Guidelines for Poster Preparation
Thank you for considering to present your work as a poster at EuroPhages 2012.
Please prepare your poster in A1 portrait format (59cm wide x 84cm long). Please do not laminate your poster. Further information about poster sizes can be found on the following link:
http://tinyurl.com/y7bf
Posters will be displayed for the full duration of the conference. Please shadow your posters during break times to answer any questions.
Posters larger than A1 will only be displayed subject to the availability of space.
Please ensure you have appropriate permissions for the publication of your abstract from the original copyright holders. Should you wish your abstract not to be published, please notify us in writing at the time of abstract submission.
Invitation to submit full papers: Selected abstracts will be invited to submit full manuscripts to the Journal of Molecular and Genetic Medicine. The deadline for sending full manuscripts is 30th October 2012. The conference will cover the basic open-access publication charges of accepted manuscripts.
Titles of accepted abstracts will be displayed below.
Accepted Posters
(Presenters in Bold)
If your poster abstract is not listed below please contact us as soon as possible.

Preliminary studies of the applicability of phage therapy with new isolated bacteriophages in marine fish aquaculture
Adelaide Almeida, Carla Pereira, Yolanda J Silva, Ângela Cunha, Newton CM Gomes

Phage-based probiotic cocktail in prophylaxis against foodborne infections
Aleshkin AV , Volozhantsev NV, Svetoch EA, Afanas’ev SS, Vasil’ev DA, Zolotuhin SN

Why be latent? - The evolutionary biology of temperate phages and latent viruses
Thomas W Berngruber, Rémy Froissart, Marc Choisy, Sébastien Lion, and Sylvain Gandon

Characterization of the receptor-binding domain of bacteriophage T7: generation of mutant phages
Córdoba L, Garcia-Doval C, van Raaij MJ

Preliminary investigation on two Stx2-carrying bacteriophages induced from STEC strains isolated from goat milk
Claudia Picozzi, Silvia Grassi, Ileana Vigentini, Roberto Foschino

Phage Therapy of Burn Wound Infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli
Yves P Gauthier, Flavie Pouillot, Cécile Cléry-Barraud, Magali Leroy, Julien Tessier, Michael Dubow and Jérôme Gabard

What it the lowest growth rate of bacteria needed for the development of bacteriophage T4?
Piotr Golec, Joanna Karczewska-Golec and Grzegorz Węgrzyn

Production optimization of Campylobacter phages
Nika Janez , Eva Zaletel, Andreja Petan, Bojana Stevovic, Matjaz Peterka*, Ales Podgornik

The influence of the Cystic Fibrosis lung environment on the ecology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa temperate phages
EV Jones, MA Brockhurst, A Kadioglu, CE James& C Winstanley

Characterization of bacteriophages against Avian E. coli isolated from Domestic poultry farms in Korea
Tae Sung Jung, Tae Hwan Kim

Unique Klebsiella phage vb_KleM-RaK2 representing a novel genus within a family Myoviridae of tailed bacteriophages
Laura Kaliniene, Eugenijus Šimoliūnas, Lidija Truncaite, Aurelija Zajančkauskaite and Rolandas Meškys
An investigation of bacteriophage therapy in the prevention of Clostridium difficile infection using an in vitro colon model
Emma Meader, Melinda Mayer, Dietmar Steverding, Simon R Carding and Arjan Narbad

Evaluation of transducing ability of the polyvalent staphylococcal phage preparation STAFAL ® by detection and quantification of antibiotic resistance genes in phage particles using qPCR
Ivana Maslanova, Roman Pantucek, Marian Varga, Jiri Doskar, Josef Bostik, Vitezslav Fuglik and Marek Mosa

Classification of Pathogenic Strains of Pseudomonas tolaasii for the Bacteriophage Control of Brown Blotch Disease
Lin-Lin Mu, Soo-Jin Parkand Young-Kee Kim

Temperate bacteriophages in Burkholderia cepacia complex
Johannes Wittmann , Johannes Sikorski , Christine Rohde

Bacteriophages specific to Xanthomonas phaseoli and Pseudomonas phaseolicola causing brown spot and angular leaf spot of haricot
Tinatin Sadunishvili, Neli Sturua, Naili Giorgobiani, Nanuli Amashukeli, Nani Mchedlishvili, Nino Omiadze, Jose Neptuno Rodrigues-Lopez, Giorgi Kvesitadze

Molecular studies of the transcriptional switch region of bacteriophage P2
Wilhelmina Sehlén and Elisabeth Haggård--Ljungquist

Understanding the relationship between bacteriophages and Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis
Jinyu Shan, Jiraporn Gatedee, Edouard Galyov, Sunee Korbsrisate and Martha Clokie

Application of a rapid method for bacteria detection, in order to evaluate the effect of different cultural conditions on the efficacy of phage therapy as an alternative to inactivate pathogenic bacteria in fish farms
Yolanda Silva, Ricardo Calado, Newton Gomes, Ângela Cunha, Adelaide Almeida

The control of contamination in fuel bioethanol production via the deployment of bacteriophage
Christopher Spencer

Engineering of P22 tailspike protein to monitor Salmonella-derived polysaccharide
Kerstin Tang and Robert Seckler

The genotypic and phenotypic impacts of Shiga toxin-encoding bacteriophage interactions with their host cells
Marta Veses-Garcia, AJ McCarthy & Heather E Allison
Combination of Bacteriophages for the Biological Control of Various Strains of Pseudomonas tolaasii
Yeong-Bae Yun and Young-Kee Kim
