The Acid Fast Club Summer Meeting 2018
to be held on Thursday 5 and Friday 6 July 2018
at The Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7LF
Local organiser: Professor Helen McShane (Helen.mcshane@ndm.ox.ac.uk)
AFC Meetings
AFC Winter 2018 meeting registration
The Acid Fast Club Winter Meeting 2018
to be held on Monday 15th January 2018
at The Francis Crick Institute
Local Organiser: Max Gutierrez (max.g [AT] crick.ac.uk)
The timeline is short for registration; absolute deadline Friday 22nd December. Please register in two stages:
- Pay for your booking by PayPal if you can by going to this site, and
- Register at Eventbrite here (this is necessary because numbers are limited)
If you do not use PayPal please send a cheque payable to the Acid Fast Club along with your booking form to Max, and also register at Eventbrite.
Download the meeting programme
AFC Winter 2018 meeting call for papers
Winter Meeting 2018
Preliminary notice and call for papers
Monday 15th of January 2018 at
The Francis Crick Institute
Local Organiser:
Maximiliano Gutierrez
Offered papers should be sent on the appropriate form to the meeting secretary, Phil Hogarth (philip.hogarth@apha.gsi.gov.uk) no later than Friday 24th November 2017.
The form can be downloaded here. All papers should include the title, affiliation of each author and a short summary (no more than 100 words). Papers cannot be considered after the club’s committee meeting.
Nominations for new members may also be sent to Phil Hogarth. Please provide the name of the nominating and seconding members and the full contact details of the proposed member no later than Friday 24th November.
Please note that any proposed new members must have presented at a previous AFC meeting. Remember that if you nominate a new member you should expect to attend the meeting!
AFC Summer 2017 meeting registration
The Acid Fast Club Summer Meeting 2017
to be held on Thursday 6th – Friday 7th July 2017
at the University of Leicester
Local Organiser: Natalie Garton (njg17 [AT] le.ac.uk)
The Summer Meeting will be held at the University of Leicester on July 6-7th 2017; for the final programme and directions, see below.
The timeline (as ever!) is short for registration.
Please note that as spaces are limited to 133, and we have to do a two-step registration:
1. Members are requested to fill in a Doodle poll with their name followed by the number of guests they intend to bring in brackets no later than May 26th. Members and speakers have priority and after that it will be on a first-come first-served basis. Members will receive an email stating how many of their guests we can accommodate.
Remember that guests pay a registration fee of £5
2. Please pay for your booking by PayPal if you can by going to this site, and email the confirmation with the booking form to Natalie Garton no later than Friday 10th June. If you do not use PayPal please send a cheque payable to “The Acid Fast Club” along with your booking form to Natalie at: Dept Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Maurice Shock Building, University Road, Leicester LE1 9HN.
AFC Winter 2017 meeting registration
The Acid Fast Club Winter Meeting 2017
to be held on Friday 6th January 2017
at Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Campus
Local Organiser: Adrian Martineau
The Winter Meeting will be held at Queen Mary University of London on January 6th 2017.
The timeline is short for registration; absolute deadline Friday 16th December. Please pay for your booking by PayPal if you can by going to this site, and email the confirmation with the booking form to Mr Glenn Poon (g.poon AT qmul.ac.uk). If you do not use PayPal please send a cheque payable to the Acid Fast Club along with your booking form to Glenn.
Download the meeting programme
AFC Winter 2017 meeting call for papers
Winter Meeting 2017
Preliminary notice and call for papers
Friday 6th of January 2017 at
Queen Mary University of London
Local Organiser:
Adrian Martineau
Offered papers should be sent on the appropriate form to the meeting secretary, Tine Arnvig (k.arnvig@ucl.ac.uk) no later than Friday 11th November. The form can be downloaded here. All papers should include the title, affiliation of each author and a short summary (no more than 100 words). Papers cannot be considered after the club’s committee meeting.
Nominations for new members may also be sent to Tine Arnvig. Please provide the name of the nominating and seconding members and the full contact details of the proposed member no later than Friday 11th November.
Remember that if you nominate a new member you should expect to attend the meeting!
AFC Summer 2016 meeting registration
The Acid Fast Club Summer Meeting 2016
to be held on Thursday 7th – Friday 8th July 2016
at Public Health England, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP4 0JG
Local Organiser: Sally Sharpe (Sally.Sharpe[AT]phe.gov.uk)
The Summer Meeting will be held at Public Health England, Porton Down on July 7-8th 2016; for the final programme and directions, see below.
The timeline is short for registration.
Please note that as spaces are limited at Porton Down, we have to do a two-step registration:
1. Members are requested to fill in a Doodle poll with their name followed by the number of guest they intend to bring in brackets no later than May 20 th . Members and speakers have priority and after that it will be on a first come first serve basis. Members will receive an email stating how many of their guests we can accommodate.
Remember that guests pay a registration fee of £5
2. Please pay for your booking by PayPal if you can by going to this site, and email the confirmation with the booking form to Sally Sharpe no later than Friday 10th June. If you do not use PayPal please send a cheque payable to the Acid Fast Club along with your booking form to Sally
AFC Summer 2016 Meeting call for papers
Summer Meeting 2016
Preliminary notice and call for papers
Thursday 7th and Friday 8th of July 2016 at
Public Health England
Porton Down, Salisbury
Wiltshire SP4 0JG
Local Organiser: Sally Sharpe
Offered papers should be sent on the appropriate form to the meets secretary, Tine Arnvig (k.arnvig@ucl.ac.uk) no later than Friday 22nd April. The submission form can be downloaded from here. All papers should include the title, affiliation of each author and a short summary (no more than 100 words). Papers cannot be considered after the club’s committee meeting.
Nominations for new members may also be sent to Tine Arnvig. Please provide the name of the nominating and seconding members and the full contact details of the proposed member no later than Friday 22nd April.
Remember that if you nominate a new member you should expect to attend the meeting!
AFC Winter 2016 meeting
AFC Winter 2016
Held at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Friday January 8th 2016
Scientific Programme
Session 1 (Welcome, Host presentations and Offered papers)
The TB Centre at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine – who we are and what we do
Helen Fletcher & Katherine Fielding, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Polyfunctional CD4 T-cells and in vitro mycobacterial growth inhibition detected in Mycobacterium bovis BCG-vaccinated UK infants
Steven Smith, Andrea Zelmer, Rose Blitz, Helen Fletcher & Hazel Dockrell, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Ex vivo mycobacterial growth inhibition assays (MGIA) as a new tool for assessment of TB vaccines
Andrea Zelmer, Satria Prabowo, Rachel Tanner, Elena Stylianou, Helen McShane & Helen Fletcher, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
The C-terminal domain of protein kinase G is required for regulation of glutamate catabolism in Mycobacterium smegmatis
Nabanita Bhattacahatyya, M. Zimmerman & H. M. O’Hare, University of Leicester
Parenteral adenoviral boost enhances BCG-induced protection, but not long-term survival in a murine model of bovine TB
Phil Hogarth, Daryan A. Kaveh, M. Carmen Garcia-Pelayo, Paul R. Webb, Esen E. Wooff, Véronique S. Bachy; Animal and Plant Health Agency
A spatial model of M. tuberculosis in the lung
Ruth Bowness, Stephen Gillespie & Mark Chaplain, University of St. Andrews
Session 2 (Offered papers)
The Suburban Cure–thoughts on dose and genetic susceptibility to TB
Andrea Cooper & John E. Pearl, University of Leicester
Does using aerosol and systemic routes of immunisation avoid anti-vector immunity and boost TB vaccine responses?
Zita-Rose Manjaly Thomas, Iman Satti, Stephanie Harris, Joel Meyer, Morven Wilkie, Michael Riste, Ali Hamidi, Sharon Sheehan, Alice Minhinnick, Henry Bettinson & Helen McShane, University of Oxford
Investigating host regulatory pathways that limit immunopathology in tuberculosis
Patience T. Brace, LB Tezera, JS Friedland, TM Millar, CG Proud & PT Elkington, University of Southampton
Towards definition of an immunological basis of protection obtained by prime-boost immunisation against bovine tuberculosis
Hannah Metcalfe, Bernardo Villarreal-Ramos, Gareth J. Jones, Sabine Steinbach, W. Ivan Morrison , Tom Connelley & Martin Vordermeier, Animal and Plant Health Agency
Targeting the mycobacterial membrane using novel antimicrobial peptides for tuberculosis therapy
Jasmeet Singh Khara, SM Newton, N Krishnan, I Uhra, M Priestman, PR Langford, PLR Ee & BD Robertson, Imperial College
Circulating serum microRNAs as novel biomarkers for bovine tuberculosis
Carolina N.Correia, Nicolas C. Nalpas, Kirsten E. McLoughlin, David A. Magee, Ronan G. Shaughnessy, John A. Browne, Adam O. Whelan, H. Martin Vordermeier, Eamonn Gormley, Bernardo Villarreal-Ramos, Stephen V. Gordon & David E. MacHugh, University College Dublin
Objectively-measured coughing patterns in pulmonary tuberculosis
Richard Turner, Graham Bothamley & Surinder Birring, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
AFC Winter 2016 meeting call for papers
Winter Meeting 2016
Preliminary notice and call for papers
Friday 8th of January 2016 at
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel St, London WC1E 7HT
Local Organisers:
Helen Fletcher and Jackie Cliff
Offered papers should be sent on the appropriate form to the meeting secretary, Tine Arnvig (k.arnvig@ucl.ac.uk) no later than Friday 30th October. The form can be downloaded here. All papers should include the title, affiliation of each author and a short summary (no more than 100 words). Papers cannot be considered after the club’s committee meeting.
Nominations for new members may also be put forward to the Committee. Please provide the name of the nominating and seconding members and the full contact details of the proposed member to Tine Arnvig also no later than Friday 30th October
Remember that if you nominate a new member you should expect to attend the meeting!
Please send papers and nominations to:
Tine Arnvig: k.arnvig@ucl.ac.uk
