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The Acid Fast Club
Winter Meeting 2014
& AGM
to be held on
Friday 10th January 2014
at
Birkbeck College, University of London
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX
Bloomsbury
Local organiser:
Sanjib Bhakta
s.bhakta AT bbk.ac.uk; sanjib.bhakta AT ucl.ac.uk
10th January 2014 Programme
13:00 - 14:40
14:40 - 15:20
15:20 - 17:00
17:00 - 18:30
19:00 – 21:00
Session 1
Refreshments
AFC AGM
Session 2
Wine reception: ULU Bar (adjacent to Birkbeck main Building;
http://www.ulu.co.uk/food)
Dinner: Busaba Ethai, 22 Store Street, London WC1E 7DF
(http://busaba.com)
Nominations The following nominations for membership have been received:
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Teresa Cortes, NIMR, nominated by Kristine Arnvig and seconded by Douglas
Young.
Victoria Jenkins, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, nominated by Dany Beste
and seconded by Johnjoe McFadden.
Kerstin Williams, Imperial College, nominated by Brian Robertson and seconded
by Graham Stewart.
Domestic arrangements
The meeting will be in Lecture Theatre Room (MALB34),Birkbeck Main Building
(Torrington Square entrance).
Tea and coffee will be served at 14:40 in Room (MALB33), Birkbeck Main Building
(Torrington Square entrance).
Wine and soft drinks will be served at 17:00 in ULU Bar (adjacent to Birkbeck main
Building; http://www.ulu.co.uk/food/). Soft drinks are free but we are charging £4 per
head for a glass of wine.
Dinner: Busaba Ethai, 22 Store Street, London WC1E 7DF (http://busaba.com)
Booking
Please return the completed form below by email and hard-copy by 10th December with
full payment to: Dr Sanjib Bhakta, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck College,
University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX.
This will allow us to confirm numbers with the restaurant before Christmas.
Offered papers
Speakers are underlined & their affiliation indicated.
Speakers are reminded that the Constitution of the Club limits the length of each talk to 15 min.
13:00 –14:40 Session 1:
13:00 – 13:20
NSAIDs to tackle drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Arundhati
Maitra, Dimitrios Evangelopoulos, Parisa Nakhostin Mortazavi, Aleksei Kovalev,
Juan David Guzman, Timothy D. McHugh and Sanjib Bhakta. Mycobacteria
Research Laboratory, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology,
Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet
Street, London WC1E 7HX.
13:20 – 13:40
Structure and Function of the Mycobacterial ACG protein family. Nicholas
H. Keep, Francois Xavier-Chauviac, Doris Quay, James Torpey, Martin
Bommer, Ambrose Cole. Institute for Structural and Molecular Biology,
Crystallography, Dept of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London,
Malet St, London WC1E 7HX.
13:40 – 14:00
Innate and antigen-specific cytotoxic cells and paradoxical HIV-1associated tuberculosis immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome
(TB-IRIS). Katalin A Wilkinson, Naomi F Walker, Graeme Meintjes, Keira H
Skolimowska, Kerryn Matthews, Rebecca Tadokera, Ronnett Seldon, Gary
Maartens, Mark P Nicol, Molebogeng X Rangaka, Gurdyal S. Besra, Robert J
Wilkinson. Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Initiative, Institute of
Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, and MRC National Institute for
Medical Research, London, NW7 1AA.
14:00 – 14:20
High dose rifampicin therapy for a shorter treatment period. Yanmin Hu,
Mitchison DA, Jindani A, Liu Y, Coates ARM. Medical Microbiology, Centre for
Infection and immunity, Division of Clinical Sciences, St George’s, University
of London, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 ORE.
14:20 – 14:40
Getting to know Mycobacterium tuberculosis through metabolomics.
Gérald Larrouy-Maumus, and Luiz Pedro Sório de Carvalho. Division of
Mycobacterial Research, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London,
NW7 1AA.
15:20-17:00
Session 2:
15:20 – 15:40
Counting mycobacteria: how many beans make five? Han Xiao, Katarina
Oravcova, Wilber Sabiiti, Eoghan Farmer, Stephen Gillespie. School of
Medicine, University of St.Andrews, North Haugh, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16
9TF.
15:40 – 16:00
The pathological role of neutrophil necrosis in tuberculosis. David M Lowe,
Nonzwakazi Bangani, Katalin A Wilkinson, Robert J Wilkinson, Adrian R
Martineau. Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London W2
1PG, and Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Initiative, Institute for
Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town,
Observatory 7925, Cape Town, South Africa.
16:00 – 16:20
Role of lymph node-derived lymphatic endothelial cells in mycobacterial
Infection. Maximiliano G. Gutierrez. National Institute of Medical Research,
Mill Hill, London, NW7 1AA.
16:20 – 16:40
Recovery of TB genomes from metagenomes. Jacqueline Chan, Martin
Sergeant, Andrew Millard, Elizabeth Wellington, Helen Donoghue and Mark
Pallen. Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL.
16:40 – 17:00
Bioelectrospray-based cell encapsulation for in vitro modelling of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis induced granuloma formation. Liku B Tezera,
Magda K Bielecka, Victoria Workman, Patience T Brace, Brian D Robertson,
Suwan N Jayasinghe, Paul T Elkington. Clinical and Experimental Sciences,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton.
Directions to the Venue
All modes of travel are covered in detail by information at the following site:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps/directions-central
Booking form
The absolute deadline for booking is 10th December 2013
All attendees MUST fill out the booking form regardless of whether they require refreshments. Booking forms from non-members will not
be accepted without the name of a sponsoring member (who does not need to attend). Please complete the booking form and send it to
Dr Sanjib Bhakta, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX. Please pay
for your booking by Paypal at http://www.acidfastclub.co.uk if you can, otherwise please send a cheque with the booking form payable to
the Acid Fast Club. To use Paypal, select options for dinner and drinks and this will be added to your PayPal cart, where you will be able
to adjust the number required. The "continue shopping" option will allow you to return to the original page to select further items if
required. When finished, select "View Cart" and you will be taken to PayPal to make final adjustments and payment.
Name
Affiliation / Sponsor
Member
Y/N
Coffee/tea
Y/N
Free
Wine
reception
Y/N
£4
Dinner
Vegetarian (V)
£19
Grand total enclosed
Total (£)
Receipt of Payment for Winter Meeting Acid Fast Club 2014 – Birkbeck College, University of London
Name :………………………………………………………… Amount paid:…………………………………
Cheque received by local organiser (signature): ……………………………………………….
Receipts will not be sent but can be collected at the meeting