This event will bring together researchers from a range of disciplines across the University to share their work, discuss areas of common interest and explore opportunities for future collaboration.
Programme
The event will run in two sessions: 9.30 am - 12 pm and 1.30 - 4.30 pm.
*PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FINAL SCHEDULE IS STILL TO BE CONFIRMED*
Introduction: Keith Matthews, School of Biological Sciences
Transmission: Modelling and mathematical biology
Mark Woolhouse, Usher Institute – The epidemiology and evolution of pandemic potential
Áine O'Toole, School of Biological Sciences – Tracking the international spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineages of concern
Graeme Ackland, School of Physics and Astronomy – The use of data to understand the coronavirus epidemic
BREAK
Transmission: Parasite strategies for spread
Sarah Reece, School of Biological Sciences – The private life of parasites: Sophisticated strategies for survival & reproduction
Phil Spence, School of Biological Sciences – A single infection is sufficient to establish long-lived mechanisms of disease tolerance in human malaria
Keith Matthews, School of Biological Sciences – The interplay between trypanosome virulence, transmission and co-infection
Nisha Philip, School of Biolgical Sciences – How do signalling pathways regulate life-cycle transitions in the malaria parasite ?
LUNCH
Transmission: Multi-host transmission and zoonoses
Rowland Kao, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies – Modelling of multi-host pathogens. from methods to impact
Bryan Wee, Usher Institute – Does urban livestock-keeping play a role in bacterial transmission?
Amy Pedersen, School of Biological Sciences – Cross-species transmission is rare in a multi-host, multi-vector, multi-pathogen community
BREAK
Transmission: Populations and policy
Samantha Lycett, Roslin Institute – Revealing viral transmission patterns in evolving situations using phylodynamics
Pedro Vale, School of Biological Sciences – Linking individual host heterogeneity to population disease dynamics
Helen Stagg, Usher Institute – From biology to policy and back again
General discussion
For updates about the workshop,including speaker bios, and programme timings please view our website:
Edinburgh Disease Transmission workshop website
