HPRU GI Annual Scientific Conference 2024

Thank you to everyone who attended the HPRU GI Annual Scientific Conference in Birmingham on the 6th and 7th of March. We were so pleased to see so many people join us in person and hear of the great research that members of the HPRU GI are doing. A special thank you goes to our keynote speakers Anthony Wilson (Food Standards Agency), Jenni Lynch (NIHR) and Rachael Chalmers (Public Health Wales). 

 

Congratulations to our two prize winners: Nicola Love (best poster presentation) and Lewis Mason (best oral presentation).

 

Posters:

Daniel Mensah: Food and You 2 trends report: Consumer self-reported knowledge, attitudes and behaviours related to food safety and other food issues in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

David Greig: Cóimeáil: A bioinformatics pipeline for the rapid typing and characterisation of gastrointestinal pathogens.

Hannah Charles: Epidemiology of extensively-drug resistant Shigella in England: Quarter 1 2017 to Quarter 3 2023.

Matt Moore: LineageCapture: Scalable identification of bacteria missed by SNP clustering.

Mike Nsubuga: "Mapping the distribution of AMR in Shigella sonnei."

Nicola Love: International travel as a risk factor for gastrointestinal illness in England.

Olubusola Adedire: Determining the utility of UKHSA syndromic surveillance systems for monitoring changes in trends of commonly occurring gastrointestinal pathogens circulating in the community.