Edinburgh AMR Forum seminar archive

Find details of past Edinburgh AMR Forum seminars.

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
2021   
Wednesday, 10 November 2021Till BachmannInfection Medicine Series LaunchSeries Launch and updates from the DOSA project - Diagnostics for One Health and User Driven Solutions for AMR in India
Wednesday, 24 November 2021Ross FitzgeraldRoslin InstituteInvestigations into AMR and novel therapeutic targets at the human-animal interface
Wednesday, 8 December 2021Andrea WeißeSchools of Biological Sciences and InformaticsFrom pathogens to patients – modelling AMR at different scales
2022   
Wednesday, 19 January 2022Katie AtkinsUsher InstituteQuantifying the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on pneumococcal resistance to antibiotics
Wednesday, 2 February 2022Clark RussellCentre for Inflammation ResearchAntimicrobial stewardship and Covid-19
Wednesday, 9 February 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
Wednesday, 23 February 2022Helen AlexanderSchool of Biological SciencesStochastic emergence of antibiotic resistance in bacterial populations: theory and experiments
Wednesday, 9 March 2022Adrian MuwongeRoslin InstituteSurveillance of AMR in Uganda, Malawi and Kenya
Wednesday, 16 March 2022Meriem El KarouiSchool of Biological SciencesSingle cell heterogeneity in E. coli response to DNA damaging antibiotics
Wednesday, 20 April 2022Bryan WeeUsher InstituteGenomics of AMR: From isolates to microbiomes
Wednesday, 11 May 2022Sander GrannemanSchool of Biological SciencesGlobal post-transcriptional regulation of MRSA virulence by transcription factors
Wednesday, 25 May 2022Gerard PorterLaw SchoolSmart Regulation of Antibiotic Use in India
Wednesday, 8 June 2022Bartek WaclawSchool of Physics and AstronomyPredictive models of bacterial response and the evolution of resistance to antibiotics
Wednesday, 22 June 2022*External* Prof Vicki StoneHeriot Watt University, EdinburghAntimicrobial properties of nanomaterials
Thursday, 23 June 2022Vasso MakrantoniInfection MedicineGenome plasticity: A survival strategy for human fungal pathogens - presented at the Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Annual Symposium
Wednesday, 14 September 2022Donald MorrisonEdinburgh Napier UniversityThe contribution of the natural environment to AMR
Tuesday, 27 September 2022Iona WalkerEdinburgh Centre for Medical AnthropologyArt, Science, AMR: Disciplinary hierarchies and curious collaborations
Wednesday, 12 October 2022Cristina MorenoSchool of Social and Political ScienceOptimizing antibiotics? An ethnography of antibiotic stewardship interventions in public hospitals in Spain
Tuesday, 25 October 2022*Edinburgh Microbiology Forum*  Karrera DjokoDurham UniversityMetal management during host-microbe interactions
Monday, 21 November 2022*External* Professor Frank AarestrupDanish Technical UniversityBeating the Silent Pandemic:  Global Surveillance of AMR
Tuesday, 29 November 2022*Edinburgh Microbiology Forum* Tim BlowerDurham UniversityAll the World’s a Phage” - Exploring phage-host interactions
Wednesday, 30 November 2022*External* Prof Gordon RamageUniversity of GlasgowWe don't talk about Candida! Exploring clinical importance of fungal communities in human disease
Tuesday, 13 December 2022Nuno SilvaMoredun Research InstituteUnderstanding the Dynamics of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) at Livestock Farm and the Environment
2023   
Tuesday, 31 January 2023*External* Andy RoweUniversity of GlasgowIntrinsic regulators: the key to defining bacterial niche specificity and pathogenic potential?
Tuesday, 7 February 2023Deborah HoyleRoslin InstituteThe role of plasmids, integrons and metal resistance genes in AMR carriage by livestock
Tuesday, 2 May 2023Lucy Binsted School of Biological SciencesInvestigating The Relationship Between Host Age and Antibiotic Resistance Frequency
Tuesday, 30 May 2023*Edinburgh Microbiology Forum* Jaclyn PearsonHudson Institute of Medical ResearchDissecting host-pathogen interactions in invasive multidrug resistant Salmonella infections
Tuesday, 13 June 2023Bram van BunnikRoslin InstituteThe Global Sewage Project: using waste-water for surveillance of antimicrobial resistance
Tuesday, 10 October 2023Nat RingRoslin InstituteMetagenomic sequencing for rapid veterinary diagnostics
Tuesday, 14 November 2023Hollie HindleySchool of Biological SciencesModelling RNA repair and its role in tolerance to ribosome-targeting antibiotics
Tuesday, 21 November 2023WAAW - Antifungal Resistance WorkshopUniversity of Edinburgh 
Tuesday, 12 December 2023Clark RussellCentre for Inflammation ResearchInvestigating adaptive pathogen variants identifies macrophage targets for host-directed therapies