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The Edinburgh AMR Forum is a network of over 200 academics and clinicians from across Edinburgh who are contributing to antimicrobial resistance research.
The Edinburgh AMR Forum run a monthly seminar series featuring speakers from across Edinburgh who are tackling a wide variety of issues that address antimicrobial resistance. The schedule for the 2023/24 session is given below.
Seminars will be held on Tuesdays at 3 pm, unless otherwise stated. Diary invitations will be circulated prior to seminars.
Seminar Schedule
Online - Link willbe circulated to EAMRF members
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 May 2023 | Lucy Binsted (McNally Lab) | School of Biological Sciences | Investigating The Relationship Between Host Age and Antibiotic Resistance Frequency |
Online |
| 30 May 2023 | Jaclyn Pearson | Hudson Institute of Medical Research | Dissecting host-pathogen interactions in invasive multidrug resistant Salmonella infections | The Roslin Institute Auditorium / Online |
| 13 June 2023 | Bram van Bunnik | Roslin Institute | The Global Sewage Project: using waste-water for surveillance of antimicrobial resistance | Online |
| 10 October 2023 | Nat Ring | Roslin Institute | Metagenomic sequencing for rapid veterinary diagnostics | Online |
| 14 November 2023 **NOTE: 12-1 pm** | Hollie Hindley | School of Biological Sciences | Modelling RNA repair and its role in tolerance to ribosome-targeting antibiotics | Online - Link willbe circulated to EAMRF members |
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21 November 2023 **NOTE: 1-5 pm** |
WAAW - Antifungal Resistance Workshop | Details on event website | Please register on Eventbrite | Playfair Library, Edinburgh |
| 12 December 2023 **NOTE: 12-1 pm** | Clark Russell | Centre for Inflammation Research | Investigating adaptive pathogen variants identifies macrophage targets for host-directed therapies | Online - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members |
| 9 January 2024 | Laurie Denyer-Willis | School of Social and Political Science | The Politics of Irrationality: Antibiotic use, Chicken Farming & Global Health in Kampala, Uganda | Online - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members |
| 20 February 2024 | Beth Mills | Cetnre for Inflammation Research | Pathways to understanding, diagnosing and treating microbial keratitis | Online - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members |
| 12 March 2024 | Sahan Liyanagedera | School of Biological Sciences | SpyPhage: a cell free transcription/translation platform for rapid engineering of targeted phage therapies. | Online - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members |
| 9 April 2024 | Carys Redman-White | Global Academy for Agriculture and Food Systems | Title TBC | Online - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members |
| 14 May 2024 | Thamarai Dorai-Schneiders | Centre for Inflammation Research | Title TBC | Online - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members |
| 4 June 2024 | Roger Humphrey | SRUC Centre for Epidemiology and Planetary, Inverness | Title TBC | Online - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members |
| 9 July 2024 | Dominic Moran | Global Academy for Agriculture and Food Systems | Title TBC | Online - Link will be circulated to EAMRF members |
For more information and joining links, please contact the Edinburgh AMR Forum.
To see past seminars, please check out our archive.
Edinburgh AMR Forum Seminar Archive
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