Antibiotic Resistance and Mechanisms (ARM)

Workshop for Researchers 2022

Held 12-13 May 2022
This in person event was held at The Birmingham Conference and Events Centre, Hill Street, Birmingham, UK

Antibiotic Resistance and Mechanisms Workshop for Researchers 2022, brought to you by the BSAC.

Our 2022 workshop offered members of the UK community researching mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance the opportunity to meet and to consolidate and extend the expertise held within individual laboratories in the United Kingdom.

To view the programme please see below.

Our next workshop will be held 23-24 November 2023. Please contact Esme Carruthers for details.

The posters from this event are available to view here:

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Programme

Day one

1300

LUNCH, REGISTRATION, POSTER VIEWING

1355

Introductory Remarks

Dr Andy Edwards, Imperial - View Bio

SESSION ONE: Reservoirs of resistance

Chair: Dr Phillip Aldridge, Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University & Ashleigh Myall, PhD Student, Imperial College London

1400

Reservoirs of AMR

Professor Tim Walsh, Professor of Medical Microbiology, University of Oxford - View Bio

Antimicrobial use and AMR in livestock farming and the One Health sphere - what we know we don't know

Professor Kristen Reyher, Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology and Population Health, Bristol Veterinary School - View Bio

The riverine resistome- what to monitor and where?

Professor Elizabeth Wellington, School of Life Sciences, The University of Warwick - View Bio

1540

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION TWO: Mechanisms of resistance

Chair: Dr Ronan McCarthy, Senior Lecturer in Biosciences Centre of Inflammation Research and Translational Medicine (CIRTM), Brunel University London & Dr Carolin Kobras, Research Associate, University of Sheffield

1555

The Ins and Outs of Intracellular Antibiotic Accumulation in Gram negative bacteria

Dr Jessica Blair, Associate Professor of Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Birmingham - View Bio

Who guards the guards? Network structure in the activation of antibiotic resistance

Dr Susanne Gebhard, Senior Lecturer, University of Bath - View Bio

Carbapenems, Beta-Lactamases and Beta-Lactamase Inhibitors

Professor James Spencer, University of Bristol - View Bio

SESSION THREE: Offered papers

Chair: Charlotte Hind, UKHSA & Elizabeth Darby, Ph. D. Student, University of Birmingham

1710

Loss of cyclic di-AMP phosphodiesterase function as a stepping stone to β-lactam resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Dr Carolin Kobras, Research Associate, University of Sheffield

Evaluation of in-vitro activity of double beta-lactam therapy and relationship with penicillin binding protein activity in Escherichia coli isolates

Joseph Suich, Academic Clinical Fellow/ST3 Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Hull Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

pKpQIL traC mutation increases plasmid copy number, KPC-3 production and carbapenem MICs in the presence of KPC inhibitors against Klebsiella pneumoniae

Punyawee Dulyayangkul, Research Associate, University of Bristol

A flexible framework to integrate diverse data in clinical outbreak investigations: a case study on multi-drug resistant organisms

Ashleigh Myall, PhD Student, Imperial College London

1800-1900

POSTER SESSION

View Posters here

1945

Dinner

Day two

0900

Introductory Remarks

Dr Michelle Buckner, University of Birmingham - View Bio

SESSION FOUR: Novel therapeutics

Chair: Dr Chiara Borsetto, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick & Professor James Spencer, University of Bristol

0905

Immunotherapeutics to treat life-threatening fungal infections

Dr Fiona Rudkin, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen - View Bio

Rethinking how we target PBPs for antimicrobial chemotherapy

Professor David Roper, Professor of Biochemistry and Director of Research, University of Warwick - View Bio

An in silico fragment-based approach to anti-infective drug discovery

Professor Colin Fishwick, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Head of the School of Chemistry, University of Leeds - View Bio

1025

COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION

SESSION FIVE: BSAC Grant Holders

Chair: Dr Naomi Cochrane, Specialist Registrar in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, Health Education England - North West & Dr Philip Warburton, Lecturer In Medical Microbiology, University of Plymouth

1125

The identification and characterisation of disruptors of antibiotic resistance

Dr Ronan McCarthy, Senior Lecturer in Biosciences Centre of Inflammation Research and Translational Medicine (CIRTM), Brunel University London - View Bio

New approaches to treating infections in chronic lung disease

Dr Aran Singanayagam, MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow, Imperial College London - View Bio

Impact of antimicrobial prescribing during the COVID-pandemic on MDRO colonisation and the gut microbiome

Dr Ines Moura, Research Fellow, University of Leeds - View Bio

SESSION SIX: Outreach

Chair: Dr Andy Edwards, Imperial & Dr Ilyas Alav, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham

1225

Swab and Send: How citizen science is contributing to antimicrobial discovery

Dr Amy McLeman, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine - View Bio

Antibiotic Resistance and Mechanisms (ARM)

Workshop for Researchers 2022

Held 12-13 May 2022
This in person event was held at The Birmingham Conference and Events Centre, Hill Street, Birmingham, UK

Programme

Registration

Standard registration 275.00 plus VAT (£330.00)

Industry registration 575.00 plus VAT (£690.00)

Student registration 200.00 plus VAT (£240.00)

Abstract submission discounted rate 175.00 plus VAT (£210.00)

Abstract Submission

Antibiotic Resistance and Mechanisms (ARM)

Workshop for Researchers 2022

Held 12-13 May 2022 This in person event was held at The Birmingham Conference and Events Centre, Hill Street, Birmingham, UK

Programme

Registration

Standard registration 275.00 plus VAT (£330.00)

Industry registration 575.00 plus VAT (£690.00)

Student registration 200.00 plus VAT (£240.00)

Abstract submission discounted rate 175.00 plus VAT (£210.00)

Abstract Submission

Held 12-13 May 2022
This in person event was held at The Birmingham Conference and Events Centre, Hill Street, Birmingham, UK