AFC Summer virtual meeting 2021 (hosted by The University of Southampton)

1st July 2021

Programme of speakers, associates, affiliations and presented titles

(Speakers indicated in Bold)

Welcome by AFC Chair, Tim McHugh

Session 1: Host session

Integrated transcriptomic analysis of human tuberculosis granulomas and a 3D model as a translational pipeline.

Michaela Reichmann.

University of Southampton.

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Investigation of CD1c-restricted T cells in human TB.

Jennie Gullick.

University of Southampton.

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What happened next? – an update on previous AFC talks.

Paul Elkington.

University of Southampton

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Sensing of Interferon-gamma by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Mohamed Ahmed, Jared Mackenzie, Robert Krause, Liku Tezera, Barry Truebody, Diana Garay-Baquero, Andres Vallejo, Katya Govender, John Adamson, Paul Elkington, Adrie Steyn, Alasdair Leslie.

Africa Health Research Institute. College of Health Sciences, School of Laboratory Medicine & Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa

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Session 2: Selected papers from submitted abstracts

Probing differences in gene essentiality between the human and animal adapted lineages of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex using TraDIS.

Amanda Gibson, Ian Passmore, Valwynne Faulkner, Dong Xia, Irene Nobeli, Jennifer Stiens, Sam Willcocks, Dirk Werling, Bernardo Villarreal-Ramos, Brendan Wren, Sharon Kendall.

Royal Veterinary College and Aberystwyth University.

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Using immunopeptidomics and immunoinformatics to identify novel antigens for subunit vaccines for tuberculosis.

Salem Almujri, Paulo Bettencourt, Elena Stylianou, Rachel Tanner, Iman Satti, Annalisa Nicastri, Nicola Ternette, Helen McShane.

The Jenner Institute, University of Oxford.

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Structural and mechanistic insights into the function of cobalamin-sensing riboswitches in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Terry Kipkorir, Alexandre D’Halluin, Kristine Arnvig.

 University College London.

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Mapping the phylogenetics and lineage history of geographically distinct BCG strains.

Linzy Elton, Helen Donoghue, Hussain Safar , Adam Witney, Sandeep Kasaragod, Priscilla Amankwah, Timothy D McHugh.

Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Division of Infection & Immunity, University College London.

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