The Symposium included student speakers from the Division, Guest Speaker Tom Ellis (Faculty of Engineering) and student poster presentation displays.

PhD Students attended the Division of Infectious Diseases Symposium on the 27^th November providing them with a unique opportunity to hear and see the range of studies being undertaken and share experiences as well as bringing them together.

Tom Ellis from Faculty of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering was the guest speaker at the Symposium and spoke on Engineering Yeast: Synthetic Modularity at the Gene, Circuit, Pathway and Genome Level.

PhD students Hannah Lishman and Nichola Naylor from the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) were among the attendees and presented posters on 'Effect of trimethoprim/nitrofurantoin prescribing on the incidence and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of E.Coli bacteraemia nationally at the GP practice level (2011-2014)' and 'Current Methods for Estimating the Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance: A Systematic Literature Review'.

Hannah Lishman and Nichola Naylor spoke to microbiologists about the health economic and epidemiology work that they are undertaking; the purpose of the Health Protection Research Unit and why these disciplines are important in antimicrobial resistance research.