There will be a conference dinner on the evening of Monday, September 7. The cost is £35 per head (including wine). If you wish to attend, you must pre-book. You can reserve and pay for your ticket when you register.
If you have already registered and now wish to attend the dinner, please email to check whether there are any places available.
10.00 on Monday September 7
10.30 on Monday September 7
16.10 on Tuesday September 8
The
Protein & Peptide Science Group of the Royal Society of
Chemistry have kindly sponsored a Young Researcher Poster Prize of
£100 open to all student and post-doc poster authors.
Monday, September 7 |
|
| 10:00 | Registration / Coffee & Tea / Exhibition |
| 10:30 | Welcome: Prof. Brian Austen, St. George's University of London |
| Session 1: Structure, Function & Synthesis of AMPs | |
| 10:40 | Structure, synthesis & mechanism of antimicrobial peptides from bacteria |
| John Vederas, University of Alberta, Canada | |
| 11:10 | Modes of action of highly efficient Lantibiotics |
| Eefjan Breukink, Utrecht University, The Netherlands | |
| 11:40 | Semi-synthetic lipopeptide antibiotics with
activity against drug-resistant bacteria including MRSA and VRE |
| Nathaniel Martin, Utrecht University, The Netherlands | |
| 12:10 | Activity analysis of the antimicrobial peptide myxinidin from hagfish Myxine glutinosa L. and its analogue |
| Lucia Lombardi, II University of Naples, Italy | |
| 12:30 | Lunch / Exhibition / Posters |
| Poster Session | |
| Poster authors should be in attendance throughout the poster session | |
| Session 1: Structure, Function & Synthesis of AMPs, continued | |
| 13:30 | Predicting short AMPs with therapeutic potential and a new method to investigate AMPs |
| Kai Hilpert, St. George's University of London, UK | |
| 14:00 | Proline-rich antimicrobial peptides rely on different bacterial uptake systems and inhibit the bacterial ribosome by at least two alternative mechanisms |
| Ralf Hoffmann, University of Leipzig, Germany | |
| 14:30 | Impact of cell wall components on the efficacy of antimicrobial peptides towards Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria |
| Karl Lohner, University of Graz, Austria | |
| 15:00 | Mode of action studies on synthetic antimicrobial peptides |
| Håvard Jenssen, Roskilde University, Denmark | |
| 15:30 | Coffee & Tea / Exhibition / Posters |
| 15:45 | A universal expression system for the biosynthetic production of antimicrobial and antibiofilm peptides |
| Hans Vogel, University of Calgary, Canada | |
| 16:15 | An innovative qPCR based approach for determining the anti-biofilm properties of novel antimicrobials in mixed species biofilms |
| Fionnuala Lundy, Queen's University of Belfast, UK | |
| 16:45 | Microbial flow cytometry – Rapid quantification of AMP activity and mechanism of action |
| Neil O'Brien-Simpson, University of Melbourne, Australia | |
| 17:15 | AMP resistance: an evolutionary perspective |
| Jens Rolff, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany | |
| 17:45 | Close of Day 1 |
Tuesday, September 8 |
|
| Session 2: Biomaterials, Membranes & Biophysics | |
| 08:45 | Visual Analytics for Sequence-Activity Relationships of Antimicrobial Peptides |
| Ralf Mikut, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany | |
| 09:15 | Repacking the tyrocidines, self-assembling cyclodecapeptides from Brevibacillus parabrevis, in antimicrobial materials |
| Marina Rautenbach, University of Stellenbosch,
South Africa |
|
| 09:45 10:15 |
Bactericidal hydrogels by covalent attachment of
stabilized antimicrobial peptides Robert Liskamp, University of Glasgow, UK Ultrashort self-assembling peptidomimetic nanomaterials target resistant pathogenic infections |
| Garry Laverty, Queen's University of Belfast, UK | |
| 10:35 | Antimicrobial peptides and membrane protein dynamics |
| Michaela Wenzel, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| 11:05 | Coffee & Tea / Exhibition / Posters |
| 11:20 | The role of bacterial membranes in AMP resistance mechanisms: a combined systems biology and biophysics approach |
| James Mason, Kings College London, UK | |
| 11:40 | Investigation of a novel mechanism of action of a cyclic hexapeptide |
| Kathi Scheinpflug, Leibniz-Institut für
Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Germany |
|
| 12:00 | Trans-species polymorphism reflects functional conservation in innate immune genes: β-defensin allelic diversity in waterfowl |
| Joanne Chapman,Linnaeus University, Sweden | |
| 12:20 | Endotoxins in extracorporeal blood purification: are AMPs the solution? |
| Jens Hartmann, Danube University Krems, Austria | |
| 12:40 | Lunch / Exhibition / Posters |
| Poster Session | |
| Poster authors should be in attendance throughout the poster session | |
| Session 3: Therapeutic Applications of AMPs | |
| 13:20 | Novel peptide anti-infectives |
| Deborah O'Neil, Novabiotics, UK | |
| 13:50 | Boosting AMP production to help treat urinary tract infections |
| Judith Hall, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK | |
| 14:20 | Targeting neglected tropical diseases with novel peptides |
| Steven Cobb, University of Durham, UK | |
| 14:50 | Improvement of the therapeutic potential of the frog skin-derived antimicrobial peptide temporin B against planktonic cells and biofilms of medically relevant bacteria |
| Giovanna Batoni, University of Pisa, Italy | |
| 15:20 | Attachment of pendant antimicrobial peptide chains to novel wound care dressings |
| Don Wellings, Spheritech, UK | |
| 15:40 | HXP124, a plant defensin, rapidly penetrates human nails and is fungicidal to dermatophyte pathogens. |
| Nicole van der Weerden, La Trobe University, Australia | |
| 16:00 | Session 4: Poster Prize sponsored by the Protein & Peptide Science Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry presented by Prof. Brian Austen |
| 16:10 | Close of Meeting |
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