As in previous years we will be presenting a showcase of the world-class infectious disease research in Edinburgh, and very much hope that you will be able to join us.

We will be using the Collaborate platform to deliver the event, which will allow the talks and poster sessions to be interactive.

To ease screen-strain, we have split the event over two days - the afternoon of Tuesday 10 November and the morning of Wednesday 11 November - and have an excellent programme of talks and poster presentations each day.

Poster presentations

One of the highlights of the physical symposium are the poster sessions. We will be continuing this tradition by using virtual breakout spaces so that each presenter can talk about their poster with attendees.

Please note that there will poster sessions on both days, with a maximum of 20 presenters in each session.

And this year we will be asking you, the attendees, to vote on your favourite posters in order to award the prizes for the best student and postdoc poster.

Lightening talks

We are also inviting students and postdocs to give lightening talks (max 3 min, 1 slide) about their work. When registering, please indicate whether you would like to be considered for a presentation, and include the title of your talk, and a 50-word summary.

Deadline for registration for oral presentations is Wednesday 28 October and we will select presenters by Friday 30 October.

If register after 28 October, please note that we will not be able to consider you for a lightening talk.

Confirmed main speakers

Helen Alexander – School of Biological Sciences

Till Bachmann – Infection Medicine

Tim Connelley – Roslin Institute

Lukas Engelmann – School of Social and Political Science

Clare Hamilton – Moredun Research Institute

Steve Jenkins – Centre for Inflammation Research

Jim Kaufmann – School of Biological Sciences

Nikki Lynskey – Roslin Institute

Keith Matthews – School of Biological Sciences

Helen Stagg – Usher Institute

Ker Memorial Lecturer - Prof Ron Fouchier

We are delighted that Prof Ron Fouchier from Erasmus MC in Rotterdam will be giving the Ker Memorial Lecture.

He will speak on "Emergence of respiratory viruses in humans, with focus on influenza".

About the speaker

Ker Memorial Prize winner

And as is customary we will also hear from the Ker Memorial Prize winner.

This year the prize was awarded to Dr You (Leo) Li, who completed a brilliant PhD with Profs Harish Nair and Harry Campbell on the "Global seasonality of respiratory viruses and the association between viral acute respiratory infection and subsequent pneumococcal disease".

Attendee numbers

Please note: we are holding the Symposium online, we are able to increase the total numbers attending the main presentation sessions to 500. However because we want the posters to be interactive, these sessions are limited to 250.

Joining links

Please look out for an email with all the joining links for the different presentation and poster sessions in the week prior to the Symposium.

Programme updates and further information

Updated information on speakers and the timings for the symposium will be added to the event website as they become available.

9th Annual Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Symposium

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Virtual edition - 9th Annual Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Symposium 2020