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 Vote here! Best staff/postdoc poster Vote here! 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 Jun 19 2024 09.00 - 17.00 Edinburgh Infectious Diseases 13th Annual Symposium We are back for our 13th Annual Symposium. We hope you can join us on the 19 June 2024! Royal College of Physicians 11 Queen St Edinburgh EH2 1JQ
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 Vote here! Best staff/postdoc poster Vote here! 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 Jun 19 2024 09.00 - 17.00 Edinburgh Infectious Diseases 13th Annual Symposium We are back for our 13th Annual Symposium. We hope you can join us on the 19 June 2024! Royal College of Physicians 11 Queen St Edinburgh EH2 1JQ
Jun 19 2024 09.00 - 17.00 Edinburgh Infectious Diseases 13th Annual Symposium We are back for our 13th Annual Symposium. We hope you can join us on the 19 June 2024!
