BioNEt Workshop

Tuesday 12 June 2007, 12.30-5.00 pm, Room 2.21, Old Library Building, Research Beehive, Newcastle University. Refreshments, attendance and lunch are free. Register for event by emailing Natasha Taylor.

Microbiology Foresighting Forum

Programme

12.30 Lunch and registration

13.20 Welcome and introduction

13.30 Antibiotic resistance - the national picture
David Livermore, Health Protection Agency, Colindale
14.10 Novel approach to commercial drug discovery
Dr Lloyd Czaplewski, Prolysis Ltd, Oxfordshire
14.50 New approaches and potential targets for antibiotic discovery
Prof Greg Challis, Chemical Biology, University of Warwick

15.30 Tea/coffee

16.00 Mining the marine environment for novel antimicrobial compounds
Prof Grant Burgess, Marine Science & Technology, Newcastle University
16.20 Antibiotic discovery form the marine bacterium Verrucosispora maris
Dr Jem Stach, Biology, Newcastle University
16.40 Protein network analysis as a tool for the identification of novel drug targets
Dr Jennifer Hallinan, Centre for Integrated Systems Biology of Ageing and Nutrition, Newcastle University

17.00 Close

Supported by CELS Ltd, European Regional Development Fund and One NorthEast

Abstract

The resistance of bacteria to the antibiotics widely used in the clinic is a major issue of public concern particularly in light of the slow rate of discovery of new classes of clinically useful antibiotics over the last 15 years.

This meeting provides an insight into the current position of antibiotic resistance of clinical strains in the UK. It is clear that smarter antibiotics and treatment regimes will be needed in the future to combat resistance to clinical antibiotics. This meeting will therefore also review approaches to discovering and designing new antibiotics from both a commercial and academic perspective.

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