Recordings now available from 11th Annual Symposium

Together Again, the 11th Annual Symposium from Edinburgh Infectious Diseases, was held on Thursday 23 June at the Roslin Institute.

We were delighted that it was our first in-person symposium for 2 years.  The recordings from most of the talks are available below.

Programme 

 

COFFEE AND SET UP
0930 - 0935Ross Fitzgerald, Director Edinburgh Infectious DiseasesWelcome and introduction
0935 - 0955Kate Cuschieri, Royal Infirmary of EdinburghImpact of HPV vaccination in Scotland
0955 - 1015Liam Morrison, Roslin InstituteDrug resistance in livestock trypanosomes: a neglected problem in neglected pathogens
1015 - 1035Richard Sloan, Infection MedicineHow does the cellular protein RPRD2 inhibit HIV-1 infection?
1035 - 1050Beth Mills, Centre for Inflammation ResearchRoutes to reducing the burden of microbial keratitis
1050 - 1105Freya Bull, School of Physics and AstronomyListen to all the lightning talks in this session  A model for the infection dynamics of a urinary catheter
Jamie Gorzynski, Roslin InstituteGenomic epidemiological analysis of Legionnaires’ Disease in Scotland uncovers long-term endemic L. pneumophila clones of public health importance
Rose Doyle, School of Biological SciencesCharacterisation of novel dissemination genes in Burkholderia pseudomallei
1105 - 1135COFFEE
1135 - 1150Vasso Makrantoni, Infection MedicineGenome plasticity: A survival strategy for human fungal pathogens – please note only part of the talk is available
1150 - 1205Joanna Young, School of Biological Sciences Toxoplasma gondii: dissecting chronic infection of a ubiquitous parasite
1205 - 1220David Smith, Moredun Research InstituteBradyzoite biology: from invasion to persistence – please note this recording has been edited to remove disturbance from unwanted interruptions
1220 - 1235Farren Yero, Inst. for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Duke UniversityWhere Science Meets Slavery: Reimagining Vaccine History through Anti-Colonial Art
1235 - 1250Will Harvey, Roslin Institute Listen to all the lightning talks in the session  Predicting the direction of influenza evolution
Piotr Janas, Centre for Inflammation ResearchRespiratory syncytial virus infection causes long-term changes in the expression of major histocompatibility complexes in murine airway epithelial cells
Richa Sharma, School of ChemistryFluorescent smart probes – a "tag-and-kill" approach for infectious microbial pathogens
Nelly Mak, Infection MedicineDoes Allelic Variation in the IFITM Amphipathic Helix Influence Its Antiviral Activity?
1250 - 1410LUNCH
1410 - 1425Prerna Vohra, School of Biological SciencesSequencing approaches to understand and control zoonotic pathogens
1425 - 1445Ian Laurenson, Royal Infirmary of EdinburghDiagnosing mycobacterial infection – where are we and where are we going?
1445 - 1505Lonneke Vervelde, Roslin InstituteMucosal tissue models: from egg to enteroid
1505 - 1525Katerina Guschanski, School of Biological SciencesAMR in ancient DNA
1525 - 1540KER MEMORIAL PRIZE WINNER:  Mabel Tettey, School of Biological SciencesAnalysis of released peptidases and their role in the transmission biology of African trypanosomes
1540 - 1610COFFEE
1610 - 1700KER MEMORIAL LECTURER:  Dame Sarah Gilbert, University of OxfordChAdOx1-vectored vaccines against different viral targets

Ker Memorial Lecture and Prize

We were particularly pleased that the Ker Memorial Lecture was given by Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert from the University of Oxford, who spoke about her pioneering work to develop the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.

And as is customary we also heard from the winner of the Ker Memorial Prize, Dr Mabel Tettey, awarded for the best PhD thesis in infectious diseases submitted in 2021.

Poster sessions

We very much encouraged all students and postdocs to present their work in the poster sessions.

The People's Vote Winner was Fiona Sargison from the Fitzgerald lab for her poster on Genome-scale analysis of Staphylococcus aureus to identify determinants of avian host-adaptation.

 

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