Institute Seminar Programmes
External Seminars 2013-2014
| Date & Time | Location | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 30/09/2013 12 noon |
Room C222/223 BHF GCRC |
Prof Harry W. Schroeder | University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA | Common Variable Immune Deficiency - a disease of antibody repertoire dysregulation encompassing both autoimmunity and immune deficiency |
| Wed 16/10/2013 1 pm | Wolfson Medical Building, Hugh Fraser | Dr Paola Di Meglio | MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London |
Lesson from the skin: genetic and environmental factors in psoriasis |
| Thur 31/10/2013 1 pm | TBC | Dr Britta Urban | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine |
T cell responses to the Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 |
| Wed 13/11/2013 1 pm | Wolfson Medical Building, Hugh Fraser | Dr Jessica Strid | Imperial College, London |
Lymphoid Stress-Surveillance - linking tumour immune-surveillance and atopy |
| Thur 21/11/2013 1 pm | Wolfson Medical Building, Gannochy | Prof Tomasz Guzik | University of Glasgow |
Role of T cell activation in hypertension |
| Wed 11/12/2013 1 pm | Wolfson Medical Building, Gannochy | Dr Clare Bryant | University of Cambridge |
Pattern recognition receptors in infection: Friend or Foe? |
| Wed 15/01/2014 1 pm | Wolfson Medical Building, Gannochy | Dr Donald Davidson | University of Edinburgh |
Cathelicidins: anti-microbial peptides with key immunomodulatory roles in pulmonary infection |
| Wed 29/01/2014 1 pm | Wolfson Medical Building, Hugh Fraser | Prof Gosse Adema | NCMLS, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
Dendritic Cell transcription regulator DC-SCRIPT: Dual faces of single factor |
| Wed 12/02/2014 1 pm | Wolfson Medical Building, Gannochy | Dr Steve Jenkins | University of Edinburgh |
Parameters regulating tissue-resident macrophage autonomy |
| Tue 18/02/2014 1 pm | Wolfson Medical Building, Hugh Fraser (TBC) | Prof Anne Cooke | University of Cambridge |
Can we worm our way out of trouble: the interplay between infection and Type 1 diabetes |
| Wed 05/03/2014 1 pm | Wolfson Medical Building, Hugh Fraser | Prof Antal Rot | University of Birmingham, UK |
All you ever wanted to know about the atypical chemokine receptors (but were afraid to ask) |
| Thur 13/03/2014 1 pm | Wolfson Medical Building, Gannochy | Prof David Harrison | Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA |
Inflammation, immunity and hypertension |
| Wed 26/03/2014 1 pm | Wolfson Medical Building, Hugh Fraser | Dr Simon Fillatreau | Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum, Leibnitz Institute, Berlin, Germany |
What is a regulatory B cell? |
| Fri 04/04/2013 1 pm | Wolfson Medical Building, Gannochy | Dr James Rudd | University of Cambridge |
Imaging inflammation with PET - can we predict heart attack? |
| Mon 14/04/2014 1 pm | Wolfson Medical Building, Gannochy | Prof Alma Zenercke | DFG-Forschungszentrum für Experimentelle Biomedizin der Universität Würzburg, Germany |
Cytokines and immune cells in atherosclerosis |
| Wed 07/05/2014 1 pm | TBC | Prof Hans Werner Müller | Heinrich Heine University, Germany |
Preclinical treatments to improve regeneration in acute and sub-acute/chronic spinal cord injury |
External Seminars from September 2013
All seminars will be held at 1 pm
| Date | Location | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19/09/2013 | Main Building Room 255 | Prof Phillip Wheatfield | The Application of Lipidomics to the Study of Health and Disease | |
| 03/10/2013 | Adam Smith Building Room 1115 | Dr Nicola Stanley-Wall | University of Dundee | Stop swimming to initiate stick down – Bacillus subtilis biofilms |
| 10/10/2013 | Adam Smith Building Room 1115 | Dr Nick Tucker | University of Strathclyde | Comparative genomic and metabolomic analyses of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from the CF lung reveal signatures of host adaptation |
| 17/10/2013 | Adam Smith Building Room 1115 | Dr Kevin Read | Drug Didcovery Unit, University of Dundee | TBA |
| 24/10/2013 | Adam Smith Building Room 1115 | Dr Matthias Reuss | Science for Life Laboratory, Sweden | TBA |
| 31/10/2013 | Adam Smith Building Room 1115 | Prof Harald Bruessow | Nestle | TBA |
| 01/11/2013 | Adam Smith Building Room 1115 | Prof Jane Carlton | New York University | TBA |
| 21/11/2013 | Adam Smith Building Room 1115 | Dr David Clarke | University of Cork | TBA |
| 13/02/2014 | Adam Smith Building Room 1115 | Dr Gabriele Schoenian | Charité University Berlin | TBA |
| 20/02/2014 | Adam Smith Building Room 1115 | Prof Duncan Maskell | University of Cambridge | TBA |
| 06/03/2014 | Adam Smith Building Room 1115 | Prof Barbara Bakker | University of Groningen, The Netherlands | TBA |
For complete listings of the both the CVR external and internal Seminar Series please click here