AFC Winter meeting 2023
6th January 2023
Programme of speakers, associates, affiliations and presented titles
(Speakers indicated in Bold)
Welcome by AFC Chair, Mike Barer
Session 1: Host session
Welcome from the Blizard Institute Director
Professor Mary Collins
Queen Mary University of London
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Introducing Queen Mary & Barts Health TB Centre
Adrian Martineau
Queen Mary University of London
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Beyond Bactericidal Action: Immune-Activating Potential of Biotin Protein Ligase Inhibitors in Tuberculosis
Divya Tiwari
Queen Mary University of London
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The role of Butyrophilin 3A proteins in human gamma/delta T cell responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
Wing-Yiu Jason Lee
Queen Mary University of London
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A host-directed therapy for Mycobacterium abscessus?
Arnaud Wolfer, Piotr Szkuta, Jonathan P Sturgeon, Artemis Koukounari, Basil Sambou,
Muhamed Sissoko, Abdou K Sillah, Uzochukwu Egere, Saikou Bah, Miaomiao Pan, Hao Li, Wijdan Elnaim, Dominic Habgood-Coote, Victoria Wright, Mike Levin, Myrsini Kaforou, Babak Javid, Elaine Holmes, Serge Mostowy, Beate Kampmann, Robin Basu Roy
Queen Mary University of London
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Session 2: Selected talks
Fast-growing intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis populations evade antibiotic treatment
Nathan J Day, Baptiste Pradel, Chak Hon Luk, Antony Fearns, Angela Rodgers, Pierre Santucci, Beren Aylan,
Laure Botella, Julien Vaubourgeix, Julio Ortiz Canseco, Natalia Athanasiadi, Maximiliano G. Gutierrez
The Francis Crick Institute
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An immunocompetent human iPSC-derived multicellular Alveolus-on-Chip reveals early pathological events of M. tuberculosis infection
Chak Hon Luk, Gabriel L. Conway, Kim Jee Goh, Antony Fearns, Irene Rodriguez-Hernandez, Nathan J. Day, Natalia Athanasiadi, Rocco D’Antuono, Enrica Pellegrino, Janick D. Stucki, Nina Hobi, Maximiliano G. Gutierrez
The Francis Crick Institute
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An Adaptive Laboratory Evolution Model to Investigate Genomic Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance in Mycobacterium abscessus
Brian Mpofu, Sarah Cameron, Adam Roberts, Chris Moon, Andrew Preston, Joanna Bacon
UK Health Security Agency
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Session 3: Selected talks
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria: from water source to lung.
Laura Steege, Simon Waddell, Simon Clark, Ginny Moore
UK Health Security Agency and Brighton and Sussex Medical School
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Surface hydrophobicity and propensity for airborne transmission of mycobacteria
Meshal Asiri, Natalie Garton, Mike Barer
University of Leicester
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Humoral immune activation induced by intravesical BCG in NMIBC patients.
Lucy Denly, Iman Satti, Skirmantas Kriaucionis, Helen McShane
University of Oxford
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Using cytochromes to measure the ∆Ψ in intact mycobacterial cells
Rowan Walters, B. Hartman, M. Osman, R. Springett, J. Blaza
University of York
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Single-cell RNA sequencing of cerebrospinal fluid in HIV-associated tuberculous meningitis.
James Barnacle, Nonzwakazi Bangani, Hubert Slawinski, Chris Barrington, Katalin A Wilkinson, Cari J Stek,
Angharad G Davis, Rachel Lai, Graeme Meintjes, Daniel L Barber, Anne O’Garra, Robert J Wilkinson
The Francis Crick Institute and Imperial College London
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Genome wide identification of genes that modulate M. tuberculosis rifampicin and streptomycin persister frequency
Tom Mendum, Johana E Hernández Toloza, Ye Xu, Bianca Sica Siedler, Rosalyn Casey, Huihai Wu, Kerstin Williams, Suzanne Hingley-Wilson, Johnjoe McFadden
University of Surrey
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