Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Annual Symposium

You are warmly invited to the Sixth Annual Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Symposium!

This year we are in a new venue for us, at the John McIntyre Conference Centre at Pollock Halls.

Ker Memorial Lecturer:

• Prof Peter Openshaw (Imperial College, London) - https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.openshaw

Programme (subject to change)

SESSION 1 - Chair: Gary Entrican

• 9.30 – 9.40: Ross Fitzgerald (Director Edinburgh Infectious Diseases) - Welcome and introduction
• 9.40 – 10.00: Keith Matthews, Inst. of Immunology and Infection Research - Cell to Cell communication in African trypanosomes as a strategy for transmission
  
• 10.00 – 10.20: Meriem El Karoui, Institute of Cell Biology - DNA repair and antibiotic tolerance in Escherichia coli
  
• 10.20 – 10.40: Bruce Whitelaw, The Roslin Institute - Livestock research: engineering a future
• 10.40 – 11.00: Michelle Taylor, School of Social and Political Science - What is next for Neglected Tropical Diseases in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals?

11.00 – 11.30: Tea and coffee / posters

SESSION 2 - Chair: Bernadette Dutia

• 11.30 – 11:45: Jo Stevens, The Roslin Institute - Molecular insights into the intracellular life of a bacterial pathogen
• 11.45 – 12.00: Luke McNally, Inst. of Immunology and Infection Research - Social traits of bacteria
  
• 12.00 – 12.20: Sarah Reece, Institute for Evolutionary Biology - Parasite offence or host defence? The roles of biological rhythms in malaria infection
• 12.20 – 12.40: Debby Bogaert, MRC Centre for Inflammation Research - Pathophysiology of respiratory infections
• 12.40 – 13.00: David Dockrell, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh - Apoptosis-associated microbicidal responses in macrophages
  

13.00 – 14.15: Lunch / posters

SESSION 3 - Chair: Jürgen Schwarze

• 14.15 – 14.35: Daire O’Shea, Western General Hospital - Host response to, and treatment of, viral infections
• 14.35 – 14.55: Rosalind Allen, School of Physics and Astronomy - Models for the physiological response of bacteria to antibiotics
  
• 14.55 – 15:15: Tom McNeilly, Moredun Research Institute - Immune modulation by ruminant mucosal pathogens: molecules, mechanisms and impact
• 15:15 – 15.35: Paul Sharp, Institute for Evolutionary Biology - Origins of human malaria
  
• 15.35 – 15.50: KER MEMORIAL PRIZE WINNER - Eleanor Silvester, Inst. of Immunology and Infection Research - Conservation of quorum-sensing signal responses and cross-species interactions between Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanosoma congolense

15.45 – 16.10: Tea and coffee / posters

SESSION 4 - Chair: Ross Fitzgerald

• 16.15 – 16.20: Presentation of poster prize
• 16.20 – 17.15: KER MEMORIAL LECTURER - Peter Openshaw, Imperial College - Viral lung disease, vaccination and immunopathogenesis of viral disease
  

17.15 – 18.30: Drinks reception – ALL WELCOME

Poster sessions

There will be poster sessions during morning coffee and after lunch and we encourage any students and postdocs to present their work. There will be £100 prizes for the best poster in each category.

Evening reception

The symposium will conclude with a convivial drinks reception, to which all are invited.

We look forward to welcoming you on 1 June!