AFC Summer 2013
Held at University College, Dublin
July 4th-5th 2013
Scientific Programme
Session 1: University College Dublin Symposium and guest speakers
Guest speaker
Prof Patrick Brennan, Colorado State University
Host preference across the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Stephen Gordon, University College Dublin
Wildlife intervention strategies for control of bovine tuberculosis
Eamonn Gormley, School of Veterinary Medicine, UCD, Dublin
Session 2: Trinity College Dublin Symposium and guest speakers
Invited talk: TB vaccine efficacy trials:what can we learn and what’s next?
Helen McShane, University of Oxford
TBC
Joe Keane, Trinity College Dublin
Phylogenetic lineages of tuberculosis isolates associate with specific patient demographics in New Zealand
Ronan F O’Toole, Trinity College Dublin
The ancient evolution of tuberculosis as a zoonosis
David E Minnikin, University of Birmingham, Birmingham
Session 3: Offered papers
TBC
David McHugh, University College Dublin
Genetic Analyses of a Conserved Virulence Regulon in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Claire Healey, University College Dublin
The Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Mycobacterial p-Hydroxybenzoic Acid Derivatives (p-HBADs)
Eoin Sacnlan, Trinity College Dublin
My-D88 adapter like (Mal) is required for effective macrophage responses To Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Cliona Ni Cheallaigh, Trinity College Dublin
Insights into the global metabolic changes in mycobacteria during nitrogen stress
Kerstin Williams, Imperial College London
Session 4: Offered papers
Biofilms and antibiotic tolerance: transcriptomic profiles of Mycobacterium smegmatis biofilms
S.A. Lethbridge, Public Health England, Porton Down, Salisbury
Genome-wide mapping of transcription start sites defines an extensive leaderless transcriptome in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Teresa Cortes,National Institute for Medical Research, MRC, London
A transposon-mutagenesis library to study mechanisms of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Joana Fonseca, University College London
Mannan core branching of lipo(arabino)mannan is required for initiation of mycobacterial granuloma formation in vivo
Arun K. Mishra, MRC National Institute of Medical Research, London
Mycobacterium leprae – A genome lost in time
Thomas A. Mendum, University of Surrey
The Acid Fast Club 