We live in a mobile world! Every day millions of people move between places taking disease bugs from one place to another or even between countries or continents. Join us to explore how daily travel influences the spread of infection.

It is taken for granted that ancient people relied primarily on local food sources. Also, it is hypothesized that in hierarchical societies, people of different social status might have access to differentiated diets; higher ranking persons would have been able to afford more exotic, non-local, prestige foods than common or lower-class populations. In this talk, I will illuminate how analysing stable isotopes helps prove those assumptions.

How many microorganisms are in you, your infection and the world? We will equip you with a knowledge toolbox of how tiny unseen germs are the steam train of life.