Cambridge Infectious Diseases Annual Symposium 2026: Programme

9.10 Charlotte Hammer (Centre for Study of Existential Risk):
Before the Storm forms: Finding Tomorrow's Epidemics in Today's Noise

9.30 Jason Ladner (visitor VetMed, Northern Arizona University):
Using highly-multiplexed serology to better understand the virosphere

9.50 Brian Ferguson (Pathology/CRASSH): Ancient sensors, emerging viruses:
pattern recognition receptors in zoonotic disease

10.10 Fiona Lethbridge (Science Media Centre): When infectious diseases hit the
headlines – engaging with the media

11.20 Katherine Sharrocks (CUH/NHS): High Consequence Infectious Diseases in
a crumbling hospital infrastructure

11.40 Julian Rayner (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research): Understanding
host-parasite interactions: why equitable partnerships are essential

13.30 Nicholas Matheson (CITIID): From HIV to AIDS: a functional proteomic
perspective

13.50 Diana Fusco (Physics): The origin and consequences of lysis time
heterogeneity in phage-bacteria systems

14.10 João Joaquim (University of Lisbon, prev: History and Philosophy of
Science): King Edward, Chips, and the Origin of Viruses

15.10 Betty Chung (Pathology): Uncovering translational mechanisms in
pathogenic bacteria

15.30 Maciej Wiatrak (Medicine): Predicting bacterial phenotype with a
contextualised protein language model

15.50 Keynote: Yonatan Grad (Havard TH Chan School of Public Health):
Dynamics of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae