Antimicrobial Resistance

Past events

Our seminars cover a variety of AMR related research themes and are held at the respective sites across Edinburgh

 

AMR Workshop, 23rd April 2015

Mark Woolhouse

School of Biological Sciences

Burden of AMR  

Ghada Zoubiane

Infection and Immunity, MRC

AMR initiatives - developing new ways of working  

Penny Wilson

Innovate UK, Precision Medicine Catapult

Funding opportunities in industry  

Joshua Ryan-Saha

Nesta

The Longitude Prize  

Thamari Schneiders

Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine

AMR in gram negative bacteria  

Ross Fitzgerald

The Roslin Institute

Zoonotic spread of resistance  

Claire Mackintosh and Carol Price

Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Antibiotic prescription in hospitals  

Sally Argyle

Royal Dick School of Veterinary Science

Antibiotic use and prescription in veterinary care  

Kev Dhaliwal

MRC Centre for Inflammation Research

Imaging lung infection in vivo - The Proteus Project  

Kim Thompson

Moredun Research Institute

Vaccine alternatives to antibiotics in aquaculture  

Malcolm Walkinshaw

School of Biological Sciences

Structural biochemistry and drug design  

Stewart Smith

School of Engineering

Engineering solutions for AMR diagnostics  

Till Bachmann

Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine

Molecular diagnostics and POC detection  

Wilson Poon

School of Physics and Astronomy

Whole-cell studies of antimicrobial peptide action  

Joye Tait

Innogen Institute

Socioeconomic aspects of AMR  

Dilip Nathwani

School of Medicine, University of Dundee, 2015 President BSAC

Antimicrobial stwardship in Scotland  

 

Next Generation Sequencing and Antimicrobial Resistance

30th June 2015, Programme

Mick Watson

Edinburgh Genomics

NGS and bioinformatics approaches to genome and metagenome analysis  

Sam Wagner

The Roslin Institute

The Long and Short of it: A genomic snapshot of horizontally transferable, extended spectrum multi-drug resistance  

Lesley Allison

Department of Laboratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

A Scottish Reference Laboratory perspective on the utility of WGS  

 

Physics of Antimicrobial Resistance,

25th August 2015, Programme

Rosalind Allen

School of Physics and Astronomy

Growth-dependent bacterial susceptibility to ribosome-targeting antibiotics

 

Bartek Waclaw

School of Physics and Astronomy

Evolution of antibioresistance in the presence of antibiotic gradients

 

Simon Titmuss

School of Physics and Astronomy

Molecular scale microbiology with neutrons

 

 

The relevance of Host-Pathogen interactions in the context of antibiotic use and AMR

18th November 2015, Programme

Kev Dhaliwal

MRC Centre for Inflammation Research

Developing molecular alveoscopy to understand host pathogen interactions- the beginning of a journey

 

Sarah Walmsley

MRC Centre for Inflammation Research

Hypoxia and the innate immune response

 

Deepankar Datta

Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine

Immune markers of sepsis