#EIDsymp25
Many congratulations to our two poster prize winners - Rose Blake @roslininstitute.bsky.social and Anneza Abid @edinburghnapier.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
And now the final session before tea - @jrossfitz.bsky.social talking about his favourite organism - S.aureus #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Shift in gears now as Ting Shi discusses new framework protocols being developed to guide future responses to emergence of Pathogen X, and importance of robust data to inform the guidelines #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Richard Wheeler keeping us all awake in the post-lunch session with a great talk about swimming in trypanosomatid parasites #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Iris Mair and Matt Silk introducing a session on interdisciplinary working - the rewards and the challenges - crucial aspects for successful infectious disease research #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Pigs are a mixing vessel for influenza A - Vayalena Drampa @roslininstitute.bsky.social discussing her work to study host factors required for Influenza replication #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Next up is Martha Kivecu discussing the origin of Plasmodium falciparum #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Chris Banks @roslininstitute.bsky.social discussing how land management schemes affect biodiversity and risks of infectious disease 🦠 #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
And now @Kyriaki Neophytou describing her work on pathogen signalling to host cells via small RNAs #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Really interesting work by Kalyani Sharma to develop a simple point-of-care test for urinary tract infections @bachmanntill.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Now for the short talks by early career researchers - first up Josh Richards talking about study of the microbiome in the mouse population on the Isle of May #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Really interesting to hear about Amy Sweeny’s work on the changes in microbiome communities during aging in the wild sheep population on St Kilda #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Stew Burgess from the Moredun Research Institute, talking about the impacts and treatments for sheep scab - a major disease burden for UK sheep farmers and their flocks #EIDSymp25 @moredunfoundation.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Exciting to hear from Melita Gordon about the new salmonella vaccines being developed and tested - look out for more information to be published in June! #EIDSymp25
May 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Many congratulations to Dr Catherine Oke, winner of the 2025 Ker Memorial Prize for her work on the evolutionary ecology of vector-parasite interactions 🏆🎉🏆 #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Fantastic start to our Annual Symposium at the Royal College of Physicians - great to see so many people here! #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM