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We are very grateful to our sponsors for supporting this year’s meeting: BBSRC Defra The Pandemic Institute Health Protection Research Institute in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections. Thank you for supporting us and see you all next year!
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And that’s a wrap! Thank you to everyone who has attended over the last two days and making it the biggest conference yet 🎉
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Congratulations to all the winners of Best Posters, Best Flash Talks and Best Talks across all the themes we’ve covered! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who’s presented their research over the last two days!
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Sarah Biddlecomb, UKHSA presenting UK distribution data of dermacentor reticularis and Haemaphysalis punctata
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It has been a very eventful day for our group. Here are some of the conference highlights. Thank you to the organisers, it has been a wonderful conference.
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Professor Stephen Higgs from Kansas State University is presenting his keynote, “Forty Years of Mosquito Research: things we should know by now”
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Ben Miller acing the poster session
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‘How will woodland creation affect tick-borne disease risks in the UK’
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Holly Broadhurst
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Thrilled to present our project on developing a one health approach to tick and tick-borne diseases through manipulation of reservoir host communities with Katie August today at
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Our panel are ready in their seats…
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Dr Steven White
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presenting an overview of our OPTICK project (co-led by
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giving and overview of our Mosquito Scotland project at
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Kickstarting our afternoon with UKRI/Defra project presentations before our panel of presenters take to the stage to answer questions
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Dom Brass talking about our tick model from our TickSolve project at
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Now that we’re filled up on tea and coffee, it’s time to look at more of the amazing research on display
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Now we have our first keynote speaker for today, Dr Trisna Tungadi from Keele University presenting on the “Manipulation of plant hosts and insect vectors by viruses.”
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Jing Jing Khoo presenting Wolbachia genomic data from Culex pipiens cell lines at the Tick Cell Biobank hosted at
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Good morning Liverpool. Looking forward to another great day of
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talks at
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Professor Matthew Baylis
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opens the day once again with a warm welcome, ready for a morning filled with presentations and flash talks
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Welcome back to the 6th UK VBD Conference! We’re on our second day of presentations and panels on vector-borne diseases
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Our first day has been absolutely fantastic! We're diving back in tomorrow...🥰 We have two presentations lined up from our group: Amirah Rashid will be presenting at 11:20, and Jet Griep will be showcasing poster 48. Come and learn more about the amazing work our team is doing!.
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Wrapping up day one with an exciting keynote from Prof Polly Roy from
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diving into the fascinating world of Bluetongue virus 🦠
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Next up we learn about the new Defra-UKRI one health VBD hub project, enhancing links between data collection, analysis and policy
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presenting ticksolve research
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meeting in collaboration with
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Caroline Millins
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‘Collaborate to innovate’ Mara Rocchi from the Moredun Research Institute presents results from a stakeholder workshop aimed at developing best practice for managing tickborne diseases
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Dr Steven White
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talking about some of the modelling outputs from our TickSolve project at
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Caroline Millins
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Shifting gears,
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invasive species cost billions annually, mosquitoes are the most costly group. Economic models of mosquito interventions show investment in interventions can be good value for money
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Caroline Millins
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presenting role of phenotypic plasticity in disease transmission illustrated by dengue virus and Aedes albopictus
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Caroline Millins
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Ticksolve research on landscape effects on hosts and cascading effects on ticks presented at
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by Saudamini Venkatesan
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:
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on phenotypic plasticity in
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albopictus and
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Zantiks Ltd.
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Come and talk to us at
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Liverpool to see how we can make your
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simple.
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After a brilliant morning our afternoon session on vector and disease control kicks off with Saudaminu Venkatesan from the University of Liverpool
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Our PhD student Ben Fellows presenting his work on modelling Aedes aegypti and dengue at
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Lots of fantastic research on display in the
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poster session
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talking about our OPTICK project fieldwork at
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Dr Jess Stokes
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I’m at
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this week on the stand for
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- come say hi 👋 Shaping up to be the largest meeting of vector-borne disease researchers in the UK 🙌🏽🦟 brilliantly hosted by
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Professor Matthew Baylis
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kicks off the next two days with a warm welcome and an exciting, packed programme ahead!
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Thrilled to be in Liverpool for the 6th UK VBD Conference - the UK’s largest ever meeting on vector-borne diseases! 🦟🌍
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Only two weeks to go to the UK Vector-Borne Diseases meeting in Liverpool (3-4th December). We are full and there is no further registration for in-person attendance. Therefore, we have opened up online attendance - see here if interested.
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The threat to the UK from vector-borne diseases is rising at astonishing pace. Mosquito and tick species have invaded; Usutu virus is present; Lyme disease
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