Seminars
A list of webinars of relevance to researchers in infectious diseases. Joining links will be updated as they are made available.
Institute of Evolutionary Biology seminar series: Topic - Evolution and diversification of morphological traits
When: Wednesday 26 January 2022
Time: 2 pm
Online: Online via Zoom; Passcode: IEBSem21
Speaker: Emília Santos, University of Cambridge
Host: Susan Johnston
Inst. Immunology and Infection Research seminar: MicroRNA-23/27/24 clusters control T cell and Macrophage-driven tissue inflammation
When: Thursday 27 January 2022
Tme: 1 pm
Where: Online via zoom, Passcode: pD33kYbD
Speaker: Prof. Heather Pua, Vanderbilt
Host: Amy Buck
Cell and Molecular Biology Wednesday Lunch-time Seminar Series - Quantitative Mass Spectrometry Reveals a Proteome-wide Role for Cyclin A and Cks1 in Multisite, Non-Proline Directed Phosphorylation by CDK1 & Molecular insights into chromosome alignment and segregation
When: Wednesday 2 February 2022
Time: 12 pm
Online: Online via Blackboard Collaborate
Speakers: Aymen Al-Rawi Al-Rawi (PhD student, Earnshaw, ICB) and Julie Welburn (ICB)
Host: Sander Granneman
IEB Wednesday seminar series
When: Wednesday 2 February 2022
Time: 2 pm
Online:Online via Zoom; Passcode: IEBSem21
Speaker: Will Ratcliff, Georgia Tech
Host: Luke McNally
The Edinburgh AMR Forum seminar series - Antimicrobial stewardship and Covid-19
When: Wednesday 2 February 2022
Time: 4 pm
Online: Online via Zoom. Passcode: SwU01wXW
Speaker: Clark Russell, Centre for Inflammation Research
Host: The Edinburgh AMR Forum
CMVM Research Insights: Science after Dolly – gene editing and ethics
When: Wednesday 2 February 2022
Time: 4.30 – 5.15pm
Where: On Zoom - book now
Speakers: Christine Tait-Burkard (Roslin Institute) and Sarah Chan (Usher Institute)
The Edinburgh Immunology Group Seminar Series: Adapting concepts of vaccination to work with the intestinal ecosystem
When: Thursday 3 February 2022
Time: 2 pm
Where: Online via Zoom. Passcode: b8tDTbh2
Speaker: Emma Slack (ETH Zürich)
The Edinburgh AMR Forum seminar series - Antimicrobial Use (AMU) and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in pathogens and its diagnostics in shrimp aquaculture settings
When: Wednesday 9 February 2022
Time: 12 pm
Online: Online via Zoom. Passcode: SwU01wXW
Speaker: EXTERNAL SPEAKER: Gopalan Krishnan Sivaraman, ICAR- Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin, India
Host: The Edinburgh AMR Forum
IEB Wednesday seminar series - Evolutionary ecology and climate change in a wild bird population
When: Wednesday 9 February 2022
Time: 2 pm
Online: Online via Zoom; Passcode: IEBSem21
Speaker: Loeske Kruuk, University of Edinburgh
Host: Josephine Pemberton
The Edinburgh Immunology Group Seminar Series
When: Thursday 10 February 2022
Time: 2 pm
Where: In person TBC
Speaker: Toby Lawrence (King's College London)
Infection Medicine Seminar Series
When: Monday 14 Feburary 2022
Time: 12 pm
Online: Online via Blackboard Collaborate - link will follow
Speaker: Holger Schulze, Senior Research Fellow, Bachmann Lab, Infection Medicine
Host:Till Bachmann
Cell and Molecular Biology Wednesday Lunch-time Seminar Series - Mitochondrial dysfunction leads to distinct defects in meiotic chromatin arrangements & Cell polarization by microtubule transport.
When: Wednesday 16 February 2022
Time: 12 pm
Online: Online via Blackboard Collaborate
Speakers: Karen Julia Nieken (PhD student, Ohkura, ICB) & Andrew Goryachev (ICB)
Host: Sander Granneman
The Edinburgh AMR Forum seminar series
When: Wednesday 16 February 2022
Time: 4 pm
Online: Online via Zoom. Passcode: SwU01wXW
Speaker: Helen Alexander, School of Biological Sciences.
Host: The Edinburgh AMR Forum
Kings Buildings 101 Celebrations: The Coming Century of Biology – Growing a way to sustainability
When: Friday 25 February 2022
Time: 10.10 am
Where: Online - platform to be confirmed
Speaker: Prof Andrew Millar, Chair of Systems Biology, School of Biological Sicences, University of Edinburgh
More info: College Centenary Lecture Series
Cell and Molecular Biology Wednesday Lunch-time Seminar Series - Phospho-proteomics of the meiotic divisions & TBC
When: Wednesday 2 March 2022
Time: 12 pm
Online: Online via Blackboard Collaborate
Speakers: Lori Koch (Marston, ICB) and Javier Alfaro (Informatics/proteogenomics)
Host: Sander Granneman
The Edinburgh AMR Forum seminar series - Surveillance of AMR in Uganda, Malawi and Kenya
When: Wednesday 2 March 2022
Time: 4 pm
Online: Online via Zoom. Passcode: SwU01wXW
Speaker: Adrian Muwonge, The Roslin Institute
Host: The Edinburgh AMR Forum
Cell and Molecular Biology Wednesday Lunch-time Seminar Series - Molecular Mechanisms that Shape Neural Networks
When: Wednesday 16 March 2022
Time: 12 pm
Online: Online via Blackboard Collaborate
Speaker: Dhanya Cheerambathur (ICB)
Host: Sander Granneman
The Edinburgh AMR Forum seminar series - Single cell heterogeneity in E. coli response to DNA damaging antibiotics
When: Wednesday 16 March 2022
Time: 4 pm
Online: Online via Zoom. Passcode: SwU01wXW
Speaker: Meriem El Karoui , The School of Biological Sciences.
Host: The Edinburgh AMR Forum
Cell and Molecular Biology Wednesday Lunch-time Seminar Series
When: Wednesday 30 March 2022
Time: 12 pm
Online: Online via Blackboard Collaborate
Speakers: Stefan Bresson (Tollervey, ICB) and Chris Sibley (IQB3)
Host: Sander Granneman
The Edinburgh AMR Forum seminar series
When: Wednesday 30 March 2022
Time: 4 pm
Online: Online via Zoom. Passcode: SwU01wXW
Speaker: José Vazquez Boland, Infection Medicine
Host: The Edinburgh AMR Forum
The Edinburgh AMR Forum seminar series - Genomics of AMR: From isolates to microbiomes
When: Wednesday 20 April 2022
Time: 4 pm
Online: Online via Zoom. Passcode: SwU01wXW
Speaker: Bryan Wee, Usher Institute
Host: The Edinburgh AMR Forum
The Edinburgh AMR Forum seminar series
When: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Time: 4 pm
Online: Online via Zoom. Passcode: SwU01wXW
Speaker: Sander Granneman, School of Biological Sciences
Host: The Edinburgh AMR Forum
POSTPONED - Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series (HYBRID Seminar) - Patterning the cytoplasm during asymmetric cell division
When: TBC
Time: TBC
In person location: Daniel Rutherford LT1, G27 – MAX CAPACITY 50 - STRICT SIGN-UP IN PLACE PLEASE ONLY SIGN-UP IF YOU CAN DEFINITELY ATTEND IN PERSON.
Online: Online via Blackboard Collaborate
Speaker: Erik Griffin, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth (currently on sabbatical in ICB, SBS)
Host: Dhanya Cheerambathur
Monday Seminar Series - Cell-to-Cell Heterogeneity and Methods for Quantification and Control
When: Postponed
Time: TBC
In person location: Daniel Rutherford LT1, G27 - MAX ATTENDANCE 50 - STRICT SIGN-UP IN PLACE AND WILL BE RELEASED ON THE MORNING OF THE SEMINAR TO AVOID PEOPLE SIGNING UP IN ADVANCE AND NOT ATTENDING. PLEASE ONLY SIGN-UP IF YOU CAN DEFINITELY ATTEND IN PERSON.
Online: email Louise Bishop for joining link
Speaker: Mary Dunlop - Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University (currently on sab at Imperial)
Host: Diego Oyarzun