CampyUK 2009 meeting
Food Standards Agency
Don Whitley Scientific
Defra

 

Last updated: September 15, 2009

Scientific program available for downloaded (pdf format)

CampyUK2009 Scientific program

 

Thursday September 17, 2009

Afternoon, John Innes Conference Center (JICC), Foyer and Auditorium

12.00 - 13.30 Lunch + setup posters (JICC Foyer)
13.30 - 13.45 Welcome & Opening (David Boxer, Director of IFR)
13.45 - 15.30 General Session 1 (Chair: Arnoud van Vliet)
13.30: Prof David Boxer (Director IFR): Welcome & Opening
13.45 Announcement CHRO 2011 (Arnoud van Vliet)
14.00 Highlights from CHRO 2009 in Japan, (Julian Ketley, Ozan Gundogdu, Emily Kay and Aileen Sherry)
14.40 Kathryn Callaghan (FSA): Key outputs from FSA-funded Campylobacter research
15.05 Lesley Larkin (Defra): Foodborne zoonoses
15.30 - 16.00 Tea / Coffee + Poster viewing
16.00 - 17.30 General Session (Chair: Mark Stevens)
16.00: Pete Kaiser (Institute of Animal Health, Compton): "Foodborne zoonotic bacterial pathogens from the chicken's point-of-view; prospects for genetic control"
16.40: Jane Rogers (The Genome Analysis Center, Norwich): "Prospects for use of High-throughput DNA sequencing"
17.10: General discussion on Campylobacter research strategy
17.30 - 21.00 Poster presentations, Dinner buffet and Drinks (Foyer)

 

Friday September 18, 2009

Sessions in the adjacent Watson & Crick Room / Franklin & Wilkins Room, JICC

09.00 - 10.30 Session 1a: Pathogenesis and Immunology
Chair: Brendan Wren. Location: Watson & Crick rooms
09.00     Aileen Sherry: "Proteomic analysis of Campylobacter jejuni in response to human epithelial cells and human epithelial tissue"
09.20     Chatchawal Phansopa: "The 2.2 Å crystal structure of the PEB4 protein of Campylobacter jejuni reveals separate  chaperone and PPIase domains"
09.40     Rogier Louwen: "The clustered regular interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) related CAS gene Cj1523 is a new virulence factor in Campylobacter jejuni pathogenesis and is associated with the Guillain Barré syndrome"
10.00     Astrid Heikema: "The specific interaction between sialoadhesin (Siglec-1) and sialylated Campylobacter jejuni lipooligosaccharides"
10.20   General Discussion
09.00 - 10.30 Session 1b: Evolution and Population Biology
Chair: Martin Maiden. Location: Wilkins & Franklin rooms
09.00     Chris Bayliss: "Rates and Determinants of Phase Variation in Campylobacter jejuni strain 11168 and Selection of Phase Variants During Colonisation of Chickens"
09.18     Frances Colles: "The impact of farming on the Campylobacter populations carried by ducks (Anas platyrhynchos)"
09.36     Sam Sheppard: "On the convergence of Campylobacter species"
09.54     Andy Lawson: "MLST analysis of Campylobacter fetus subspecies fetus isolates from humans suggests that sequence types have distinct aetiologies"
10.12   Ana Vidal: "Genetic diversity of C. jejuni from conventional broiler flocks by MLST: effect of sampling strategies and laboratory methodologies"
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee / Tea break (Foyer)
11.00 - 12.30 Session 2a: Control and Risk Assessment
Chair: Gary Barker. Location: Watson & Crick rooms
11.00     Frances Colles: "The natural dynamics of campylobacter colonising a free range broiler breeder flock"
11.20     Laura Powell: "Campylobacter in broilers: Results from a UK national prevalence survey carried out in 2007"
11.40     Anne Ridley: "A longitudinal molecular epidemiological study of campylobacter on one UK conventional broiler farm"
12.00     Anne Ridley: "A molecular epidemiological investigation of the practice of thinning as a source of flock colonising campylobacters"
12.20   General Discussion
11.00 - 12.30 Session 2b: Microbiology and Physiology
Chair: Dave Kelly. Location: Wilkins & Franklin rooms
11.00     Jonathan Smart: "A role for tungsten in the biology of Campylobacter jejuni"
11.20     Neil Shearer: "Fur regulation of the divergent Campylobacter jejuni cfrA and tonB3 promoters"
11.40     Andy Hitchcock: "The physiological roles of Mfr, a novel periplasmic fumarate reductase in Campylobacter jejuni"
12.00     Bruce Pearson: "Lactate: a favoured carbon source for Campylobacter?"
12.20     General Discussion
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch, Poster viewing (Foyer)
14.00 - 15.30 Session 3a: Genomics and Molecular Biology
Chair: Charles Penn. Location: Watson & Crick rooms
14.00     Ed Guccione: "Regulation of gene expression by oxygen in continuous chemostat cultures of Campylobacter jejuni"
14.20     Arnoud van Vliet: "Characterisation of the Campylobacter jejuni transcriptome: efficient use of a tightly packed genome"
14.40     Rogier Louwen: "Significant differences in CRISPR array spacers of enteritis versus Guillain Barré Syndrome associated Campylobacter jejuni strains"
15.00     Mark Reuter: "Network meta-analysis of Campylobacter jejuni transcriptomics – towards a systems-level approach"
15.20     General Discussion
14.00 - 15.30 Session 3b: Models of Infection and Vaccination
Chair: Paul Everest. Location: Wilkins & Franklin rooms
14.00     Aileen Sherry: "Variation in the response of gnotobiotic and colostrum deprived piglets to Campylobacter jejuni challenge"
14.20     Tony Buckley: "Evaluation of live-attenuated Salmonella vaccines expressing Campylobacter antigens for control of C. jejuni in poultry"
14.40     Olivia Champion: "An insect infection model for Campylobacter jejuni reveals that O-methyl phosphoramidate has insecticidal activity"
15.00     David Smith: "Defining bacterial and host proteomes in vivo"
15.20     General Discussion
15.30 - 16.00  Coffee / Tea break (Foyer)
16.00 - 16.30 Closing session, Location: Watson & Crick rooms
Evaluation & Announcement next CampylobacterUK meeting
16.30 - 17.30    Drinks, Poster removal (Foyer)

 

Posters
(the P number indicates the posterboard number)

  • P1: Mary Bagnall, Galleria mellonella as an alternative infection model for Campylobacter jejuni
  • P2-3: Lone Brøndsted, Role of the HtrA protease-chaperone in stress tolerance of Campylobacter jejuni
  • P4: Abdi Elmi, The role of Campylobacter jejuni glycoproteins during bacterial interactions with human intestinal epithelial cells
  • P5: Duncan Gaskin, The gentle art of complementation; why it pays to be nice to your mutants
  • P6: Ozan Gundogdu, Re-annotation and re-analysis of the Campylobacter jejuni NCTC11168 genome and functional characterisation of selected genes involved in strain pathogenesis
  • P7-8: Richard Haigh, Mutation and Transcriptome-Based Analysis of Norepinephrine-Dependent Enhancement of Campylobacter jejuni Growth and Iron Uptake
  • P9: Richard Haigh, Campylobacter: Glycosylation and stress response
  • P10: Colin Hanfrey, An alternative spermidine biosynthetic pathway is critical for the food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni, and is prevalent in the gut microbiota
  • P11: Andy Hill, Feasibility study to inform the development of a risk assessment model to measure the effectiveness of food chain interventions on the levels of Campylobacter in chicken on retail sale in the UK
  • P12: Holly Smith, The response of Campylobacter jejuni to nitric oxide and cyanide
  • P13: Robert Howlett, Application of metabolomics to Campylobacter jejuni
  • P14: Jennifer Ince, Rapid, automated detection and diagnosis of Campylobacter species in faecal samples
  • P15: Muhammad Javed, Cj1136 is required for virulence and LOS biosynthesis in Campylobacter jejuni
  • P16: Jenny Jennings, Investigating the cause of Vibrionic Hepatitis in commercial broilers
  • P17: Emily Kay, Systems Biology: Glycomics of Campylobacter jejuni (p 44)
  • P18: Julian Ketley, Human ferri-lactoferrin associates with Campylobacter jejuni cells in an iron-responsive manner
  • P19: Vicky Morris, Two-year longitudinal on-farm study tracking sources of Campylobacter
  • P20: Vicky Morris, Molecular tracking of cross-contamination from Campylobacter positive flocks onto Campylobacter negative flocks in the abattoir
  • P21: Vicky Morris, Effect of different production systems on Campylobacter spp. and strains in extensive flocks
  • P22: Nevida Naz, Investigation into the mechanisms of Campylobacter jejuni invasion of intestinal epithelial cells using a Vertical Diffusion Chamber model of infection
  • P23: Ran Ren, Site-directed mutagenesis of the Campylobacter jejuni Fur box
  • P24: Judith Richardson, Campylobacter bacteraemias in the United Kingdom 2004 – 2008
  • P25: John Rodgers, The effect of time between collection and testing, and culture methodology on the detection of Campylobacter in caecal contents
  • P26: John Rodgers, Comparison of a real-time PCR method with culture for the detection of C. jejuni and C. coli in UK broiler flocks
  • P27: Patcharin Siringan, Effect of bacteriophages on Campylobacter biofilms on a glass surface
  • P28: David Smith, Application of GeneRator, a Novel Bioinformatic Tool, for Campylobacter Multi-Genome Comparisons
  • P29: Laura Powell, Estimating the Time of Campylobacter Infection in Broiler Flocks – a Maximum Likelihood Approach
  • P30: Pauline van Diemen, Effect of passage on competition between isogenic Campylobacter jejuni strains in vivo
  • P31: Ana Vidal, Comparative sampling strategies and test combinations for detection and quantification of Campylobacter in broiler flocks at the abattoir
  • P32: Ana Vidal, Sampling strategies and laboratory methods for Campylobacter detection in broiler flocks at primary production
  • P33: Ana Vidal, Genetic diversity of C. jejuni from conventional broiler flocks by MLST: effect of sampling strategies and laboratory methodologies
  • P34: Lisa Williams, Growth dynamics of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli in enrichment broths
  • P35: Alison Cody, An enhanced multi-locus typing scheme for analysis of large multi-host clonal complexes of Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli
  • P36: Alison Cody, Stability of the porA allele as a genetic marker in human Campylobacter infection
  • P37: Ken Forbes, CaMPS: Campylobacter MLST Project in Scotland
  • P38: Ken Forbes, Applying host attribution to quantify the role of chicken and the environment as a source of human campylobacteriosis

 

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