Real-time monitoring using biophysical approaches of respiratory activity in bacteria

Consensus meeting (CM-April 2024)

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Description of the consensus meeting

This consensus meeting aims to outline and define novel frontiers of the real-time techniques for monitoring respiratory and metabolic activities in bacteria, using biophysical methods.

Through a series of talks featuring expert speakers and a roundtable discussion, the event will combine expertise from manufacturers alongside academia. The primary objective is to define, project, and establish benchmarks for these monitoring techniques.

While the applications span diverse domains such as physiopathologic analysis and antimicrobial identification, critical questions remain open. These encompass the precision of real-time monitoring, its scalability across bacterial species, and the translation of laboratory findings into clinical or industrial settings.

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Programme of the meeting

9:30	Welcome to the participants.
10:00	Quality-controlled high-resolution respirometry: bacterial and clinical applications	Erich Gnaiger, PhD (CEO, Oroboros Instruments, Austria)
10:25	Technical aspects of bacteria respirometry with Seahorse XF	Alfredo Caro-Maldonado (Seahorse Field Application Scientist, Agilent, US)
10:50	Morphology independent real time measurement of microbial metabolism	Ganna Oliynyk, PhD (Application Support, Symcel, Sweden)
11:15	Break
12:00	Gaseous signalling molecules and bacterial O2 respiration	Alessandro Giuffrè, PhD (Director IBPM-CNR, Italy)
12:25	Real time monitoring of bacterial respiration under multiple environmental states	Serena Rinaldo, PhD (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
12:50	The application of Isothermal Microcalorimetry in studying bacterial biofilms	Willem J.B. van Wamel, PhD (Erasmus UMC, The Netherlands)
13:15	Lunch break
14:30	Roundtable discussion
15:30	Final conclusion, feedback and goodbye