IMSE Lunchtime Seminar Series: Challenges in Antimicrobial Resistance
The challenge that will be discussed in this session is:
Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance
Please register in advance via Eventbrite. Attendance is free – all welcome, including Imperial alumni, school students, the general public, and staff and students of Imperial and other universities.
Presenations followed by discussion with Lunch provided.
Biography
Dr Jon Otter
Jon Otter is an epidemiologist focused on Infection Prevention and Control at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London, and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (NIHR HPRU) in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance at Imperial College London. He has a first class honors degree in Microbiology from the University of Nottingham (2001) and a PhD in epidemiology (of MRSA) from King’s College London (2011). He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath), previously an Assistant Editor at the Journal of Hospital Infection, and an alumnus of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851.
Dr Pau Herrero-Viñas
Pau Herrero-Viñas holds a Ph.D. degree on Automation Technologies by University of Angers (France) and University of Girona (Spain).
After receiving his Ph.D., Pau did a postdoctoral stay at the University of California Santa Barbara (USA) working on diabetes technology projects. He then spent two years at the Autonomous University of Barcelona/Hospital de Sant Pau (Spain) leading different eHealth projects related to the prevention of metabolic diseases.
He is currently a Research Fellow within the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. His main research interest lies in developing biomedical control systems and intelligent clinical decision support systems for diabetes and infectious diseases management.
How to get there
The easiest way to get to Roderic Hill Building (A2 on the campus map) from the Sherfield walkway.
The entrance to ACEX is adjacent to the Union shop (selling stationery and clothing) and directly opposite a doorway into the senior common room.
Walking with the common rooms on your left hand side, you will eventually reach the entrance to the ACE Extension on your right hand side.
Walk through the ACEX’s glass doors main entrance, up the short flight of stairs and zig-zag through to the foyer of Chemical Engineering. Ahead you will see into the control room of the Chemical Engineerig pilot plant (a large pipework system visible beyond the control room).
Turn left, walking around-and-beyond the enclosed staircase, and into a long social area with seating under the windows. Head through towards the whole length of the breakout seating and go through the double doors at the end, into a corridor of offices.
Continue along the corridor through to the Department of Aeronautics.
Follow the corridor around to the right. At the end, go through the left-hand set of double doors that connect the ACEX to a stairwell of the Roderic Hill Building, marked level 2.
For rooms RODH 252, 253 and 254, head up two floors until you reach the fourth floor of the stairwell, which leads to the second floor of the Roderic Hill Building.
NB: The floor numbering is not clear – stairwell level 4 actually leads to RODH Building floor 2.
As you walk ahead through double doors into the corridor, the lecture theatres are on the right hand side, and each has two doorways.
About IMSE
The Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering (IMSE) is one of Imperial College London’s Global Institutes, drawing on the strength of its four faculties to address some of the grand challenges facing the world today. The Institute’s activities are focused on tackling problems where molecular innovation plays an important role.
The Highlight Seminar Series brings eminent speakers from across the globe to Imperial to increase awareness of areas where molecular science and engineering can make a valuable contribution and to promote exchanges with academic and industrial centres of excellence.
More Events in the Challenge To Antimicrobial Resistance Series
Thursday 13 February Lunchtime Seminar – Challenges to Antimicrobial Stewardship presented by Dr Nina J. Zhu and Dr Esmita Charani
Thursday 20 February Lunchtime Seminar – Antimicrobial Resistance within Infectious and Heritable Diseases presented by Dr Julien Vaubourgeix and Yi Liu
Wednesday 4 March Briefing Paper Launch – “Smart surfaces” to address infection and antimicrobial resistance
Thursday 20 March Lunchtime Seminar – Lymphatic System Transport and Vaccine Adjuvants presented by Professor James Moore and Anna Blankey
Thursday 26 March Lunchtime Seminar – Nano technological Approaches to Fight Infectious Diseases presented by Dr Anna Kloechner and Dr Tiago Dias da Costa
If you have any questions about accessibility requirements please email Leah Adamson (IMSE Events Officer) on l.adamson@imperial.ac.uk