Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Early Career Researcher Symposium

After the success of the lightening talk session at our Annual Symposium in June, we are going to be hosting an online event specifically for Early Career Researchers on Thursday 28 October.

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Programme

We have an amazing schedule of speakers lined up for the symposium - they are all going to be presenting their work for just 3 minutes using 1 slide, so hold onto your hats!

Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
1405	Ross Fitzgerald	Director Edinburgh Infectious Diseases	Welcome and Introduction
Session 1: Chaired by Brian McHugh, Centre for Inflammation Research
1410	Elizabeth Walker	Usher Institute	Non-adherence to therapy in chronic conditions using tuberculosis as a model disease
1415	Shannon Massey	The Roslin Institute	Analysing the Impact of Sexual Recombination on the Segregation of Virulence Genes in Trypanosoma brucei
1420	Joana Alves	The Roslin Institute	Staphylococcus aureus infection of human macrophages selects for a novel pathogenic variant with unstable colony phenotype
1425	Martin Vandeputte	Infection Medicine	Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae specifically destroy tight junctions of gut and liver cells
1430	Duygu Madenci	The Roslin Institute	Genetic selection of cattle for reduced bovine Tuberculosis transmission
1435	Alexandra Florea	The Roslin Institute	Genome editing for resistance to white spot syndrome virus in whiteleg shrimp
1440	Grace Taylor-Joyce	The Roslin Institute	Transcriptomic dissection of the evolutionary adaptation of S. aureus to the dairy niche
1445	Marc Nicolas Faber	Moredun Research Institute	Exploring ruminant abomasal organoids to study parasitic nematode infections
1450	Clark Russell	Centre for Inflammation Research	Pathogen adaptation identifies macrophage targets for host-directed therapies
Session 2: Chaired by Federico Rojas, Institute of Immunology and Infection Research
1500	Carys Redman-White	Global Acad. Agriculture and Food Security	AMR at the human-animal interface: filling in knowledge gaps where surveillance is scarce
1505	Ambre Chapuis	Moredun Research Institute and Roslin Institute	Development of bovine and ovine “apical-out” gut organoid models for the study of pathogen versus host interactions in Johne’s Disease
1510	Aphaluck Bhatiasevi	School of Social and Political Science	Changing climate and the shifting burden of infectious diseases: Towards an anthropology of melioidosis
1515	Guy Oldrieve	Inst. Immunology & Infection Research	Developmental competence in selected and naturally occurring African trypanosome isolates
1520	Anthony Wood	The Roslin Institute	Coupling effects of influenza and COVID in a hypothetical joint wave
1525	Jamie Gorzynski	The Roslin Institute	Genomic epidemiological analysis of Legionnaires’ Disease in Scotland uncovers long-term endemic Legionella pneumophila clones of public health importance
1530	Brian McHugh	Centre for Inflammation Research	Regulators of mitochondrial dynamics identified in a CRISPR screen of macrophage microbicidal mechanisms
1535	Emma Pujol Hodge	Institute of Evolutionary Biology	SEARCHing for answers: detection of inferred HIV-1 transmission clusters within a universal test-and-treat trial in East Africa
1540	Kate Sutton	The Roslin Institute	Differential responses of epithelial and immune cells during Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infection of chicken 3D and 2D enteroids
1545	Fiona Sargison	The Roslin Institute	Genome-scale identification of Staphylococcus aureus determinants of avian disease pathogenesis
1550	Mabel Deladem Tettey	Inst. Immunology & Infection Research	Analysis of released peptidases and their role in the transmission biology of African trypanosomes
Session 3: Chaired by Natalie Ring, Roslin Institute
1600	Nelly Mak	Infection Medicine	Do antiviral IFITMs contribute to species-specific zoonotic barriers?
1605	Cassandra McGregor	Moredun Research Institute	Potential risk of roundworm transmission in the transportation of livestock
1610	Leonardos Mageiros	The Roslin Institute	Evolution and adaptation of avian Staphylococcus aureus
1615	Lynsey Melville	Moredun Research Institute	Working towards sustainable farming by developing tools to understand the development of drug resistance and epidemiological change in gastrointestinal nematodes
1620	Willow Fox	The Roslin Institute	Genome-scale analysis of the pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus bovine mastitis
1625	Becca Belmonte	Inst. Immunology & Infection Research	Sex differences in Drosophila melanogaster hemocyte innate immunity
1630	Priscilla Chin	Inst. Immunology & Infection Research	Activation of the IFN pathway by endogenous RNA ligands
1635	Mary-Kate Corbally	Inst. Immunology & Infection Research	Exploring the Interplay of Sex, Immunity and Ageing
1640	Pujitha Raja	Infection Medicine	Spf regulates beta-lactam susceptibility in in K. pneumoniae
1645	Beth Thompson	The Roslin Institute	Host interspecies variation in CpG mediated attenuation of Influenza AS
1650	Siti Sarah Yusoff	Infection Medicine	The role of CEACAMs in HSV1 viral entry
1655	Samantha Sives	The Roslin Institute	Investigating differential expression in avian respiratory innate immune responses to respiratory viruses: linking genotype to phenotype