Seminars & events
The Division runs a full programme of lectures and seminars by international research leaders, members of the Division and our own developing doctoral researchers to which all students and staff are welcome to attend.
April 2012
Thursday, 12 April, 1pm, Royal Free
Speaker: Dr Nick Crispe (Seattle BioMed, University of Washington)
Title: Kupffer cell control of hepatic inflammation and immunity.
Host: Prof Hans Stauss
Venue: Royal Free LT2
Thursday, 12 April, 5pm, Bloomsbury
POSTGRADUATE CLUB
Speaker: Ed Yong, Science Writer
Title: How to get a degree in Science Writing from the University of Messing About on the Internet
Venue: UCL Wilkins Haldane Room
Organiser: Lauren Collins (email)
Monday, 16 April, 1pm, Bloomsbury
EXTERNAL SPEAKER PROGRAMME
Speaker: Professor Gabriel Waksman (Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL/Birkbeck College)
Title: Structural and molecular biology of bacterial secretion systems.
Host: Prof Greg Towers (email)
Venue: Pearson LT (North east entrance), Pearson Building
Wednesday, 18 April, 1pm, Bloomsbury
EXTERNAL SPEAKER PROGRAMME
Speaker: Dr Helen Rowe (Laboratory of Virology and Genetics, EPFL, Lausanne)
Title: KAP1/TRIM28 is necessary for de novo DNA methylation and maintenance of proviral silencing.
Host: Prof Greg Towers (email)
Venue: Cruciform LT, Cruciform Building
Thursday, 19 April, 1pm, Royal Free
ROYAL FREE CAMPUS CANCER, INFECTION & IMMUNITY SEMINARS
Speaker: Professor Yair Reisner (Department of Immunology, The Weizmann Institute of Science)
Title: New strategy for allogeneic HSCT under reduced intensity conditioning in B cell malignancies: towards GVL without GVHD.
Host: Dr Clare Bennett
Venue: Haematology Seminar Room, Royal Free
Friday 20th April - Saturday 21st April, Russell Hotel
Centre for Immunodeficiency World Immunology Day
Educational Symposium for Clinicians and Patients
Booklet: Details & Registration Form (PDF, 16 pages)
Venue: Russell Hotel, 1-8 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 5BE
Contact: Sister Sary Workman
Tel: 020-7794-0500 ext 33832/ Email
Monday, 23 April, 1pm, Bloomsbury
EXTERNAL SPEAKER PROGRAMME
Speaker: Dr Sarita Singh (Chelsea and Westminster Hospital/Imperial College London)
Title: HERV K gene expression in cutaneous melanoma.
Host: Prof Deenan Pillay (email)
Venue: Pearson LT (North east entrance), Pearson Building
Monday, 23 April, 5pm, Bloomsbury
YALE UCL COLLABORATIVE SENIOR SCIENTIST LECTURE SERIES
Speaker: Professor Pietro De Camilli (Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Yale University Medical School)
Title: Membrane dynamics and phosphoinositide signalling in the endocytic pathway: lessons from the neuronal synapse.
Host: Prof Mark Marsh
Venue: JZ Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, Gower St
All are welcome on a first come-first served basis. Advance reservations can be made at http://camilli.eventbrite.com/.
Tuesday, 24 April, 1pm, Bloomsbury
INTERNAL SPEAKER PROGRAMME
Speaker 1: Miss Lucy Bell
(Immunology; Group leader: Dr M Noursadeghi)
MPhil/PhD Transfer seminar: Dysregulation of the innate immune response in HIV-1 infected macrophages.
Speaker 2: Dr Ian Anderson
(Wohl Virion Centre); Group leader: Dr A Fassati)
MPhil/PhD Transfer seminar: Identification of new drug targets and neutralising llama antibodies by High throughput screening
Venue: Pearson LT (North east entrance), Pearson Building
Thursday 26 April, 1pm, Royal Free Campus
Royal Free Campus Cancer, Infection and Immunity seminar series
Speaker: Prof Aras Kadioglu (Institute of Infection & Global Health, University of Liverpool)
Title: Host immune responses to pneumococcal colonisation and invasive disease; the role of pneumolysin
Host: Dr Isobella Honeyborne
Venue:Royal Free Campus, Lecture Theatre 2
Monday, 30 April, 1pm, Bloomsbury
EXTERNAL SPEAKER PROGRAMME
Speaker: Dr Marc Veldhoen (Lymphocyte Signalling & Development ISP, The Babraham Institute)
Title: The Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor: an interpreter of
the micro-environment.
Host: Prof Arne Akbar (email)
Venue: Pearson LT (North east entrance), Pearson Building
Lunch will be available from 12.30pm at Wilkins North Cloisters
May 2012
Tuesday, 1 May, 1pm, Bloomsbury
INTERNAL SPEAKER PROGRAMME
Speaker: Ms Rhiannon Evans
(Immunology; Group leader: Dr M Noursadeghi)
MPhil/PhD Transfer seminar: Illuminating the Mechanism of Immune Modulation by Vitamin D
Venue: Pearson LT (North east entrance), Pearson Building
Tuesday, 8 May, 1pm, Bloomsbury
INTERNAL SPEAKER PROGRAMME
Speaker 1: Mr Mathias Zech
(Immunology; Group leader: Prof H Stauss
MPhil/PhD Transfer seminar: Manipulating mTOR to enhance T cell mediated tumour immunity in vivo.
Speaker 2: Dr Caroline Blondeau
(Infection; Group leader: Prof G Towers)
Title: Restriction of HSV-1 by Tetherin
Venue: Pearson LT (North east entrance), Pearson Building
Thursday, 10 May, 1pm, Royal Free
Royal Free Campus Cancer, Infection & Immunity Seminar Series
Speaker: Professor David Adams, University of Birmingham
Title: VAP1: an ectoenzyme that links hepatic inflammation and fibrosis.
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Royal Free
Thursday, 10 May, 5pm, Bloomsbury
POSTGRADUATE CLUB
Speaker: Dr Peter Dukes, Head of Research Career Awards, MRC
Title: Does a science career exist?
Venue: UCL Wilkins Haldane Room
Organiser: Lauren Collins
Monday, 14 May, 1pm, Bloomsbury
EXTERNAL SPEAKER PROGRAMME
Speaker: Dr Alessandro Marcello (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Italy)
Title: Spatial-temporal dynamics of virus replication: HIV and Flaviviruses.
Host: Dr A Fassati (email)
Venue: Pearson LT (North east entrance), Pearson Building
Lunch will be available from 12.30pm at Wilkins North Cloisters.
Tuesday 15 May, All day (from 9.30), Bloomsbury
UCL/NIMR Student Symposium
Plenary lecture by Prof. Matthias Merkenschlager, Imperial College London.
Venue: JZ Young Lecture Theatre, UCL Anatomy Building,Gower Street
For more details and to register: http://uclnimr2012.eventbrite.co.uk/
Tuesday, 15 May, 1pm, Bloomsbury
INTERNAL SPEAKER PROGRAMME
Speaker: Dr Jacob Sweiry
(Principal Research Facilitator, School of Life and Medical Sciences)
Title: Good Grantsmanship: the Road to a Competitive Proposal
Venue: Pearson LT (North east entrance), Pearson Building
Thursday 17 May, 4pm, Bloomsbury
VIRTUAL VIROLOGY
Host: Prof Greg Towers (Division of Infection & Immunity, UCL)
Speaker: Prof Greg Towers
Title: Nup358 and species specific Nuclear Entry
Speaker: Ms Joanna Rowley
Title: A role for CPSF6 in targeting HIV Nuclear Entry pathways
Speaker: Mr Adam Fletcher
Title: The role of Ubiquitin and the Proteasome in TRIM5 restriction
Venue: LT2, Cruciform Building
Monday, 21 May, 1pm, Bloomsbury CANCELLED
EXTERNAL SPEAKER PROGRAMME
Speaker: Mr Gavin Pettigrew (Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge)
Title: T cell allorecognition pathways in humoral alloimmunity
Host: Prof C Mauri (email)
Venue: Pearson LT (North east entrance), Pearson Building
Tuesday, 22 May, 1pm (to 1.30pm), Bloomsbury
INTERNAL SPEAKER PROGRAMME
Speaker: Miss Anneleen Bosma
(Division of Medicine, Group Leader: Prof C Mauri)
Title: Lipid-antigen presentation by CD1d+ B cells is essential for the maintenance of invariant natural killer T cells.
Venue: Pearson LT (North east entrance), Pearson Building
Thursday, 24 May, 1pm, Royal Free
Royal Free Campus Cancer, Infection & Immunity Seminar Series
Speaker: Professor Aymen Al-Shamkhani, University of Southampton
Title: Programming T cells to combat cancer.
Host: Dr Clare Bennett, Haematology
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Royal Free
Monday, 28 May, 1pm, Bloomsbury
EXTERNAL SPEAKER PROGRAMME
Speaker: Professor Peter Cockerill (Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham)
Title: Inducible and developmental regulation of cytokine genes.
Host: Dr R Jenner (email)
Venue: Pearson LT (North east entrance), Pearson Building
Tuesday, 29 May, 1pm, Bloomsbury
INTERNAL SPEAKER PROGRAMME
Speaker: Professor Bodo Grimbacher
(Research Department of Immunology)
Title: LRBA deficiency: a novel genetic defect in humans linking immunity, autoimmunity, and autophagy.
Venue: Pearson LT (North east entrance), Pearson Building
Wednesday,30 May, 1pm, Bloomsbury
INTERNAL SPEAKER PROGRAMME - ADDITIONAL
Speaker: Ms Imogen Lai (Department of Infection, Bloomsbury Campus)
PhD Thesis Seminar: EBV genome replication and Genetic Diversity in B cells.
Group leader: Prof Paul Kellam
Venue: Cruciform LT2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street
June 2012
Monday, 11 June, 1pm, Bloomsbury
External Speaker Series
Speaker: Dr Claudio Murgia (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow)
Title: Cellular and molecular pathogenesis of a retroviral induced lung adenocarcinoma.
Host: Dr Ari Fassati (email)
Venue: Pearson LT (North East Entrance), Pearson Building, Bloomsbury
Monday, 11 June, 11.30 (all day), Bloomsbury
BIPR Event
BIPR
Diagnostics and Biomarkers of Infection Workshop
Register by email to Alexandra Grimova (email)
Venue: Christopher Ingold Lecture Theatre, Christopher Ingold Building, 20 Gordon Street
Programme to download
Tuesday, 12 June, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Internal Speaker Series
Speaker 1: Dr Juan Ribes
(Wohl Virion Centre, Group Leader: Dr Y Takeuchi)
Title: to be confirmed
Speaker 2: Mr Adam Fletcher
(Infection, Group Leader: Prof G Towers)
Title: to be confirmed
Venue: Pearson LT (North East Entrance), Pearson Building, Bloomsbury
Monday, 18 June, 1pm, Bloomsbury
External Speaker Series
Professor Ten Feizi (Department of Medicine, Imperial College London)
Title: to be confirmed.
Host: Professor Judy Breuer (email)
Venue: Chadwick Building, B05 LT
Tuesday, 19 June, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Internal Speaker Series
Speaker: Dr Ben Uttenthal
(Immunology, Group Leader: Dr E Morris)
PhD Thesis Seminar: Title to be confirmed
Venue: Pearson LT (North East Entrance), Pearson Building, Bloomsbury
Thursday, 21 June, 4pm, Bloomsbury
VIRTUAL VIROLOGY
Host: Prof Robin Weiss, Division of Infection & Immunity
Topic: Pseudoviruses and Real Virology
Speaker 1: Dr Nigel Temperton, University of Kent
Title: Retroviral Pseudotypes of Influenza A viruses
Speaker 2: Dr Edward Wright, University of Westminster
Title: Properties of Rabies Virus and Lyssavirus Envelopes
Speaker 3: Dr Laura McCoy, UCL Division of Infection & Immunity
Title: 96 Envelopes of HIV-1 Neutralized by Llama VHH and Counting
Venue: Gavin De Beer Lecture Theatre, UCL Anatomy Building
Tuesday, 26 June, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Internal Speaker Series
Speaker 1: Dr Elspeth Potton
(Immunology, Group Leader: Dr M Noursdeghi)
MPhil/PhD Transfer seminar: title to be confirmed
Speaker 2: Dr Thabo Lapp
(Immunology, Group Leader: Dr M Noursdeghi)
Title: to be confirmed
Venue: Pearson LT (North East Entrance), Pearson Building, Bloomsbury
Wednesday, 27 June, all day, Bloomsbury
2012 PhD Colloquium
This
is a day event consisting of short presentations given by current 2nd
year students, followed by poster presentations of 3rd/4th year
students’ work, closing with a keynote lecture and an evening
prize-giving/drinks reception.
Organiser: Lauren Collins
July 2012
Monday, 2 July, 1pm, Bloomsbury
External Speaker Series
Speaker: Professor Christopher E Rudd (Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge)
Title: to be confimed.
Host: Dr Clare Jolly (email)
Venue: Pearson LT (North East Entrance), Pearson Building, Bloomsbury
Tuesday, 3 July, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Internal Speaker Series
Speaker: Dr Iggy Chua
(Immunology, Group Leader: Dr E Morris)
PhD Thesis seminar: CD8 co-receptor modifications to enhance T cell immunotherapy.
Venue: Pearson LT (North East Entrance), Pearson Building, Bloomsbury
Monday, 9 July, 1pm, Bloomsbury
External Speaker Series
Speaker: Dr Christopher Illingworth (The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
Title: Quantifying selection in viral evolution using time-resolved sequence data.
Host: Dr Stephane Hue (email)
Venue: Pearson LT (North East Entrance), Pearson Building, Bloomsbury
Virtual Virology
Thursday, 21 June, 4pm, Bloomsbury
Host: Prof Robin Weiss, Division of Infection & Immunity
Topic: Pseudoviruses and Real Virology
Speaker 1: Dr Nigel Temperton, University of Kent
Title: Retroviral Pseudotypes of Influenza A viruses
Speaker 2: Dr Edward Wright, University of Westminster
Title: Properties of Rabies Virus and Lyssavirus Envelopes
Speaker 3: Dr Laura McCoy, UCL Division of Infection & Immunity
Title: 96 Envelopes of HIV-1 Neutralized by Llama VHH and Counting
Venue: Gavin De Beer Lecture Theatre, UCL Anatomy Building
THURSDAY 17 MAY 2012, 4PM
Host: Prof Greg Towers - Division of Infection & Immunity, UCL
Speaker: Prof Greg Towers
Title: Nup358 and species specific
Nuclear Entry
Speaker: Ms Joanna Rowley
Title: A role for CPSF6 in
targeting HIV Nuclear Entry pathways
Speaker: Mr Adam Fletcher
Title: The role of Ubiquitin and
the Proteasome in TRIM5 restriction
Venue: UCL Cruciform Building LT2
Looking ahead: events in 2012 and 2013
OCTOBER
FRIDAY 19 October, all day, ICH
Title: III Domain Research Day
Speakers: to be confirmed
Venue: Institute of Child Health
Organiser: Dr Nandi Simpson (email Dr Simpson)
Registration Website for abstracts and presentations now open.
FEBRUARY 2013
Wednesday 27 February - Saturday 2 March, 2013
Cell Therapy and Cancer Symposium
Organisers: EU ATTACK* Consortium (Website link)
This third international symposium organised by the EU Consortium has attracted a range of internationally renowned researchers. Speakers include: Professor Robert Flavell, Professor Fiona Powrie, Professor Claudia Mauri, Professor Inge Marie Svane, and Professor Andy Sewell. There will also be a range of speakers from the 17 participating research groups in the consortium.
Venue: Institute of Child Health
Registration and programme details will be available during the summer.
*Adoptive engineered T cell Targeting to Activate Cancer Killing
Past Speakers (External to Division)
Academic Session 2011/12
| Date | External Speaker | Title |
| 17 Oct 11 |
Dr Karl J Staples (Division of Infection, Inflammation & Immunity, University of Southampton School of Medicine) |
Macrophages: critical modulators of airways disease. |
| 20 Oct 11 |
Professor Clare Lloyd (Imperial College, London) |
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| 21 Oct 11 |
Dr Andrew Redd (NIAID/NIH and The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore) |
The rate of HIV superinfection in Uganda |
| 31 Oct 11 |
Dr Mohini Gray (MRC/University of Edinburgh Centre for Inflammation Research, The Queen's Medical Research Institute) |
A tolerogenic role for TLR9 is revealed by B cell interaction with DNA complexes expressed on apoptotic cells. |
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2 Nov 11 |
Professor David Sansom (Chair in Immune Cell Biology, School of Immunity and Infection, University of Birmingham) | The role of CTLA-4 in immune regulation |
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7 Nov 11 |
Professor Cormac Taylor (School of Medicine & Medical Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin) | Into thin air: regulation of inflammatory gene expression by hypoxia |
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14 Nov 11 |
Dr Gill Elliot (Section of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London) |
Herpes simplex virus morphogenesis - a new model for envelopment. |
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17 Nov 11 |
Dr John Anderson (UCL Institute of Child Health) | Professional antigen presentation by innate mouse and human lymphocytes |
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18 Nov 11 |
Dr Rushad Pavri (Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Rockefeller University) | The Transcriptional basis of antibody gene diversification and genomic instability by AID |
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21 Nov 11 |
Professor Rachel C Chambers (UCL Centre for Respiratory Research) | Coagulation signalling in lung injury and fibrosis. |
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22 Nov 11 |
Professor Peter Openshaw (Centre for Respiratory Infection, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London) | Learning immunology from lung infections |
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25 Nov 11 |
Dr Oren Kobiler (Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University) | Multicolour analysis of Herpes viruses infection. |
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28 Nov 11 |
Professor Paul Moss (School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham) | |
| 28 Nov 11 | Dr Lucy Walker (MRC Senior Research Fellow / Reader in Immune Regulation and Autoimmunity, University of Birmingham) | Regulation of T cell responses to self proteins. |
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1 Dec 11 |
Dr Julian Naglik (Department of Oral Immunology, King's College London Dental Institute, King's College London) | Candida - the silent killer: the nECEsity of hyphae and mucosal innate immunity |
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5 Dec 11 |
Professor E. John Wherry (Department of Microbiology & Institute for Immunology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) | Dissecting the mechanisms of T cell exhaustion. |
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12 Dec 11 |
Professor Rick Maizels (Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh) | Immunoregulation by parasites: at the intersection of allergy and infection |
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19 Dec 11 |
Professor Christoph Hess (Department of Biomedicine,University Hospital Basel) | Metabolic aspects of CD8 T cell memory formation |
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5 Jan 12 |
Dr Tim Willinger (Yale University) | Improvement of humanized mice by cytokine knock-in gene replacement. |
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11 Jan 12 |
Dr Wilfred Ndifon (Dept of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) | Immunosignatures of health and autoimmune disease: insights from mouse models |
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16 Jan 12 |
Professor Danny M Altmann (Department of Medicine, Imperial College London) | T cells, NK cells and IL-17 in multiple sclerosis – protection and pathogenesis |
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16 Jan 12 |
Dr Santiago Gonzalez (Havard) |
Capture of influenza virus by lymph node dendritic cells is essential for humoral immunity in lymph nodes. |
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19 Jan 12 |
Professor Gavin Screaton, Imperial College | Immunopathology in Dengue Virus Infection |
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19 Jan 12 |
Professor Robert Thimme (Department of Medicine, University of Freiberg) | New insights into CD8+ T cell responses in Hepatitis B and Hepatocellular carcinoma. |
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23 Jan 12 |
Professor Patrick Bertolino (Centenary Institute, The University of Sydney) | How the liver kills Killer T cells |
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3 Feb 12 |
Dr Louise D’Cruz (University of California San Diego) | Transcriptional regulation of Natural Killer T cell development and homeostasis. |
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6 Feb 12 |
Dr Ellie Barnes (Division of Experimental Medicine, University of Oxford) | Hepatitis C-closing in on a changing target |
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13 Feb 12 |
Dr Simon Yona (Department of Metabolism and Experimental Therapeutics, UCL Division of Medicine) | Origins and fates of blood monocytes. |
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16 Feb 12 |
Professor Graham Pawelec (University of Tuebingen Center for Medical Research) | Immune frailty: role of viral infection and impact on vaccination in the elderly. |
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27 Feb 12 |
Dr Matthew Fisher (School of Public Health, Imperial College London) | Emerging Fungal Threats to Human, Animal and Ecosystem Health. |
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5 March 12 |
Dr Martin Turner (The Babraham Institute, Cambridge) |
RNA binding proteins regulate lymphocyte development and activation |
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12 March 12 |
Professor David Navarro (Department of Microbiology and Ecology, University of Valencia) | Novel strategies of pre-emptive antiviral therapy of active Cytomegalovirus infection in the allogeneic stem cell transplantation setting based on combined virological and immunological monitoring |
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15 March 12 |
Dr Awen Gallimore (Cardiff Institute of Infection & Immunity) | Critical Bottlenecks to a successful anti-tumour T-cell response. |
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19 March 12 |
Professor Christiana Ruhrberg (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) | Macrophages in angiogenesis |
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29 March 12 |
Dr Sandra Diebold (Kings College London) | Exploring synthetic mimics of viral nucleic acids as adjuvants for tumour immunotherapy. |
Academic Session 2010/2011
| Date | External Speaker Programme |
Autumn 2010 |
| 27 SEPTEMBER |
Dr Benoît Salomon (UPMC and INSERM, Paris) |
Some aspects of the biology and therapeutic potentials of regulatory T cells |
| 4 OCTOBER |
Professor Paul Young (Centre for Infectious Disease Research, University of Queensland) |
Searching for the flavivirus Achilles heel |
| 18 OCTOBER |
Dr David Sansom (Immune regulation unit, University of Birmingham) |
How does CTLA-4 regulate T cell immunity |
| 25 OCTOBER |
Dr Simon Kollnberger (Institute Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital) |
Cytomegalovirus and its obsession with NK cells |
| 15 NOVEMBER |
Professor Anthony Segal (Centre for Molecular Medicine, UCL) |
Crohn's is a complex immunodeficiency disease |
| 6 DECEMBER |
Professor Stuart Neil (Department of Infectious Diseases, Kings College London) |
Antiviral activity of Tetherin and its antagonism by enveloped viruses |
| 13 DECEMBER |
Dr Victor Appay (UPMC, Paris) |
HIV disease progression is associated with exhaustion of lymphopoiesis driven by immune activation |
| Date | External Speaker Programme | Spring Term 2011 |
| 11 JANUARY | Dr Andreas Wack, Division of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Medical Research | Innate immunity and how it can be manipulated: The cases of vaccine adjuvants and hepatitis C virus |
| 25 JANUARY | Professor Ian Kimber, Professor of Toxicology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester | Adventures with Langerhams cells |
| 1 FEBRUARY | Dr David Blackbourne, Cancer Research UK Institute for Cancer Studies, University of Birmingham | KSHV Pathogenesis and Immune Modulation |
| 8 FEBRUARY | Dr Lennart Mars, INSERM U-563 Autoimmunity et Immune-regulation, Centre de Physiopathologie Toulouse-Purpan | CNS autoimmunity: Molecular mimicry between neural self antigens and immune regulation by invariant NKT cells |
| 15 FEBRUARY | Dr Jorg Timm, Department of Virology, University of Essen, Germany | Adaptation of HCV to CD8 T Cell Immune Pressure |
| 22 FEBRUARY |
Professor Erik De Clercq, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium |
The AMD3100 story: the path from an anti-HIV agent to a stem cell mobilizer |
| 8 MARCH | Dr Derek Walsh, SFI Principal Investigator, National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology, Dublin City University | How DNA viruses exploit the host protein synthesis machinery to replicate |
| 15 MARCH | Dr Mark Dodding, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cell Motility Laboratory Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute | Chasing tails: a novel family of viral proteins that induce actin polymerization |
| 4 APRIL | Professor Luis Enjuanes, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, CNB CSIC, Madrid | Coronavirus transcription and evolution to optimize virus survival |
| 11 APRIL | Dr Anne Puel, Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, INSERM U980, Paris | - |
| 14 APRIL | Louise Holliday, Patent Attorney, D Young & Co | - |
| Date | EXTERNAL SPEAKERS | Summer Term |
| 5 MAY | The Injured Sentinel: Symposium for Prof David Katz | Speakers: Prof. David Hume, Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh; Dr. Steffen Jung, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel; Dr. Paul Fairchild, Dept. Pathology, Oxford; Dr. Marina Kreutz, University Hospital Regensburg, Germany; Prof. Adrian Thrasher, Institute of Child health, UCL; Dr. Martin Hewison, UCLA, USA; Dr. Phil King, University of Michigan, USA; Prof. Benny Chain, UCL; Prof. Paul Kaye, University of York; Dr. Daniel Douek, NIH, USA; Dr.Mahdad Noursadeghi, UCL |
| 5 MAY | Prof Persis Amrolia, Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation, Great Ormond Street | Adoptive Immunotherapy to improve anti-viral and anti-leukaemic responses after transplantation. |
| 9 MAY | Prof Richard Goldstein, MRC NIMR | Deciphering the swine flu pandemics of 1918 and 2009 |
| 13 MAY | Professor Jennifer Moffat, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, New York | SCID-Hu Mice and IVIS: Solutions for Varicella-zoster Virus Antiviral Research |
| 17 MAY | Farewell Celebration Symposium “50 Years of the Windeyer” | Speakers: Dr Carole Reeves, UCL Centre for the History of Medicine; Prof Lewis Wolpert FRS, UCL; Dr Jim Smith FRS, Director, National Institute of Medical Research, Mill Hill; Prof Cheryll Tickle FRS, University of Bath; Prof Ivan Roitt FRS, Middlesex University; Prof David Latchman, Master of Birkbeck College; Prof Arne Akbar, Head of Division of Infection & Immunity, UCL |
| 14 JUNE | Dr Dalan Bailey, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London | Using reverse genetics and proteomics to dissect RNA virus pathogenesis |
| 20 JUNE | Professor Michael D Robek, Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine | Recombinant VSV as a Potential HBV Therapeutic Vaccine Vector. |
| 24 JUNE | Dr Henry Stephens, Consultant Clinical Scientist & Honorary Senior Lecturer in Immunogenetics, UCL Centre for Nephrology & The Anthony Nolan Trust | The Wonderland of Human NK Receptor Genes. |
| 27 JUNE | Professor Tim Elliott, Chair of Experimental Oncology and Director of Research for the School of Medicine, Cancer Sciences Division, University of Southampton | Mechanisms for peptide editing in the MHC class I antigen processing pathway |
| 30 JUNE | Professor Richard Young, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Massachusetts, USA | Transcriptional Control of Cell State. |
| 4 JULY |
Dr Francisco Martin, Centre for Biomedicine Research CIBM, Granada |
Cell-gene therapy strategies for the treatment of autoimmune diseases |
| 7 JULY |
Dr Paul Norman, Departments of Structural Biology and Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University, California |
Population-Specific Evolution of Human Natural Killer Cell Receptors |
| 11 JULY |
Professor Derek Macallan, Department of Infectious Diseases and Medicine, St George's, University of London |
Uncovering the in vivo kinetics of human lymphocytes |
| 12 JULY |
Dr Nir Friedman, Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
Communication networks in the immune system: A single cell perspective |
| 27 JULY |
Dr Vanessa Sancho-Shimizu, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, INSERM |
Inborn errors of TLR3-dependent immunity underlying susceptibility to Herpes simplex encephalitis |
Brief descriptions of our current series are below:
- Monday External Speaker programme (Bloomsbury campus)
Mondays at 1pm-2pm, Summer term 2012 programme
Organizer: Isabel Lubeiro - Tuesday Internal Speaker programme (Bloomsbury campus)
Tuesdays at 1pm-2pm, Summer Term 2012 Internal programme
Contact: Isabel Lubeiro - Royal Free Campus External Speaker programme (Royal Free campus)
Thursdays at 1pm-2pm, monthly
Contacts: Mr Mathias Zech (Immunology) or Dr Richard Milne (Virology) - Postgraduate Club (Bloomsbury campus)
Thursdays, monthly
Meetings start at 5pm, and are open to all postgraduate students of departments/centres affiliated to the Division of Infection and Immunity.
Contact: Lauren Collins
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