ECS Presentations - One

10.45am – 12pm BST, 18 June 2026 ‐ 1 hour 15 mins

Early Career Scientists

10:45-11:00 Gemma Cooper, De Montfort University - Repurposing PROTACs for Host-Directed Antiviral Therapy

11:00-11:15 Rémi Hocq, TU Wien - Teaching a microbe how to breathe carbon monoxide: When transposons rewire metabolism

11:15-11:30 Luke Acton, University of Birmingham - Pumping iron: exploring a novel iron transporter in the early life microbiota member Bifidobacterium

11:30-11:45 Vito Latorre, University of East Anglia - Extremophilic carbon monoxide dehydrogenase-based metabolic communities in volcanic soils as analogues for early planetary biospheres

11:45-12:00 James Lawrence, Northumbria University - First Identification of Metabolites from Antarctic Subglacial Sediment >2km in Depth