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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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
