Patients & Carers meeting November 2017

Date	Speaker	Title	Time starts	Duration
November 2017	Graham, Beth, Rachel and Chris	Project updates	0’00’00secs
	Paul Bowyer	Aspergillus Fumigatus Knockout project
	Led by Graham Atherton	View meeting/video on Youtube		1’40’00secs

Graham, Beth, Rachel & Chris make up the Patient support & involvement team at the National Aspergillosis Centre. There are several ongoing projects including an event at the upcoming conference Advances Against Aspergillosis in Lisbon, Portugal on 1-3rd February 2018.

Paul Bowyer leads much of the clinical research at the National Aspergillosis Centre and University of Manchester. The group recently applied for funding to set up the worlds first gene knowckout library for the fungl pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. 

Resources mentioned: 

Advances Against Aspergillosis Conference

http://www.aaa2018.org

Manchester Science Festival

www.manchestersciencefestival.com

Aspergillus website 

www.aspergillus.org.uk