Speaker 1 - Pr. Peter Openshaw (Imperial College, London)
Peter is a physician at St Mary's Paddington and an academic at Imperial College London. He has published over 400 publications on viral lung infections, vaccines and pandemics. He’s served on many advisory boards, grant committees and national/international scientific advisory boards and has worked on vaccines against lung infections.
He was President of the British Society for Immunology from 2013 to 2018, rebuilding governance structures and appointing a new senior management team. He has also been a Consul at Imperial for many years, promoting high standards of ethics in science. He’s well known for media work during the swine flu and COVID pandemics.
Speaker 2 - Dr. Frédéric Lemoine (Institut Pasteur, France)
Having a background in bioinformatics and biostatistics, I focused on comparative genomics during my PhD at Université Paris-Saclay. Subsequently, I specialized in RNA sequencing data analysis during my postdoctoral work at the University of Lausanne and as a bioinformatics scientist at GenoSplice. I then joined the Institut Pasteur, where I am dedicated to developing new tools and workflows to study pathogen evolution through phylogenetics.
Speaker 3- Dr. Jérome Bourret (Institut Pasteur, France)
I am a bioinformatician with a strong background in evolutionary biology and parasitology. During my PhD, I studied the evolution and characterisation of Codon Usage Bias in viruses and mammalian organisms. I then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut Pasteur on phylodynamics and phylogeny analyses of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses. Today, I work as a research engineer at the Institut Pasteur, mainly on viral evolutionary history and genomics.
Speaker 4 - Dr. Marie-Anne Rameix Welti (Institut Pasteur, Paris)
Speaker 5 - Dr Nick Bundle (ECDC — Sweden)
Speaker 6 - Dr. Lisa Domegan (HPSC — Ireland)
Dr Lisa Domegan is a Principal Epidemiologist working at the Health Service Executive – Health Protection Surveillance Centre in Dublin, Ireland. Lisa has over 20 years of experience working on respiratory virus surveillance and epidemiology. Lisa has a particular interest in the impact and effectiveness of immunisation programmes for influenza, COVID-19, and RSV. Lisa is a member of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee, the National RSV Nirsevimab steering committee and various other national steering groups/working groups in Ireland. Lisa is also the Principal Epidemiologist for the National Wastewater surveillance programme and the National SARS-CoV-2 whole genome sequencing programme. Lisa works collaboratively with other national partners including the National Virus Reference Laboratory in Ireland on the genomic epidemiology of respiratory viruses.
