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An Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Cambridge
 

Registration and Coffee (8.15 - 9.00)

Introduction (9.00 - 9.10)

Session 1: AMR – new approaches (9.10 - 10.10) – Chair: Prof Andres Floto

9.10

Keynote talk: Prof Roy Kishony (Technion- Israel Institute of Technology)

Machine learning algorithms to optimally prescribe antibiotics

9.50

Dr Tanmay Bharat (MRC LMB)

Structural cell biology of bacterial biofilm formation

10.10

Prof Chris Schofield (University of Oxford)

Connecting Synthetic Chemistry and Clinically Relevant Microbiology

Break + Poster Session I (10.30-11.10)

Session 2: Safer Environments (11.10 - 12.10) – Chair: Prof Andy Woods

11.10

Dr Matthew Gandy (Department of Geography) - online

Zoonotic urbanization: multispecies urbanism and the rescaling of urban epidemiology

11.30

Dr Ronita Bardhan (Department of Architecture)

Built environment design for the double trouble. - Heat and infectious disease

11.50

Prof Shaun Fitzgerald (Department of Engineering)

Infection Resilient Environments

Flash talks (12.10-12.40) – Chair: Prof Julian Parkhill

Lunch (12.40 - 13.40)

Session 3: Vaccinology (13.40 - 14.40) – Chair: Dr Charlotte Houldcroft

13.40

Dr Sarah Hughes-McLure (Department of Geography) - online

Innovative finance for global health? Vaccine bonds and the hidden costs of financialisation

14.00

Prof Henrik Salje (Department of Genetics)

Understanding Immune responses following infection and vaccination

14.20

Prof Caroline Trotter (Department of Pathology)

The role of vaccines in defeating meningitis by 2030

Flash talks (14.40 - 15.10) – Chair: Dr Martin Welch

Break + Poster Session II (15.10 - 15.50)

Session 4: Infectious Diseases and Climate Change (15.50 - 16.50) Chair: Prof Julia Gog

15.50

Dr Anna Protasio (Department of Pathology)

Poop-omics! Unravelling the secrets hidden in bird faeces

16.10

Dr Romola Davenport (Department of Geography)

Airs, waters and agues: the historical impact of malaria in the Cambridgeshire Fens

Closing + awards (16.30 - 16.45)

Drinks reception (16.45 - 18.00)