Annual Ashworth Symposium 2019

Please save-the-date for the Annual Ashworth Symposium.

This event brings together researchers from the Ashworth Labs to welcome each other into the new year. 

A light supper will be served.

Programme

Session 1:  Chair  - David Gray

2.00 pm  Dan Nussey – Variation in immune phenotypes in wild sheep

2.30 pm  Alex Rowe – Making things “Wright” in severe malaria?”  How human blood groups can teach us about host-parasite interactions

3.00 pm  Matt HartfieldAdaptation and Self-Fertilisation

3.30 pm  Achim Schnaufer – How to faithfully replicate 10,000 DNA circles, and what to do when things go wrong

TEA

Session 2:  Chair  – Rose Zamoyska

4.30 pm  Sara Knott – Mining for rare gems in the genome – diamonds or paste?

5.00 pm   Al Ivens – Bioinformatics for all!

5.30 pm  Craig Walling – Food, sex and death in stickleback fish

SUPPER

Session 3:  Chair – Andy Leigh Brown

6.45 pm  Per Smiseth – The behavioural ecology of inbreeding and inbreeding depression

7.15 pm  David Cavanagh – Antibodies kill by stealth

7.45 pm  Josephine PembertonDo red deer avoid inbreeding?

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