Events archive

Join leading Edinburgh academics and industrial partners working in AMR for a day of presentations, posters and networking - REGISTER NOW!

This year we are delighted to have Prof Frank Møller Aarestrup from the Danish Technical University giving our annual public Winter Lecture:

This year's Annual Symposium was held on Thursday 23 June 2022. Recordings now available.

In-person seminar and poster sessions hosted by the Edinburgh AMR Forum

This year's Winter Lecture was given by Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust.

Registration now open for the Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Early Career Researcher symposium on 28 October.

Our 10th Annual Symposium was held online on the morning of Thursday 24 June 2021.

Edinburgh Infectious Diseases workshop bringing together colleagues from across the University of Edinburgh on 29 April 2021.

The University of Sydney and the University of Edinburgh are hosting a Joint Virtual Workshop Series on sustainable food production, antimicrobial resistance and One Health. Events each Wednesday from 10 March to 14 April 2021.

This meeting brings together experts in mouse, avian, bovine, porcine and human T cells to share their insights as to how best to harness T cell immunity.

First of a series of online events hosted in place of the in-person conference cancelled earlier this year.

This is the British Society for Immunology’s first two-day virtual scientific conference offering BSI members and the wider immunology community a unique opportunity to gather virtually.

In an age of fake news, who can we trust for medical information?

A series of free online public events exploring the science and research taking place in the College.

2020 Annual Winter Lecture with Dr Kenneth Baillie : "9 Months of Discovery: How we found out why people die from Covid-19".

**Rescheduled** We are delighted that this event has now been rescheduled for the afternoon of 10 November and the morning of 11 November 2020.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 6th World One Health Congress will now be held in Edinburgh from 30 October to 3 November 2020.

The 23rd ESCV Annual Meeting will present an outstanding programme covering the most recent discoveries and innovations in Clinical Virology and state-of-the-art updates on current areas of interest to virologists.

***POSTPONED*** This year's Neutrophil Symposium is in Edinburgh from 31 May to 3 June 2020.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. Bringing together pioneers of synthetic biology together with experts from other relevant fields to highlight and inspire cutting-edge synthetic biology research, emphasizing both basic and applied science.

Bi-annual meeting providing an excellent group of talks across quantitative genetics in evolution, medicine and agriculture.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. The 2020 Spring meeting of the British Society for Parasitology will be held in the city of Edinburgh, UK.

***Due to the situation with Covid-19, this event has been cancelled***. A panel discussion between researchers and the museum curator about the Parasites: Battle for Survival exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland.

This event has been postponed. Meeting organised by the Comparative & Veterinary Immunology Group on the turnover, migration and function of conventional T lymphocytes – Edinburgh, April 2020.

**UPDATE** Edinburgh Infectious Diseases is hosting an ONLINE-ONLY half-day workshop on Wednesday 25 March addressing the ongoing SARS-nCoV-2/Covid-19 epidemic.

This event has been postponed. International Veterinary Vaccinology Network Conference 2020, hosted in partnership with CIRAD and the National Institute of Veterinary Research.

The Edinburgh Immunology Group and West of Scotland Immunology Group invite you to join them for their second joint symposium in Linlithgow Burgh Halls: GENIE 2020. The event is a full day symposium followed by networking reception.

Running from 19 - 21 February 2020 this conference aims at improving understanding of interactions between vaccines and the immune system, with a focus on the non-specific and sex-differential effects of vaccines.

Registration is now open for the 2nd second colloquium of the Beyond Resistance Network - closing date is 21 December 2019.

Abstracts now open for first Glasgow-Edinburgh Malaria/Mosquito Meeting which will be held in Edinburgh on 11 December 2019.

One day symposium discussing the continued for development of novel therapeutics, biomarkers and diagnostics to tackle antimicrobial resistance.

The 2019 Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Winter Lecture will be given by Prof Liz Sockett FRS from the University of Nottingham, with her talk entitled "Can predatory bacteria become human allies against antibiotic-resistant pathogenic infections?"

The Microbiology Society are delighted to be hosting the Federation of Infection Societies Conference 2019 (FIS 2019) in Edinburgh between 11–14 November 2019.

This event brings together scientists and clinicians from different academic disciplines and departments, who are interested in using large animal models for biomedical research, focusing on application of medical imaging technologies.

The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies are organising the first International conference on Lawsonia intracellularis.

The next meeting of the Nanopore User Group will focus on uses for infectious diseases - register now!

The 2019 Genome Science conference will be held in Edinburgh.

The Universities of Edinburgh and Leiden hosted a very successful summer school in July 2019 on Immune modulation in human and animal infections: impact on health, disease and therapy.

Quarterly meeting of the Edinburgh Nanopore user group

Broad range symposium covering common, clinically challenging infections, in hospital and community settings.

One day symposium at the University of Glasgow organised by the Glasgow Centre for Virology Workshop.

8th Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Annual Symposium will be hosted by the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh on Wednesday 5 June 2019.

One-day symposium on the application of genetic technologies for the improvement of aquaculture.

This half-day workshop is free to attend and it consists of a research seminar on metagenomics and introduction to the MRC Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics (CLIMB).

**POSTPONED** Collaborative event from the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Tuberculosis and a series of Scottish universities and professional organisations.

The conference will bring together specialists working on the interface of genomics, genetic engineering and infectious disease with the aims of improving animal and human health and welfare.

The annual research symposium will take place on 3 May 2019 and is open to all staff, postdocs and PhD students.

Inflammation – from initiation to restoration. Registration is now OPEN for this symposium on 24 – 26 April 2019 at the John McIntyre Conference Centre in Edinburgh.

ICOHAR conference to address the challenges of antimicrobial resistance held in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

The 75th anniversary BSAS conference "Fit for the Future", will be held in Edinburgh in April 2019.

Joint Meeting of the Society for Tropical Ecology and the British Ecological Society Tropical Ecology Group – Unifying Tropical Ecology: Strengthening collaborative science.

The School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee is hosting the fourth Infectious Diseases Research Initiative Scotland (IDRIS) joint symposium with the Wellcome Trust Centre for Anti-Infectives Research.

The Edinburgh and West of Scotland Immunology groups welcome you to join us on Thursday 7 February 2019 for a joint symposium celebrating the immunological research undertaken at both sites.

Organised by the Comparative and Veterinary Immunology Group, as a satellite of the joint International Veterinary Vaccinology Network (IVVN) and the UK VVN meeting, which is taking place on 9-10 January 2019.

Half day colloquium examining the language we use to articulate our relationship with microbes, and the consequences for our bodies and the environment.

The UK Veterinary Vaccinology Network and International Veterinary Vaccinology Network will host the 2019 conference in The Tower Hotel, London, UK.

Annual gathering of researchers from the Institutes of Immunology & Infection Research and Evolution Biology. Programme now available!

Save-the-date - Wednesday 5 December 2018. The symposium is held at the Royal College of Phsycians, Edinburgh and is organised and fully funded by Gilead Sciences Ltd.

Vaccinology course aimed at post-graduate students and early career researchers addressing human and animal vaccinology, the vaccine development process, biomanufacturing, regulatory and ethical issues.

Advancing our knowledge and understanding of B cell biology and stimulating new cross collaborations.

This meeting is the premier infection conference for all disciplines of laboratory, preventive and clinical medicine within the spheres of infectious diseases, microbiology, infection prevention and tropical/travel medicine.

**Registration now open** One day symposium highlighting diagnostics research in Edinburgh for human and veterinary infectious disease.

This year's Winter Lecture will be given by Dr Tom Kariuki, Director of the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa.

You are warmly invited to the Edinburgh World Pneumonia Day Symposium 2018 - please save the date - Monday 12 November 2018.