Edinburgh Infectious Diseases 13th Annual Symposium

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 winners of this year's Ker Memorial Prize and have the Ker Memorial Lecture.

Speaker biographies

We will also be running two poster competitions throughout the day.

Best student poster

Best staff/postdoc poster

Programme
Time Who Where Title
Session 1:  Chair David Dockrell
09.30 Peter Barlow Edinburgh Napier University Synthetic host defence peptides as novel therapeutic approaches for dengue and zika
09.50 Jess Mitchell Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems Antimicrobial Resistance in wildlife: Should we be worried? And how can community generated data help answer this question
10.10 Jaime Garcia Iglesias Usher Institute Social sciences in the mpox outbreak:  ways forward
10.30 David Smith Moredun Research Institute Modelling hyper-immunity in the lab
Coffee and posters
Session 2:  Chair Prerna Vohra
11.20 Matt Silk School of Biological Sciences Higher-order social processes and contagions: from wildlife social dynamics to pandemic responses
11.40 Kate Sutton Roslin Institute Unveiling the Guardians: Understanding Chicken Dendritic Cell Biology to Improve Poultry Health
Session 3:  Chairs CJ Anderson and David Smith
12.00 Panel Discussion Maddie Moule, Daniel Price, Jaime Garcia Iglesias, and Elly Gaunt How to PI
12.30 ECR short talks See below for details
Lunch and posters
Session 4:  Chair Liam Morrison
14.00 Alice Street School of Social and Political Science Infectious diseases and the making of global health garbage
14.20 Mark Woolhouse Usher Institute Science and Policy – Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic
14.40 Georgia Perona Wright School of Biological Sciences Lung repair during influenza: long-term consequences of short-term infections?
15.00 Becky Sutherland Regional Infectious Diseases Unit, WGH Optimising antimicrobial therapy in clinical practice
Tea and cakes, posters
Ker Memorial Prize and Lecture:  Chairs Elly Gaunt and Sarah Reece
15.50 Andy Gibson R(D)SVS Development and evaluation of methods to control rabies in Goa State, India
Guy Oldrieve School of Biological Sciences Developmental incompetence in selected and naturally occurring Trypanosoma isolates
16.10 Iruka Okeke University of Ibadan Insights from the genomes of enteric bacteria isolated in Nigeria
Early Career Researcher short talks
12.30 Connan Masson Edinburgh Napier University
Nanocellulose-Host Defence Peptide Hydrogels as a Novel Antiviral Technology
Rosemary Blake Roslin Institute Genome-Scale CRISPR-Cas9 Knockout Screen in Avian Cells Identifies Host Factors Essential for Influenza Virus Infection
Hannah Lepper Centre for Global Health Impact of mechanisms of antibiotic resistant strain competition on dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae following introduction of PCV: a modelling study
Marie-Louise Wöhrle School of Social and Political Science Danger and Endangerment in Panzootics: an anthropological interrogation of One Health from the perspective of nature conservation

Ker Memorial Prize winners

This year the prize was jointly awarded to Andy Gibson (Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies) and Guy Oldrieve (School of Biological Sciences).

2024 Ker Memorial Prize

Andy Gibson:  Development and evaluation of methods to control rabies in Goa State, India

Guy Oldrieve:  Developmental incompetence in selected and naturally occurring Trypanosoma isolates

Ker Memorial Lecture

We are very pleased that Professor Iruka Okeke from the University of Ibadan will be giving this year's lecture on:

"Insights from the genomes of enteric bacteria isolated in Nigeria"

About Iruka

Iruka on Wikipedia