Achievements

Presentations at conferences

Presenter	Title	Conference
Breteau, M.	Developing phage therapy to treat canine skin infection cause by Staphylococcus pseudintermedius	Antimicrobial Drug Discovery conference, Madrid, ES, 06/2013
Breteau, M.	Developing phage therapy to treat canine skin infection caused by Staphylococcus pseudintermedius	Phages2014, Oxford, UK, 09/ 2014
Breteau, M.	Developing phage therapy to treat canine skin infection caused by Staphylococcus pseudintermedius	Bacteriophages 2015, London, UK, 01/ 2014
Breteau, M.	Study of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius phages: towards the development of phage therapy	Postgraduate Symposium 2015, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK, 03/ 2015
Gaiser, R.	Bacteriocins from microbiota to prevent Streptococcus suis carriage and infection in pigs	TRAIN-ASAP 2nd Annual Meeting, Olot, ES, 06/ 2013
Oddo, A.	Ring flexibility as a key design feature for cyclic antimicrobial peptides	Antimicrobial Peptide Symposium, Lorient, 07/2014
Wellington, E.M	Mining metagenomes for discovery of novel enzymes and metabolites	Worshop Exploiting microbial genomics and synthetic biology for discovery of novel antibiotics, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, CN, 12/2013
Wellington, E.M	The environment as a reservoir of antibiotic resistance and biosynthesis	Functional metagenomics South Africa invited speaker second meeting of Metagenomics Societ, SA, 06/2012
Wellington, E.M	Metagenomes for bioexploration: the environmental gene pool. International Functional Metagenomics Workshop, University of Waterloo, Canada May5-7	International Functional Metagenomics Workshop, University of Waterloo, CA, 05,2012
Wellington, E.M	What can DNA do for you? DNA technology and applications.	Conference Society of Chemical Industry HQ, London, UK, 03/2012
Wellington, E.M	The role of the mobilome in transmission pathways for antibiotic resistance genes in rivers, sewage and slurries	3rd International Symposium on the Environmental Dimension of Antibiotic Resistance, DE
Wellington, E.M	Host transmission to the environment	Fundacion Ramon Areces International Symposium Microbiology. Madrid, ES
Wellington, E.M	Environmental reservoirs of antibiotic resistance	at ‘Modelling transboundary diseases: A one-health approach’, Animal Plant Health Agency, Weybridge
Oddo, A:	Ring flexibility as a key design feature for cyclic antimicrobial peptides	Antimicrobial Peptide Symposium, Lorient, 07/ 2014

Posters

Presenter	Title	Conference
Breteau, M.	Developing phage therapy to treat canine skin infection caused by Staphylococcus pseudintermedius.	Postgraduate Symposium 2014, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK, 03/2014
Ovejero, C. M., Hidalgo, L., Gutiérrez, B., Carrilero, L., Santos-López, A., Thomas-Lopez, D., Hoefer, A., Saba, C.S.K., Matrat, S., Santurde, G., Martin-Espada, C. and Gonzalez-Zorn, B.	Tigecycline resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae from companion animals.	23rdECCMID, Berlin Germany, 07/2013
Ovejero, C. M., Hidalgo, L., Gutiérrez, B., Carrilero, L., Santos-López, A., Thomas-Lopez, D., Hoefer, A., Saba, C.S.K., Matrat, S., Santurde, G., Martin-Espada, C. and Gonzalez-Zorn, B.	Human Klebsiella pneumoniae ST11 and ST147 clone resistant to tigecycline from pet animals.	MVNA Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 07/2013
Larberg, A.K.	Optimize dose-regime of new veterinary macrolides.	IVP Annual meeting, Copenhagen, DK, 2013
Larberg, A.K.	Optimizing dose-regime of new veterinary macrolides – Development of an in vitro pharmacodynamics model.	Star conference, Madrid, ES, 2013
Amos, G. and Borsetto, C.	Using functional metagenomics for the discovery of new antimicrobial compounds.	2nd Thünen Symposium on Soil Metagenomics, Braunschweig, DE, 12/2013
Gaiser, R.	Heterologous Production of Antimicrobial Peptides by Lactic Acid Bacteria.	STARS Antimicrobial Drug discovery Conference, Madrid, ES, 06/2013
Greco, I.	Peptide-peptoid hybrids active against methicillin-resistant Staphylococci and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.	ULLA SUMMER SCHOOL, London, UK, 07/2013
Greco, I.	A novel peptide-peptoid hybrid active against methicillin resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius.	3rd ASM-ESCMID Conference MRSA in animals, Copenhagen, DK, 11/2013.
Greco, I.	AMP mimics with bactericidal activity against Staphylococci and Pseudomonas as novel drugs for topical use in veterinary medicine.	4th International Symposium on Antimicrobial Peptides Lorient, 06/2014
Greco, I.	Short Linear Peptide-Peptoid Hybrids as Potential Antimicrobial Drugs.	24th American Peptide Symposium, Orlando 20-25, 06/2015
Oddo, A.	Design of novel cyclic antimicrobial peptides	ULLA Summer School, London, UK, 07/2013
Borsetto, C.	Using metagenomics to explore diverse environments for novel natural product gene clusters	Emerging Challenges and Opportunities in Soil Microbiology, Loughborough, UK, 09/2014
Borsetto, C.	Exploring metagenomes from diverse soils for natural product gene clusters	John Innes – Rudjer Bošković Summer Schools on Applied Molecular Microbiology “Microbial Specialised Metabolites: Origins and Applications”, Dubrovnik, HR, 09/2014
Borsetto, C.	Exploring metagenomes from diverse environments for novel natural product gene clusters	ISBA 17, Kusadasi, TR, 10/2014
Borsetto, C.	Exploring metagenomes from diverse environments for novel natural product gene clusters	ComMet meeting, The Shard, London, UK, 03/2015
Borsetto, C.	Emerging challenges in antibiotic discovery: metagenomes from diverse environments for novel natural product gene clusters.	Directing Biosynthesis IV, Norwich, UK, 03/2015
Borsetto, C.	Exploring diverse environments using metagenomics for novel natural products	BAGECO, Milan, Italy, 06/2015
Baldry, M.	An in vitro assessment of host immune and component interaction profile of the Staphylococcus aureus anti-virulence candidates Solonamide B and derivatives.	International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections – ISSSI 2014, Chicago, USA, 08/2014
Baldry, M.	Characterizing the Staphylococcus aureus anti-virulence candidate Solonamide B and its lactam analogues.	FEMS 2015 6th Congress of European Microbiologists, Maastricht, NL, 06/2015.
Hoefer, A.	5’ UTR mediated regulation of the emerging 16S rRNA aminoglycoside resistance methyltransferase armA	FEBS-ASM WORKSHOP: Biology of RNA in host-pathogen interactions, Tenerife ES, 01/ 2014
Hoefer, A.	Phenotypic changes caused by the truncation of the 5’ UTR suggest a stringent translational regulation of the aminoglycoside resistance methyltransferase ArmA	X Reunión del Grupo Especializado de la SEM de Microbiología Molecular, Segovia, ES, 06/ 2014
Mutuku, I.	Sequence and Comparative Analysis of Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli Phages.	Bacteriophages Conference, The O2, London, UK, 01/2015
Mutuku, I.	Characterization of Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli	SfAM&MVNA Summer Conference, Brighton UK, 07/2014
Mutuku, I.	Control of poultry APEC outbreaks by Phage Therapy.	STARS Antimicrobial Drug Discovery Conference, Madrid, ES, 06/2013
Cruz, J.	Discovery of new antimicrobial candidates from actinoallomurus	VAAM meeting, Dresden, DE, 10/2014
Cruz, J.	Discovery of new antimicrobial candidates from actinoallomurus	FEMS meeting, Maastrich, NL, 06/2015
Sadaka, C., Guardabassi, L., Kanellos, T., Sweeney, M.T. and Watts, J. L.	Determination of Optimal In vitro Drug Ratios of Trimethoprim/Sulfamethoxazole and Trimethoprim/Sulfadiazine Against Equine Pathogens.	American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnostics ,57th Annual Conference Proceedings, Kansas City MO, USA, 10/2014

Publications

Authors	Title	Journal	Volume/Issue)	Date	Pages	Peer reviewed
Hidalgo, L, Gutierrez, B., Ovejero, C.M., Carrilero, L., Matrat, S., Saba, C.K., Santos-Lopez, A., Thomas-Lopez, D., Hoefer, A., Suarez, M., Santurde, G., Martin-Espada, C. and Gonzalez-Zorn, B.	Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 11 from companion animals bearing ArmA methyltransferase, DHA-1 β-lactamase, and QnrB4.	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	57(9)	09/2013	4532-4534
Pontiroli, A., Khera, T.T., Oakley B. B., Mason S., Scot E. Dowd S. E., Travis E. R., Erenso G., Abraham Aseffa A., Orin Courtenay, O. and Wellington E.M.	Prospecting Environmental Mycobacteria: combined molecular approaches reveal unprecedented diversity.	PLOS ONE	8(7)	07/2013	E68648	Yes
Pearce, D.A., Newsham, K.K., Thorne, M.A., Calvo-Bado, L., Krsek, M., Laskaris, P., Hodson, A. and Wellington, E.M.	Metagenomic analysis of a southern maritime antarctic soil.	Frontiers in Microbiology	3(403)	12/2012	1-13	Yes
Selama, O., Amos, G.C.A., Djenane, Z., Borsetto, C., Forar Laidi, R., Porter, D., Nateche, F., Wellington, E.M.H. and Hacène, H.	Screening for Genes Coding for Putative Antitumor Compounds, Antimicrobial and Enzymatic Activities from Haloalkalitolerant and Haloalkaliphilic Bacteria Strains of Algerian Sahara Soils.	Biomed Res Int. 2014	2014: 317524	05/2014	1-11	Yes
Kitir, B., Baldry, M., Ingmer, H., and Olsen, C.A.	Total synthesis and structural validation of cyclodepsipeptides solonamide A and B.	Tetrahedron	70(42)	10/2014	7721-7732	Yes
Oddo, A., Münzker, L. and Hansen, P.R.	Peptide Macrocycles Featuring a Backbone Secondary Amine: A Convenient Strategy for the Synthesis of Lipidated Cyclic and Bicyclic Peptides on Solid Support.	Organic Letters	17(10)	05/2015	2502-05	Yes