Hosted by the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute Infection and Immunity Research Network.

Zoonoses are diseases and infections naturally transmitted between people and vertebrate animals. There are three classes of zoonosis: 

• endemic zoonoses which are present in many places and affect many people and animals
• epidemic zoonoses which are sporadic in temporal and spatial distribution
• emerging and re-emerging zoonoses which are newly appearing in a population or have existed previously but are rapidly increasing in incidence or geographical range, such as Rift Valley fever, SARS, and the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) 

It is estimated that, globally, about one billion cases of illness and millions of death occur every year from zoonoses. Some 60% of emerging infectious diseases that are reported globally are zoonoses; over 30 new human pathogens have been detected in the last three decades, 75% of which have originated in animals.  

Join the Infection and Immunity Research Network for this half-day event which will explore this topic, on a local and global scale, in more detail. 

Registration is FREE, all are welcome

To register go to https://red.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/iandi-zoonoses

Programme

	Speaker	Institution	Title
	SESSION 1
13.30-13.50	Fernando Sanchez-Vizcaino (Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Public Health)	University of Bristol	Updating the epidemiology of canine leishmaniasis in the UK and its implications for human health
13.50-14.10	Laura Rivino (Immunologist)	University of Bristol	Deciphering the human T cell response to Dengue virus
14.10-14.40	Kathryn Allan (University Clinician (Veterinary Pathology, Public Health & Disease Investigation)	University of Glasgow	One Health Strategies for surveillance of zoonoses - insights from sentinel site and syndromic surveillance in Tanzania
14.40-15.10	Eric Fèvre (Chair of Veterinary Infectious Diseases: Livestock and One Health)	University of Liverpool	Surveillance for the emergence of zoonoses in intensifying food systems in the tropics
15.10-15.40	BREAK / REFRESHMENTS FOR IN-PERSON ATTENDEES
	SESSION 2
15.40-16.00	Mick Miller (Farm Animal Pathologist)	University of Bristol	“Where there’s livestock there’s deadstock”: Surveillance for new and emerging diseases via post-mortem examination of farm animals
16.00-16.20	Andrew Davidson (Professor of Systems Virology)	University of Bristol	The role of the furin cleavage site in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in viral infection
16.20-16.40	Richard Wall (Professor of Zoology)	University of Bristol	Measuring the prevalence of ticks and tick-borne disease in the UK: lessons from large-scale surveillance
16.40-17.10	Leah Cowan (Canada Research Chair in Microbial Genomics and Infectious Disease)	University of Toronto	Identifying vulnerabilities in fungal pathogens through functional and chemical genomic analyses
17.10-17.40	DISCUSSION PANEL
17.40-17.45	ROUND-UP AND CLOSE