Session Chair: Dr Dalan Bailey, The Pirbright Institute, and UK-ICN co-lead for Countermeasures and Interventions

Professor Diana Bell, University of East Anglia – One Health Lessons from SARS

Diana is a professor of conservation biology with expertise in avian influenza, SARS and other emerging infectious diseases with animal origins; wildlife diseases; biodiversity conservation; rabbit ecology, behaviour, conservation genetics and welfare; wildlife disease; human disease; conservation biology; animal parasites; viruses.

Diana’s profile

Dr Alen Suljič, University of Ljubljana – Method for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 variants

Alen Suljič is a PhD candidate in Biomedicine and a Research Assistant at Institute of Microbiology and Immunology at Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana. His educational and professional background ranges from Medical Imaging Technology, Nuclear Medicine Technology and Biostatistics. His research work focuses on Bioinformatics and Data Science aspects of research in Virology, with particular interest in coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2.