OneHealth and EcoImmunology Symposium

Welcome

We wish you a warm welcome to the OneHealth and EcoImmunology Symposium. This event is brought to you by Sustainable Futures Healthy Futures challenge area, the Lydia Becker Institute for Inflammation and Repair Ecoimmunology and context-specific Immunology branch, the Manchester Environmental Research Institute and The Company of Biologists.

We are so excited to get going with the day, but in the meantime feel free to check out our programme, keynote speakers and posters.

Zoom links can be found on the schedule page under each session's link.

Virtual Poster Session - Date and Time: TBC

A virtual poster session will be taking place following the event so that online delegates and those that attended in person but perhaps couldn't get round all the poster they wanted to at the event can engage with and ask questions about the poster presentations.

The exact date and time of this session is yet to be confirmed but you will receive an email with the details as soon as they are finalised.

Programme

08:30 - 09:15 Registration, coffee and tea (for in-person delegates)

09:15 - 09:30 Welcome, Aims of meeting and Overview of UoM initiatives

Session 1. Ecoimmunology 09:30 to 11:00

09:30 - 10:05 Plenary 1 - Andrea Graham (Princeton University, USA)

Where the Wild Things Are: Naturalising mouse models for immunoparasitology

10:05 - 10:30 Thematic talks

• Iris Mair (University of Manchester)
• Andrew Halls
• Jess Irving

10:30 - 11:00 Break-out discussions - Plenary 1 round table facilitated discussions

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee and tea (collation/organisation of 1st set of collated comments)

Session 2. Pollution and Contaminants 11:30 to 13:00

11:30 - 12:05 Plenary 2 - Mark Miller (University of Edinburgh, UK)

From car to coronary: the cardiovascular effects of diesel exhaust particles

12:05 - 12:30 Thematic talks

• Martie Van Tongeren (University of Manchester)
• Ellie England
• Sonja Holme

12:30 - 13:00 Break-out discussions - Plenary 2 round table facilitated discussions

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch and posters

Session 3. One Health / Inequality 14:00 to 15:30

14:00 - 14:35 Plenary 3 - James Hassell (Smithsonian Institution, USA)

Environmental change and emerging pathogens in Africa’s drylands; applying interdisciplinary research to address a blind spot in global health surveillance

14:35 - 15:00 Thematic talks

• Arpana Verma (University of Manchester)
• Sam Khavandi (Manchester Centre for Health Economics)
• Joseph Morris
• Cathy Walton

15:00 - 15:30 Break-out discussions - Plenary 3 round table facilitated discussions

15:30 - 16:05 Tea/Coffee and posters

16:05 - 16:25 Summary Workshop

16:25 - 16:30 Wrap up and close

16:30 - 17:30 Drinks Reception and Networking (for in-person delegates)

17:30 Event Close