Infectious Disease Genomics Symposium

Edinburgh Infectious Diseases and the One Health Genomics Edinburgh networks are delighted to co-hosting this one-day event.

We will be joined by Prof Johannes Krause from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, and Prof Mara Lawniczak from the Sanger Institute, alongside a fantastic programme of Edinburgh speakers presenting exciting new work in plants, animals, humans, and aquaculture.

About Johannes Krause

About Mara Lawniczak

Speaker bios

Programme

Time Who Where Title
9:30 Tim Aitman One Health Genomics Edinburgh Introduction and Welcome
9:40 Mara Lawniczak The Sanger Institute Genomic resources for malaria control
10:20
Kenny Baillie
Centre for Inflammation Research Pandemic preparedness
10:40 Poster pitches
10:50 Coffee and Posters
11:20 Sara Clohisey Baille Gifford Pandemic Science Hub Host-pathogen interactions and severe disease
11:40 James Prendergast The Roslin Institute Uncovering the basis of natural genetic tolerance to East Coasts fever
12:00 Katie Dubarry The Roslin Institute Immune cell transcriptomics in sheep
12:20 Laura Glendinning The Roslin Institute Understanding the role of the microbiome in poultry
12:40 Poster pitches
12:50 Lunch and posters
13:50 Simon Biddie Institute of Genetics and Cancer/The Usher Institute Genomic approaches to uncover functional variants in inflammation and infection
14:10 Carolina Mayes School of Social and Political Sciences
Accounting for the host factor: Susceptibility and resistance in pre-genomic genetic epidemiology
14:30 Beatriz Orosa School of Biological Sciences Ubiquitin plant immune response and pathogen subversion
14:50 Clark Russell Centre for Inflammation Research
Genomics approaches for identifying macrophage microbicidal responses against pneumococci
15:10 Coffee and Posters
15:40 Tim Regan The Roslin Institute
Harnessing PRR Diversity and Pan-Genomics to Improve Resilience in Farmed Mussels
16:00 Johannes Krause MPI Leipzig
The genetic history of the Plague and the origin of the Black Death
16:45 Drinks reception