IIT external seminar: Professor Charles Bangham

The Next IIT external seminar is on the 1^st of December - face to face at the Pears, plus virtually via Teams. 

Professor Charles Bangham from Imperial College London, is speaking on Thursday, 1^st of December at midday at the IIT external seminar series in the Pears building. All are welcome, details below: 

Title: “Human T cell leukaemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1): how does it persist in vivo?” 

Date: Thursday 1^st of December 2022  

Speaker: Professor Charles Bangham. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London.

Host: Steve Ley 

Location: Pears building Seminar room 207 plus virtual over teams

Time: 12:00 Seminar

13:00  lunch meeting with PhD students/postdocs/technicians 

14:00 meeting with PIs (please arrange via Steve Ley/Hanh)

17:00 drinks reception

Summary of the Speaker’s work: 

Charles Bangham qualified in medical sciences at the University of Cambridge and in clinical medicine at the University of Oxford.  He worked as a hospital physician for three years, followed by a PhD in viral immunology at the National Institute for Medical Research and the University of Oxford.  In 1995 he was appointed to the Chair of Immunology in Imperial College. In 2019 he founded the Institute of Infection in Imperial College.  His research is on the immunology and virology of persistent viral infections, especially HTLV-1.  Charles was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2019.

One-on-one meetings with the speaker can be organised via Steve Ley/Hanh (h.gurr@ucl.ac.uk).

Please contact Hanh Gurr (h.gurr@ucl.ac.uk) if you would like to join the seminar remotely (if the link does not work).  

PhD students and post-docs are encouraged to attend the lunch with the speaker following the seminar, please email Hanh (h.gurr@ucl.ac.uk) if you would like to attend.