Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Annual Symposium 2016

Once again we are delighted to invite you to a great day of infectious disease research in the heart of our beautiful city.

• 1 June 2016
• 9 - 6 pm
• The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh

The Sympoisum has been provisionally accredited for 6 CPD points by the Royal College of Physicians (London).

Provisional programme (subject to change)

SESSION 1

• Rick Maizels (University of Glasgow) - Helminths and inflammation
• Lonneke Vervelde (Roslin Institute) - Transgenic MacReporter chickens: Phagocytes and their interactions with pathogens revisited
  
• Achim Schnaufer (Inst. of Immunology and Infection Research) - The function of mitochondrial DNA in the sleeping sickness parasite Trypanosoma brucei
  
• Moira Whyte (Centre for Inflammation Research) - Innate immune response to infection by respiratory pathogens
  

• Tea and coffee / posters

SESSION 2

• Peter Kingsley (Centre of Africa Studies) - Controlling sleeping sickness in Southern Sudan: remembering, forgetting and the production of humanitarian knowledge
  
• Sara Macias Ribela (Inst. of Immunology and Infection Research) - Viral miRNAs
• Jürgen Haas (Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine) - Pathogen-host interactions in Herpes simplex virus type 1
  
• Colin McInnes (Moredun Research Institute) - Controlling squirrel pox
  

• Lunch / posters

SESSION 3

• Kenny Baillie (Roslin Institute) - Translational genomics in critical care medicine
• Teuta Pilizota (Institute of Cell Biology) - Measuring changes in energetics of individual cells treated with antibiotics
  
• Karina Kielmann (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh) - Decentralising Molecular Diagnostics for TB in South Africa: A Socio-Technical Approach
  
• Mark Woolhouse (Institute of Evolutionary Biology) - Theileria coinfections and heterologous reactivity
• KER MEMORIAL PRIZE WINNER - Chris Johnston (Inst. of Immunology and Infection Research) - Helminth-induced immunomodulation during solid organ transplantation
  

• Tea and coffee / posters

SESSION 4

• Presentation of poster prize
• KER MEMORIAL LECTURER, Professor Gordon Dougan (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) - Genetic analysis of host/pathogen interactions during infection
• Drinks reception – ALL WELCOME!