SGM 2015 genomics presentations to watch out for
29 Mar 2015If you are coming to Birmingham for this year’s Society for General Microbiology Annual Conference, welcome! This meeting is pretty big, and the website is curiously unnavigable, so I have put my own personal schedule up here.
A few notables! On Tuesday night there is the announcement of the new SGM journal Microbial Genomics in Hall 3 which I am pleased to be serving on the editorial board. Lots of tweeps are likely to be there. Straight afterwards we will head to a local pub for a “tweet-up”.
On Wednesday morning we will be launching our new BBSRC-funded grant MicrobesNG over at the stunning new Library of Birmingham which is well worth a visit if you haven’t been in. MicrobesNG aims to provide a very different type of sequencing service, specifically tailored to the needs of microbiologists. We will be running two sessions explaining exactly what we are doing, with refreshments provided. Please sign-up over at the website if you would like to come along!
In terms of scientific sessions I will be mainly hopping between the antibiotic resistance session and the microbiome session, with a few detours for prize lectures and hot genomics lectures. During the breaks I will be over on the MicrobesNG trade-stand. Look forward to saying hello!
And if you are interested in nice places to eat in Birmingham, the Guardian just did a nice piece on cheap eats and we also keep a map of places we like over on my food blog.
Monday 30th
BI05 Microbiome in Health and Disease
09:00 The human microbiome in health and disease Julian R. Marchesi (Cardiff University, UK)
09:30 Diabetes, obesity and gut microbiota Patrice Cani (University of Louvain, Belgium)
BI21 Antimicrobial resistance
11:00 Salmonella persisters in the host Sophie Helaine (Imperial College London, UK)
11:30 A population genomics view of pneumococcal antimicrobial resistance Stephen Bentley (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK)
12.10 Fleming Prize Lecture – Rapid microbial evolution: From the lab to the clinic and back again Michael Brockhurst (University of York, UK)
14:00 Antimicrobial resistance issues and selective pressures in South East Asia Stephen Baker (Oxford University, UK)
14:30 Offered paper - Detection of NDM-1 positive pathogens and genes in the Ganges River associated with seasonal human migration to pristine areas David Graham (Newcastle University, UK)
14:45 Offered paper - Broad spectrum antimicrobial peptides derived from a bovine rumen Linda Oyama (Aberystwyth University, UK)
15:00 Small World Initiative Paul Hoskisson (University of Strathclyde, UK)
15:15 Longitude Prize Tamar Gosh (NESTA, UK) and Laura Piddock (University of Birmingham, UK)
BI05 Microbiome in Health and Disease
16:00 Metabolomic characterisation of the gut microbiome and disease Elaine Holmes (Imperial College, London)
16:30 Diet and the gut microbiome Yolanda Sanz (National Research Council, Spain)
17:00 Modelling Clostridium difficile Infection Caroline Chilton (University of Leeds, UK)
Tuesday 31st
BI01 Natural and Unnatural Virus Evolution
09:15 Offered paper - Elucidating variations in the nucleotide sequence of Ebola virus associated with increasing pathogenicity Isabel García-Dorival (University of Liverpool, UK)
BI05 Microbiome in Health and Disease
09:30 Lung and normal airway microbiota and implications for cystic fibrosis Michael Tunney (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
10:00 The oral microbiome in health and disease Wiliam Wade (Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK)
11:00 Klebsiella pneumoniae population genomics and antimicrobial resistance Kathryn Holt (University of Melbourne, Australia)
11:30 Emergence of resistance in tuberculosis: Clinical and in vitro studies Stephen Gillespie (University of St Andrews)
BI21 Antimicrobial resistance
14:00 The human gut as reservoir for antibiotic resistance genes and opportunistic pathogens Willem van Schaik (University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands)
14:30 Mathematical modelling as a tool to explore unexpected aspects of antimicrobial resistance Robert Beardmore (University of Exeter, UK)
15:00 Offered paper - Displacement of stable bacterial plasmids by a self-transmissable pCURE plasmid as a means of reducing antibiotic resistance gene load Alessandro Lazdins (University of Birmingham, UK)
15:15 Offered paper - Enabling genomic-based antimicrobial susceptibility predictions in the clinic: case studies for S. aureus and M. tuberculosis Zamin Iqbal (University of Oxford, UK)
16:00 Offered paper - The infant airway microbiome in health and disease impacts later asthma development Kathryn Holt (University of Melbourne, Australia)
16:15 Offered paper - The Effects of Novel Dietary Interventions on Campylobacter and the Caecal Microbiome of Broiler Chickens Adrian Horton (Aberystwyth University, UK)
16:30 Phylogenetic assessment of microbiomes – how do we make it more democratic? Jeron Raes (Vrije University, Belgium)
17:00 Microbe-host interactions in chronic intestinal inflammation - microbial dysbiosis versus pathobiont selection Dirk Haller (Tu Munich, Germany)
17:35 Hot Topic Lecture: Ebola virus Hall 1
18:30 New Journal Announcement: Microbial Genomics Hall 3, ICC Birmingham
18:45 Straight after announcement: Tweet-up!
Wednesday 1st April
Over at the Library of Birmingham we will be hosting two workshops in the morning (09:00 - 10:15 and 10:30 - 10:45) to launch our new microbial genome sequencing and strain archiving service, MicrobesNG. Head over to the website to sign-up if you want to find out more!
12:10 Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture – What’s the host and what’s the microbe? ICC Birmingham Robin Weiss (University College London, UK)
BI21 Prokaryotic Genetics Forum
14:00 Bacterial protein glycosylation - never say never with bacteria Hall 11a Brendan Wren (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)
14:30 Offered paper - Identification of DNA uptake sequences in Neisseria gonorrhoeae that are intrinsic transcriptional terminators using bioinformatics supported by RNA-seq Sabrina Roberts (Kingston University, UK)
14:45 Offered paper - Regulation of fimbrial genes in Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Muhammad Yasir (University of Birmingham, UK)
15:00 Offered paper - Investigating the fitness implications of phase variation rate in Campylobacter jejuni using a cyclical selection assay based on phage and human sera Jack Aidley (University of Leicester, UK)
15:15 Offered paper - Expanding your horizons: phenotypic and genomic insights into very broad-host range phages isolated from Lake Michigan Siobhan Watkins (Loyola University Chicago, USA)
16:00 Offered paper - Evolution of Staphylococcus aureus after a human to livestock host-jump event Rodrigo Bacigalupe (The Roslin Institute, UK)