08:30 Registration
09:15 Welcome by the organisers
Session 1: Virulence and Pathogenesis
09:30 Plenary speaker: Carmen Buchrieser, Institut Pasteur, France
Biology of the intracellular pathogen Legionella.
Sponsored by the Microbiology Society
10:15 Angela Ibler (University of Cambridge, Cambridge)
Typhoid toxin causes replication stress and transmissible senescence in host cells
10:35 Daniel Fisch (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Defining host-pathogen interactions employing an artificial intelligence workflow
10:50 Flask talks I: Werner, Petris, Selkrig, Johnston, Carreno
11:05 Refreshments break (sponsored by Perkin Elmer)
11:35 Kate Watkins (University of Warwick, Coventry)
Manipulating the macrophage: a role for the staphylococcal type VII secretion system
11:55 Joe Wanford (University of Leicester)
Intracellular replication of pneumococcus in ex vivo-perfused human spleens
Harnessing the Klebsiella - macrophage arms race
12:15 Flash talks-II: Wanford, Prajsnar, Szkuta, Barry, Taylor
12:35 Lunch break with posters
Session II Host responses to pathogens
14:00 Tiaan Heunis (University of Newcastle, Newcastle)
Ubiquitylation influences phagosome function and pro-inflammatory signalling during bacterial infection
14:20 Virtu Solano-Collado (University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen)
The RAB32/BLOC-3 trafficking pathway is active as an antimicrobial pathway in human macrophages
14:40 Olivier Cunrath (University of Basel, Switzerland)
NRAMP1 restricts Salmonella growth through magnesium deprivation
15:00 Michal Wandel (University of Cambridge, Cambridge)
Interferon-induced GTPases convert cytosolic bacteria into Caspase-4 signalling platforms
15:20 Refreshments break (sponsored by Perkin Elmer)
16:00 Eik Hoffman (Institut Pasteur de Lille, France)
Immunometabolic host response of the IRG1-itaconate axis to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
16:20 Susanne Herbst (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
LRRK2 regulates phagosome maturation and inflammatory response
16:40 Plenary Speaker: Thierry Soldati, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Understanding mycobacterial-host interactions
Sponsored by Cellular Microbiology
17:25 Drinks reception and prize giving (sponsored by Zeiss)
