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The Galleria mellonella workshop returns for a fifth year with an extended programme over two days, including a research seminar alongside hands-on laboratory sessions.
Galleria are a valuable partial replacement for vertebrate models in a range of fields, including infectious disease, immune responses and toxicology. The Galleria Mellonella Research Centre (GMRC) at the University of Exeter organise this annual workshop for anyone currently working with or interested in using Galleria, to exchange knowledge on research applications and techniques.
Attendees are invited to share their research involving Galleria, with both presentation abstracts and posters welcomed.
Programme
Day 1: Tuesday 8 September
- Research presentations.
- Posters and networking.
- Plenary speaker: Utilisation of Galleria mellonella larvae to uncover human fungal disease development processes.
Professor Kevin Kavanagh, Maynooth University, Ireland
Day 2: Wednesday 9 September
Practical workshops on:
- Colony rearing and maintenance.
- Larval dissection.
- Larval injection.
NC3Rs-funded projects have developed Galleria larvae as effective models to replace mammalian species in studies of:
- Burn wound infection and healing.
- Bacterial and fungal immune challenge.
- Viral and bacterial pathogenesis.
- The human microbiome.
- Snakebite envenoming.
Recent NC3Rs-supported research has created the first transgenic Galleria using CRISPR/Cas9, further increasing the utility of the model as a replacement tool.