Edinburgh AMR Forum seminar archive
Find details of past Edinburgh AMR Forum seminars.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 November 2021 | Till Bachmann | Infection Medicine Series Launch | Series Launch and updates from the DOSA project - Diagnostics for One Health and User Driven Solutions for AMR in India |
| 24 November 2021 | Ross Fitzgerald | Roslin Institute | Investigations into AMR and novel therapeutic targets at the human-animal interface |
| 8 December 2021 | Andrea Weiße | Schools of Biological Sciences and Informatics |
From pathogens to patients – modelling AMR at different scales |
| 19 January 2022 | Katie Atkins | Usher Institute | Quantifying the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on pneumococcal resistance to antibiotics |
| 2 February 2022 | Clark Russell | Centre for Inflammation Research | Antimicrobial stewardship and Covid-19 |
| 9 February 2022 | **EXTERNAL SPEAKER** Gopalan Krishnan Sivaraman | ICAR- Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin, India | Antimicrobial Use (AMU) and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in pathogens and its diagnostics in shrimp aquaculture settings |
| 23 February 2022 | Helen Alexander | School of Biological Sciences | Stochastic emergence of antibiotic resistance in bacterial populations: theory and experiments |
| 9 March 2022 | Adrian Muwonge | Roslin Institute | Surveillance of AMR in Uganda, Malawi and Kenya |
| 16 March 2022 | Meriem El Karoui | School of Biological Sciences | Single cell heterogeneity in E. coli response to DNA damaging antibiotics |
| 20 April 2022 | Bryan Wee | Usher Institute |
Genomics of AMR: From isolates to microbiomes |
| 11 May 2022 | Sander Granneman | School of Biological Sciences | Global post-transcriptional regulation of MRSA virulence by transcription factors |
| 25 May 2022 | Gerard Porter | Law School | Smart Regulation of Antibiotic Use in India |
| 8 June 2022 | Bartek Waclaw | School of Physics and Astronomy | Predictive models of bacterial response and the evolution of resistance to antibiotics |
| 22 June |
**EXTERNAL SPEAKER** Prof Vicki Stone |
Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh | Antimicrobial properties of nanomaterials |
| 23 June 2022 | Vasso Makrantoni | Infection Medicine | Genome plasticity: A survival strategy for human fungal pathogens - presented at the Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Annual Symposium |
| 14 September 2022 | Donald Morrison | Edinburgh Napier University | The contribution of the natural environment to AMR |
| 27 September 2022 | Iona Walker | Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology | Art, Science, AMR: Disciplinary hierarchies and curious collaborations |
| 12 October 2022 | Cristina Moreno | School of Social and Political Science | Optimizing antibiotics? An ethnography of antibiotic stewardship interventions in public hospitals in Spain |
| 25 October 2022 |
**Edinburgh Microbiology Forum** Karrera Djoko |
Durham University | Metal management during host-microbe interactions |
| 21 November 2022 |
**EXTERNAL SPEAKER** Professor Frank Aarestrup Playfair Library, 5.30 pm |
Danish Technical University |
Beating the Silent Pandemic: Global Surveillance of AMR |
| 29 November 2022 | **Edinburgh Microbiology Forum** Tim Blower | Durham University | All the World’s a Phage” - Exploring phage-host interactions |
| 30 November 2022 | **EXTERNAL SPEAKER** Prof Gordon Ramage | University of Glasgow | We don't talk about Candida! Exploring clinical importance of fungal communities in human disease |
| 13 December 2022 | Nuno Silva | Moredun Research Institute | Understanding the Dynamics of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) at Livestock Farm and the Environment |
| 31 January 2023 | Andy Rowe | University of Glasgow | Intrinsic regulators: the key to defining bacterial niche specificity and pathogenic potential? |
| 7 February 2023 | Deborah Hoyle | Roslin Institute | The role of plasmids, integrons and metal resistance genes in AMR carriage by livestock |