Keynote Speaker

09:00-09:30 Dr Richard Seabrook (Medicines Discovery Catapult)
"Directing Industrial Stimulus via Community Collaboration in Life Sciences"

Session 1: Improving Healthcare

09:30 Bruce Savage (GFC Diagnostics)

“MicroScreen Technology for AMR Detection”

09:45 Elizabeth Beech (NHS Improvement)

“Reducing inappropriate antimicrobial prescribing by 50% by 2020 – can we do it?”

10:00 Dr Abid Hussain (PHE)

“Antimicrobial resistance in clinical practice: challenges and aspirations”

10:15 Dr Esther Robinson (PHE)

“Targets in E. coli bloodstream infection: implications for AMR”

Session 2: Exploring New Antibiotics

11:00 Dr Ricky Cain (Warwick)

“Multi-Targeting of tRNA synthetases: A paradigm shift in combatting Antimicrobial Resistance”

11:15 Prof Ian Gilbert (Dundee)

“Overview of the University of Dundee Drug Discovery Unit”

11:30 Dr Danish J. Malik (Loughborough)

“Encapsulation of purified bacteriophages for targeted controlled release of novel narrow spectrum antibiotics”

Session 3: Detection & Diagnostics

12:30 Dr Dov Stekel (Nottingham)

"Has your AMR Composition Changed?"

12:45 Prof Thomas Krauss (York)

“Nanophotonic Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test”

13:00 Dr Charlotte Bermingham (Bristol)

“Rapid detection of antimicrobial resistance”

13:15 Dr Veeren Chauhan (Nottingham)

“Gold-Aptamer-Nanoconstructs Engineered to Diagnose the Common Cold”

13:30 Prof Maggie Smith (York)
"Towards a new class of antibiotic - identifying and developing new
druggable sites on the bacterial replisome"

13:45 Dr Geetha Srinivasan (Belfast)
“Novel Electronic Smart Devices for Healthcare Applications”

Network Overviews

14:30 Prof Tim Leighton (Southampton)

"Network for AntiMicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention (NAMRIP)"

14:45 Dr Patrick SM Dunlop (Ulster)
"Northern Ireland Antimicrobial Resistance Network (NIAMR)"

15:00 Dr Sandip Kumar (Sheffield)
"SHAMROK brings together sciences, medicine, engineering and industry to address AMR"

Session 4: Biofilms, Infection Control & Modelling

15:00 Dr Esther Karunakaran (Sheffield)
“Chemical fingerprints of Acinetobacter sp. biofilms: a Raman microspectroscopy study”

15:15 Dr Michele Barbour (Bristol)
“Preventing umbilical cord infection in low resource settings: a novel biocide based topical material”

15:30 George Parry (Warwick)
“Infection in a Microfluidic Device”

15:45 Dr Robert Hyde (Nottingham)
“Antimicrobial resistance and metabolite levels in slurry samples from dairy cattle in the UK”

16:00 Prof Bill Graham (Belfast)
“Why plasmas/ionised gases have potential in managing Drug Resistive Infection"

16:15 Dr Ben Collyer (Warwick)
“Towards personalised empirical antibiotic guidance – a pilot study”