BioAirNet Annual Conference – Cranfield Management Development Centre (Cranfield University) – 9 May 2022 (9:30 – 16:00 GMT)
BioAirNet is organizing an annual conference focusing on biological particulate matter and air quality.
The annual conference will provide you with an overview of the BioAirNet activities achieved to date along with presentations from invited speakers and stakeholders’ workshops involving academia, industry and regulators. Topics will include BioPM measurements, challenges and opportunities, research and data needs on exposure and health impacts along possible interventions, public communication and regulatory landscape.
To know more about BioAirNet activities please visit https://bioairnet.co.uk
For details on the venue please visit https://venuecranfield.co.uk/cmdc/.
We are pleased to confirm that we are able to support travel for Early Career Researchers that are UK-based BioAirNet member to attend this event.
We hope you will be able to join us and look forward to meeting you.
Please kindly confirm your attendance by no later than Friday 29 April, 5 pm by replying to z.a.nasar@cranfield.ac.uk
Agenda
Session 1
| 9:30 | Registration and Coffee | |
| 10:00 | Welcome and overview of BioAirNet | Frederic Coulon (Cranfield) |
| 10:10 | Summary updates (activities/outputs form BioAirNet themes) | BioAirNet Co-Is |
| 11:00 | Break & Coffee |
Session 2
| 11:15 | Airborne infectious disease transmission in the built environments | Zhiwen Luo (Reading) |
| 11:40 | The big picture of microorganisms at large public gatherings | Rupy Matharu (UCL) |
| 12:05 | Data analytics approaches to advance UV-LIF based bioaerosols detection and classification | Ian Crawford (Manchester) |
| 12:35 | The effects of microplastics on respiratory virus induced inflammatory responses in a new model of lung alveolar macrophages | Gyorgy Fejer (Plymouth) |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
Session 3
| 14:00 | Workshops introduction (Plenary) | Gill Drew (Cranfield) Zaheer Nasar (Cranfield) Orla Hennessy (Cranfield) Natasha Dias (Cranfield) |
| 14:15 | Workshops on communication, perception and policy related to risks of BioPM | Andrew Mitchell (DMU) Mark Lemon (DMU) Gill Drew (Cranfield) Zaheer Nasar (Cranfield) |
| 15:30 | Workshops debrief | Andrew Mitchell (DMU) Mark Lemon (DMU) Gill Drew (Cranfield) Zaheer Nasar (Cranfield) |
| 15:50 | Closing Remarks | Frederic Coulon (Cranfield) |
| 16:00 | End of the Conference |