Conferences and Talks

See a map of all the places I've given a talk!

2026

• Summer 2026 meeting of the Acid Fast Club Conference attended · Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom · July 2026
• Invited Seminar Invited talk · Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical School, Shanghai, China · April 2026
• Invited Seminar Invited talk · Institute of Medical Research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Chang'an District, Xi'an, China · April 2026
• Department Summer research symposium Seminar Oral presentation · Manchester Metropolitan University, Department of Life Sciences, Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, United Kingdom · April 2026
• Tuberculosis: Understanding the Disease Across Scales Poster · Keystone Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa · March 2026
• Winter Acid Fast Club meeting Conference attended · Acid Fast Club, London, United Kingdom · January 2026

2025

• Leicester 2025 summer session of the Acid Fast Club meeting Oral presentation · Acid Fast Club, Leicester, United Kingdom · July 2025
• Poster presentation Poster · 7th Forum of Respiratory Tract Infections, Glasgow, United Kingdom · February 2025

  February 3-5, 2025

2024

• Invited talk for MMU ECR and PhD Conference Invited talk · Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, United Kingdom · September 2024
• Invited talk Invited talk · National University of Singapore, Singapore · April 2024

  April 22-26, 2024

• Invited virtual seminar for the Catalysis Innovation Consortium Invited talk · Catalysis Innovation Consortium, Virtual, USA · March 2024

2023

• Invited talk Invited talk · Northwest University, 229 North Taibai Road, Xi'an, China · December 2023
• Invited talk Invited talk · Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Microbiology, Beijing, China · December 2023
• Invited talk and EFI workshop Invited talk · National University of Singapore, Singapore · November 2023

  November 5-10, 2023

• Poster presentation Poster · Gordon Research Conference on Enzymes, Coenzymes and Metabolic Pathways, Waterville Valley, NH, USA · July 2023

  July 16-21, 2023

• Genomic Enzymology and Enzyme Function Initiative (EFI) Training Workshop Workshop · University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia · April 2023

  Instructor for a Genomic Enzymology and Enzyme Function Initiative (EFI) tools training workshop, delivered as part of the Manchester-Melbourne-Toronto (MMT) Research Fund project “Missing Links in Global Sulphur Metabolism” (Grant P122678, £6,960).

2022

• Understanding antimicrobial resistance requires characterising unknown genes identified involved Invited talk · Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) Fellowship days, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester, United Kingdom · January 2022
• Comparative genomics and genomic enzymology approaches for functional assignment Poster · Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) Annual Science Day, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester, United Kingdom · January 2022

  Selected for a short oral presentation.

2021

• Similarity Networks and Genome Neighborhood Networks for function assignment Invited talk · School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom · April 2021

2019

• Genomic enzymology web tools for functional assignment: Generating and analysing Sequence Similarity Networks and Genome Neighborhood Networks with the EFI suite Invited talk · Institut Pasteur, Centre of Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Integrative Biology, Paris, France · June 2019

2018

• QueI and its associated activator QueJ are non-orthologous replacement of the nitrile reductase QueF in the queuosine biosynthesis pathway Poster · Frontiers in Metallobiochemistry Symposium and Bioinorganic Workshop, State College, PA, USA · September 2018
• QueI and its associated activator QueJ are non-orthologous replacement of the nitrile reductase QueF in the queuosine biosynthesis pathway Poster · Gordon Research Seminar and Conference, Enzymes, Coenzymes and Metabolic Pathways, Waterville Valley, NH, USA · June 2018

2016

• Comparative genomics for the identification of unknown genes, enzymes and transporters involved in Queuosine metabolism Invited talk · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA · August 2016
• Is Streptomyces secondary metabolism regulation involving lipid rafts? Invited talk · Université Paris 11, Orsay, Orsay, France · May 2016
• Production of molecules of interest from plants in Yeast, can comparative genomics help? Invited talk · Université François Rabelais, Tours, Tours, France · May 2016
• Identification of missing enzymes and transporters involved in the synthesis and salvage of Queuosine by comparative genomics Poster · DOE JGI User meeting, Genomics of Energy and Environment Meeting, Walnut Creek, CA, USA · February 2016
• Identification of missing enzymes and transporters involved in the synthesis and salvage of Queuosine by comparative genomics Poster · EMBO Conference, Ribosome Structure and Function, Strasbourg, France · January 2016

2015

• Identification of genes involved in Queuosine Salvage Poster · Gordon Research Conference, RNA editing, Lucca (Barga), Italy · January 2015

2014

• Salvage of the thiamin pyrimidine moiety by plant TenA proteins lacking an active site cysteine Invited talk · Plant Biology conference, Portland, OR, USA · July 2014

  July 12-16, 2014

2013

• Identification of maize and Arabidopsis genes for the salvage of thiamin breakdown products Poster · Gordon Research Conference, Plant Metabolic Engineering, Waterville Valley, NH, USA · January 2013

2012

• Identification of a potential queuine salvage gene in eukaryotes Poster · XXIV tRNA Conference, Olmué, Chile · January 2012

2011

• Identification of a triacylglycerol-lipase from Brassica napus by functional proteomics Poster · 5th European Symposium on Plant Lipids, Gdansk, Poland · January 2011

  Selected for a short oral presentation.