Edinburgh Disease Transmission workshop - registration now OPEN!!
You are most welcome to join this online Edinburgh Infectious Diseases workshop on Thursday 29 April. Please register on Eventbrite.
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.
We very much hope that you will be able to join us.
Programme
The event will run in two sessions: 9.30 am - 12.30 pm and 2 - 4.30 pm.
Session 1: Transmission modelling - epidemiology and mathematical biology
Mark Woolhouse, Usher Institute – Pandemic epidemiological modelling
Áine O'Toole, School of Biological Sciences – Tracking the international spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineages of concern
Graeme Ackland, School of Physics and Astronomy – Modelling the models: replication modelling of the effects of COVID 19 interventions
Bryan Wee, Usher Institute – Bacterial genomics and transmission
Rowland Kao, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies – Modelling of Multi-host pathogens: From methods to impact
Samantha Lycett, Roslin Institute – Pandemic epidemiological modelling
Helen Stagg, Usher Institute – From biology to policy and back again
Session 2: Transmission - molecular mechanisms, evolution and ecology
Sarah Reece, School of Biological Sciences – Life history strategies and transmission in malaria parasites
Phil Spence, School of Biological Sciences – How transmission shapes disease severity in malaria
Keith Matthews, School of Biological Sciences – Transmission biology and coinfection in African trypanosomes
Pedro Vale, School of Biological Sciences – Linking individual host heterogeneity to population disease dynamics
Amy Pedersen, School of Biological Sciences – Cross-species transmission is rare in a multi-host, multi-vector, multi-pathogen community