Emerging Viruses Symposium
St Hilda's College, Oxford,UK
Twitter: #EmergVir16
The symposium will be co-hosted with the annual influenza conference – Influenza 2016 – and will focus on applied research on surveillance and control strategies for emerging viruses.
Oral and poster presentation opportunties are available in the following applied areas of virology and serology:-
o New serological/immunological assays
o Use of surrogate viruses e.g., VLP/Pseudotype viruses, for serology
o Correlates of protection
o Standardization of serological assays
o T cell and B cell assays
o Comparative serology
o Epidemiology and control
o Immunogenicity testing of novel vaccines and therapeutic antibodies
If you are interested in presenting at this symposium, please get in touch with us on ‘fluoxford@gmail.com‘.
We look forward to your participation in Emerging Viruses 2016.
Co-Chairs:
Dr Nigel Temperton, Medway School of Pharmacy, University of Kent, UK
Dr Simon Scott, Medway School of Pharmacy, University of Kent, UK
Dr Edward Wright, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, UK
Confirmed Speakers:
Professor Maria Zambon, Public Health England, UK
Professor Sunetra Gupta, University of Oxford, UK
Professor Ian Goodfellow, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Jonathan Heeney, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr Mark Page, The National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC), UK
Dr Janet Daly, University of Nottingham, UK
Dr Nigel Temperton, University of Kent, UK
Dr Simon Scott, University of Kent, UK
Dr Edward Wright, University of Westminster, UK
Dr Jason Long, Imperial College London, UK
Dr Lorraine McElhinney, Animal and Plant Health Agency, UK
Miss Emma Bently, University of Westminster, UK
