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MMM Conference 2018

The MMM Conference will take place on Monday 12 March 2018, at: St Catherine’s College, Manor Road, Oxford, OX1 3UJ.

Registration on the day (including tea, coffee and pastries) will commence at 8.20am with an anticipated conference start time of 9.20am. The Conference should finish at 5.30pm and a drinks reception will immediately follow. Networking, after the drinks reception, will continue at the King’s Arms,  one of Oxford’s finest hostelries.

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Download the MMM Conference Brochure 2018

Timetable

Morning breakfast, registration and welcome
08:20-09:20 Breakfast reception, networking and registration

Coffee, pastries, Wifi, demos and luggage storage available

09:20-09:30 Welcome and opening address

Derrick Crook

Session 1: One year after the PHE TB roll-out: lessons on implementation and research advances

Chair: Philip Fowler

09:30-09:50 Controlling artefactual variation in reported inter-sample relatedness during clinical use of a M. tuberculosis sequencing pipeline

David Wyllie

09:50-10:10 Towards using the CRyPTIC plate for M. tuberculosis drug susceptibility testing

Clara Grazian

10:10-10:30 The CRyPTIC M. tuberculosis bioinformatics pipeline

Martin Hunt

10:30-10:50 10% there: prediction of first-line tuberculosis drug susceptibility profiles from 10,000 genomes

Tim Walker

10:50-11:10 Beyond COMPASS

Jeremy Swann/Fan Yang-Turner

11:10-11:50 Morning coffee break
Session 2: And now for something completely different

Chair: Sarah Walker

11:50-12:20 C. auris outbreak

David Eyre/Katie Jeffery

12:20-12:50 The “Antibiotic Review Kit”

Martin Llewelyn

12:50-14:00 Lunch
Session 3: Up from the deep: the role of water reservoirs, plumbing and sewage

Chair: Tim Peto

14:00-14:20 TRACE cardiothoracic

Derrick Crook

14:20-14:40 What is down the sinks at the John Radcliffe hospital?

Kevin Chau

14:40-15:00 The role of the environment in sustained KPC transmission at the University of Virginia Medical Center

Amy Mathers

15:00-15:20 REHAB. The environmental resistome: confluence of Human and Animal Biota in antibiotic resistance spread.

Nicole Stoesser

15:20-16:00 Afternoon coffee break
Session 4: The future is bright, the future is Nanopore?

Chair: Derrick Crook

16:00-16:20 Direct from sample sequencing for M. tuberculosis

Sophie George

16:20-16:40 Preparing for the Nanopore deluge

Nick Sanderson

16:40-17:00 Flu & viral detection

Yifei Xu

17:00-17:25 Panel: So, is the future Nanopore …?
17:25-17:30 Closing remarks
17:30-18:00 Drinks reception
18:30 Pub (Kings Arms, 40 Holywell St, OX1 3SP. Pub on the way to train/bus station, 10 min walk)
Nicola Fawcett 2018-03-12T07:34:12+00:00

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University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital
Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU
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Research Group Lead:
Professor Derrick Crook
Professor of Microbiology
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Telephone 01865 221226

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