Get Connected - seminars and activities

Keep connected with the Edinburgh AMR Forum through our seminar series, or get in touch by email.

The Edinburgh AMR Forum is a network of over 200 academics and clinicians from across Edinburgh who are contributing to antimicrobial resistance research.

The Edinburgh AMR Forum run a monthly seminar series featuring speakers from across Edinburgh who are tackling a wide variety of issues that address antimicrobial resistance.  

Seminars will be held on Tuesdays at 3 pm, unless otherwise stated.  Diary invitations will be circulated prior to seminars.

Seminar Schedule

Online - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitleLocation
2 May 2023Lucy Binsted (McNally Lab)School of Biological SciencesInvestigating The Relationship Between Host Age and Antibiotic Resistance FrequencyOnline
30 May 2023Jaclyn PearsonHudson Institute of Medical ResearchDissecting host-pathogen interactions in invasive multidrug resistant Salmonella infectionsThe Roslin Institute Auditorium / Online
13 June 2023Bram van BunnikRoslin InstituteThe Global Sewage Project: using waste-water for surveillance of antimicrobial resistanceOnline
10 October 2023Nat RingRoslin InstituteMetagenomic sequencing for rapid veterinary diagnosticsOnline
14 November 2023 **NOTE:  12-1 pm**Hollie HindleySchool of Biological SciencesModelling RNA repair and its role in tolerance to ribosome-targeting antibioticsOnline - Link willbe circulated to EAMRF members

21 November 2023

**NOTE:  1-5 pm**

WAAW - Antifungal Resistance WorkshopDetails on event websitePlease register on EventbritePlayfair Library, Edinburgh
12 December 2023 **NOTE:  12-1 pm**Clark RussellCentre for Inflammation ResearchInvestigating adaptive pathogen variants identifies macrophage targets for host-directed therapiesOnline - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members
9 January 2024Laurie Denyer-WillisSchool of Social and Political ScienceThe Politics of Irrationality: Antibiotic use, Chicken Farming & Global Health in Kampala, UgandaOnline - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members
20 February 2024Beth MillsCentre for Inflammation ResearchPathways to understanding, diagnosing and treating microbial keratitisOnline - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members
12 March 2024Sahan LiyanagederaSchool of Biological SciencesSpyPhage: a cell free transcription/translation platform for rapid engineering of targeted phage therapies.Online - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members
9 April 2024Carys Redman-WhiteGlobal Academy for Agriculture and Food SystemsTitle TBCOnline - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members
11 June 2024Roger HumphreySRUC Centre for Epidemiology and Planetary Health, InvernessAMR Metrics - What are we missingOnline - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members
8 October 2024Dominic MoranGlobal Academy for Agriculture and Food SystemsThe economics of AMR – top down and bottom-up approachesOnline - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members
12 November 2024Jess MitchellGlobal Academy for Agriculture and Food SystemsLeverage human-nature connections to better understand the One Health drivers of AMROnline - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members
10 December 2024Aidan BrownSchool of Physics and AstronomyBacteria, bacteriophages, and AMROnline - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members

For more information and joining links, please contact the Edinburgh AMR Forum.

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To see past seminars, please check out our archive.

Edinburgh AMR Forum Seminar Archive

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