Please save-the-date for the Annual Ashworth Symposium.
This event brings together researchers from the Ashworth Labs to welcome each other into the new year.
A light supper will be served.
Programme
Session 1: Chair - David Gray
2.00 pm Dan Nussey – Variation in immune phenotypes in wild sheep
2.30 pm Alex Rowe – Making things “Wright” in severe malaria?” How human blood groups can teach us about host-parasite interactions
3.00 pm Matt Hartfield – Adaptation and Self-Fertilisation
3.30 pm Achim Schnaufer – How to faithfully replicate 10,000 DNA circles, and what to do when things go wrong
TEA
Session 2: Chair – Rose Zamoyska
4.30 pm Sara Knott – Mining for rare gems in the genome – diamonds or paste?
5.00 pm Al Ivens – Bioinformatics for all!
5.30 pm Craig Walling – Food, sex and death in stickleback fish
SUPPER
Session 3: Chair – Andy Leigh Brown
6.45 pm Per Smiseth – The behavioural ecology of inbreeding and inbreeding depression
7.15 pm David Cavanagh – Antibodies kill by stealth
7.45 pm Josephine Pemberton – Do red deer avoid inbreeding?
