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19th April 2021
14:55 to 15:00 Zoom Room Opens
15:00 to 15:10 Welcome and Introduction David Abrahams (University of Cambridge)
Mike Cates (University of Cambridge)
15:10 to 15:20 Background to these Discussions Claudio Jose Struchiner (Fundação Getúlio Vargas), (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro), (Programa de Computação Científica - Fiocruz)
Session 1:   (Chair: Deirdre Hollingsworth (University of Oxford))
15:20 to 15:30 Evolutionary Implications of COVID-19 Vaccination Policies: Linking Within- and Between-Host Robin Thompson (University of Warwick)
15:30 to 16:00 The Speed of Pathogen Adaptation to Vaccines Sylvain Gandon (Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive)
16:00 to 16:30 Break
Session 2:    (Chair: Valerie Isham (University College London))
16:30 to 17:00 Controlling the Pandemic during the SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Rollout Ganna Rozhnova (University Medical Center Utrecht), (BioISI)
17:00 to 17:30 Mitigating the Risks Of COVID-19 Resurgence in the UK In The Autumn 2021 With Vaccination and Test-Trace-Isolate Strategies Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths (University of Oxford), (University College London)
20th April 2021
14:55 to 15:00 Zoom Meeting Opens
15:00 to 15:10 Welcome and Introduction Jane Leeks (Newton Gateway to Mathematics)
Ciara Dangerfield (University of Cambridge)
Session 3:     (Chair: Claudio Struchiner (Fundação Getúlio Vargas))
15:10 to 15:40 Experimental Studies of Pathogen Adaptation to Host Immunity and Vaccination Andrew Read (Pennsylvania State University)
15:40 to 16:10 The Potential for Vaccine-Driven Evolution in COVID-19 Troy Day (Queen's University, Canada)
16:10 to 16:20 Break
Session 4:      (Chair: Julia Gog (University of Cambridge))
16:20 to 16:30 Some Key Questions from a Policy Perspective Chris Lewis (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
16:30 to 17:00 SARS-CoV-2 Evolution and Vaccination C. Jessica Metcalf (Princeton University)
17:00 to 17:30 Q&A and Next Steps