Last modified January March 13, 2006. Maintained by G.W. Griffith, UW Aberystywth

2006 All-Wales Microbiology Meeting

Cynhadledd Microbioleg Cenedlaethol

Gregynog Hall, Mon 20th - Wed 22nd March 2006

Sponsored by:-

Society for General Microbiology/Society for Applied Microbiology Regional Meetings Fund,

Welsh Development Agency

University of Wales Gregynog Staff Colloquia Fund.

Organised by Gareth Griffith and Eshwar Mahenthiralingam. For further details please contact Gareth Griffith, UW Abersytwyth.

Click here for details of past meetings held in 2004 and 2005.


MONDAY 20th MARCH

16.00 Arrive in time for tea in the Blaney Room.

19.00 Dinner

20.00 Quiz. An ice-breaker (organised by Greg Jones [UWS]).

21.00 Exploration of the bar habitats.


TUESDAY 21stMARCH

Session 1 - Chair: Esh Mahenthiralingam (UC)

9.00

Guest : Kevin Ashelford (UC)

Sorting the wheat from the chaff: developing software that can recognise poorly sequenced genes

9.30

Kees Roest (UGlam)

Molecular analysis of microbial communities in anaerobic digesters

9.45

Sandra Akpe (UWS)

A new developmental locus of Streptomyces coelicolor: evidence for secretion of a protein heterodimer via a Sec/Tat-independent mechanism

10.00

Pavel Drevinek (UC)

Transcriptomic analysis of Burkholderia cenocepacia

10.15

Liz Boddy (UWB)

Turnover rates of low molecular weight carbon by Arctic microbes

10.30 Colin Jackson (UWA) A seven year itch:- molecular approaches to the epidemiology of ringworm infections

 

 

 

TEABREAK


Session 2 - Chair: Paul Dyson(UWS)

11.15

Guest: Chris Wright(UWS)

Application of Atomic Focre Microscopy to Micriobial Sysyems: Imaging and Interactions

11.45

Saber Yezli (UC)

Molecular basis for biocide resistance in Serratia marcescens

12.00

Llinos Harris (UWS)

Staphylococcal reactions to biomaterials

12.15

Sara Rassner (UWA)

Aquatic viruses

12.30

Hannah Toberman (UWB)

Effects of climate change on phenol oxidase activity in peatlands

 

 

 

1.00 LUNCH


1.45 FOOTBALL GAME / NATURE WALK

16.00 Tea

16.30 Guest : Dr. Adam Baldwin (Warwick University) Multilocus sequence typing of the Burkholderia cepacia complex

17.00 Industry Guest speaker : Pablo Abrahams (Cultech Ltd., Port Talbot). TBA

19.00 Dinner

8.00 After Dinner Guest speaker: Professor Tony Campbell (Medical Biochemistry, Cardiff University)

______________________Lighting up chemical processes in living bacteria

21.00 Sampling expedition to the bar.


WEDNESDAY 22ndMARCH

Session 3 - Chair: Gareth Griffith

9.00

Sarah MacLeod (UC)

The ability of other uropathogens to prevent catheter encrustation by Proteus mirabilis

9.15

Lorena Fernandez (UWS)

Developmental osmoadaptation in Streptomyces coelicolor

9.30

Prysor Williams (UWB)

Earthworms as vectors of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in soil and vermicomposts

9.45

Alvin Tan (UWS)

Application of Atomic Force Microscopy to the Development of Microbial Fuel Cells

10.00

Robert Broomfield (UC)

Crystalline bacterial biofilm formation on urinary catheters by urease producing urinary tract pathogens

10.15

Jessica Adams (IGER)

Identification of Increased Starch Degradability in Mutants of Maize for use in Bioethanol Production

TEABREAK


Session 4 - Chair: Mike Young

11.15

Sophie Lucas (UWB)

Biodegradation of the estrogens, estrone and 17 ?-estradiol in agricultural soils and animal manure

11.30

Karen Woodhams (UWA)

Muralytic activity of the rpf factor

11.45

Peter Wyn-Jones (UWA)

Virobathe – just when you though it was safe to back into the water…

12.00

Kristina Harris (UC)

Trichomonas vaginalis and Giardia intestinalis produce nitric oxide: do parasites have their own immune responses?

12.15

Guest : Brian Jones (Cork)

Metagenomics of the human gut

 

 

 

1.00 LUNCH (then depart)


Accommodation List

STAYING BOTH NIGHTS (51 + 4Mon + 4Tues)

IGER (1)
Jessica Adams
UWA (15)
Arwyn Edwards
Gareth Griffith
Phil Hexley
Heather Moore
Eric Pinloche
Jo Porter
Andrea Olvera-Ramirez
Sara Rassner
Kevin Roderick
Jasmine Sharp
Elizabeth Steiner
Mike Winson
Karen Woodhams
Daniell Young
Mike Young
UWB (3)
Liz Boddy
Sophie Lucas
Hannah Toberman
UC (21)
Kevin Ashelford
Robert Broomfield
Daniel Brown
Tony Campbell
Andrew Deacon
David Dockrell
Pavel Drevinek
Julia Griffiths
Kristina Harris
Alex Harrison
Rhian Lewis
David Lloyd
Sarah Macleod
Eshwar Mahenthiralingam
Angela Marchbank
Coralie Millet
Helen Rose
Al Venables
Gareth Williams
Jonathan Wood
Saber Yezli

UWS (9)
Sandra Akpe
Paul Dyson
Lorena Fernandez
Simon Gregory
Llinos Harris
Greg Jones
Lindsay Parkes
Alvin Tan
Chris Wright

Others (1)
Brian Jones (UC Cork)
MONDAY NIGHT ONLY (4)
Jamie Newbold (UWA)
Kees Roest (UGlam) plus ONE
Andrew Weightman (UC)
 

TUESDAY NIGHT ONLY (4)
Prysor Williams (UWB)
Dave Stickler (UC)
Pablo Abrahams (Cultech)
Adam Baldwin (U. Warwick)

DAY VISIT ONLY (5)
Neil McEwan (UWA)
Peter Wyn-Jones (UWA)
Colin Jackson (UWA)
Dietrich Mack (UWS)
Alex Anesio (UWA)

Special dietary requirements:- (Vegan: Edwards, Toberman, Woodhams)(Vegetarian:- Ashelford, Broomfield, Lucas, Parkes, Sharpe)(Wheat and lactose-free: Mahenthiralingam) (Wheat free: Griffiths)


We are grateful to the SGM/SfAM WDA and UW for sponsorship of this meeting. As part of the sponsorship there is a prize (£150) awarded for the best talk given by a postgraduate or 'younger' scientist.

Details of previus meetings can be found at http://users.aber.ac.uk/gwg/gregynog/mtg04.html and http://users.aber.ac.uk/gwg/gregynog/mtg05.html


 

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