Seminars
A list of seminars of relevance to researchers in infectious diseases.
CMVM Public Lecture Series: Poor air quality
When: Wednesday 20 February 2019
Time: 5.30 pm
Where: Queen's Medical Research Institute (QMRI), Wellcome Auditorium, 47 Little France Crescent, EH16 4TJ
Speaker: Tom Russ (Clinical Brain Sciences) & Mark Miller (University/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Research)
Booking: To register to attend please click here
SynthSys Seminar series: Understanding how bacterial filamentation could speed up microbial evolution
When: Thursday 21 February 2019
Time: 12 pm
Where: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, Kings Buildings
Speaker: Julia Bos , Dept of Genomes and Genetics, Institut Pasteur
Host: Teuta Pilizota (Teuta.Pilizota@ed.ac.uk)
Research Support Office GCRF workshop: Food Systems
When: Thursday 21 February 2019
Time: 12 pm
Where: Room 1.28, Alexander Robertson Building, Easter Bush
About: This session will support two forthcoming calls on the subject of Food Systems, including a combined food systems approach to developing interventions to address the double burden of malnutrition.
Centre for Inflammation Research seminar: Uncovering new roles for LXR: focus on lipid metabolism in autoimmunity
When: Friday 22 February 2019
Time: 12 pm
Where: Queen's Medical Research Institute (QMRI), Wellcome Auditorium, 47 Little France Crescent, EH16 4TJ
Speaker: Ines Pineda Torra, Department of Metabolism & Experimental Therapeutics, University College London
Host: Douglas Gibson
Cell and Molecular Biology Monday seminar: Quality control - how the SCHENGEN receptor pathway is testing root barrier integrity
When: Monday 25 February 2019
Time: 12.15 pm
Where: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27 Lecture Theatre, The King's Building's, Edinburgh
Speaker: Niko Geldner - Department of Plant Molecular Biology (DBMV), Université de Lausanne
Host: Peter Doerner
Edinburgh Virus Group Seminar: Human Cytomegalovirus - the balance between immune evasion & immune control during lytic & latent infection
When: Monday 25 February 2019
Time: 3.30 pm
Where: The Roslin Institute basement or ground floor seminar rooms
Speaker: Mark Wills, University of Cambridge
Host: Abraham Lee
Wednesday Lunch-time Seminar Series: Start codon choice regulates alternative protein localization in diverse fungi
When: Wednesday 27 February 2019
Time: 12.30 pm
Where: Michael Swann Building, 7.15, The King's Buildings.
Speaker: Edward Wallace (ICB), University of Edinburgh
Host: tbc
Easter Bush Research Consortium Seminar
Centre for Inflammation Research seminar: Innate Rhythms, The role of the molecular clock in controlling inflammation and metabolism in innate immunity
When: Friday 1 March 2019
Time: 12 pm
Where: Queen's Medical Research Institute (QMRI), Wellcome Auditorium, 47 Little France Crescent, EH16 4TJ
Speaker: Annie Curtis, Research Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Host: Sarah Walmsley
Cell and Molecular Biology Monday seminar: Sumoylation regulates protein dynamics during chromosome segregation in oocytes
When: Monday 4 March 2019
Time: 12.15 pm
Where: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27 Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Federico Pelisch, University of Dundee
Host: Dhanya Cheerambathur
Wednesday Lunch-time Seminar Series
When: Wednesday 6 March 2019
Time: 12.30 pm
Where: Michael Swann Building, 7.15, The King's Buildings.
Speaker: Adrian Bird (ICB), University of Edinburgh
Host: tbc
Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar: Major transitions in the mating behaviour of plants
When: Wednesday 6 March 2019
Time: 2 pm
Where: Ashworth Labs, Lecture Theatre 3
Speaker: John Pannell, Lausanne
Host: Jonathan Silvertown
Cell and Molecular Biology Monday seminar
When: Monday 11 March 2019
Time: 12.15 pm
Where: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27 Lecture Theatre, The King's Building's, Edinburgh
Host: Julie Welburn
MRC Centre for Reproductive Health Seminar
When: Monday 11 March 2019
Time: 12.30 pm
Where: Queen's Medical Research Institute (QMRI), Wellcome Auditorium, 47 Little France Crescent, EH16 4TJ
Speaker: Nicolas C Rivron, Maastricht University
Host: Chih-Jen (Lance) Lin
Edinburgh Virus Group Seminar: Development of rationally attenuated vaccines against avian coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus
When: Monday 11 March 2019
Time: 3.30 pm
Where: The Roslin Institute basement or ground floor seminar rooms
Speaker: Erica Bickerton, Pirbright Institute
Host: Susi Keane
Wednesday Lunch-time Seminar Series
When: Wednesday 13 March 2019
Time: 12.30 pm
Where: Michael Swann Building, 7.15, The King's Buildings.
Speaker: Maarten Tuijtel (Cook - IQB3), University of Edinburgh
Host: tbc
Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar
When: Wednesday 13 March 2019
Time: 2 pm
Where: Ashworth Labs, Lecture Theatre 3
Speaker: Greta Bocedi, Aberbeen
Host: Per Smiseth
Centre for Inflammation Research seminar
When: Friday 15 March 2019
Time: 12 pm
Where: Queen's Medical Research Institute (QMRI), Wellcome Auditorium, 47 Little France Crescent, EH16 4TJ
Speaker: Liam O’Mahony, Department of Medicine and Microbiology, University College Cork
Host: Jurgen Schwarze
Guest SynthSys Seminar Series
When: Friday 15 March 2019
Time: 12 pm
Where: Michael Swann Building, 7.20, The King's Buildings.
Speaker: Vasili Hauryliuk, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Sweden
Topic: Ribosome-associated factors involved in stress responses and antibiotic resistance
Host: Sander Granneman
Division of Infection & Pathway Medicine Seminar
When: Monday 18 March 2019
Time: 12 pm
Where: Seminar Room 4, Chancellor's Building, 49 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Andrew Free, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh
Host: Thamarai Schneiders
Wednesday Lunch-time Seminar Series: Human Synthetic Artificial Chromosomes and the Meaning of Life
When: Wednesday 20 March 2019
Time: 12.30 pm
Where: Michael Swann Building, 7.15, The King's Buildings.
Speaker: Bill Earnshaw (ICB), University of Edinburgh
Host: tbc
Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar
When: Wednesday 20 March 2019
Time: 2 pm
Where: Ashworth Labs, Lecture Theatre 3
Speaker: Ellie Harrison, Sheffield
Host: Luke McNally & Deirdre McClean
CMVM Public Lecture Series: Know your enemy: unlocking the secrets of the tumour genome
When: Wednesday 20 March 2019
Time: 5.30 pm
Where: Queen's Medical Research Institute (QMRI), Wellcome Auditorium, 47 Little France Crescent, EH16 4TJ
Speaker: Charlie Gourley & Nicola Murray (Ovarian Cancer Research) & Colin Semple (Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine)
Booking: To register to attend please click here
Edinburgh Virus Group Seminar: Epigenetic regulation of differentiation-dependent HPV gene expression
When: Monday 25 March 2019
Time: 3.30 pm
Where: The Roslin Institute basement or ground floor seminar rooms
Speaker: Jo Parish, University of Birmingham
Host: Inga Dry
Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar
When: Wednesday 27 March 2019
Time: 2 pm
Where: Ashworth Labs, Lecture Theatre 3
Speaker: Reto Burri, Jena
Host: Deborah Charlesworth
Centre for Inflammation Research seminar
When: Friday 29 March 2019
Time: 12 pm
Where: Queen's Medical Research Institute (QMRI), Wellcome Auditorium, 47 Little France Crescent, EH16 4TJ
Speaker: William Agace, Mucosal Immunology, Lund University
Host: Gwo-Tzer Ho
Division of Infection & Pathway Medicine Seminar
When: Monday 1 April 2019
Time: 12 pm
Where: Seminar Room 5, Chancellor's Building, 49 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Charlotte Henson, PhD student, DIPM, University of Edinburgh
Host: Peter Ghazal
Institute of Evolutionary Biology
When: Wednesday 3 April 2019
Time: 2 pm
Where: Ashworth Labs, Lecture Theatre 3
Speaker: Stuart Campbell, University of Sheffield
Host: Matthew Hartfield
Division of Infection & Pathway Medicine Seminar
When: Monday 29th April 2019
Time: 12 pm
Where: Seminar Room 5, Chancellor's Building, 49 Little France Crescent
Host: Gracjan Michlewski
Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar
When: Wednesday 8 May 2019
Time: 2 pm
Where: Ashworth Labs, Lecture Theatre 3
Speaker: Ben Ashby, University of Bath
Host: Eryn McFarlane
MRC Centre for Reproductive Health Seminar
When: Monday 13 May 2019
Time: 12.30 pm
Where: Queen's Medical Research Institute (QMRI), Wellcome Auditorium, 47 Little France Crescent, EH16 4TJ
Speaker: Christophe Arnoult, University Grenoble Alpes
Host: Chih-Jen (Lance) Lin
Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar
When: Wednesday 15 May 2019
Time: 2 pm
Where: Ashworth Labs, Lecture Theatre 3
Speaker: John Skelhorn , Newcastle University
Host: Per Smiseth
Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar
When: Wednesday 22 May 2019
Time: 2 pm
Where: Ashworth Labs, Lecture Theatre 3
Speaker: Josh Firth, Oxford
Host: Dan Nussey
Division of Infection & Pathway Medicine Seminar
When: Tuesday 28 May 2019
Time: 12 pm
Where: Seminar Room 6, Chancellor's Building, 49 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Adam Fletcher, Postdoctoral Research Assistant, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
Host: Richard Sloan
Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar
When: Wednesday 29 May 2019
Time: 2 pm
Where: Ashworth Labs, Lecture Theatre 3
Speaker: Marlene Zuk, University of Minnesota
Host: Sarah Reece and Mary Westwood
MRC Centre for Reproductive Health Seminar
When: Monday 3 June 2019
Time: 12.30 pm
Where: Queen's Medical Research Institute (QMRI), Wellcome Auditorium, 47 Little France Crescent, EH16 4TJ
Speaker: Carlos Simón
Host: Jeff Pollard
Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar
When: Wednesday 5 June 2019
Time: 2 pm
Where: Ashworth Labs, Lecture Theatre 3
Speaker: Joana Meier, University of Cambridge
Host: Deborah Charlesworth
Division of Infection & Pathway Medicine Seminar
When: Monday 10 June 2019
Time: 12 pm
Where: Seminar Room 4, Chancellor's Building, 49 Little France Crescent
Speaker: Nicola Holden, Cell & Molecular Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Dundee
Host: Thamarai Schneiders
MRC Centre for Reproductive Health Seminar
When: Monday 10 June 2019
Time: 12.30 pm
Where: Queen's Medical Research Institute (QMRI), Wellcome Auditorium, 47 Little France Crescent, EH16 4TJ
Speaker: Eric Asselin, University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres
Host: Erin Greaves
MRC Centre for Reproductive Health Seminar
When: Monday 17 June 2019
Time: 12.30 pm
Where: Queen's Medical Research Institute (QMRI), Wellcome Auditorium, 47 Little France Crescent, EH16 4TJ
Speaker: Virginia Pascual, Weill Cornell MedicineGale and Ira Drukier Institute for Children's Health
Host: Jeff Pollard
MRC Centre for Reproductive Health Seminar
When: Monday 24 June 2019
Time: 12.30 pm
Where: Queen's Medical Research Institute (QMRI), Wellcome Auditorium, 47 Little France Crescent, EH16 4TJ
Speaker: Julio Aguirre-ghiso, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Host: Jeff Pollard