogenes in food
Steven Hagens, EBI Food Safety
12:25 - 13:25 Lunch
13:25 - 14:00 Optimized by evolution: phage and its enzmyes for detection and control of pathogenic bacteria
Martin J. Loessner, Institute of Food Science and Nutrition, ETH Zurich
14:00 - 14:35 The challenge of using phage in food and veterinary diagnostics
George Botsaris, Cyprus
Session 2: Listeria: new perspectives on an old pathogen
14:35 - 15:10 Listeria and listeriosis: emergence and re-emergence
Jim McLauchlin, Health Protection Agency
15:10 - 15:45 The challenge of quantifying Listeria from foods and environmental samples
Martin Wagner, Vienna
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee and tea
16:00 - 16:35 Molecular sleuthing and listeriosis
Kathie Grant, Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infections
16:35 - 17:10 Ecology of Listeria in the environment and in animals
Kendra Nightingale, Colorado State University, USA
17:15 - 19:30 Trade show
Wednesday 7 July
Session 2: Listeria: New perspectives on an old pathogen (cont.)
09:00 - 09:35 What does not destroy Listeria, makes it strong' - adapting to stress in vitro and in vivo
Colin Hill, University College Cork
09:35 - 10:10 Renaissance Bacteria - Listeria persistence in the food environment
Cath Rees, University of Nottingham
10:10 - 10:40 Tea and coffee
10:40 - 12:00 Attended poster viewing
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
Session 3: Buzzwords in Biofilms
13:00 - 13:35 Gene transfer in oral biofilms
Adam Roberts, Eastman Dental Institute, London, UK
13:35 - 14:10 Biofilm development and dispersion
Karen Sauer, Binghamton University, Binghamton, USA
14:15 - 14:45 Coffee and tea
14:45 - 15:45 Student presentations
15:45 - 16:15 WH Pierce Prize
16:15 - 16:45 AGM
19:00 Drinks reception and dinner
Thursday 8 July
09:00 - 09:05 Introduction to the New Lecturers' Grant
09:05 - 09:40 Co-aggregation and signalling
Alex Rickard, (recipient of a SfAM New Lecturers Grant, Binghamton University, USA
09:40 - 10:15 Evolution
Daniel Rozen. Manchester University
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee and tea
10:45 - 11:20 Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms architecture and development
Tim Tolker-Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
11:20 - 11:55 Programmed cell death
Jeremy Webb, Southampton University, UK
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch and close
Event organiser's contact details: Society for Applied Microbiology Tel: +44 (0)1234 761752 Fax: +44 (0)1234 328330 Email: meetings@sfam.org.uk
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