Registration and call for abstracts OPEN: Cambridge Infectious Diseases Annual Symposium 2024 - 4th March, Robinson College

Registrations are OPEN for the next Cambridge Infectious Diseases Annual Symposium, on the 4th March 2024. This will be an in-person event, at Robinson College.

For those unfamiliar with it, the annual symposium is a one-day event in which CID brings together its members to learn about the network's research. There will be talks from junior and senior researchers, combined with flash talks and poster presentations from PhDs and postdocs; with representation from all Schools, embracing CID interdisciplinarity.

It is an excellent opportunity for our members to:

• Hear about Cambridge’s strengths across infectious diseases;
• Gain new perspectives and ideas to advance their research;
• Engage with our major interdisciplinary themes and discuss project ideas;
• Network with colleagues and find new collaborators.

This year we will have contributions from host-pathogen interactions in bacteria and parasites, antimicrobial resistance research, and technological innovation.

Our keynote speaker will be Hagan Bayley, from the University of Oxford, talking about 'Synthetic, living and hybrid tissues by printing and microfluidics'.

Our Cambridge speakers will be: 

• Alex Almeida (Veterinary Medicine): 'Charting a metagenomic atlas of the uncultured microbiome in health and disease'  

• Kate Baker (Genetics): 'Applied microbial genomics for Shigella and AMR'

• Josie Bryant (Wellcome Sanger Institute): 'Spatial heterogeneity and microenvironments in the lung microbiome'

• Andrew Conlan (Veterinary Medicine): 'BCG vaccination reduces bovine tuberculosis transmission, improving prospects for elimination'

• Maria Duque-Correa (Stem Cell Institute): 'Unravelling the whipworm niche at the host intestinal epithelia'

• Sebastian Eves-van den Akker (Plant Sciences): 'AI-powered holistic and dynamic phenotyping of parasitic nematodes'

• Jonathan Heeney (Veterinary Medicine): 'Combating infectious diseases by computationally engineered vaccines'

• Mark Howarth (Pharmacology): 'Studying and controlling the immune system using bacterial superglues'

• Ulrich Keyser (Physics): 'Building nanostructures from RNA and DNA for single molecule experiments'

• Piers Mitchell (Archaeology): 'Parasites in Past Civilizations'

• Chris Ruis (Medicine/Veterinary Medicine): 'A molnupiravir-associated mutational signature in global SARS-CoV-2 genomes'

• Jeanne Salje (Pathology/Biochemistry): 'Orientia tsutsugamushi and the obligate intracellular lifestyle'

• Dushanth Seevaratnam (IfM, Engineering): 'Differing outcomes between nucleic acid tests used during Covid in Ghana'