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Venoms and Toxins 2020 | Virtual Toxinology Despite Lock-Down Venoms and Toxins 2020 | Virtual Toxinology despite lock-down 7th International Toxinology Meeting 16 th - 17 th September 2020 @LPMHealthcare | #VenOx20V [email protected] 2 Hamish Ogston Foundation Our sole sponsor We are grateful to The Hamish Ogston Foundation (HOF) for their continuing support of our Oxford toxinology meetings. HOF is a charitable foundation driven by a desire to contribute to lasting change, across three pillars: Health, Heritage and Music. Taking advantage of the commercial knowledge of its Founder, Hamish Ogston, and an experienced group of advisors, the Foundation introduces new disciplines and generates wider visions on impactful, fiscally prudent and longer-term giving. The HOF is particularly committed to supporting and raising awareness of some lesser- known and preventable health issues, in particular snakebite. Having recognised the devastating impact snakebite can have, the Foundation aims to alleviate suffering by sponsoring high-quality antivenom research, and has recently committed to support research in three of the Asian countries worst affected by this neglected tropical disease. This will include hospital treatment of snakebite victims and first aid as well as support for studies into the effectiveness and safety of currently available and recently developed antivenoms. Hamish Ogston CBE is an active philanthropist, supporting a range of initiatives related to health, heritage and music in and outside of the UK. Hamish was awarded his CBE in 2011 for services to business and the community in York. Venoms and Toxins 2020 (Oxford) - Virtual | 16-17 September 2020 | http://lpmhealthcare.com/venoms-and-toxins-2020-virtual 3 Contents General Zoom instructions for participants 4 Information for speakers 6 Information for poster presenters 7 Timetable – Wednesday 16 th September 2020 8 Timetable – Thursday 17 th September 2020 10 Podium abstracts 13 Poster abstracts 33 DISCLAIMER The information specified in oral and poster presentations, written abstracts and biographies come from diverse sources and it is not in the capacity of event organisers to validate it, and is provided on an ‘as-is’ basis. Responsibility for the literary and scientific content of the abstracts and the presentations, both oral and poster, remains with the authors and the presenters. Therefore, the event organisers accept no responsibility for literary or scientific correctness of this information, and shall accept no liability of any kind, should any of the information be incorrect. 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This handbook is for use by the Venoms and Toxins 2020-Virtual (16-17 September 2020) participants only. © 2020 Copyright Information: Textual and graphical contents of this handbook are copyright of presenters, sponsors, instructors and/or LibPubMedia Ltd, unless explicitly stated otherwise. No part of this handbook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including but not limited to, photocopy, recording, or any other information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the legal copyright owners. Venoms and Toxins 2020 (Oxford) - Virtual | 16-17 September 2020 | http://lpmhealthcare.com/venoms-and-toxins-2020-virtual 4 General Zoom Instructions for Participants Getting started We will be using Zoom for our virtual meeting, which is a commonly used video conferencing platform. If you have not used Zoom previously, please see the following link, which has many useful short videos about this platform, including about joining a meeting : https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/206618765-Zoom-video-tutorials https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360034967471-Quick-start-guide-for-new-users To use Zoom, you will need the following: • A computer (laptop/desktop) with a microphone and webcam (or a tablet or smartphone with speaker or headphones ) * • Speakers/headset/earbuds • High-speed internet *NB: Please log in from one device only. If you are logged in from two devices, one of them will be removed from the meeting. Thereafter, you may not be able to join the rest of meeting from this device, especially if this was your main meeting access device. Logging in/joining the meeting and downloading Zoom client You will receive an email notice from your meeting chair to join the meeting via Zoom on your registered day(s). The email will include information such as: • A link to join the meeting • The meeting title and scheduled times • Phone numbers for a conference call option • The meeting ID (9 or 11 digits) and passcode, etc. If you have registered to attend both days, you will receive separate email notifications for each day. For security reasons, do not share the links, user or conference IDs or passwords with anyone else – this may prevent you from accessing the meeting. You may also be required to register your email beforehand. When you click on the link provided by your host, you will be asked to download or launch Zoom client on your device. We recommend you install the software before the start of the meeting. Zoom releases regular updates to their desktop program. It is important to ensure you are running the most recent version of Zoom so that you have the most up-to-date controls when you are joining the virtual conference. You can either click on the link provided, or go to https://join.zoom.us/ and enter the 9- or 11-digit Meeting ID number (see the red box on next page). Venoms and Toxins 2020 (Oxford) - Virtual | 16-17 September 2020 | http://lpmhealthcare.com/venoms-and-toxins-2020-virtual 5 Closing all programs that will not be required for the duration of the virtual conference will improve the connection quality. Waiting for the virtual conference to begin When you join the meeting on 16 th and/or 17 th September, for security reasons, you will be sent to the ‘ waiting room ’, and will be admitted to the meeting manually against the list of registered participants that we hold. Therefore, it is important that your Zoom joining name is the same as it appears in your registration form/invoice - DO NOT use your initials or nickname . Otherwise, you may not be admitted to the meeting. Before joining, you will have the opportunity to test your audio by clicking on ‘Test Computer Audio’. 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