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Professor Peter Taylor Retirement Symposium

A one-day farewell symposium for Professor Peter Taylor.

 

Friday 2nd September 2022

 

UCL Main Campus

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Agenda

 

09:30Welcome and House Keeping – Gareth Williams, UCL
09:45

David Negus – Nottingham Trent University: “Characterisation of bacteriophages infecting members of the Klebsiella oxytoca complex”

10:15

Alex McCarthy – Imperial College London: Streptococcus pyogenes and puerperal sepsis”

10:45BREAK
11:00

Richard Stabler – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: “Study of the microbial burden on the ISS (International Sweaty Spaceman)”

11:30

Paul Luzio – University of Cambridge: “Sorting, fusion and regeneration in the endosome-lysosome system”

12:00LUNCH
13:00

Mark Enright – Manchester Metropolitan University: “Clinical and agricultural applications of phage polysaccharide depolymerases”

13:30

George Blundell-Hunter – University College London: “Bacteriophage-Encoded Depolymerases Selective for Key Klebsiella pneumoniae Capsular Polysaccharides”

14:00

David Roper – University of Warwick: “New Methods to Extract and Study Membrane Proteins: SMALPs, Peter and me”

14:30BREAK
15:00

George Birchenough - University of Gothenburg: “Mucus, goblet cells & colonic mucosal defence”

15:30

Nick Thomson – Wellcome Sanger Institute: “Genomes, trees and real life”

16:00

Brendan Wren – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: “Serendipitous discovery in bacterial glycostructures – a new era in glycoengineering”

16:30Closing Remarks – Gareth Williams / Peter Taylor