Annual Conference 2020 – Student talks

Session 1: Everyday lives, everyday antibiotics: a global and cross sector perspective on use

Susan Nayiga London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	Living with persistent ill-health: what tinkering with antibiotics renders visible in rural households in Eastern Uganda
Ayodeji Matuluko Glasgow Caledonian University	Applying implementation science principles to the design and evaluation of an antimicrobial stewardship intervention
Salome Manyau London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	Antimicrobials in the informal health sector in Harare, Zimbabwe
Shirin Aliabadi Imperial College London	Do stewardship interventions targeting antibiotic prescribing in primary care have an effect on antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli bloodstream infections between 2013-2018? An interrupted time series analysis
Maria Garza Royal Veterinary College	Can better governance reduce antimicrobial usage? An assessment of Vietnamese aquaculture systems

Session 2 Part A: Novel antimicrobials, vaccines, diagnostics and antimicrobial materials

Valwynne Faulkner Royal Veterinary College	The identification of a novel drug target in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
David Walker-Sunderhauf University of Exeter	AMR plasmid removal from a bacterial community using a mobile CRISPR tool
Richard Goodman Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine	Bacteria’s Black Market: assessing the impact of horizontal gene transfer on the evolution of AMR in Enterobacteriaceae
Anne Amulele Kenya Medical Research Instititute	Carbapenem resistant bacteria in Kenya and resistant mechanisms
Viivi Hirvonen University of Bristol	Multiscale modelling of Beta-lactamase mediated antibiotic resistance

Session 2 Part B: Novel antimicrobials, vaccines, diagnostics and antimicrobial materials

Sam Williams University of Bristol	Exploring the deep-sea microbiome for novel antibiotics
Niamh Harrington University of Warwick	Bridging the gap between the laboratory and the clinic: an ex vivo pig lung model for Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm infection in cystic fibrosis lung
Ronan Murphy Imperial College London	Glatiramer acetate improves the killing ability of tobramycin in Pseudomonas aeruginosa cultured from cystic fibrosis clinical samples
Matthew Skeats University of Bristol	Chlorhexidine polyphosphate – An alternative to antibiotics in orthopaedic bone cements?
Paola Cocco University of Leeds	Developing new ‘fit-for-purpose’ diagnostic tests for Clostridium difficile infection

Session 3: Drivers and vectors of antimicrobial resistance

Chioma Achi University of Cambridge	Plasmids carrying AMR genes in selected Salmonella enterica isolates
Lauren Arkoosh Abertay University	Seals as sentinels of antimicrobial resistance: a preliminary screen for antimicrobial resistance genes in UK waters
Hannah Lepper University of Edinburgh	Comparing the abundance of antibiotic resistance bacteria in municipal sewage with national surveillance of clinical isolates
Aoife Quinlivan University of Nottingham	Preventing the rising tide of AMR: Utilising MOFs to remove antibiotics from wastewater
Slawomir Michniewski University of Warwick	Bacterial viruses encoding antimicrobial resistance genes: discovery and confirmation of a novel ARG