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Join Bats Without Borders 50th WingedWednesday Webinar

Bats Without Borders are warmly inviting you to join in with their special talk by Prof. Wanda Markotter on “A One Health Approach to Understanding Spillover of Bat Pathogens” on Wednesday 23 October. This marks their 50th #WingedWednesday webinar since they launched their talks in May 2020.

Professor Wanda Markotter is a virologist who began her academic career at the University of Pretoria in 2004. She is currently the Director of its Centre for Viral Zoonoses in the Department of Medical Virology at the University’s Faculty of Health Sciences. Professor Markotter has been involved in a transdisciplinary research programme on disease ecology in bat species in South Africa and other African countries since 2005.

To join in, pre-register on the Bats Without Borders’ webinar series via their website www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars You will then be sent the Zoom login details the day before the webinar and a reminder one hour before. Please note webinars start at 15hrs Southern African time (currently 2pm BST |1pm GMT | 9am EDT).

You can also catch up on all previous #WingedWednesday webinars on their YouTube channel and you can keep up to date with all their news on their Facebook Page