Cambridge Infectious Diseases Annual Symposium 2024: Programme
Registration and Coffee (8.15 - 9.00) | |
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Introduction (9.00 - 9.10) | |
Session 1: Bacterial pathogens and their hosts (9.10-10.10)Chair: Brian Ferguson | |
9.10 | Alex Almeida (Department of Veterinary Medicine): Charting a metagenomic atlas of the uncultured microbiome in health and disease |
9.30 | Josie Bryant (Wellcome Sanger Institute): Spatial heterogeneity and microenvironments in the lung microbiome |
9.50 | Jeanne Salje (Department of Biochemistry/Pathology): Orientia tsutsugamushi and the obligate intracellular lifestyle |
Break + Poster Session I (10.10-10.50) | |
Session 2: Parasitology (10.50 - 11.50)Chair: Cinzia Cantacessi | |
10.50 | Maria Duque-Correa (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute): Unravelling the whipworm niche at the host intestinal epithelia |
11.10 | Piers Mitchell (Department of Archaeology): Parasites in past civilizations |
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 | |
Lunch (12.20 - 13.20) | |
Session 3: Drugs and Vaccines (13.20 - 14.40)Chair: Clare Bryant | |
13.20 | Kate Baker (Department of Genetics): Applied microbial genomics for Shigella and AMR |
13.40 | Ulrich Keyser (Department of Physics): Building nanostructures from RNA and DNA for single-molecule experiments |
14.00 | Chris Ruis (Department of Medicine/Veterinary Medicine): A molnupiravir-associated mutational signature in global SARS-CoV-2 genomes |
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 | |
Break + Poster Session II (15.10 - 15.50) | |
Session 4: Technological innovation (15.50 - 16.30)Chair: Andres Floto | |
15.50 | Jonathan Heeney (Department of Veterinary Medicine): Combating infectious diseases by computationally engineered vaccines |
16.10 | Dushanth Seevaratnam (Department of Engineering): Differing outcomes between nucleic acid tests used during Covid in Ghana |
16.30 | Mark Howarth (Department of Pharmacology): Studying and controlling the immune system using bacterial superglues |
16.50 | Keynote Speaker: Hagan Bayley (University of Oxford): Synthetic, living and hybrid tissues by printing and microfluidics |
Closing + awards (17.30 - 17.45) | |
Drinks reception (17.45 - 18.30) | |