We are very grateful to our sponsors for supporting this year’s meeting: @BBSRC @DefraGovUK @ThePandemicInst @HPRUezi Thank you for supporting us and see you all next year! #UKVBD2024

And that’s a wrap! Thank you to everyone who has attended over the last two days and making it the biggest conference yet 🎉 #UKVBD2024

Congratulations to all the winners of Best Posters, Best Flash Talks and Best Talks across all the themes we’ve covered! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who’s presented their research over the last two days! #UKVBD2024

Professor Stephen Higgs from Kansas State University is presenting his keynote, “Forty Years of Mosquito Research: things we should know by now” #UKVBD2024

Our panel are ready in their seats… #UKVBD2024

Kickstarting our afternoon with UKRI/Defra project presentations before our panel of presenters take to the stage to answer questions #UKVBD2024 🦟🌍

Now that we’re filled up on tea and coffee, it’s time to look at more of the amazing research on display #UKVBD2024

Now we have our first keynote speaker for today, Dr Trisna Tungadi (@trisna_tungadi) from @KeeleUniversity presenting on the “Manipulation of plant hosts and insect vectors by viruses.” #UKVBD2024

Professor Matthew Baylis (@Baylism) opens the day once again with a warm welcome, ready for a morning filled with presentations and flash talks #UKVBD2024

Welcome back to the 6th UK VBD Conference! We’re on our second day of presentations and panels on vector-borne diseases #UKVBD2024

Wrapping up day one with an exciting keynote from Prof Polly Roy from @LSHTM diving into the fascinating world of Bluetongue virus 🦠 #UKVBD2024

Next up we learn about the new Defra-UKRI one health VBD hub project, enhancing links between data collection, analysis and policy #UKVBD2024

After a brilliant morning our afternoon session on vector and disease control kicks off with Saudaminu Venkatesan from @LivUni #UKVBD2024

Lots of fantastic research on display in the #UKVBD2024 poster session

Professor Matthew Baylis ( @Baylism )kicks off the next two days with a warm welcome and an exciting, packed programme ahead! #UKVBD2024