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 2013
Thursday, 11 April, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker: Dr Boghuma Titanji (Department of Infection)
Title: MPhil/PhD Transfer: Investigating the impact of protease inhibitors on the cell-to-cell spread of HIV-1 variants.
Group leader: Professor Deenan Pillay
Venue: LT2, Cruciform Building
Monday, 15 April, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker: Professor Jane McKeating (Institute of Biomedical Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham)
Title: The ins and outs of hepatitis C virus.
Host: Professor Mala Maini (email)
Venue: Gavin de Beer LT, Anatomy Building
Tuesday, 16 April, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker 1: Dr Konstantia-Maria Chavele (Centre for Rheumatology)
Title: Circulating plasmablasts induce the differentiation of human CD4+ T follicular helper cells.
Group leader: Professor Michael Ehrenstein (email)
Speaker 2: Miss Joanna Rowley (Department of Infection)
Title: MPhil/PhD Transfer: Capsid determines HIV-1 nuclear import pathwasys by interaction with host co-factors.
Group leader: Professor Greg Towers (email)
Venue: B05 LT, Chadwick Building
Thursday, 18 April, 4.45pm, Bloomsbury
POSTGRADUATE CLUB
Speaker: Emeritus Professor Robin Weiss (Division of Infection & Immunity)
Title: Traversing the Silk Route: the flow of goods,
genes, knowledge and disease
Venue: UCL Pearson G17/guest speaker in Pearson LT G22 at
5pm
Organizer: Lauren Collins, Postgraduate Administrator (email)
Monday, 22 April, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker: Professor Ashley Moffett (Division of Immunology, University of Cambridge)
Title: Do NK cells have a role in the success of human pregnancy?
Host: Professor Mala Maini (email)
Venue: Pearson LT, Pearson Building
Tuesday, 23 April, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker: Miss Michelle Cairns (HPA, Royal London Hospital and LSHTM)
Title: MPhil/PhD Transfer: Clostridium
difficile: disease severity and evolving clones.
Group leader: Professor Tim McHugh (email)
Venue: Gavin de Beer LT, Anatomy Building
Thursday, 25 April, 1pm, Royal Free
Speaker: Dr Gavin Bendle, University of Birmingham
Title: Advancing the development of adoptive immunotherapy of cancer.
Venue: LT1, Royal Free Hospital
Monday, 29 April, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker: Dr Michelle West (University of Sussex)
Title: Looping
the loop with Epstein-Barr virus: epigenetic reprogramming through the control
of chromatin architecture
Host: Professor Robin Weiss (email)
Venue: Pearson LT, Pearson Building
Tuesday, 30 April, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker 1: Ms Nan-Yu Chen (Wohl Virion Centre)
Title: MPhil/PhD Transfer: Investigating host factors in early HIV-1 infection that affect uncoating.
Group leader: Dr A Fassati (email)
Speaker 2: Mr James Heather (Department of Infection)
Title: MPhil/PhD Transfer: Deep
Sequencing the T-Cell Receptor Repertoire.
Group leader: Professor Benny Chain (email)
Venue: Pearson LT, Pearson
May 2013
Tuesday, 7 May, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker: Dr Nilu Goonetilleke (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)
Title: CD8 T cell studies in acute HIV-1 infection.
Host: Dr Ravi Gupta (email)
Venue: Pearson LT, Pearson Building
Thursday, 9 May, 12.45pm, Bloomsbury
BRI Seminar
Speaker: Dr Ari Fassati (Wohl Virion Centre)
Title: Screening for cellular partners in the HIV-1 life cycle.
Host: Professor John Kelly (email)
Venue: Manson LT, LSHTM, Keppel St
Thursday, 9 May, 5pm, Bloomsbury
POSTGRADUATE CLUB
Speaker: Professor Anthony Segal, Charles Dent Professor of Medicine, UCL Division of Medicine
Title: Handling suspected scientific fraud in the lab.
Time: 5pm (refreshments from 4.45pm)
Venue: UCL Wilkins Building Haldane Room
Please RSVP to lauren.collins@ucl.ac.uk by Thursday 2 May.
Monday, 13 May, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker: Dr Alexander Drakesmith (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)
Title: to be confirmed
Host: Professor Benny Chain (email)
Venue: Pearson LT, Pearson Building
Tuesday, 14 May, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker 1: Miss Laura Pallett (Department of Immunology)
Title: MPhil/PhD Transfer Seminar: title to be confirmed.
Group Leader: Professor Mala Maini (email)
Speaker 2: Dr Yasu Takeuchi (Wohl Virion Centre)
Title: Long-term effects following xenotransplantation: antibodies against xeno(auto) sugar antigens.
Venue: Pearson LT, Pearson Building
Thursday, 16 May, 4pm, Bloomsbury
VIRTUAL VIROLOGY
Host: Prof Aine McKnight (The Blizard Institute, Barts and the London Medical School,Queen Mary University of London)
Speaker 1: Dr Richard Sloan: The influence of IFITMs on HIV replication
Speaker 2: Dr Kelly Marno: RNA-associated Early-stage Anti-viral Factor (REAF) inhibits human and simian immunodeficiency viruses
Speaker 3: Ms Ana Guerrero-Alonso: Activity of the anti-viral RNA polymerase II associated factor 1 complex PAF1c
Venue: B05,Chadwick Building
Monday, 20 May, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker: Professor Robert Read (Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton)
Title: to be confirmed
Host: Dr Mahdad Noursadeghi (email)
Venue: Gavin de Beer LT, Anatomy Building
Tuesday, 21 May, Bloomsbury
To be confirmed.
Tuesday, 28 May, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker: Miss Geordia McDonald (Division of Medicine)
Title: MPhil/PhD Transfer Seminar: title to be confirmed
Group Leader: Dr L Jury (email)
Venue: Pearson LT, Pearson Building
June 2013
Monday, 3 June, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker: Dr Darius Armstrong-James (Fungal Disease Immunobiology, Imperial College London)
Title: to be confirmed
Host: Dr Mahdad Noursadeghi (email)
Venue: Pearson LT, Pearson Building
Tuesday, 4 June, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker: Professor Robin May (Institute of Microbiology & Infection and the School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham)
Title: Host-pathogen interactions during invasive fungal infections.
Host: Dr Mahdad Noursadeghi (email)
Venue: Pearson LT, Pearson Building
Monday, 10 June, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker: Dr Julia Garcia Prado (IrsiCaixa Institute for AIDS Research)
Title: HIV vs Houdini: in the search of the best escapologist
Host: Professor Greg Towers (email)
Venue: Pearson LT, Pearson Building
Tuesday, 11 June, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker: Dr Nicholas E Peters (Imperial College London)
Title: New lessons from Vaccinia virus - DNA sensing and Hypoxia.
Group Leader: Professor G L Smith
Venue: Pearson LT, Pearson Building
Monday, 17 June, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker: Dr Menna Clatworthy (Cambridge Immunology Network, University of Cambridge)
Title: Antibodies shape immune highways and DC trafficking.
Host: Professor Arne Akbar (email)
Venue: Pearson LT, Pearson Building
Tuesday 18 June, 1pm, Bloomsbury
to be confirmed
Monday, 24 June, 1pm, Bloomsbury
BRI Seminar
Speaker: Professor Polly Roy (LSHTM)
Title: to be confirmed
Host: Professor Deenan Pillay (email)
Venue: Pearson LT, Pearson Building
Tuesday 25 June, 1pm, Bloomsbury
to be confirmed
July 2013
Monday, 1 July, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker: Dr Tao Dong (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)
Title: to be confirmed
Host: Professor Mala Maini (email)
Venue: Pearson LT, Pearson Building
Tuesday, 2 July, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker 1: Dr Choon Ping Tan (Department of Infection)
Title: Intercellular neutralisation activity of TRIM21.
Speaker 2: Dr Jane Rasaiyaah (Department of Infection)
Title: to be confirmed
Group Leader: Professor Greg Towers (email)
Venue: Pearson LT, Pearson Building
Monday, 8 July, 1pm, Bloomsbury
Speaker: Dr Katja Simon (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)
Title: to be confirmed
Host: Professor Mala Maini (email)
Venue: Pearson LT, Pearson Building
Virtual Virology
Thursday, 16 May, 4pm, Bloomsbury
Host: Prof Aine McKnight (The Blizard Institute, Barts and the London Medical School,Queen Mary University of London)
Speaker 1: Dr Richard Sloan: The influence of IFITMs on HIV replication
Speaker 2: Dr Kelly Marno: RNA-associated Early-stage Anti-viral Factor (REAF) inhibits human and simian immunodeficiency viruses
Speaker 3: Ms Ana Guerrero-Alonso: Activity of the anti-viral RNA polymerase II associated factor 1 complex PAF1c
Venue: B05,Chadwick Building
Thursday, 21 February, 4pm, Bloomsbury
Host: Dr Marek Slomka, Virology Department, Animal Health & Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Weybridge
Speakers:
Dr Wendy Howard: Evolutionary dynamics of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in Romania;
Dr Scott Reid: Detection of Infectious Bronchitis Virus (QX strains) in poultry flocks in the United Kingdom; and
Dr Marek Slomka:
Investigation of cross-species transmission of a water-fowl isolate of
H5N2 low pathogenicity avian influenza virus from infected ducks to
chickens and turkeys.
Venue: B05 LT, Chadwick Building (The Chadwick
Building can be accessed through the main UCL entrance on Gower Street,
WC1E 6B - security will be able to direct you further.)
Thursday 18 October, 4pm, Bloomsbury
Host: Dr Polly Roy - Department of Infectious & Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Speaker: Dr Cristina Celma
Title: Infectious Bluetongue virus from synthetic transcripts and replication-deficient BTV vaccine
Speaker: Dr Meredith Stewart
Title: Structure-based mutations in Bluetongue virus multi-catalytic capping protein VP4 and their impacts in virus replication
Speaker: Dr Priya Bhattacharya
Title: Cellular phosphoinositides influences Bluetongue virus trafficking and maturation via a non-structural viral protein
Venue: JZ Young LT, Anatomy Building, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT
Thursday, 19 July, 4pm, Bloomsbury
VIRTUAL VIROLOGY: The many faces of Enteroviruses
Hosts: Dr William Tong - Department of Infectious Diseases and Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostic Research (CIDR) and
Professor Mark Peakman - Department of Immunobiology, King’s College London School of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Ina Lauinger, Dept of Infectious Diseases and CIDR, KCL
Title: Rhinoviruses – more than just a cold
Speaker: Dr Jon Bible, GSTS Pathology
Title: Human enterovirus 68 – an evolving and emerging pathogen?
Speakers: Mr Martin Eichmann and Mr Robin Knight, Dept of Immunobiology, KCL
Title: Studies on Enteroviruses and Type 1 diabetes
Venue: Gavin De Beer LT, Anatomy Building, Gower Street
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
Past Speakers (External to Division)
Academic Session 2012/13
17 September
Dr Katrina Pollock, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Title: HIV and TB: dual pandemics, dual impact on T-cell immunity.
24 September
Professor Rose Zamoyska, Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh
Title: Why do immune responses turn bad? Genetic influences that predispose to autoimmunity.
1 October
Dr David Horn, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Title: RNAi libraries for high throughput phenotyping and drug resistance screening in the African trypanosome.
8 October
Dr Lindsay Nicholson, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol
Title: Target organ modulation of autoimmune disease.
11 October
Dr Jessica Strid, Imperial College London
Title: The lymphoid stress-surveillance response: might we be allergic to cancer?
15 October
Professor Ziad Mallat, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Cambridge
Title: Targeting B Cell Responses in cardiovascular disease.
22 October
Dr Kevin Bryson, Bioinformatics Group, Dept of Computer Science, UCL
Title: Systems biology modelling of streptococcus quorum sensing – from atomic level to population level modelling.
25 October
Dr Lucy Dorrell, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford
Title: Effective immune control of HIV - lessons from the 99%.
29 October
Dr Becca Asquith, Dept of Medicine, Imperial College London
Title: The efficiency of the CD8+ T cell response to persistent viral infection: mathematical insights into immune function.
5 November
Dr Joe Jarvis, Hospital for Tropical Diseases/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Title: Novel strategies for treatment and prevention of HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis.
8 November
Professor Tim Elliott, University of Southampton
Title: The importance od MHC protein dynamics for antigen presenting function.
12 November
Dr Henry A F Stephens, Consultant Clinical Scientist and Honorary Senior Lecturer UCL Centre for Nephrology and the Anthony Nolan Laboratories Royal Free London NHS Foundation
19 November
Professor Paul Klenerman, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, University of Oxford
Title: Liver-loving T Cells
22 November
Dr Matt Reeves, University of Cambridge
Title:Human cytomegalovirus latency and reactivation: Exploiting a successful exit strategy.
26 November
Professor Helen McShane, Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
Title: Global progress in TB vaccine development.
6 December
Professor Philip Taylor, Cardiff Institute of Infection & Immunity
Title: Macrophage heterogeneity and renewal during inflammation.
6 December
Professor David Mosser, University of Maryland
Title: Macrophage heterogeneity in infectious and inflammatory diseases.
10 December
Dr Ben Killingley, University of Nottingham
Title: Influenza transmission - a challenging subject.
Academic Session 2011/12
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 2013 programme
Organizer: Isabel Lubeiro - Tuesday Internal Speaker programme (Bloomsbury campus)
Tuesdays at 1pm-2pm, Summer term 2013 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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