London Kick off Meeting

Nanomaterials and Antibiotics

30th November 2016-1sd December 2016

Sponsored by French Embassy in London

Organiser: Sabine Szunerits (partner 1), Mike Watkinson (Queen Mary, London)

PARTICIPANTS:

ACTIS Paolo   paolo.actis@bio-nano-consulting.com
ALEXANDER Cameron   cameron.alexander@nottingham.ac.uk
BERNARD Julien  julien.bernard@insa-lyon.fr  
BOUCKAERT Julie    julie.bouckaert@univ-lille1.fr
GARNETT James  j.garnett@qmul.ac.uk
GOUIN Sebastien     Sebastien.Gouin@univ-nantes.fr
JENKINS Toby   a.t.a.jenkins@bath.ac.uk
KOBETIC Renata   rkobetic@irb.hr
METZLER-NOLTE Nils    Nils.Metzler-Nolte@rub.de
MUNOZ Luis   luis.munoz@uk-erlangen.de
QUITANA-HAYASHI Macarena   macarena.quintana.hayashi@gu.se
ROCHON Philippe   philippe.rochon@lsomedical.com
SCANLAN Eoin   eoin.scanlan@tcd.ie
SZUNERITS Sabine   sabine.szunerits@univ-lille1.fr
WATKINSON Mike  m.watkinson@qmul.ac.uk

 

PROGRAMME
Monday, Nov 30th 2016

13.-12.45 Welcome and Lunch
12.45-13.00 Opening by the organisers

Glycan conjugates
13.00-13.20 Synthetic Glycoconjugates as Antibiotics and Vaccine Candidates (Eoin M. SCANLAN; Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
13.20-13.40 E. coli antiadhesives-Part 1: Monovalent vs. Multivalent FimH antagonists (Sébastien G. GOUIN; University Nantes-CNRS, France)
13.40-14.00 E. coli antiadhesives-Part 1: Glycopolymers and Glyconanocapsules FimH Antagonsits (Julien BERNARD; University Lyon, France)
14.00-14.20 Anti-adhesive mannosides and nanostructures: a marriage to heal from Escherichia Coli infections (Julie BOUCKAERT; USTL-CNRS, France)
15.00-15.20 Chemistry on proteins for basic biology and protein therapeutics (Goncalo J. L. BERNARDES ; University of Cambridge, UK)
15.20-15.40 Metal-Based Antibiotic Drug Candidates: New Structures and Studies towards their Mode of Action (Nils METZLER-NOLTE; Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
15.40-16.00 What has coordination chemistry got to offer to antibiotic resistance? (Michael WATKINSON (QMUL, UK)
15.40-16.00 Polymers for bacterial binding and quorum sensing interference (Alexander CAMERON; University of Nottingham, UK)
16.00-16.20 Microbial Triggered Delivery of Bacteriophage JENKINS (University of Bath; UK)
16.40-17.30 Discussion session

19.00-22.00 Dinner

 

Tuesday, Dec 1sd 2016

Nanomaterials and Structural analysis
9.00-9.20 A diamond is forever: NETing granulocytes sequester hydrophobic nanodiamond in a size-dependent manner (Luis E. MUNOZ; Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
9.20-9.40 Molecular Insights into Bacterial Biofilm Architecture and Development (James A. GARNETT; QMUL, UK)
9.40-10.00 Plasmonic nanostructures: Identification, detection and killing of Escherichia Coli Sabine SZUNERITS; USTL, France)
10.00-10.20 LSO Medical SAS: Laser tissue interaction Philippe ROCHON (LSO Medical SAS, FR)
10.20-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-11.20 Nanomechanical Analysis of Antibiotic-Target Binding (Paolo ACTIS; Bio Nano Consulting, UK)
11.20-11.40 EIS MS studies of biologically active compounds Renata KOBETIC (Ruder Boskovic Institute; Zagreb, Croatia)
11.40-12.00 Neutrophil Elastase found in the colon during Brachyspira hyodysenteriae infection induces mucin production and translocation in a mucus secreting polarized in vitro
colonic mucosal surface (Macarene P. QUINTANA-HAYASHI; University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

12.00-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.30 Discsusion seeson