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Session 1 - Host adaptation in Campylobacter

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Session times

  • Day 1 Wednesday 8th September 2021. 16:15-17:45 (BST/UTC+1)

Session programme

Time Item
+00:00 Opening remarks from session chairs
+00:05 15 minute oral presentations
I1: Transcontinental adaptation of the bovine pathogen Campylobacter fetus
Daniela Costa (Institut Pasteur Montevideo) Video
I3: Quantifying bacterial evolution in the wild: a birthday problem for Campylobacter lineages
Jessica Calland (University of Bath) Video
I4: Campylobacter phages use hypermutable polyG tracts to create phenotypic diversity and evade bacterial resistance
Martine C. H. Sørensen (University of Copenhagen) Video
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+00:50 5 minute lightning talk
I2: The ecology of interspecies recombination among the zoonotic bacterium Campylobacter
Evangelos Mourkas (University of Bath) Video
I5: Genomic adaptations of Campylobacter jejuni to long-term human colonisation
Samuel Bloomfield (Quadram Institute Bioscience)
I6: Commensalism and competition between Campylobacter jejuni strains in broiler chickens
Sophie Chagneau (Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Université de Montréal) Video
P14: Occurrence, virulence potential, antimicrobial susceptibility and genetic diversity of Campylobacter spp. isolated from dogs and cats from Warsaw, Poland and the surrounding area
Małgorzata Murawska (Warsaw University of Life Sciences) Video
T11: From wild birds to humans through surface water: a dive into Campylobacter jejuni ecology in Luxembourg
Louise Hock (Luxembourg Institute of Sciences and Technology) Video
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+01:15 Question and answer session regarding all talks
+01:30 Session summary and close (Session chairs)

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Session chairs

  • Ben Pascoe (University of Bath)
  • Cadi Davies (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
  • Dessislava Veltcheva (University of Oxford)