Edinburgh AMR Forum seminar archive

Find details of past Edinburgh AMR Forum seminars.

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
22/04/2025Maneesh PaulCEO Microvioma Private LilmitedInventing an anti-infective drug
06/02/2025Fleming Fund SymposiumFocus on Kenya and Malawi 
10/12/2024Aidan BrownSchool of Physics and AstronomyBacteria, bacteriophages, and AMR
12/11/2024Jess MitchellGlobal Academy for Agriculture and Food SystemsLeverage human-nature connections to better understand the One Health drivers of AMR
08/11/2024Fleming Fund Fellowship ShowcaseFocus on Uganda and Zambia 
08/10/2024Dominic MoranGlobal Academy for Agriculture and Food SystemsThe economics of AMR – top down and bottom-up approaches
11/06/2024Roger HumphreySRUC Centre for Epidemiology and Planetary Health, InvernessAMR Metrics - What are we missing
09/04/2024Carys Redman-WhiteGlobal Academy for Agriculture and Food SystemsAMR sstems analysis
12/03/2024Sahan LiyanagederaSchool of Biological SciencesSpyPhage: a cell free transcription/translation platform for rapid engineering of targeted phage therapies.
20/02/2024Beth MillsCentre for Inflammation ResearchPathways to understanding, diagnosing and treating microbial keratitis
09/01/2024Laurie Denyer-WillisSchool of Social and Political ScienceThe Politics of Irrationality: Antibiotic use, Chicken Farming & Global Health in Kampala, Uganda
12/12/2023Clark RussellCentre for Inflammation ResearchInvestigating adaptive pathogen variants identifies macrophage targets for host-directed therapies
21/11/2023WAAW - Antifungal Resistance WorkshopUniversity of Edinburgh 
14/11/2023Hollie HindleySchool of Biological SciencesModelling RNA repair and its role in tolerance to ribosome-targeting antibiotics
10/10/2023Nat RingRoslin InstituteMetagenomic sequencing for rapid veterinary diagnostics
13/06/2023Bram van BunnikRoslin InstituteThe Global Sewage Project: using waste-water for surveillance of antimicrobial resistance
30/05/2023*Edinburgh Microbiology Forum* Jaclyn PearsonHudson Institute of Medical ResearchDissecting host-pathogen interactions in invasive multidrug resistant Salmonella infections
02/05/2023Lucy Binsted School of Biological SciencesInvestigating The Relationship Between Host Age and Antibiotic Resistance Frequency
07/02/2023Deborah HoyleRoslin InstituteThe role of plasmids, integrons and metal resistance genes in AMR carriage by livestock
31/01/2023*External* Andy RoweUniversity of GlasgowIntrinsic regulators: the key to defining bacterial niche specificity and pathogenic potential?
13/12/2022Nuno SilvaMoredun Research InstituteUnderstanding the Dynamics of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) at Livestock Farm and the Environment
30/11/2022*External* Prof Gordon RamageUniversity of GlasgowWe don't talk about Candida! Exploring clinical importance of fungal communities in human disease
29/11/2022*Edinburgh Microbiology Forum* Tim BlowerDurham UniversityAll the World’s a Phage” - Exploring phage-host interactions
21/11/2022*External* Professor Frank AarestrupDanish Technical UniversityBeating the Silent Pandemic:  Global Surveillance of AMR
25/10/2022*Edinburgh Microbiology Forum*  Karrera DjokoDurham UniversityMetal management during host-microbe interactions
12/10/2022Cristina MorenoSchool of Social and Political ScienceOptimizing antibiotics? An ethnography of antibiotic stewardship interventions in public hospitals in Spain
14/09/2022Donald MorrisonEdinburgh Napier UniversityThe contribution of the natural environment to AMR
01/09/2022Iona WalkerEdinburgh Centre for Medical AnthropologyArt, Science, AMR: Disciplinary hierarchies and curious collaborations
23/06/2022Vasso MakrantoniInfection MedicineGenome plasticity: A survival strategy for human fungal pathogens - presented at the Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Annual Symposium
22/06/2022*External* Prof Vicki StoneHeriot Watt University, EdinburghAntimicrobial properties of nanomaterials
08/06/2022Bartek WaclawSchool of Physics and AstronomyPredictive models of bacterial response and the evolution of resistance to antibiotics
25/05/2022Gerard PorterLaw SchoolSmart Regulation of Antibiotic Use in India
11/05/2022Sander GrannemanSchool of Biological SciencesGlobal post-transcriptional regulation of MRSA virulence by transcription factors
20/04/2022Bryan WeeUsher InstituteGenomics of AMR: From isolates to microbiomes
16/03/2022Meriem El KarouiSchool of Biological SciencesSingle cell heterogeneity in E. coli response to DNA damaging antibiotics
09/03/2022Adrian MuwongeRoslin InstituteSurveillance of AMR in Uganda, Malawi and Kenya
23/02/2022Helen AlexanderSchool of Biological SciencesStochastic emergence of antibiotic resistance in bacterial populations: theory and experiments
09/02/2022*External* Gopalan Krishnan SivaramanICAR- Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin, IndiaAntimicrobial Use (AMU) and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in pathogens and its diagnostics in shrimp aquaculture settings
02/02/2022Clark RussellCentre for Inflammation ResearchAntimicrobial stewardship and Covid-19
19/01/2022Katie AtkinsUsher InstituteQuantifying the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on pneumococcal resistance to antibiotics
08/12/2021Andrea WeißeSchools of Biological Sciences and InformaticsFrom pathogens to patients – modelling AMR at different scales
24/11/2021Ross FitzgeraldRoslin InstituteInvestigations into AMR and novel therapeutic targets at the human-animal interface
10/11/2021Till BachmannInfection Medicine Series LaunchSeries Launch and updates from the DOSA project - Diagnostics for One Health and User Driven Solutions for AMR in India