Understanding resistant bacteria in the context of the host:Theme 1 workshop Event

Chair: Professor Robert Read (Theme Leader)

Programme:

11.30 - coffee and networking

11.15 - Welcome and an introduction: Professor Professor Read

11.30 - 12.00 presentations:

• Professor Xunli Zhang (Faculty of Engineering) 'Flow dynamics in the obstructed and stented ureter within a biomimetic artificial model'
• Magda Bielecka (Faculty of Medicine)
• Mr Rami Salib (Clinical and Experimental Sciences) 'Intracellular staph aureus in chronic rhino-sinusitis - a potential mechanism for antibiotic resistance'
• Others tbc

12.00 - Buffet lunch and networking

13.00 - finish

If you wouldlike the chance to present some of your research in this area please email Yvonne Richardson (y.richardson@soton.ac.uk) who will add you to the programme. We will aim to fit in as much as possible so be prepared to be brief if necessary!

Potential topics:

• Biofilms, eg bringing expertise in tribology and surface chemistry into clinical settings to test technology development for biofilm mitigation for application in catheters/stents, etc.
• Nutrition, eg bringing physical surface scientists into the Faculty of Medicine’s research on how nutritional status may support the bacterium in mutating towards AMR

This is an opportunity to meet colleagues from other faculties and widen your networks of potential collaborator on future funding bids. If you are not a member of NAMRIP but would like to attend, please email Frances Clarke ( fmc@soton.ac.uk ) to become a member.