Edinburgh Disease Transmission workshop

This cross-University event will bring together researchers from all career stages, and from a wide range of disciplines, to share their work, discuss areas of common interest and explore opportunities for future collaboration.  

The workshop will be held on Thursday 29 April 2021 online via Blackboard Collaborate.

Recordings of presentations - University Login required (secured)

Programme

09:30           Introduction: Keith Matthews, School of Biological Sciences

Transmission:  Modelling and mathematical biology

09.40  Mark Woolhouse, Usher Institute – The epidemiology and evolution of pandemic potential

10.00  Áine O'Toole, School of Biological Sciences – Tracking the international spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineages of concern 

10:20  Graeme Ackland, School of Physics and Astronomy – The use of data to understand the coronavirus epidemic

BREAK

Transmission: Parasite strategies for spread

11.00  Sarah Reece, School of Biological Sciences – The private life of parasites: Sophisticated strategies for survival & reproduction

11.20  Phil Spence, School of Biological Sciences – A single infection is sufficient to establish long-lived mechanisms of disease tolerance in human malaria

11.40  Keith Matthews, School of Biological Sciences – The interplay between trypanosome virulence, transmission and co-infection

12.00  Nisha Philip, School of Biological Sciences – How do signalling pathways regulate life-cycle transitions in the malaria parasite ?

LUNCH

**Please note that times are now 10 min later than previously scheduled**

Transmission: Multi-host transmission and zoonoses

13.40  Rowland Kao, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies – Modelling of multi-host pathogens. from methods to impact

14.00  Bryan Wee, Usher Institute – Does urban livestock-keeping play a role in bacterial transmission?

14.20  Amy Pedersen, School of Biological Sciences – Cross-species transmission is rare in a multi-host, multi-vector, multi-pathogen community

BREAK

Transmission: Populations and policy

15.10  Samantha Lycett, Roslin Institute – Revealing viral transmission patterns in evolving situations using phylodynamics 

15.30  Pedro Vale, School of Biological Sciences – Linking individual host heterogeneity to population disease dynamics

15.50  Helen Stagg, Usher Institute – From biology to policy and back again

16.10 General discussion

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