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29 - 30 June 2021
This was our 4th Annual Symposium, held virtually over two half-days with talks by UCL and external speakers on the latest research in microbiology, free and open to all.
Thank you to our speakers, chairs, organisers, sponsor, and over 130 attendeees for making the event a success.
Congratulations to ECR Talk Award winner:
Marco Crisci for his flash talk entitled: Closely related Lak megaphages replicate in the microbiomes of diverse animals
The winner received a £100 cash prize courtesy of our sponsor, Journal of Medical Microbiology.
Programme Outline
29th June 10.00 - 12.00 BST
Session 1: SARS-CoV-2 Variants
Keynote: Katrina Lythgoe (Big Data Institute, Oxford University)
SARS-CoV-2 within-host diversity and transmission
Steven Kemp (Infection & Immunity)
SARS-CoV-2 evolution during treatment of chronic infection
Lucy van Dorp (Genetics, Evolution & Environment)
The changing landscape of SARS-CoV-2 genetic diversity
ECR lightning talks
29th June 13.00 -15.00 BST
Session 2: Microbial Defence and Resistance
Keynote: Malcom White (School of Biology, University of St Andrews)
Cyclic nucleotide signalling in virus:host conflict
Shozeb Haider (Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry)
Allosteric communication in class A β-lactamases
Dimitrios Evangelopoulos (Microbial Diseases, Eastman Dental Institute)
Strategies for delaying the development of drug resistance
ECR lightning talks
30th June 13.00 - 15.00 BST
Session 3: Vaccines
Keynote: Adrian Hill (The Jenner Insitute, Oxford University)
Malaria Vaccine Development: a good year 111!
Jasmin Samaras (Biochemical Engineering)
Developing a Scalable Automated Platform for Vaccine Development
Sarah Edwards (Science & Technology Studies)
Ethics of next generation Covid-19 vaccines
Download the full programme:
Symposium 2021 Programme ver4.1.docx
Symposium 2021 Programme ver4.1.docx
With thanks to our sponsor:
