Flash Poster Presentations - Two

11am – 11.15am GMT, 16 December 2025 ‐ 15 mins

Early Career Scientists

Usman Hussain, University of the West of England Bristol - Exploring bacterial communication and virulence in the bacterial pathobiome of Acute Oak Decline

Gloria Oluwakemi Taylor, Redeemer's University - Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) of drinking water sources in Southwestern Nigeria

Esna Dilli Novianto, University of Birmingham - Unravelling antimicrobial compounds targeting stem pathogens associated with Acute Oak Decline 

Gol Mohammad Dorrazehi, AstraZeneca and University of Cambridge - Enzymes from Extreme Environments: Identification and Characterization of A Novel Thermostable Meganuclease from Deep Sea Hydrothermal Metagenome using MGnify Database

James Lawrence, Northumbria University - Microbial Diversity and Community Comparisons of Firn of the Eastern Antarctica Ice Sheet

Rita Hanson-Akpan, Newcastle University - Exploring the Temperature Dependence of Key Biochemical Processes in Anaerobic Digestion

Hallam Mason, Nottingham Trent University - Community assembly and successional dynamics of prokaryotes and eukaryotes in microbial biofilms from a chalk stream ecosystem

Samuel Marron, Northumbria University - The role of the soil microbiome in carbon sequestration and capture in soils amended with mineral by-products

Morgan Phillips, University of Warwick - How to build a photosynthetic cell: a role for chromosome structure