The Genomic & Microbiology Revolution: In Technology we Trust?

Venue: Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon

Speakers and Agenda

• Professor Paul Dark, National Deputy Medical Director, NIHR Clinical Research Network Developing the best evidence for effective molecular diagnostic technologies in sepsis: impacts of a viral pandemic
• Dr Katie Hopkins, Clinical Scientist Microbiology, UKHSA Colindale
  Current methods & problems in testing for antimicrobial resistance
• Adela Alcolea-Medina, Guys & St Thomas’s Hospital, Viapath
  Direct sequencing from clinical specimens for the rapid detection of viruses
• Dr Natasha Weston, Senior Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Registrar, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust
  Whole Genome Sequencing of MTB and other mycobacteria: what can we learn beyond ID and sensitivity?
• Dr Elaine McCulloch, QCMD
  The need for quality assurance in molecular diagnostics & NGS
• Dr Esmita Charani, Research Lead (Practice, Design and Engineering), NIHR Health Protection Research Unit, Imperial College London
  Antimicrobial stewardship: an international perspective
• Dr Dinesh Aggarwal, Wellcome Clinical PhD Student, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge
  Genomics in understanding and controlling the COVID-19 pandemic

Dr Kate Templeton and Professor Brian Duerden CBE will chair the day.

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