The Acid Fast Club

Bringing the UK's mycobacteria research community together

Tag: 2014

  • AFC History presentation July 2014

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    A presentation by Ann Rawkins, at the AFC’s 60th anniversary meeting held in Berlin, July 2014.

  • AFC Winter 2014 meeting

    AFC Winter 2014

    Held at Birkbeck College, London

    January 10th 2014

    Scientific Programme

    Session 1

    NSAIDs to tackle drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
    Arundhati Maitra, Dimitrios Evangelopoulos, Parisa Nakhostin Mortazavi, Aleksei Kovalev, Juan David Guzman, Timothy D. McHugh and Sanjib Bhakta. Mycobacteria Research Laboratory, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck College

    Structure and Function of the mycobacterial ACG protein family
    Nicholas H. Keep, Francois Xavier-Chauviac, Doris Quay, James Torpey, Martin Bommer, Ambrose Cole. Institute for Structural and Molecular Biology, Crystallography, Dept of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck College

    Innate and antigen-specific cytotoxic cells and paradoxical HIV-1-associated tuberculosis immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (TB-IRIS)
    Katalin A Wilkinson, Naomi F Walker, Graeme Meintjes, Keira H Skolimowska, Kerryn Matthews, Rebecca Tadokera, Ronnett Seldon, Gary Maartens, Mark P Nicol, Molebogeng X Rangaka, Gurdyal S. Besra, Robert J Wilkinson. Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, and MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London

    High dose rifampicin therapy for a shorter treatment period
    Yanmin Hu, Mitchison DA, Jindani A, Liu Y, Coates ARM. Medical Microbiology, Centre for Infection and immunity, Division of Clinical Sciences, St George’s, University of London

    Getting to know Mycobacterium tuberculosis through metabolomics
    Gérald Larrouy-Maumus, and Luiz Pedro Sório de Carvalho. Division of Mycobacterial Research, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London

    Session 2

    Counting mycobacteria: how many beans make five?
    Han Xiao, Katarina Oravcova, Wilber Sabiiti, Eoghan Farmer, Stephen Gillespie. School of Medicine, University of St.Andrews

    The pathological role of neutrophil necrosis in tuberculosis
    David M Lowe, Nonzwakazi Bangani, Katalin A Wilkinson, Robert J Wilkinson, Adrian R Martineau. Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, and Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Initiative, Institute for Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory 7925, Cape Town, South Africa

    Role of lymph node-derived lymphatic endothelial cells in mycobacterial Infection
    Maximiliano G. Gutierrez. National Institute of Medical Research, Mill Hill, London

    Recovery of TB genomes from metagenomes
    Jacqueline Chan, Martin Sergeant, Andrew Millard, Elizabeth Wellington, Helen Donoghue and Mark Pallen. Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick

    Bioelectrospray-based cell encapsulation for in vitro modelling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis induced granuloma formation
    Liku B Tezera, Magda K Bielecka, Victoria Workman, Patience T Brace, Brian D Robertson, Suwan N Jayasinghe, Paul T Elkington. Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton

    Programme details (Word file)

  • AFC Summer 2014 meeting (60th anniversary)

    AFC Summer 2014

    60th Anniversary meeting, Berlin

    July 10-11 2014

    Scientific Programme

    Session 1: Berlin + Aeras Special

    TB Research in Berlin Spanning 130 Years
    Stefan Kaufmann, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology

    Interferons, Inflammation and Lung Injury in TB
    Anca Dorhoi, MPIIB

    Molecular profiling for host biomarker discovery in health and disease
    Jeroen Maertzdorf, MPIIB

    Individuality in disease: patient-specific and cell-specific gene expression in TB
    January Weiner, MPIIB

    Session 2: Offered papers

    Metabolic models of mycobacteria: systems insights into pathogenesis
    Johnjoe McFadden, University of Surrey

    Transcriptome analysis reveals differential innate immune response of bovine macrophages to strains of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
    Kevin Rue-Albrecht, David A. Magee, Kevin M. Conlon, Nicolas C. Nalpas, John A. Browne, Paul A. McGettigan, Claire Healy, Kirsten E. McLoughlin, Eamonn Gormley, David E. MacHugh and Stephen V. Gordon, University College Dublin

    Tetrahydrobiopterin production by macrophages is not required for protective immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
    Elena Stylianou, Eileen McNeill, Rachel Kandt, Keith Channon, Helen McShane, The Jenner Institute, University of Oxford

    A brief history of the Acid Fast Club
    Ann Rawkins, Public Health England, Porton Down

    Session 3: Offered papers

    Degradosome as one of the major RNA processing complexes in mycobacteria
    Przemyslaw Plocinski, Maria Macios, Emilia Niemiec, Joanna Houghton, Douglas Young and Andrzej Dziembowski, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Sciences

    NO biomarker for TB –  Expired nitric oxide and lipid body content of tubercle bacilli in sputum
     Baye Gelaw, Natalie J. Garton, Gashaw Mesele,Tadye Abeje, Salie Ayalew, Pranabashis Haldar, Abraham Assefa, and Michael R Barer, Department of Medical Microbiology, CMHS, UOG, Ethiopia

    Whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputum: a revolution in diagnostic microbiology
    Amanda Claire Brown and members of the PathSeek project consortium, Oxford Gene Technology

    Characterisation of host genetic factors that influence pathogen-host interplay during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
    K. M. Kreutzfeldt, L. Mullen, C. Finan, S. J. Waddell, A. Marchant, M. J. Newportand S. M. Sacre, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex

    The use of gene expression profiling in Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a tool to study drug efficacy and action
    Dimitrios Evangelopoulos, Aidan Hanrath,Iva Treveska, Magdalena Karlikowska, Isobella Honeyborne, Sanjib Bhakta, Simon Waddel, Philip Butcherand Timothy D. McHugh, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Royal Free Campus, University College London

    Session 4: Offered papers

    Development of a BCG challenge model for the testing of vaccine candidates against bovine tuberculosis
    Villarreal-Ramos, B., Berg, S., Chamberlain, L., McShane, H., Hewinson, R. G., Clifford, D., Vordermeier, M., Bovine TB Group, AHVLA, Weybridge, New Haw, Surrey

    Metabolite-Regulated Shutdown of Efflux Pumps is Critical for Mycobacterial Survival in Non-Permissive Growth Conditions
    Obolbek Turapov, Simon J Waddell, Asel Sarybaeva, Bernard Burke, Sarah Glenn, Griselda Tudo, Gilles Labesse, Danielle I. Young, Michael YoungPeter W. Andrew, Philip D. Butcher, Martin Cohen-Gonsaud,Galina V. Mukamolova, Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester

    Redefining the mechanism of action of D-cycloserine in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
    Gareth A. Prosser, Luiz Pedro Carvalho, National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London

    AZALEP A randomized controlled trial of azathioprine to treat leprosy nerve damage and reactions in India: main findings
    Lockwood DNJ, Darlong J, Pichimani G, Royce KK, Sundar Rao, Annamma John, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London

    A guide to killing your host cell, by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
    Graham Stewart, Robert Francis, Rachel Butler, Tom Mendum, Shaza Felemban, University of Surrey

    Meeting programme details Word file

     

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