Registration and Coffee (8.15 - 9.00) |
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Introduction (9.00 - 9.10) |
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Session 1: Bacterial pathogens and their hosts (9.10-10.10)Chair: Brian Ferguson |
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9.10 |
Alex Almeida (Department of Veterinary Medicine): Charting a metagenomic atlas of the uncultured microbiome in health and disease |
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9.30 |
Josie Bryant (Wellcome Sanger Institute): Spatial heterogeneity and microenvironments in the lung microbiome |
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9.50 |
Jeanne Salje (Department of Biochemistry/Pathology): Orientia tsutsugamushi and the obligate intracellular lifestyle |
Break + Poster Session I (10.10-10.50) |
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Session 2: Parasitology (10.50 - 11.50)Chair: Cinzia Cantacessi |
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10.50 |
Maria Duque-Correa (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute): Unravelling the whipworm niche at the host intestinal epithelia |
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11.10 |
Piers Mitchell (Department of Archaeology): Parasites in past civilizations |
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11.30 |
Sebastian Eves-van den Akker (Department of Plant Sciences): AI-powered holistic and dynamic phenotyping of parasitic nematodes |
Flash talks (11.50 - 12.20) – Chair: Elli Mylona |
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Lunch (12.20 - 13.20) |
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Session 3: Drugs and Vaccines (13.20 - 14.40)Chair: Clare Bryant |
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13.20 |
Kate Baker (Department of Genetics): Applied microbial genomics for Shigella and AMR |
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13.40 |
Ulrich Keyser (Department of Physics): Building nanostructures from RNA and DNA for single-molecule experiments |
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14.00 |
Chris Ruis (Department of Medicine/Veterinary Medicine): A molnupiravir-associated mutational signature in global SARS-CoV-2 genomes |
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14.20 |
Andrew Conlan (Department of Veterinary Medicine): BCG vaccination reduces bovine tuberculosis transmission, improving prospects for elimination |
Flash talks (14.40 - 15.10) – Chair: Angkana Huang |
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Break + Poster Session II (15.10 - 15.50) |
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Session 4: Technological innovation (15.50 - 16.30)Chair: Andres Floto |
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15.50 |
Jonathan Heeney (Department of Veterinary Medicine): Combating infectious diseases by computationally engineered vaccines |
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16.10 |
Dushanth Seevaratnam (Department of Engineering): Differing outcomes between nucleic acid tests used during Covid in Ghana |
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16.30 |
Mark Howarth (Department of Pharmacology): Studying and controlling the immune system using bacterial superglues |
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16.50 |
Keynote Speaker: Hagan Bayley (University of Oxford): Synthetic, living and hybrid tissues by printing and microfluidics |
Closing + awards (17.30 - 17.45) |
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Drinks reception (17.45 - 18.30) |
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