Agenda

Tuesday, May 17: Track 1

 

KEYNOTE SPEECH
Brain fever: How vaccines prevent meningitis and other killer diseases
Professor Richard Moxon, University of Oxford
12:45 (BST) / 13:45 (CEST) / 07:45 (EDT) / 04:45 (PDT)
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A need for action - community and scientists working together towards controlling infectious diseases.
Asha Wijengunawardana, Senior Lecturer, Rajarate University of Sri Lanka
13:30 (BST) / 14:30 (CEST) / 08:30 (EDT) / 05:30 (PDT)
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Big data and biomarkers are improving sepsis patient outcomes
Dr. Ron Daniels, NHS Intensive Care Consultant, UK Sepsis Trust
14:15 (BST) / 15:15 (CEST) / 09:15 (EDT) / 06:15 (PDT)
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Total process control – Sepsis 
Tobin Efferen, Senior Medical Director, Beckman Coulter & Hunter Bowen, Marketing Manager for      Automation, Beckman Coulter
15:00 (BST) / 16:00 (CEST) / 10:00 (EDT) / 07:00 (PDT)
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Strategies for simplifying viral vaccine and biotherapeutic discovery
David Apiyo, Ph.D., Senior Manager, Octet Applications, Sartorius and Allan Schell, Field Application Scientist Manager, Sartorius
15:45 (BST) / 16:45 (CEST) / 10:45 (EDT) / 07:45 (PDT)
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Malaria diagnostics and testing: opportunities and challenges
Dr. Jane Achan, Senior Research Advisor, Malaria Consortium
16:45 (BST) / 17:45 (CEST) / 11:45 (EDT) / 08:45 (PDT)
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Tackling malaria with genetically modified mosquitoes
Dr. Federica Bernardini, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Imperial College London
17:30 (BST) / 18:30 (CEST) / 12:30 (EDT) / 09:30 (PDT)
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Navigating through the pandemic: The latest on COVID-19 testing
Sten Westgard, Director of Client Services and Technology for Westgard QC, Wayne Dimech, National Reference Laboratory.
18:15 (BST) / 19:15 (CEST) / 13:15 (EDT) / 10:15 (PDT)
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Tuesday, May 17: Track 2

 

Speeding up infectious diseases diagnostics during a global outbreak
Gabriel Stiebellehner, Deputy Head of Department, Molecular Disease Diagnostics, Labor Dr. Fenner & Kollegen
12:45 (BST) / 13:45 (CEST) / 07:45 (EDT) / 04:45 (PDT)
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Driving antimicrobial treatment by resistance markers in gram-negatives
Dr. Jose Alexander, AdventHealth Orlando
13:15 (BST) / 14:15 (CEST) / 08:15 (EDT) / 05:15 (PDT)
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Digestive health - Tertiary care journey
Dr Anthony Hobson, Clinical GI Scientist & Clinical Director of the Functional Gut Clinic
14:45 (BST) / 15:45 (CEST) / 09:45 (EDT) / 06:45 (PDT)
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Current challenges and quality controls in clinical microbiome research
Dr. Raul Cano, The BioCollective
15:30 (BST) / 16:30 (CEST) / 10:30 (EDT) / 07:30 (PDT)
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Viral microscopy
Maria Harkiolaki, Principal Beamline Scientist at Diamond Light Source
16:15 (BST) / 17:15 (CEST) / 11:15 (EDT) / 08:15 (PDT)
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Quality control of qualitative testing of SARS-CoV-2 in clinical laboratories
Wayne Dimech, Executive Manager - Scientific and Business Relations at NRL, Australia and Joe Vincini, Quality Control Services Manager at NRL, Australia.
17:45 (BST) / 18:45 (CEST) / 12:45 (EDT) / 09:45 (PDT)
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