One Health Computational Network Symposium
- Post by: Lois Mason
- January 14, 2025
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Thursday 24th April 2025, 09:15-17:30
Sir Charles Wilson Building, University of Glasgow
The UKRI One Health Computational Network (OHCN) was established to bring together experts working on preparedness research to better predict, detect, understand and prevent emerging viral diseases. Advances in computational methods, in particular artificial intelligence, are providing significant opportunities to enhance our view of the emerging infectious diseases that pose a significant threat to the health and wellbeing of the UK population. At this symposium, representatives of OHCN, and other invited expert participants will present their research on different computational aspects of preparedness research. Our collective aim is to facilitate the interdisciplinary use of computational science for public health, veterinary science and agricultural resilience.
Event costs: General Admission – £80. Student Admission – £40. We are offering a discounted ticket price of £50 for attendees of the UKPSN event on 23rd April. The combined price for both days is £150. Tickets must be purchased separately through the relevant Eventbrite link . Please note that entry cannot be guaranteed without individual tickets for each event, and we are unable to provide refunds or discounts for incorrect ticket purchases.
Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Agenda
| 09:15-09:30 | Introduction from Prof Emma Thomson and Prof David Robertson |
| 09.30 – 10.30 | Surveillance and Ecology: A One Health Perspective Chair: Professor Antonia Ho Towards automated monitoring of disease vectors and reservoirs Professor Simon Frost, Microsoft & London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Inferring the epidemiological dynamics of viruses in bats for spillover prevention Professor Daniel Streicker, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research A framework for predicting the impacts of rabies control and prevention strategies Martha Luka, University of Glasgow Post-pandemic changes in population immunity have reduced the likelihood of emergence of zoonotic coronaviruses Ryan Imrie, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Break |
| 11.00 – 12.00 | Risk management and surveillance Chair: Dr Tim Downing Computing interactions of vectors, vertebrate hosts and people across changing landscapes to understand and mitigate transmission Dr Bethan Purse, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Metagenomics for surveillance and rapid pathogen detection Professor Nick Loman, University of Birmingham Sleeper framework protocol for emerging epidemics and pandemics Dr Ting Shi, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh An Exploratory Study of Direct Optimisation Methods in Epidemiological Modelling Dr Sandra Montes Olivas, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Genome epidemiology and modelling Chair: Professor Samantha Lycett Modelling COVID-19, evidence for informing policy Professor Daniela De Angelis, University of Cambridge Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit Genomic insights into the changing landscape of MPXV outbreaks Dr Aine O’Toole, University of Edinburgh A scalable phylogenetics and molecular epidemiology pipeline for tracking HIV-1 evolution in the UK Vinicius Franceschi, Imperial Collage London Deep learning for phylogenetic epidemiology Dr Alexander Zarebski, University of Cambridge MRC Biostatistics Unit |
| 14.00 – 15.00 | AI’s potential: viruses & AI Chair: Dr Joe Grove Bottlenecks and mutations: Understanding the dynamics of the viral genome within hosts Dr Naomi Forrester-Soto, The Pirbright Institute Applying protein language models to virus evolution Professor David L Robertson, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research Inferring viral evolution through machine learning Dr Liam Brierley, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre of Virus Research Using AI tools to map the evolutionary history of filovirus glycoproteins Dr Diego Cantoni, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre of Virus Research |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Break |
| 15.30 – 16.30 | Public Health and Clinical Perspectives Chair: Dr Meera Chand Lessons from undiagnosed acute febrile illness in Uganda Professor Emma Thomson, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research New approaches to predicting pathogen evolution with applications to outbreak detection and variant surveillance Dr Erik Volz, Imperial College London When are genomic outbreak investigations effective? A case study of Bluetongue virus in Europe Dr David Pascall, University of Cambridge MRC Biostatistics Unit Which genomic surveillance strategy was optimal during the COVID-19 pandemic? Charu Sharma, Pandemic Sciences Institute |
| 16.30 – 17.15. | Facilitated Q&A |
| 17.15 – 17.30 | Posters prize |
| 17:30-19:00 | Networking event / close. |
Accommodation in Glasgow
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