11 November 2020

Ker Prize Winner:  You (Leo) Li (Usher Institute) – Global seasonality of respiratory viruses and the association between viral acute respiratory infection and subsequent pneumococcal disease
ECR Lightening talks 2 - 3 minutes, 1 slide!

Iona Walker – AMR and COVID-19 Beyond the Military Metaphor
Antonia Chalka – Building Salmonella typhimurium host prediction models using multiple genomic features
Stanley Otoboh – Genetic validation of the function of PfEMP1 in Plasmodium falciparum rosette formation
Nia Verdon –  AMR bacteria can protect each other in small populations
Susana Keane – Potential proviral human proteins in influenza A virus infection    

Till Bachmann (Infection Medicine) –  AMR, One Health, and the Path to Better Diagnostics
Nicki Lynskey (Roslin Institute) – Deciphering the genetic basis for virulence traits in pathogenic streptococci
Clare Hamilton (Moredun Research Institute) – Towards the characterisation of virulence of Toxoplasma gondii