Institute Seminar Programmes

External Seminars 2013-2014

 

Date & TimeLocationSpeaker 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

         
         

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External Seminars from September 2013

All seminars will be held at 1 pm

 

DateLocationSpeakerInstitutionTitle
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

 

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