Edinburgh Disease Transmission workshop - registration now OPEN!!

This cross-University event will bring together researchers from all career stages, and from a wide range of disciplines to share their work, discuss areas of common interest and explore opportunities for future collaboration. 

We very much hope  that you will be able to join us.

Register now

Programme

The event will run in two sessions: 9.30 am - 12.30 pm and 2 - 4.30 pm.

Session 1: Transmission modelling - epidemiology and mathematical biology

Mark Woolhouse, Usher Institute – Pandemic epidemiological modelling

Áine O'Toole, School of Biological Sciences – Tracking the international spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineages of concern

Graeme Ackland, School of Physics and Astronomy – Modelling the models: replication modelling of the effects of COVID 19 interventions

Bryan Wee, Usher Institute – Bacterial genomics and transmission

Rowland Kao, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies – Modelling of Multi-host pathogens:  From methods to impact

Samantha Lycett, Roslin Institute – Pandemic epidemiological modelling

Helen Stagg, Usher Institute – From biology to policy and back again

Session 2: Transmission - molecular mechanisms, evolution and ecology

Sarah Reece, School of Biological Sciences – Life history strategies and transmission in malaria parasites

Phil Spence, School of Biological Sciences – How transmission shapes disease severity in malaria

Keith Matthews, School of Biological Sciences – Transmission biology and coinfection in African trypanosomes

Pedro Vale, School of Biological Sciences – Linking individual host heterogeneity to population disease dynamics

Amy Pedersen, School of Biological Sciences – Cross-species transmission is rare in a multi-host, multi-vector, multi-pathogen community

Further information

Please email Edinburgh Infectious Diseases