Exeter Microbiology Symposium

8 - 10 February 2021

An Environment and Sustainability Institute research event
Date	8 - 10 February 2021
Time	Event spans several days
Place	Live Stream on ESI Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/UniofExeterESI
Provider	Environment and Sustainability Institute
Registration information	Live stream to ESI Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/UniofExeterESI
Cost	Free
Organizer	Exeter Microbiology Hub
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Event details

Monday 8 February
1.30-2pm	Neil Gow DVC Research & Impact	The taste of a fungus: how the immune system detects fungal cell wall polysaccharides and what this tells us about the structure of the wall
2-2.30pm	Adilia Warris Professor (Clinical) -Deputy Centre Director MRC CMM	In host-adaptation of Aspergillus fumigatus
2.30-3pm	Elaine Bignell Professor of Medical Mycology	Modus operandi of an accidental fungal pathogen
3-3.30pm	Sarah Gurr Chair in Food Security	The threat of fungal crop pathogens: perils and predictions, movement and mitigation
3.30-4pm	Gordon Brown MRC CMM Director	C-type lectins in anti-fungal immunity
4-4.30pm	Liliane Mukaremera Lecturer	Cellular morphology during Cryptococcus neoformans infection
Tuesday 9 February
1.30-2pm	Edze Westra Professor / NERC Independent Research Fellow	The evolutionary ecology of CRISPR-Cas immune systems
2-2.30pm	Michiel Vos Senior Lecturer in Microbiology	Do bacteria have sex?
2.30-3pm	Stineke Van Houte BBSRC Future Leadership Fellow	CRISPR-Cas: from prokaryotic immune system to antimicrobial therapy
3-3.30pm	Stefano Pagliara Senior Lecturer in Biomicrofluidics	Tackling antimicrobial resistance one cell at a time
3.30-4pm	William Gaze Professor of Microbiology, ECEHH	Considering the environmental dimension of antibiotic resistance using an integrated theoretical framework
4-4.30pm	Ivana Gudelj Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology	Microbial politics: privatising public goods can cause population collapse
Wednesday 10 February
1.30-2pm	Anne Leonard NERC Innovation Fellow	Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the spread of microorganisms and antimicrobial resistance in natural aquatic environments
2-2.30pm	Katherine Helliwell NERC Independent Research Fellow, Joint University of Exeter/ Marine Biological Association Research Fellow	Phytoplankton Employ Novel Mechanisms for Environmental Sensing in the Oceans
2.30-3pm	Laura Newsome Lecturer in Applied Geomicrobiology	Microbe-metal interactions in extreme environments
3-3.30pm	Ben Longdon Sir Henry Dale Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Research Fellow	Virus host shifts
3.30-4pm	Camille Bonneaud Associate Professor in Evolutionary Biology	Adaptive evolution of an infectious bacterial pathogen in a novel host
4-4.30pm	Vicki Gold Senior Lecturer	A new twist on bacterial type IV pili