Measles virus infection by the vaccine strain in Athens, 2015: the importance...Elina Horefti
A severe case of post-vaccination measles infection is described. Serology and molecular detection were consistent with measles virus infection and the phylogenetic analysis confirmed that the infection was due to the measles virus vaccine strain “Schwarz”, contained in the Priorix -Tetra® vaccine.
Emerging zoonotic infectious diseases – past trends and future predictions. Conceptual framework of the causal links between livestock keeping, nutrition and health outcomes among the poor
Poster prepared for the ILRI@40 Workshop, Addis Ababa, 7 November 2014
Measles virus infection by the vaccine strain in Athens, 2015: the importance...Elina Horefti
A severe case of post-vaccination measles infection is described. Serology and molecular detection were consistent with measles virus infection and the phylogenetic analysis confirmed that the infection was due to the measles virus vaccine strain “Schwarz”, contained in the Priorix -Tetra® vaccine.
Emerging zoonotic infectious diseases – past trends and future predictions. Conceptual framework of the causal links between livestock keeping, nutrition and health outcomes among the poor
Poster prepared for the ILRI@40 Workshop, Addis Ababa, 7 November 2014
A field and statistical study on the spread of Tuberculosis in various distri...iosrjce
IOSR Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences(IOSR-JPBS) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of Pharmacy and Biological Science. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in Pharmacy and Biological Science. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Oct 24, Singapore, ITB Asia:
Topic:
A Doctor in Your Pocket: Using Mobile Technology to Transform Global Travelers Access to Quality Healthcare
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COVID 19 is a contagious disease caused by a betacoronavirus, which began in Wuhan, China in late 2019. Until now, this new illness has affected more than 6 million people worldwide, and has claimed more than 300 000 human lives. Governments around the globe were faced with the coronavirus pandemic crisis and designed strategies to slow or halt viral transmission. Measures undertaken included enforcing countrywide lockdowns, banning mass gatherings, closing schools and businesses and halting international travel.
This paper reviews the evolution of the definition of sepsis and the controversy surrounding the sepsis-3 definition and the sepsis screening tool, qSOFA.
A field and statistical study on the spread of Tuberculosis in various distri...iosrjce
IOSR Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences(IOSR-JPBS) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of Pharmacy and Biological Science. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in Pharmacy and Biological Science. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Oct 24, Singapore, ITB Asia:
Topic:
A Doctor in Your Pocket: Using Mobile Technology to Transform Global Travelers Access to Quality Healthcare
http://www.itb-asia.com/en/EventsAndConferences/EventProgram/EventDetails.jsp?fairID=270764&eventDateId=277339&lang=en
COVID 19 is a contagious disease caused by a betacoronavirus, which began in Wuhan, China in late 2019. Until now, this new illness has affected more than 6 million people worldwide, and has claimed more than 300 000 human lives. Governments around the globe were faced with the coronavirus pandemic crisis and designed strategies to slow or halt viral transmission. Measures undertaken included enforcing countrywide lockdowns, banning mass gatherings, closing schools and businesses and halting international travel.
This paper reviews the evolution of the definition of sepsis and the controversy surrounding the sepsis-3 definition and the sepsis screening tool, qSOFA.
Optimize physician workflow and you’ll contribute to optimizing patient care. But what is it physicians look for to improve diagnoses, decision-making, patient care, and ultimately, outcomes? To answer this, consider what constitutes ideal working conditions in any industry: the right tools, training, and information to maximize productivity and deliver results. Physicians need analytics integrated into the EHR to maximize their efficiency, a common quest among the chronically overworked. And by flowing the universe of global, local, and individual data back into an enterprise data warehouse, a healthcare system can close the analytics loop, and begin to realize true precision medicine.
The Real Opportunity of Precision Medicine and How to Not Miss OutHealth Catalyst
Precision medicine, defined as a new model of patient-powered research that will give clinicians the ability to select the best treatment for an individual patient, holds the key that will allow health IT to merge advances in genomics research with new methods for managing and analyzing large data sets. This will accelerate research and biomedical discoveries. However, clinical improvements are often designed to reduce variation. So, how do systems balance tailoring medicine to each patient with standardizing care? The answer is precise registries. For example, using registries that can account for the most accurate, specific patients and disease, clinicians can use gene variant knowledge bases to provide personalized care.
The scientific discovery of the induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology using adult stem cel is rather recent, in 2006. Now a new era of personalized medical treatments in clearer to perceived and accelerating worldwide with motivation groups and individuals in medical intervention, science & financical circles , more specifically in next decade.
Going Beyond Genomics in Precision Medicine: What's NextHealth Catalyst
Precision medicine processes, while involving genomics, are not confined to working with data about an individual’s genes, environment, and lifestyle. Precision medicine also means putting patients on the right path of care, taking into consideration other individual tolerances, such as participation and cost. Precision medicine processes incorporate data beyond the individual, pulling in socio-economic data, as well as relevant internal and external data, to create an entire patient data ecosystem. With reusable data modules, this information is processed within a closed-loop analytics framework to facilitate clinical decision making at the point of care. This optimizes clinical workflow, thus leading to more precise medicine.
Genome-wide association study (GWAS) technology has been a primary method for identifying the genes responsible for diseases and other traits for the past ten years. GWAS continues to be highly relevant as a scientific method. Over 2,000 human GWAS reports now appear in scientific journals. Our free eBook aims to explain the basic steps and concepts to complete a GWAS experiment.
Elsevier Medical Graph – mit Machine Learning zu Precision MedicineRising Media Ltd.
Elsevier Health Analytics entwickelt den Medical Knowledge Graph, welcher Korrelationen zwischen Krankheiten und zwischen Krankheiten und Behandlungen darstellt. Auf einem Gesamtdatensatz von sechs Millionen anonymisierten Patienten, beobachtbar über sechs Jahre, haben wir über 2000 Modelle erstellt, welche die Entwicklung von Krankheiten prognostizieren. Jedes Modell ist adjustiert für mehr als 3000 Kovariablen. Dazu kam ein Boosting Algorithmus mit Variablenselektion zum Einsatz. Die Betas der selektierten Variablen wurden extrahiert, getestet hinsichtlich Kausalität und Signifikanz, und daraus wurde die erste Version des Medical Graphen mit über 2000 Krankheitsknoten und 25.000 Effekt-Kanten gebaut. Der Graph wird aktuell in der Praxis getestet, mit dem Ziel, dem Arzt eine patienten-individuelle Entscheidungsunterstützung für die Behandlung zu geben.
Genomic Medicine: Personalized Care for Just PenniesHealth Catalyst
In April 2003, the Human Genome Project was completed and scientists gained the ability to read the entire genetic blueprint for human beings. Since that time, the cost of gene sequencing has fallen from $100 million to $1,000. By 2020, the cost is expected to be mere pennies. Using the power of genomes scientists have found genomic defects for more than 5,000 inherited diseases and are on track to uncover 4,000 more. The implications for treatment of disease are also vast. In the future, clinicians will be able to use genomic-powered personalized medicine to treat patients on an individual basis knowing exactly how their genes will react to treatments and what the best course of action will be.
Precision Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges for Clinical TrialsMedpace
The momentum and muscle behind "finding the right drug for the right patient at the right dose" has further escalated with President Barack Obama’s announcement of a $215 million dollar Precision Medicine Initiative earlier this year. In this webinar, Dr. Frank Smith will explore advances in precision medicine and how it is affecting clinical research. As a pediatric hematologist/oncologist, he will use his extensive clinical and research background as a backdrop for the discussion.
Topics will include:
The evolution of "personalized medicine" to "precision medicine"
How state-of-the-art molecular biology is creating new diagnostic and prognostic strategies
How these new strategies are helping inform the design of clinical trials
Case study: How precision medicine is improving clinical trials in hematology and oncology
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Type I diabetes is primarily induced by an autoimmune process that destroys the pancreatic Beta cells. Genetic and environmental factors interplay to bring about an “insulitis”. Given that antibodies to GAD are detectable years before type I diabetes develops, there is a potential for treating and preventing the onset of this autoimmune process even before there is an irreversible pancreatic dysfunction.
Harder-to-treat and more lethal tubercle bacilli continue to emerge across the globe, especially in the African region. Together with HIV, these infectious killers continue to have profound effects on the productive workforce in different countries. The deck is a brief overview of developments in disease management and research, with an emphasis on medications and vaccines.
Sinusitis and Immunodeficiency - IDF Conferencesinusblog
This is Dr. Andrew Pugliese's powerpoint on the connection between chronic sinusitis and immunodeficiencies. This was specifically for an educational conference for the Immune Deficiency Foundation.
Daniel Pallin, MD, MPH, and Douglas B. Johnson, MD, MSCI, prepared useful practice aids pertaining to immune-related adverse events for this CME/MOC/CE activity titled "Emergency Medicine and Immuno-Oncology Intersect: Recognizing and Managing Cancer Immunotherapy–Related Adverse Effects in the Emergency Department." For the full presentation, monograph, complete CME/MOC/CE information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at http://bit.ly/2PRv8Ul. CME/MOC/CE credit will be available until November 20, 2019.
Peter Hunt, MD, of UC San Diego School of Medicine, presents "Immune Activation in Treated HIV infection," at AIDS Clinical Rounds on September 12, 2014
Medicines and vaccines have helped deliver improvements in patient health. History shows us the great advances we have made - today we continue to see the potential to eradicate disease and improve health outcomes when we invest in science and adopt and use new medicines.
Type 1 diabetes and alopecia areata are organ-specific autoimmune diseases sharing a number of striking
similarities. Careful consideration of these may forward the clinical and research goals of both fields.
King Holmes, MD, PhD: Present and Future Challenges in Global Public HealthUWGlobalHealth
King Holmes, MD, PhD: Present and Future Challenges in Global Public Health, Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Sept. 12, 2009.
Lung Cancer: Artificial Intelligence, Synergetics, Complex System Analysis, S...Oleg Kshivets
RESULTS: Overall life span (LS) was 2252.1±1742.5 days and cumulative 5-year survival (5YS) reached 73.2%, 10 years – 64.8%, 20 years – 42.5%. 513 LCP lived more than 5 years (LS=3124.6±1525.6 days), 148 LCP – more than 10 years (LS=5054.4±1504.1 days).199 LCP died because of LC (LS=562.7±374.5 days). 5YS of LCP after bi/lobectomies was significantly superior in comparison with LCP after pneumonectomies (78.1% vs.63.7%, P=0.00001 by log-rank test). AT significantly improved 5YS (66.3% vs. 34.8%) (P=0.00000 by log-rank test) only for LCP with N1-2. Cox modeling displayed that 5YS of LCP significantly depended on: phase transition (PT) early-invasive LC in terms of synergetics, PT N0—N12, cell ratio factors (ratio between cancer cells- CC and blood cells subpopulations), G1-3, histology, glucose, AT, blood cell circuit, prothrombin index, heparin tolerance, recalcification time (P=0.000-0.038). Neural networks, genetic algorithm selection and bootstrap simulation revealed relationships between 5YS and PT early-invasive LC (rank=1), PT N0—N12 (rank=2), thrombocytes/CC (3), erythrocytes/CC (4), eosinophils/CC (5), healthy cells/CC (6), lymphocytes/CC (7), segmented neutrophils/CC (8), stick neutrophils/CC (9), monocytes/CC (10); leucocytes/CC (11). Correct prediction of 5YS was 100% by neural networks computing (area under ROC curve=1.0; error=0.0).
CONCLUSIONS: 5YS of LCP after radical procedures significantly depended on: 1) PT early-invasive cancer; 2) PT N0--N12; 3) cell ratio factors; 4) blood cell circuit; 5) biochemical factors; 6) hemostasis system; 7) AT; 8) LC characteristics; 9) LC cell dynamics; 10) surgery type: lobectomy/pneumonectomy; 11) anthropometric data. Optimal diagnosis and treatment strategies for LC are: 1) screening and early detection of LC; 2) availability of experienced thoracic surgeons because of complexity of radical procedures; 3) aggressive en block surgery and adequate lymph node dissection for completeness; 4) precise prediction; 5) adjuvant chemoimmunoradiotherapy for LCP with unfavorable prognosis.
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Title: Sense of Smell
Presenter: Dr. Faiza, Assistant Professor of Physiology
Qualifications:
MBBS (Best Graduate, AIMC Lahore)
FCPS Physiology
ICMT, CHPE, DHPE (STMU)
MPH (GC University, Faisalabad)
MBA (Virtual University of Pakistan)
Learning Objectives:
Describe the primary categories of smells and the concept of odor blindness.
Explain the structure and location of the olfactory membrane and mucosa, including the types and roles of cells involved in olfaction.
Describe the pathway and mechanisms of olfactory signal transmission from the olfactory receptors to the brain.
Illustrate the biochemical cascade triggered by odorant binding to olfactory receptors, including the role of G-proteins and second messengers in generating an action potential.
Identify different types of olfactory disorders such as anosmia, hyposmia, hyperosmia, and dysosmia, including their potential causes.
Key Topics:
Olfactory Genes:
3% of the human genome accounts for olfactory genes.
400 genes for odorant receptors.
Olfactory Membrane:
Located in the superior part of the nasal cavity.
Medially: Folds downward along the superior septum.
Laterally: Folds over the superior turbinate and upper surface of the middle turbinate.
Total surface area: 5-10 square centimeters.
Olfactory Mucosa:
Olfactory Cells: Bipolar nerve cells derived from the CNS (100 million), with 4-25 olfactory cilia per cell.
Sustentacular Cells: Produce mucus and maintain ionic and molecular environment.
Basal Cells: Replace worn-out olfactory cells with an average lifespan of 1-2 months.
Bowman’s Gland: Secretes mucus.
Stimulation of Olfactory Cells:
Odorant dissolves in mucus and attaches to receptors on olfactory cilia.
Involves a cascade effect through G-proteins and second messengers, leading to depolarization and action potential generation in the olfactory nerve.
Quality of a Good Odorant:
Small (3-20 Carbon atoms), volatile, water-soluble, and lipid-soluble.
Facilitated by odorant-binding proteins in mucus.
Membrane Potential and Action Potential:
Resting membrane potential: -55mV.
Action potential frequency in the olfactory nerve increases with odorant strength.
Adaptation Towards the Sense of Smell:
Rapid adaptation within the first second, with further slow adaptation.
Psychological adaptation greater than receptor adaptation, involving feedback inhibition from the central nervous system.
Primary Sensations of Smell:
Camphoraceous, Musky, Floral, Pepperminty, Ethereal, Pungent, Putrid.
Odor Detection Threshold:
Examples: Hydrogen sulfide (0.0005 ppm), Methyl-mercaptan (0.002 ppm).
Some toxic substances are odorless at lethal concentrations.
Characteristics of Smell:
Odor blindness for single substances due to lack of appropriate receptor protein.
Behavioral and emotional influences of smell.
Transmission of Olfactory Signals:
From olfactory cells to glomeruli in the olfactory bulb, involving lateral inhibition.
Primitive, less old, and new olfactory systems with different path
The prostate is an exocrine gland of the male mammalian reproductive system
It is a walnut-sized gland that forms part of the male reproductive system and is located in front of the rectum and just below the urinary bladder
Function is to store and secrete a clear, slightly alkaline fluid that constitutes 10-30% of the volume of the seminal fluid that along with the spermatozoa, constitutes semen
A healthy human prostate measures (4cm-vertical, by 3cm-horizontal, 2cm ant-post ).
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Disruption of blood supply to lung alveoli due to blockage of one or more pulmonary blood vessels is called as Pulmonary thromboembolism. In this presentation we will discuss its causes, types and its management in depth.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HEALTHCARE.pdfAnujkumaranit
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. It encompasses tasks such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and language understanding. AI technologies are revolutionizing various fields, from healthcare to finance, by enabling machines to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence.
Title: Sense of Taste
Presenter: Dr. Faiza, Assistant Professor of Physiology
Qualifications:
MBBS (Best Graduate, AIMC Lahore)
FCPS Physiology
ICMT, CHPE, DHPE (STMU)
MPH (GC University, Faisalabad)
MBA (Virtual University of Pakistan)
Learning Objectives:
Describe the structure and function of taste buds.
Describe the relationship between the taste threshold and taste index of common substances.
Explain the chemical basis and signal transduction of taste perception for each type of primary taste sensation.
Recognize different abnormalities of taste perception and their causes.
Key Topics:
Significance of Taste Sensation:
Differentiation between pleasant and harmful food
Influence on behavior
Selection of food based on metabolic needs
Receptors of Taste:
Taste buds on the tongue
Influence of sense of smell, texture of food, and pain stimulation (e.g., by pepper)
Primary and Secondary Taste Sensations:
Primary taste sensations: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Umami
Chemical basis and signal transduction mechanisms for each taste
Taste Threshold and Index:
Taste threshold values for Sweet (sucrose), Salty (NaCl), Sour (HCl), and Bitter (Quinine)
Taste index relationship: Inversely proportional to taste threshold
Taste Blindness:
Inability to taste certain substances, particularly thiourea compounds
Example: Phenylthiocarbamide
Structure and Function of Taste Buds:
Composition: Epithelial cells, Sustentacular/Supporting cells, Taste cells, Basal cells
Features: Taste pores, Taste hairs/microvilli, and Taste nerve fibers
Location of Taste Buds:
Found in papillae of the tongue (Fungiform, Circumvallate, Foliate)
Also present on the palate, tonsillar pillars, epiglottis, and proximal esophagus
Mechanism of Taste Stimulation:
Interaction of taste substances with receptors on microvilli
Signal transduction pathways for Umami, Sweet, Bitter, Sour, and Salty tastes
Taste Sensitivity and Adaptation:
Decrease in sensitivity with age
Rapid adaptation of taste sensation
Role of Saliva in Taste:
Dissolution of tastants to reach receptors
Washing away the stimulus
Taste Preferences and Aversions:
Mechanisms behind taste preference and aversion
Influence of receptors and neural pathways
Impact of Sensory Nerve Damage:
Degeneration of taste buds if the sensory nerve fiber is cut
Abnormalities of Taste Detection:
Conditions: Ageusia, Hypogeusia, Dysgeusia (parageusia)
Causes: Nerve damage, neurological disorders, infections, poor oral hygiene, adverse drug effects, deficiencies, aging, tobacco use, altered neurotransmitter levels
Neurotransmitters and Taste Threshold:
Effects of serotonin (5-HT) and norepinephrine (NE) on taste sensitivity
Supertasters:
25% of the population with heightened sensitivity to taste, especially bitterness
Increased number of fungiform papillae
These simplified slides by Dr. Sidra Arshad present an overview of the non-respiratory functions of the respiratory tract.
Learning objectives:
1. Enlist the non-respiratory functions of the respiratory tract
2. Briefly explain how these functions are carried out
3. Discuss the significance of dead space
4. Differentiate between minute ventilation and alveolar ventilation
5. Describe the cough and sneeze reflexes
Study Resources:
1. Chapter 39, Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 14th edition
2. Chapter 34, Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology, 26th edition
3. Chapter 17, Human Physiology by Lauralee Sherwood, 9th edition
4. Non-respiratory functions of the lungs https://academic.oup.com/bjaed/article/13/3/98/278874
Rheumatoid Arthritis: Too expensive to treat, too expensive to fail
1. “Rheumatoid Arthritis
Too expensive to treat, too expensive to fail?
Iain B McInnes PhD, FRCP, FRSE, FMedSci
Professor of Medicine & Director,
Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation,
University of Glasgow
Scotland, UK
5. Impact of RA
Patients Pain, disability, co-morbidity and premature mortality
Health Care Direct Costs ~ €14 Billion (Europe)1
– hospitalisation, treatment, diagnostics
Societal Indirect Costs ~ €17 Billion (Europe)
– productivity and informal costs
– within 10 years of disease onset >50% of people unable to work
Global drug market $38.5 Billion in 20172
1. Lundkvist J et al. The burden of RA and access to treatment: health
burden and costs. Eur J Health Econ (2008) 8:49–60
2. Visiongain, April 2013. Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA): World Drug
Market 2013-2023
6. NSAIDs GC +DMARD
A pre-molecular history of arthritis management...
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Lessons from a decade: molecular hierarchies exist
Many vulnerable nodes in inflammatory cascade – cell receptors and their
requisite signalling pathways?
Cytokine-targeting biologics
APC
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Inhibition of
T-cell activation
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signal
Abatacept
MHC
Antigen
T-cell receptor
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CD28
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Rituximab
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Anti-TNFs
Extracellular
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Anti-IL-1s
8. AID, autoinflammatory disease including Still’s disease; CD, Crohn’s disease;
GCA, giant cell arteritis; IL, interleukin; JIA, juvenile idiopathic arthritis; RA, rheumatoid arthritis;
SpA, spondyloarthritis; TNF, tumor necrosis factor; UC, ulcerative colitis
Lessons from a decade:
Towards molecular taxonomy in inflammation medicine?
Schett G, McInnes IB et al. Nature Med 2013
McInnes IB et al Lancet 2015
9. 9
Lessons about strategies?
‘Treat to target'… but ‘knowing when to stop?’
Adapted from Smolen JS et al (2015) Ann Rheum Dis doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-207524
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taper
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10. Smolen J, Aletaha D & McInnes IB Lancet (2016): Smolen J & Aletaha D Nature Reviews Rheum (2015)
RA – pathogenesis and therapeutics?
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Do we really need a personalised medicine
based approach?
Porter D et al Lancet 2016
12. 12
To the future: Scottish Early RA Collaboration
1200
Scottish Nested Arthritis Progression Study
• >50 new RA
• Deep immune phenotyping
13. EU FP7: Masterswitch
BTCure, TEAM
University of Glasgow
Paul Garside
James Brewer
Carl Goodyear
Simon Milling
Mariola Kurowska-Stolarska
Gerard Graham
Derek Gilchrist
Neal Millar
Jagtar Nijjar Singh
Bill Ferrell
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Ashley Miillar
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Cat Prendergast
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the Sacred Heart, Rome
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ARUK Centre
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Ashleigh Rainey
Clare Tange
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Bernard Leung
Charles McSharry
Florian Meier
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Duncan Porter
Stefan Siebert
Caron Paterson
Sharon Kean
Jane Hair
Ashley Gilmour
Carl Goodyear
Edinburgh University
Stuart H. Ralston
Aberdeen University
David Reid
Neil Basu
Janet Liversidge