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MONDAY JUNE 19
12.00-12.50 Registration
Lunch and coffee
Poster setup
12.50-13.00 Welcome
LSHTM Events, Serge Mostowy
13.00-14.00 Keynote Speaker Pascale Cossart (Institut Pasteur)
How we gave birth to a star
Session 1 Chairs Serge Mostowy and Daniel Humphreys
14.15-14.30 Giulia Manigrasso, MRC LMB
Orientia tsutsugamushi hijacks BICD-dependent dynein motility for intracellular transport and
autophagy evasion
14.30-14.45 Samkeliso Lisa Blundell, Imperial College
The Salmonella effector SteD is a co-activator of the E3 ubiquitin ligase WWP2
14.45-15.00 Miguel Hernandez-Gonzalez, Francis Crick
Imaging poxvirus assembly and exit from infected cells
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
Poster setup
Session 2 Chair: Phil Elks
15.30-15.45 Margarida Gomes, LSHTM
Training innate immunity in zebrafish using Shigella
15.45-16.00 Thomas Burgess, Sheffield
Boosting the innate immune response to Candida albicans infections via HIF modulation
16.00-16.15 Guy Pearson, Francis Crick
Delivering an Envelope! SARS-CoV-2 Envelope hijacks an ARFRP1-AP1-AP1AR trafficking
pathway to deacidify lysosomes
16.15-17.00 Flash poster presentations
Gizem Ozbaykal-Guler, LSHTM
The role of septin heteromer composition on cage entrapment of Shigella
Keith Egger, KCL
Determination of Salmonella T3SS SPI-2 effectors involved in inhibition of interferon signaling
Ines Diaz del Olmo, Imperial College
Non-canonical reprogramming of transcriptional pathways by Salmonella Typhimurium
Shan Yin, KCL
NMR and GC-MS metabolomic studies of symbioses between bacterial vaginosis-associated
bacteria and lactobacilli
Daniel Stark, Sheffield
The role of bacterial endosymbionts in host-Mucorales interactions
Stevens Robertin, LSHTM
Use of Staphylococcus aureus to study septin interactions with Gram-positive bacterial
pathogens
Richard Allen, Warwick
Investigating Staphylococcus aureus - Macrophage Interactions during Infection via the Type
VII Secretion System
17:00 -19:00 Poster presentations and networking
With drinks and snacks
Tuesday June 20
8.30-9.00 Coffee and setup
9.00-10.00 Keynote Felix Randow (MRC LMB)
How cells defend their cytosol against invasive bacteria
Session 3 Chair: Charlotte Odendall
10.15-10.30 Magdalena Szczesna, Imperial College
How cytosolic bacteria inhibit RNF213-mediated cell autonomous immunity
10.30-10.45 Miriam Kutsch, Heinrich Heine University (Germany)
Stick it together: how GBPs activate the non-canonical inflammasome
10.45-11.00 Lucy Thorne, UCL / Imperial College
Convergent evolution of SARS-CoV-2 VOCs to enhance innate immune suppression
11.00-11.15 Ann-Kathrin Reuschl, UCL
Enhanced innate immune evasion by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants
11.15-12.00 Flash poster presentations
Ramon Garcia Maset, UCL
The role of urine microenvironment in biofilm and antibiotic response on uropathogens
Janis Romanopulos, KCL
Translation of pleurocidin-derived antimicrobial peptide therapeutics
Ioanna Panagi, Imperial College
Molecular dissection of kinase reprogramming by bacterial effectors
Yizhou Huang, Imperial College
Analysing antibacterial autophagy during infection with Burkholderia
Nagisa Yoshida, Cambridge
Establishing tools to study the microbicidal capacity of human placental macrophages across
gestation
Zoe Charlotte Speirs, Sheffield
Modulating macrophages as a therapeutic strategy in a zebrafish tuberculosis model
12.00 -13.00 Poster presentations and networking
With lunch and coffee
Session 4 Chair: Jennifer Rohn
13.00-13.15 Enrica Pellegrino, Francis Crick
The role of peroxisomes during M. tuberculosis infection of human macrophages
13.15-13.30 Kathryn Wright, Centenary Institute (Australia)
Mycobacterial infection-induced miR-126 protects the host by suppressing permissive
macrophages
13.30-13.45 JJ Awodipe, Warwick
Early transcriptomic responses of osteoblasts and Staphylococcus aureus during intracellular
infection
13.45-14.00 Daniel Foulkes, Liverpool
Exotoxin inhibitors as new therapeutics: A drug discovery pipeline from in vitro to in vivo
analysis
14.00-14.30 Discussion and Prize giving
With coffee and snacks
15:00 Departure
MONDAY JUNE 19
12.00-12.50 Registration
Lunch and coffee
Poster setup
12.50-13.00 Welcome
LSHTM Events, Serge Mostowy
13.00-14.00 Keynote Speaker Pascale Cossart (Institut Pasteur)
How we gave birth to a star
Session 1 Chairs Serge Mostowy and Daniel Humphreys
14.15-14.30 Giulia Manigrasso, MRC LMB
Orientia tsutsugamushi hijacks BICD-dependent dynein motility for intracellular transport and
autophagy evasion
14.30-14.45 Samkeliso Lisa Blundell, Imperial College
The Salmonella effector SteD is a co-activator of the E3 ubiquitin ligase WWP2
14.45-15.00 Miguel Hernandez-Gonzalez, Francis Crick
Imaging poxvirus assembly and exit from infected cells
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
Poster setup
Session 2 Chair: Phil Elks
15.30-15.45 Margarida Gomes, LSHTM
Training innate immunity in zebrafish using Shigella
15.45-16.00 Thomas Burgess, Sheffield
Boosting the innate immune response to Candida albicans infections via HIF modulation
16.00-16.15 Guy Pearson, Francis Crick
Delivering an Envelope! SARS-CoV-2 Envelope hijacks an ARFRP1-AP1-AP1AR trafficking
pathway to deacidify lysosomes
16.15-17.00 Flash poster presentations
Gizem Ozbaykal-Guler, LSHTM
The role of septin heteromer composition on cage entrapment of Shigella
Keith Egger, KCL
Determination of Salmonella T3SS SPI-2 effectors involved in inhibition of interferon signaling
Ines Diaz del Olmo, Imperial College
Non-canonical reprogramming of transcriptional pathways by Salmonella Typhimurium
Shan Yin, KCL
NMR and GC-MS metabolomic studies of symbioses between bacterial vaginosis-associated
bacteria and lactobacilli
Daniel Stark, Sheffield
The role of bacterial endosymbionts in host-Mucorales interactions
Stevens Robertin, LSHTM
Use of Staphylococcus aureus to study septin interactions with Gram-positive bacterial
pathogens
Richard Allen, Warwick
Investigating Staphylococcus aureus - Macrophage Interactions during Infection via the Type
VII Secretion System
17:00 -19:00 Poster presentations and networking
With drinks and snacks
Tuesday June 20
8.30-9.00 Coffee and setup
9.00-10.00 Keynote Felix Randow (MRC LMB)
How cells defend their cytosol against invasive bacteria
Session 3 Chair: Charlotte Odendall
10.15-10.30 Magdalena Szczesna, Imperial College
How cytosolic bacteria inhibit RNF213-mediated cell autonomous immunity
10.30-10.45 Miriam Kutsch, Heinrich Heine University (Germany)
Stick it together: how GBPs activate the non-canonical inflammasome
10.45-11.00 Lucy Thorne, UCL / Imperial College
Convergent evolution of SARS-CoV-2 VOCs to enhance innate immune suppression
11.00-11.15 Ann-Kathrin Reuschl, UCL
Enhanced innate immune evasion by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants
11.15-12.00 Flash poster presentations
Ramon Garcia Maset, UCL
The role of urine microenvironment in biofilm and antibiotic response on uropathogens
Janis Romanopulos, KCL
Translation of pleurocidin-derived antimicrobial peptide therapeutics
Ioanna Panagi, Imperial College
Molecular dissection of kinase reprogramming by bacterial effectors
Yizhou Huang, Imperial College
Analysing antibacterial autophagy during infection with Burkholderia
Nagisa Yoshida, Cambridge
Establishing tools to study the microbicidal capacity of human placental macrophages across
gestation
Zoe Charlotte Speirs, Sheffield
Modulating macrophages as a therapeutic strategy in a zebrafish tuberculosis model
12.00 -13.00 Poster presentations and networking
With lunch and coffee
Session 4 Chair: Jennifer Rohn
13.00-13.15 Enrica Pellegrino, Francis Crick
The role of peroxisomes during M. tuberculosis infection of human macrophages
13.15-13.30 Kathryn Wright, Centenary Institute (Australia)
Mycobacterial infection-induced miR-126 protects the host by suppressing permissive
macrophages
13.30-13.45 JJ Awodipe, Warwick
Early transcriptomic responses of osteoblasts and Staphylococcus aureus during intracellular
infection
13.45-14.00 Daniel Foulkes, Liverpool
Exotoxin inhibitors as new therapeutics: A drug discovery pipeline from in vitro to in vivo
analysis
14.00-14.30 Discussion and Prize giving
With coffee and snacks
15:00 Departure
