12th Annual Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Symposium

Details about the programme, Ker Memorial Speaker and Prize Winner, and voting arrangements for the poster sessions for this year's Annual Symposium

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We are delighted to be hosting our 12th Annual Symposium in the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh on Thursday 22 June 2023.

This is an opportunity for our community to come together and hear about infectious diseases research from across Edinburgh, celebrate our achievements, and to meet with colleagues old and new.

The event will start at 9.30 am, and will close at 5 pm with a drinks reception.

Poster sessions

Poster sessions will run in the morning coffee and lunch time breaks.  The prize winners will be decided via a peoples' choice so please do take time to visit the presenters and cast your vote. 

Poster presenters EID 2023 (224.42 KB / PDF)

 

You will be able to submit your votes from 11 am onwards on the day of the symposium, and the polls will close at 3.45 pm.   

Vote here for the best student poster

Vote here for the best postdoc/staff poster

Speakers

Programme

Time

Who

Where

Title

 Session 1 Chair: Keith Matthews 
09:30David DockrellCentre for Inflammation Research, co-Director of Edinburgh Infectious DiseasesWelcome and Introduction
09:35Steve SinkinsUniversity of GlasgowMosquito symbionts for pathogen transmission-blocking
10:05Clara CalvertUsher InstituteLeveraging Scottish pregnancy, maternal and baby data in a pandemic: the COVID-19 in pregnancy in Scotland (COPS) study
10:25Stella Mazeri and Till BachmannRoslin Institute and Centre for Inflammation ResearchFleming Fund:  Capacity building to tackle AMR
10:35Chihku ChimwazaFleming Fund Fellow, Ministry of HealthMalawiSurveillence of AMR in poultry production in Malawi
10:50COFFEE AND POSTERS  
 Session 2Chair:  
11:20Meghan PerryNHS LothianClinical Infection Research Group
11:30Thamarai SchneidersCentre for Inflammation ResearchData Integrity & Ethics in infection research
11:40Rennos FragkoudisGenome FoundryThe Edinburgh Genome Foundry: A Robotic Setup for High-throughput Bioengineering
11:50Javier Santoyo LopezEdinburgh GenomicsEdinburgh Genomics: Building Long-Read High-Fidelity Sequencing resources to support Bioscience Research
12:00Eleanor WatsonMoredun Research InstituteDetection of zoonotic bacteria and AMR in grey seal populations
12:20CJ AndersonCentre for Inflammation ResearchSymptom or participant? How death-induced dysbiosis influences intestinal repair
12:40LUNCH AND POSTERS  
 Session 3Chair:  Katie Atkins 
13:55Ker Memorial Prize winner:  Verity HillSchool of Biological SciencesFrom epidemics to pandemics: Elucidating the dynamics of Ebola Virus and SARS-CoV-2
14:15Andy Leigh-BrownSchool of Biological SciencesAnalysing HIV outbreaks in Scotland using viral sequencing
14:35Sudeepa AbeysingheSchool of Social and Political ScienceGlobal Health Governance and Pandemics
14:55Jane RedfordEdinburgh InnovationsRoutes to Translation:  Support from EI
15:00Kiran WadhawanSchool of Biological SciencesHow applicable is the Independent Action Hypothesis to various host-pathogen systems?
15:05Matthew BurgessCentre for Inflammation ResearchHelminth induced monocytosis conveys protection from respiratory syncytial virus infection
15:10James BroughtonSchool of Biological SciencesSingle-cell physiological response of E. coli to suppressive antibiotic combinations
15:15Laura ConfalonieriSchool of Physics and AstronomyAssessment of pH changes for detection of bacterial growth and biofilm formation
15:20James BaxterUsher InstituteReconciling the Probability that HIV-1 Infection Is Initiated by Multiple Variants with the Rate of CD4+ Decline
15:25COFFEE  
 Session 4Chair:  Ross Fitzgerald 
15:55Presentation of poster prizes  
16:00Ker Memorial Lecture:  Prof Carmen BuchrieserPasteur InstituteMolecular mimicry: a host subversion strategy employed by Legionella pneumophila
17:00Drinks reception  

Ker Memorial Lecture and Prize Winner

We are particularly pleased that the Ker Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Carmen Buchrieser from the Institut Pasteur, who will speak about her research to understand how bacteria cause disease.

About Carmen

And as is customary we will also hear from the winner of the Ker Memorial Prize, awarded for the best PhD thesis in infectious diseases submitted in 2022. 

Update 2 June 2023:  This year we are delighted to announce that the 2023 prize has been awarded to Dr Verity Hill, who carried out her PhD with Prof Andrew Rambaut in the School of Biological Sciences.  She is now a postdoc in Nathan Grubaugh's lab in the Yale Schoool of Medicine.

About Verity

Congratulations to all nominees for Ker Memorial Prize

 

Contact us

If you have any questions about the event please contact us by email

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