School Seminar Programmes
Immunobiology External Seminars 2023
Contacts:
| Date | Location | Speaker | Host |
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12/1/23 |
In-person |
Jim Brewer Lab Group (Sii) |
Jim Brewer |
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19/1/23 |
In-person | Professor Vicky Cowling (Beatson Institute) | Georgia Perona-Wright |
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9/2/23 |
Common Room, SGDB |
Jonathan Cavanagh Lab Group (Sii) Speakers: Kirstyn Gardner, Hassan Al Fadhel Dr Julie Bougognon, Dr Deepika Sharma Post Doc |
Jonathan Cavanagh |
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23/2/23 |
In-person | Kevin Maloy Lab Group (Sii) | Kevin Maloy |
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16/3/23 |
In-person |
Simon Milling Lab Group (Sii) Speakers: Anna Andrusaite, Annabelle Ferguson, Rumaisa Zubairi, Catriona Laverty, Eleanor Richards |
Simon Milling |
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30/3/23 |
Yudowitz Seminar Room, Wolfson Medical School | WSIG: Professor Rachel McLoughlin (Trinity College Dublin) | Megan MacLeod |
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6/4/23 |
Room 103A, Clarice Pears Building |
Julia Edgar Lab (Sii) Speakers: Julia Edgar, Shazia Yazdani Lina Komarek, Katie Chapple |
Julia Edgar |
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13/4/23 |
Room 103A, Clarice Pears Building |
Dr Robert Grey (University of Edinburgh) | Matthew Walters/Jim Brewer |
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11/5/23 |
Room 102, Clarice Pears Building | Megan MacLeod Lab Group (Sii) | Megan MacLeod |
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18/5/23 |
Room 103A, Clarice Pears Building |
Michael Buck (Francis Crick Institute) Metabolic regulation of immunity and the yin and yang of dead cell sensing |
Georgia Perona-Wright |
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25/5/23 |
Room 103A, Clarice Pears Building | Dr Tovah Shaw (University of Edinburgh) | Simon Milling |
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15/6/23 |
Seminar room 237B, ARC & Zoom |
Professor Martin J. Stone (Monash University) Engineering Tick Proteins to Target Inflammatory Chemokines |
Maddy Cunningham |
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15/6/23 |
In-person | Mariola Kurowska-Stolarska Lab Group (Sii) | Mariola Kurowska-Stolarska |
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15/6/23 |
Seminar Room 103A, Clarice Pears Building | Dr Marieke Pingen (Sii) |
Parasitology External Seminars 2023
All seminars will be held on Friday at 2pm (unless stated otherwise)
- GRiP-ing seminars are open meetings.
- Recording of GRiP-ing seminars are available to view on the Sii YouTube channel for a limited period only.
- vRUM seminars are closed meetings where we discuss unpublished research. Please do not record or screenshot anything without the presenters permission, and please do not share this link without speaking to us first.
For further details or to be added to either mailing list, please contact Dr Clare Harding.
| Date | Location | Seminar type | Speaker | Institution | Title |
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13/1/23 (2pm) |
Zoom |
GRiP-ing |
Robyn Kent | University of Vermont | Targeting Toxoplasma Gondi MyoA to alter disease severity in vivo |
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20/1/23 (2pm) |
Zoom |
GRiP-ing |
Professor Raffi Aroian | Chan Medical School | Paraprobiotics: changing the paradigm for treating soil-transmitted helminths |
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27/1/23 (2pm) |
Zoom | GRiP-ing | Ana Rita Gomes | University of Montpellier | DNA replication in malaria parasites |
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3/2/23 (2pm) |
Zoom/In-person | RUM | Dr Dagmara McGuinnes | Moxon Lab | Exploring the role of histone-like proteins in paediatric meningococcal disease |
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10/2/23 (2pm) |
Zoom | RUM | Dr Sergi Alonso | Lamberton Lab | The short-term impact of Schistosoma mansoni infection on health-related quality of life: implications for WHO elimination policies |
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17/2/23 (2pm) |
Zoom/In-person | RUM | Dr Joao Da Silva Filho | Marti Lab | Spatial Biology approaches to investigate host-Plasmodium interaction in the human bone marrow and spleen |
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24/2/23 (12pm) |
Zoom | Passcode: 581356 | GRiP-ing | Dr Stuart Ralph | University of Melbourne | Artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium, K-13 and the cytostome |
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3/3/23 (2pm) |
Zoom | RUM | Otto Lab |
From cellxgene to paraCell: A novel use-case for cell atlases in parasitology cellXplore: Unravelling the single-cell interactome, one click at a time |
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10/3/23 (2pm) |
Zoom & Room C222, BHF |
GRiP-ing | University of Cambridge |
Identifying and targeting ubiquitin pathway enzymes in Plasmodium parasites |
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15/3/23 (11am) |
Yudowitz Seminar Room, Wolfson Medical School | WCIP | Professor Jan Palmowski | Secretary-General The Guild of European Universities | Reimagining the Horizon: Developing a new vision for European Science Policy? |
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24/3/23 (2pm) |
Zoom & In-person | RUM | Dr Jack Hannah | Harding Group | Developing mode of action tools using lysyl-tRNA synthetase to support Cryptosporidium drug discovery |
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24/3/23 (2pm) |
Zoom | Passcode: 653794 | GRiP-ing | Dr Jason Gigley | University of Wyoming | Theft of host iron machinery for successful parasitism by Toxoplasma gondii |
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28/4/23 (2pm) |
In-person & Zoom | Passcode: 811202 | GRiP-ing | Dr Francesco Baldini | BOHVM | Infrared spectroscopy for vector-borne disease surveillance |
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5/5/23 (2pm) |
Zoom & In-person | RUM | Dr Joanne Power | Modrzynska Group | Gene expression regulation during early Plasmodium ookinete development |
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14/5/23 (12pm) |
Zoom & Room C222, BHF | RUM | Dr Teresa Attenborough | Berriman Group | Unknown cells and uncharacterised genes: using single cell RNA sequencing in Schistosoma mansoni |
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19/5/23 (2pm) |
Room C222, BHF | RUM | Dr Walt Adamson | MacLeod Group | Variants of the trypanolytic protein APOL1 are associated with multiple disease phenotypes: a UK Biobank study |
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2/6/23 (2pm) |
Zoom & Room C222, BHF | RUM | Daniel Welsh | Sheiner Lab | Synthetic induced auxotrophy: attenuating Toxoplasma gondii for use as a therapeutic vector platform |
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9/6/23 (2pm) |
Zoom | GRiP-ing | Dr Aoife Heaslip | University of Connecticut | An Unconventional Mechanism of cargo transport in Toxoplasma gondii |
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16/6/23 (2pm) |
Zoom | GRiP-ing | Heather Painter | U.S. Food & Drug Administration | RNA-centric Approaches To Unravelling Gene Expression Regulation In The Malaria Parasite |
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19/7/23 (12pm) |
Zoom & Room C222, BHF | Special Seminar | Yael Dagan | Tel Aviv University | The role of RNA modifications in the regulation of planarian stem cell differentiation |
Virology (CVR) Seminars 2023
Full internal and external Virology seminar listings can be found on the CVR events & seminars page
Bacteriology External Seminars 2023
All seminars will be held on Thursday at 12noon (unless stated otherwise).
The recurring Zoom link for all Bacteriology seminars is:
- Bacteriology seminars Zoom
- Meeting ID: 978 5004 2898
- Passcode: 604350
Contact: Dr Hua Wang
| Date | Location | Speaker | Institution | Title |
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27/1/23 (3pm) |
Common Room, SGDB | Professor Jay Mellies | Reed College | Bugs to the rescue: Can five bacteria help solve the plastic waste crisis? |
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Glasgow Single Cell RNA-Seq Seminar Series 2023
Weekly Single Cell RNA-Seq clinic Wednesdays are held on Zoom. The aim is to give attendees the change to discuss analysis and sample preparation of scRNA-Seq data in which participants are encouraged to show their data.
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Flow Cytometry Seminar Series 2023
| Date | Location | Speaker | Institution | Title | Further details |
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20/2/23 (3pm) |
Room C222, BHF building | Lawrence Rentoul | Merck | Detection is Critical: Creating a Guidance led ELISA - Highlighting the impact of guidance on your immunoassay driven work. | Event Registration |
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