NAMRIP community building summer conference:‘Anti-Microbial Resistance – working towards solutions’ Event
- Time:
- 09:00 - 17:00
- Date:
- 4Ìý´³³Ü±ô²âÌý2016
- Venue:
- Hilton Hotel ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ, Braken Place, Chilworth SO16 3RB
For more information regarding this event, please telephone Yvonne Richardson on 02380 594943 or email yr1@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Keynote : Professor Jane Davies (Imperial College). Our conference is open to all members of NAMRIP and anyone else who is interested in tackling antimicrobial resistance including collaborators beyond the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ. The conference will celebrate the achievements from the first year of the NAMRIP network and look ahead to an exciting second year.
Programme
09:00 - Registration, tea/coffee
09:15 - Welcome and NAMRIP update - Prof Tim Leighton
Pump Priming Project presentations
- 09:40 - Dr Emma Roe: ‘Preventing the spread of infection in hospital care settings: Health professionals, the agency of microbes and imaging tracking technology’
- 10.00 - Prof Tim Leighton: 'Where do we go with cold water ultrasonic cleaning?'
- 10:20 - Dr David Voegeli & Dr Tom Secker: ‘A pilot study to evaluate the efficacy of an ultrasonically activated water stream for wound cleaning of antimicrobial resistant biofilm infections’
- 10:40 - Mengyang Zhu: 'Ultrasonic cleaning of real world contaminated floor surfaces’
Tea/coffee and refreshments
- 11:20 - Dr Rod Herve: 'Examing flows in endoscopes to improve cleaning'
- 11.40 - Dr Myron Christodoulides: 'Strategies for tackling the ‘superbug’ Neisseria gonorrhoeae’
- 12.00 - Dr Tom Secker: ‘The effect of surface roughness on the attachment and removal of MRSA and prion-associated amyloid from surgical surfaces’
- 12.20 - Dr Shoufeng Yang: ‘Applying 3D printing within animal welfare to reduce the use of antibiotics’
12.40 - 2 course lunch in the restaurant and opportunity to network
13.40 - The 30 second film session: Facilitated by the NAMRIP Outreach Team. Delegates are encouraged to form themselves into groups of up to 8 people for this activity.
- 14.40 - Dr Xunli Zhang: 'Integrating the 3-dimenional bioelectrospray cell culture model with a microfluidic platform to model real-time physiological changes’
- 15.00 - Dr Syma Khalid: 'A multidisciplinary platform for studying antimicrobial peptides: bridging the gap between the in vitro and in silico regimes'
15.20 - Tea and cakes
- 15.30 - Dr Collin Sones: 'Enabling testing of Antimicrobial Resistance to antibiotics via laser-patterned paper-platforms’
- 15.50 - Dr Ray Allan: 'Stimulation of peptidoglycan synthesis through D-methionine incorporation reduces Haemophilus influenzae biofilm-associated antibiotic tolerance'
- 16.10 - Dr Claire Jackson: 'Can simple sugars combat bacterial infection?'
16.30 -  Keynote : (Imperial College) 'How can we beat Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis? Novel strategies aimed at early detection and non-antibiotic based therapy’
17.00 - Closing remarks and finish
