IIT External Speaker Seminar Series - 12th September
12 September 2024, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Hanh Gurr
Location
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207Pears BuildingRowland Hill StLondonNW3 2PP
This iteration of the IIT External Speaker Seminar series will be hosted by George Finney and Laura Pallett, who will welcome Prof Paul Klenerman of the University of Oxford. His seminar, "Killing with Kindness: diverse functions of innate-like T cells" will take place on Thursday, 12th September in Room 207 in the Pears Building.
12pm: Seminar
1pm: Lunch with trainees
5pm: Drinks reception
Please register your interest for lunch here by 5pm on Wednesday, 11th September.
Bio
Paul Klenerman trained in medicine at Cambridge and Oxford and specialised in infectious diseases. He has been funded mainly by the Wellcome Trust, initially working on HIV with Andrew McMichael and Rodney Phillips, then with Rolf Zinkernagel and Hans Hengartner in Zurich on LCMV and returning to Oxford to set up studies on T cells in chronic infections such as HCV and CMV. His group have worked on vaccines, especially adenoviral vector vaccines and the types of memory induced, including memory inflation. He currently has studies looking at unconventional T cells such as MAIT cells in infectious diseases and cancer funded by Wellcome and CRUK.
@PKlenermanLab
1:1 Meetings
Please contact hosts George Finney (g.finney@ucl.ac.uk) and Laura Pallett (laura.pallett@ucl.ac.uk) to organise a one-to-one meeting with Prof. Klenerman.