Timetable of Talks/Events
Thursday 5th May 2011
| 10.30am | Registration | ||
| Pre-conference presentation | |||
| 11.00am | Single Molecule Genome Sequencing | Pacific Biosciences | |
| 12 noon | Registration and Lunch | ||
Conference presentations | |||
| 1.00pm | Introduction to the Boyd Orr Centre | Dan Haydon | |
| Foot-and-mouth disease | |||
| 1.10pm | Opening Remarks and Chair | Paul Hagan | |
| 1.20pm | Foot-and-mouth disease | David Paton | |
| 2.00pm | Multi-scale modelling of FMDV micro-evolution | Marco Morelli | |
| 2.20pm | Accounting for the antigenic diversity of FMDV | Richard Reeve | |
| 2.40pm | Control of endemic foot-and-mouth disease in Africa | Tiziana Lembo | |
| 3.00pm | Coffee | ||
| Complex multi-host systems | |||
| 3.20pm | Introduction to Session and Chair | Roman Biek | |
| 3.25pm | Influenza viruses in humans - still causing (us) problems | John McCauley | |
| 4.05pm | Bovine TB genetics and epidemiology | Richard Orton | |
| 4.25pm | Development of a strategy for risk based surveillance of bovine TB in Scotland | Paul Bessell | |
| 4.45pm | Living in a flukey world - delivering improved control options | Diana Williams | |
| 5.30pm | Reception at Hunterian Art Gallery and Mackintosh House | ||
| 7.30pm | Evening Meal at Curlers | ||
Friday 6th May 2011
| New Approaches to Tropical Infectious Diseases | |||
| 9.00am | Introduction to Session and Chair | Sarah Cleaveland | |
| 9.05am | A tale of three poxes: smallpox eradication, stuttering chains, and the emergence of human monkeypox | Jamie Lloyd-Smith | |
| 9.45am | New tools for malaria vector control | Hilary Ranson | |
| 10.05am | Exploiting ecology and evolution to improve the control of malaria vectors | Heather Ferguson | |
| 10.25am | Rabies | Katie Hampson | |
| 10.45am | Coffee | ||
| Biodiversity and Antimicrobial Resistance | |||
| 11.05am | Introduction to Session and Chair | Stuart Reid | |
| 11.10am | Diversity: from antigenic diversity to quantifying diversity | Christina Cobbold | |
| 11.45am | Antimicrobial wars and the resistance movement | Alison Mather | |
| 12.05am | Factors contributing to the persistence of antibiotic resistant bacteria | Doug Call | |
| 12.25pm | Reverse evolution and antibiotic resistance | Nick Colegrave | |
| From Research to Policy | |||
| 12.45pm | Science and Policy | Simon Hall | |
| 1.00pm | Closing remarks | Stuart Reid | |
| 1.15pm | Lunch | ||