Registration Details
The fourth annual Galleria mellonella workshop will include networking and discussion of methods, models and husbandry techniques.
Attendees are invited to present their Galleria mellonella research and related research techniques. There will also be a poster session to broaden knowledge sharing in the field, this will include a poster prize award.
The workshop is organised by NC3Rs-funded Principle Investigator Dr Rachel Clare in her venom laboratory at Edge Hill University, in collaboration with the Galleria Mellonella Research Centre.
Programme
Featured talks:
- Galleria mellonella in toxicology and antimicrobial evaluation: A PEVITAX perspective on scientific and commercial impact.
Professor Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy, University of Reading/PEVITAC. - Interrogating Galleria mellonella larvae as an aspirant toxicology model.
Dr Christopher J Coates, University of Galway. - Development of an improved Galleria mellonella burn model for studying burn wound infection.
Simon Booth and Professor Toby Jenkins, University of Bath. - Towards a scalable imaging platform for high-throughput virulence assays.
Dr Sebastian Bruchmann, University of Cambridge.
Hands-on practical sessions:
- Larval rearing and handling.
- Injection techniques.
- Hemolymph collection and dissections.
Find out more about Rachel's research: Development of Galleria mellonella as a replacement preclinical model for snakebite envenoming to reduce the need for murine models.