Edinburgh Infectious Diseases 14th Annual Symposium Vote for best student poster here Vote for best staff/postdoc poster here Please only vote once per poster prize.We are delighted to be hosting our annual symposium at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. As always we have an excellent programme with speakers from across Edinburgh.We will hear from the winner of this year's Ker Memorial Prize Dr Catherine Oke and the Ker Memorial Lecture Professor Any Waters.Dr Catherine Oke wins Ker Memorial PrizeAbout Professor Andy WatersProgramme:09.00 - Registration and coffeeSESSION 1 - Chair: David Dockrell09.30: David Dockrell (Co-Director of Edinburgh Infectious Diseases) – Welcome and introduction 09.40: Ker Memorial Prize winner: Catherine Oke (School of Biological Sciences) – The evolutionary ecology of vector-parasite interactions 10.00: Melita Gordon (Usher Institute) – Preventing invasive Salmonella disease in Africa 10.25: Stew Burgess (Moredun Research Institute) – Best practice control of sheep scab, making use of available tools for sustainable disease control 10.50 - Coffee and posters SESSION 2 - Chair: Georgia Perona-Wright11.00: Amy Sweeny (School of Biological Sciences) - Within-host community ecology & infectious disease 11.45: ECR short talks Josh Richards (School of Biological Sciences) - Eco-Immunology in Action: Nutrition, Parasite Resistance, and Immune Modulation in Wild Mice Kalyani Sharma (Institute for Regeneration and Repair) - Development of a resazurin viability-based assay for Rapid Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing in Urinary Tract Infections Kyriaki Neophytou (School of Biological Sciences) - Argonaute-mediated transmission of retrotransposon-derived siRNAs from a nematode parasite to its mouse host is important for parasite survival Chris Banks (Roslin Institute) - Assessing the potential impact of environmental land management schemes on emergent infectious disease risks Martha Kivecu (School of Biological Sciences) - The Origin and Evolution of Plasmodium falciparum Vayalena Drampa (Roslin Institute) - Porcine genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen identifies host dependency factors for Influenza A virus 12.15: Iris Mair and Matt Silk (School of Biological Sciences) - Across and beyond disciplines panel discussion 12.45 – Lunch and posters SESSION 3 - Chair: Peter Barlow13.45: Richard Wheeler (School of Biological Sciences) – Lessons from genome-wide protein localisations in parasites: How do Leishmania swim forwards? 14.10: Maria Forlenza (Roslin Institute) – Seeing is believing! Trypanosome infections in zebrafish: come and have a look at what really happens inside the host 14.35: Ting Shi (Usher Institute) – Sleeper framework protocol for emerging epidemics and pandemics 15.00: Ross Fitzgerald (Roslin Institute) – Tracking the inter-species spread and versatility of Staphylococcus aureus 15.25 - Coffee and posters SESSION 4 - Chair: Sarah Reece16.00: Ker Memorial Lecture – Andy Waters (University of Glasgow) - Malaria parasite transmission: towards the end of the beginning 17.00 - Closing reception Speaker biographies May 16 2025 09.00 - 17.00 Edinburgh Infectious Diseases 14th Annual Symposium Join us for our 14th Annual Symposium at the Royal College of Physicians on Friday May 16 2025! Royal College of Physicians Google Maps link Register on Eventbrite
Edinburgh Infectious Diseases 14th Annual Symposium Vote for best student poster here Vote for best staff/postdoc poster here Please only vote once per poster prize.We are delighted to be hosting our annual symposium at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. As always we have an excellent programme with speakers from across Edinburgh.We will hear from the winner of this year's Ker Memorial Prize Dr Catherine Oke and the Ker Memorial Lecture Professor Any Waters.Dr Catherine Oke wins Ker Memorial PrizeAbout Professor Andy WatersProgramme:09.00 - Registration and coffeeSESSION 1 - Chair: David Dockrell09.30: David Dockrell (Co-Director of Edinburgh Infectious Diseases) – Welcome and introduction 09.40: Ker Memorial Prize winner: Catherine Oke (School of Biological Sciences) – The evolutionary ecology of vector-parasite interactions 10.00: Melita Gordon (Usher Institute) – Preventing invasive Salmonella disease in Africa 10.25: Stew Burgess (Moredun Research Institute) – Best practice control of sheep scab, making use of available tools for sustainable disease control 10.50 - Coffee and posters SESSION 2 - Chair: Georgia Perona-Wright11.00: Amy Sweeny (School of Biological Sciences) - Within-host community ecology & infectious disease 11.45: ECR short talks Josh Richards (School of Biological Sciences) - Eco-Immunology in Action: Nutrition, Parasite Resistance, and Immune Modulation in Wild Mice Kalyani Sharma (Institute for Regeneration and Repair) - Development of a resazurin viability-based assay for Rapid Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing in Urinary Tract Infections Kyriaki Neophytou (School of Biological Sciences) - Argonaute-mediated transmission of retrotransposon-derived siRNAs from a nematode parasite to its mouse host is important for parasite survival Chris Banks (Roslin Institute) - Assessing the potential impact of environmental land management schemes on emergent infectious disease risks Martha Kivecu (School of Biological Sciences) - The Origin and Evolution of Plasmodium falciparum Vayalena Drampa (Roslin Institute) - Porcine genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen identifies host dependency factors for Influenza A virus 12.15: Iris Mair and Matt Silk (School of Biological Sciences) - Across and beyond disciplines panel discussion 12.45 – Lunch and posters SESSION 3 - Chair: Peter Barlow13.45: Richard Wheeler (School of Biological Sciences) – Lessons from genome-wide protein localisations in parasites: How do Leishmania swim forwards? 14.10: Maria Forlenza (Roslin Institute) – Seeing is believing! Trypanosome infections in zebrafish: come and have a look at what really happens inside the host 14.35: Ting Shi (Usher Institute) – Sleeper framework protocol for emerging epidemics and pandemics 15.00: Ross Fitzgerald (Roslin Institute) – Tracking the inter-species spread and versatility of Staphylococcus aureus 15.25 - Coffee and posters SESSION 4 - Chair: Sarah Reece16.00: Ker Memorial Lecture – Andy Waters (University of Glasgow) - Malaria parasite transmission: towards the end of the beginning 17.00 - Closing reception Speaker biographies May 16 2025 09.00 - 17.00 Edinburgh Infectious Diseases 14th Annual Symposium Join us for our 14th Annual Symposium at the Royal College of Physicians on Friday May 16 2025! Royal College of Physicians Google Maps link Register on Eventbrite
May 16 2025 09.00 - 17.00 Edinburgh Infectious Diseases 14th Annual Symposium Join us for our 14th Annual Symposium at the Royal College of Physicians on Friday May 16 2025!
