Programme

Day 1 - Wednesday 24th September 2025, 10:00 - 18:00

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Christine Szymanski, University of Georgia Impact of the Campylobacter glycome on intestinal persistence and disease

 

Presenter Title
Amy Douglas, Frieda Jorgensen, UKHSA Campylobacter surveillance and epidemiological trends in England between 2015 and 2024.
Maria-Leonor Lemos,  ICBAS-University of Porto Uncovering genomic traits of Campylobacter jejuni in dogs through comparative host-based analysis.
Luka Jurinovic, Croatian Veterinary Institute Where do gulls get their campylobacters?
Quentin Jehanne, CHU de Bordeaux Routine use of WGS for Campylobacter: improved epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance surveillance in France.
Francesca Schiaffino, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia Persistent Campylobacter infections and early growth faltering in LMICs.  Sponsored by the Microbiology Society.
Kelvin Simiyu Sibuta, Wellcome Sanger Institute Genomic insights into Campylobacter infans, a neglected but prevalent pathogen driving diarrhoeal burden in LMIC infants.
Sitara SR Ajjampur, Chrisitian Medical College (CMC), Vellore Campylobacter, children and chickens in rural south India - lessons from the One Health Poultry Hub.

 

 

Presenter Title
Aidan Taylor, University of Reading Taming Campylobacter: from molecular insights to real-world interventions.
Malgorzata Emanowicz, DAFM Ireland Implementation of a national monitoring programme of Campylobacter in Irish broilers to measure progress of on-farm and primary processing control measures.
Finlay Bembridge, University of Reading Shining a (blue) light on Campylobacter: photodynamic inactivation as a viable intervention strategy in the food chain.
Lisa Williams, Hartpury University Extra-intestinal spread of Campylobacter via the ileum in broiler chickens: A bird-matched genomic and phenotypic study.
Bukola Onarinde, University of Lincoln Dynamics of AMR Campylobacter spp. during the processing of chicken meat.
Cristina Calvo- Fernandez, DTU Food, Denmark Tracing the survival of Campylobacter jejuni ST-52: an emergent lineage across the Danish food chain.
Chloe Manning, APHA Investigating fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter across UK farms and uncovering potential risk factors.

 

Presenter Title
Anthony Wilson / Elli Amanatidou From science to policy: how the UK Food Standards Agency uses Campylobacter science to inform decision making
Marian Dawkins The role of chicken welfare and behaviour in the early detection of Campylobacter; an interdisciplinary perspective
Anthony Wilson, Richard Griffiths, Aidan Taylor, Sitara SR Ajjampur Panel discussion (25 mins): Addressing current and future Campylobacter challenges
   
   

 

 

Conference Dinner (pre-booked) arrive at 19:15 for 19.30. Finishes at 21.45.

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Dress code (guide only, please wear what you feel comfortable in!): Smart business attire (not black tie)

Hertford college is a 10 - 15 minute walk from the Life and Mind Building conference venue. More details can be found on the Hertford College website.

Address: Hertford College, Catte Street, Oxford, OX1 3BW

Day 2 - Thursday 25th September 2025, 09:00 - 15:30

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David Kelly, University of Sheffield Campylobacter and Oxygen: A double-edged sword

 

Presenter Title
John Rodgers, APHA PATH-SAFE: Monitoring AMR in Campylobacter from UK livestock.
Frances Colles, University of Oxford PATH-SAFE: Genomics of antimicrobial resistant Campylobacter transmission through UK Agri-Food systems.
Birgitta Duim, University of Utrecht Establishing interpretive standards for Campylobacter AMR genotypes, analogous to how susceptibility phenotype results are interpreted.
Madison Goforth, University of Oxford Global rise and fall of globally disseminated Campylobacter spp. lineages.
  Tea and coffee break
Bilal Djeghout, Quadram Instititute Dysbiosis and antimicrobial resistance in Campylobacter gastroenteritis: insights from metagenomic and genomic profiling.
Dennis Linton, University of Manchester The “ins and outs” of Campylobacter jejuni metal homeostasis.
Ben Pascoe, University of Oxford Expansion of a poultry derived Multidrug-Resistant Campylobacter coli lineage in humans in the Peruvian Amazon.
Kerry Cooper, The University of Arizona Sharing of cmeRABC alleles between C. coli and C. jejuni associated with extensive drug resistance in Campylobacter isolates from infants and poultry in the Peruvian Amazon.

 

 

Presenter Title
Tine Hald, DTU Food Denmark Modelling Approaches for Source Attribution of Human Campylobacteriosis.
Nicol Janecko, Quadram Institute Evidence from metagenomic analysis reveals hidden Campylobacter transmission in mother and infant microbiomes with significance for public health in Bangladesh.
Abdi Elmi, LSHTM Territorial segregation between Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli is driven by chemotactic sensing and metabolic adaptation.
Jack Kiney Whitmore, University of Reading Oh, Please! 5-Oxoproline (OP), a spontaneous cyclisation product of L-Glu and L-Gln, is consumed by Campylobacter via a series of DUF proteins.
Subhadeep Gupta, LSHTM Modulation of bacterial secretion system functionality: a novel death pathway of gut pathogens.
Živa Zidar, University of Ljubljana Genotype-phenotype analysis of Campylobacter jejuni biofilm formation.
Andrew Grant, University of Cambridge Campylobacter - Wild types, mutants and screens - from basic to applied biology.

 

Poster prize (Early Career Researchers) sponsored by the Journal of Medical Microbiology

Oral presentation prize (short talks) sponsored by the Journal of Microbial Genomics

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