Abstract

Cambridge Infectious Diseases and Cambridge Immunology Network ECR Symposium 2025

Methodologies in Infection and Immunity

Date & Time: Thursday 19th June, 2.00-5.00pm

Location: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, JCBC , Cambridge Biomedical Campus

Programme includes: Rachel Jackson (CIMR): Pushing resolution limits of microscopy for intracellular bacteria

Daniel Nash (Pathology): Using reactive biotin to investigate herpes simplex mediated alterations to the plasma membrane proteome in human cortical neurones

Antonia Netzl (Zoology): Antigenic cartography as a tool to visualise virus evolution

Mahrukh Shameem (Babraham Institute): Unveiling the role of interleukins in respiratory infections and inflammation using ex vivo lung slices

Leonie Lorenz (EMBL-EBI): Methods for mathematical modelling of pathogen evolution: Model fitting with Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and model comparison via likelihood-ratio tests

Sebastian Bruchmann (Medicine): Towards automated, high-throughput infection assays: Developing an affordable imaging platform for the honeycomb moth infection model

Any questions please contact: Maria Bargues-Ribera, Cambridge Infectious Diseases IRC  Manager email: mb2464@cam.ac.uk