Together Again - 11th Annual Symposium
The 11th Annual Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Symposium was held on Thursday 23 June 2022, and we were delighted that it was our first in-person symposium for 2 years.
Ker Memorial Lecture and Prize
We were particularly pleased that the Ker Memorial Lecture was given by Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert from the University of Oxford, who spoke about her pioneering work to develop the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.
And as is customary we also heard from the winner of the Ker Memorial Prize, Dr Mabel Tettey, awarded for the best PhD thesis in infectious diseases submitted in 2021.
Poster sessions
We very much encouraged all students and postdocs to present their work in the poster sessions.
The People's Vote Winner was Fiona Sargison from the Fitzgerald lab for her poster on Genome-scale analysis of Staphylococcus aureus to identify determinants of avian host-adaptation.
Programme
| COFFEE AND SET UP | ||
| 0930 - 0935 | Ross Fitzgerald, Director Edinburgh Infectious Diseases | Welcome and introduction |
| 0935 - 0955 | Kate Cuschieri, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh | Impact of HPV vaccination in Scotland |
| 0955 - 1015 | Liam Morrison, Roslin Institute | Drug resistance in livestock trypanosomes: a neglected problem in neglected pathogens |
| 1015 - 1035 | Richard Sloan, Infection Medicine | How does the cellular protein RPRD2 inhibit HIV-1 infection? |
| 1035 - 1050 | Beth Mills, Centre for Inflammation Research | Routes to reducing the burden of microbial keratitis |
| 1050 - 1105 | Freya Bull, School of Physics and Astronomy | A model for the infection dynamics of a urinary catheter listen to all the lightning talks in this session |
| Jamie Gorzynski, Roslin Institute | Genomic epidemiological analysis of Legionnaires’ Disease in Scotland uncovers long-term endemic L. pneumophila clones of public health importance | |
| Rose Doyle, School of Biological Sciences | Characterisation of novel dissemination genes in Burkholderia pseudomallei | |
| COFFEE | ||
| 1135 - 1150 | Vasso Makrantoni, Infection Medicine | Genome plasticity: A survival strategy for human fungal pathogens – please note only part of the talk is available |
| 1150 - 1205 | Joanna Young, School of Biological Sciences | Toxoplasma gondii: dissecting chronic infection of a ubiquitous parasite |
| 1205 - 1220 | David Smith, Moredun Research Institute | Bradyzoite biology: from invasion to persistence – please note this recording has been edited to remove disturbance from unwanted interruptions |
| 1220 - 1235 | Farren Yero, Inst. for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Duke University | Where Science Meets Slavery: Reimagining Vaccine History through Anti-Colonial Art |
| 1235 - 1250 | Will Harvey, Roslin Institute | Predicting the direction of influenza evolution listen to all the lightning talks in the session |
| Piotr Janas, Centre for Inflammation Research | Respiratory syncytial virus infection causes long-term changes in the expression of major histocompatibility complexes in murine airway epithelial cells | |
| Richa Sharma, School of Chemistry | Fluorescent smart probes – a "tag-and-kill" approach for infectious microbial pathogens | |
| Nelly Mak, Infection Medicine | Does Allelic Variation in the IFITM Amphipathic Helix Influence Its Antiviral Activity? | |
| LUNCH | ||
| 1410 - 1425 | Prerna Vohra, School of Biological Sciences | Sequencing approaches to understand and control zoonotic pathogens |
| 1425 - 1445 | Ian Laurenson, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh | Diagnosing mycobacterial infection – where are we and where are we going? |
| 1445 - 1505 | Lonneke Vervelde, Roslin Institute | Mucosal tissue models: from egg to enteroid |
| 1505 - 1525 | Katerina Guschanski, School of Biological Sciences | AMR in ancient DNA |
| 1525 - 1540 | KER MEMORIAL PRIZE WINNER: Mabel Tettey, School of Biological Sciences | Analysis of released peptidases and their role in the transmission biology of African trypanosomes |
| COFFEE | ||
| 1615 | KER MEMORIAL LECTURER: Professor Sarah Gilbert, University of Oxford | ChAdOx1-vectored vaccines against different viral targets |
Online attendance
We will also be making the sessions available to an online audience. Please select the "online only" ticket option when registering if you able not able to join the symposium in person.
Updated information on speakers and the timings for the symposium will be added to the event website as they become available.
Together Again - 11th Annual Symposium
Roslin Institute
Easter Bush
Midlothian