Annual Meeting of Minds 2017
Cambridge Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Centre
Annually, the University of Cambridge Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Centre organises a vibrant full-day conference ‘Cambridge Infectious Diseases Annual Meeting of Minds’, with 100 plus attendees and a wide range of topics covered.
We are planning to repeat the event in November each year, and this year the meeting is being held on Friday 24 November at Downing College, Cambridge.
Programme
Each year our speakers and Chairs represent the breadth of research being undertaken on infectious diseases across all six schools of the University. Our aim is to provide a platform for researchers from any field interested in infectious diseases to meet, share knowledge, and identify new opportunities to undertake collaborative research.
We are putting together a wide-ranging programme for the day, highlighting areas where working closer together can make an impact in human and animal health. This meeting provides a broad outlook and challenges and inspires us to be better than the sum of our parts.
This years programme includes a special session on engineering and clinical diagnostics. Confirmed speakers include Prof. John Clarkson - Engineering, Prof, Lisa Hall - Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Dr. Julia Kenyan - Medicine, Dr Yorgo Modis - MRC LMB, Prof Ian Goodfellow - Pathology, Dr Charlotte Houldcroft- Archaelogy and Anthropology, Dr Mark Carrington - Biochemistry, Dr Zamin Iqbal The European Bioinformatics Institute, Dr David Aanensen - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Chris Hodkinson - VP Business Development, Owlstone Medical Ltd and more.
Call for Abstracts Open - deadline extended to 3 Nov 2017
Topics are flexible and examples of interdisciplinary projects are encouraged. We havea single slot for a speaker on the main programme remaining, but posters are unlimited and we have 5 slots for 4 min talks - designed to highlight your posters on display. Please submit a poster /flash talk abstract, or main programme paper abstract by 3 Nov 2017. This is an annual event and we try hard to select speakers who have not spoken for some time/before, if you are not successful this year, then we may contact you for next year's programme!
This year we will be offering an Early Career Researcher Cash Prize of £250 to the best poster submitted by an ECR. Judges to be announced.
Submit poster/flash talk abstract. Closes 3 Nov
Register on Eventbrite. Closes Friday 10 November 2017
Link to Poster - please print out and pin up in your department
Registration (free) Closes Friday 10 November 2017
When you register, please select a Day Entrance ticket (this includes lunch/coffee).
If you would also like to stay for a drinks reception to network after the meeting 5pm-6pm - please also select a Drinks Reception ticket.
Registration is free for both entrance and drinks for everyone, this includes lunch and coffee breaks. However each year our costs are escalating. If you are an industry partner or PI with grant funds available, we encourage you to pay an optional registration fee. Your contribution will enable more events to be planned throughout the year and support the free access early career rearchers have to this beneficial meeting. A Registration payment site will be set up via the University and will be linkable to from here shortly when it is live, it will also be emailed to you - we are leaving it to you to decide whether to follow the link and support the work of CID if you can. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
We look forward to hosting you!
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8.30 |
Registration and Coffee |
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9.15 |
Introduction |
Professor James Wood, Co-Chair of CID |
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Session 1: Molecular biology of infectious diseases Chair: |
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9.30 |
Structure, Mechanism and Evolution of Class II Viral Membrane Fusion Proteins Dr. Yorgo Modis, MRC LMB (confirmed) |
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9.50 |
New drug targets in the SHAPE of HIV-1 RNA Dr Julia Kenyon, Department of Medicine, Lever Group (confirmed) |
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10.10 |
Rapid evolution of cell surface receptors in African trypanosomes Dr. Mark Carrington , Department of Biochemistry (confirmed) |
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10.30 |
Tea & Coffee & Networking - 40 mins |
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Session 2: Engineering innovations for clinical diagnostics Chair : Prof John Clarkson, department of Engineering |
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11.10 |
Engineering Better care Prof John Clarkson, Department of Engineering (confirmed) |
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11.30 |
Nucleic acid tests with purchasing price parity: pipe dream or possibility. Prof. Lisa Hall, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (confirmed) |
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11.50 |
Acoustic Resonator Sensors for Medical Applications Prof. Andrew Flewitt, Department of Electrical Engineering (confirmed) |
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12.10 |
Breath Biopsy, chemicals on breath as biomarkers of disease Chris Hodkinson - VP Business Development, Owlstone Medical Ltd (confirmed) |
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12.30 |
LUNCH- 60 mins |
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Session 3: Microbial genomics and antimicrobial resistance Chair: |
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1.30 |
Living off the fat of the land - targeting fatty acid metabolism in the opportunistic human pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa Dr. Martin Welch, Biochemistry (confirmed) |
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1.50 |
How to build a Google for bacterial genomes. Dr. Zamin Iqbal, The European Biofinormatics EBI (confirmed) |
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2.10 |
Global Genomics Surveillance of AMR Dr. David Aanensen, WTSI (confirmed) |
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2.30 |
Flash Talks 5 x 4 mins |
Open call |
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3.00 |
Tea & Coffee- 40 mins |
Poster session |
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Session 4: Disease transmission and response in urban and rural environments Chair: |
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3.40 |
The hominin STD clinic: the ancient origins of HSV2 Dr. Charlotte Houldcroft, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology (confirmed) |
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4.00 |
Pathogen Spilover at the core-matrix interface Dr Hamish McCallum, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Australia. (confimed) |
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4.20 |
The trials and tribulations of using field deployable genomics during epidemic response Dr. Ian Goodfellow, Department of Pathology (confirmed) |
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4.40 |
Closing Speech |
Lydia Drumright, Co-Chair Cambridge Infectious Diseases |
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5.00 |
Drinks & Canapés Reception |
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Friday 24 November 2017, Downing College, Cambridge