Centre for Inflammation Research

Research in progress Aug - Dec 2018

Latest talks by staff and students in the CIR

These talks take place in the Wellcome Auditorium at 4pm and are not open to the general public.

Date Speaker Group                      Title
31st August 2018

Holly Rocliffe

Utsa Karmakar

Jenna Cash

Sonja Vermeren

‘Harnessing anti-inflammatory and pro-resolving pathways to drive healing of acute and chronic skin wounds’

'Characterising pro-resolution properties of insoluble immune complex-induced neutrophil apoptosis’

7th September 2018 NO RIP    
14th September 2018

Omar Salem

Magdalena Oremek

Carsten Hansen

Adriano Rossi

‘The Hippo pathway and Prostate Cancer’

‘Cellular and mechanistic processes linking inflammation and tissue repair’

21st September 2018 NO RIP    
28th September 2018 Marc Vendrell Marc Vendrell

‘Translational chemistry and optical imaging’

5th October 2018 Jillian Stephen Adriano Rossi 'Neutrophil swarming and extracellular trap formation play a significant role in alum adjuvant activity'
12th October 2018

Victoria Banwell

Katie Connor

Lorna Marson

Lorna Marson

‘The role of miR-214 in renal ischaemia reperfusion injury and fibrosis’

‘MicroRNAs predict and Regulate Heme Oxygenase-1 Expression in Renal Transplantation’

19th October 2018 NO RIP    
26th October 2018

Sheonagh Law

Sam Benson

Robert Gray

Marc Vendrell

‘The Dysfunctional Innate Immune System of Cystic Fibrosis Lung Disease’

‘The Development of Novel Theranostic Probes for Cervical Cancer’

2nd November 2018

Philip Emanuel

Dominic Norberg

Kev Dhaliwal

Kev Dhaliwal

‘Visualising Alveolar Epithelial Senescence in Injury and Repair’

‘Improving an endomicroscopy device to image pulmonary microcirculation and alveolar structures’

9th November 2018

Giulia Rinaldi

Valentina Rausch

Adriano Rossi

Carsten Hansen

‘Optimisation of a novel flow cytometry assay for the efficient detention and quantification of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs)’

‘The Hippo Pathway and mechanotransduction’

16th November 2018 Siobhan Crittenden Chengcan Yao 'Regulation of Intestinal Regulatory T cells by Prostaglandin E2'
23rd November 2018

Jonathan Gillan

Joana Long

Robert Gray

Kev Dhaliwal

'Investigating the Role of Macrophages in Cystic Fibrosis Lung Inflammation'

'Optically sensing Tuberculosis in Sputum'

30th November 2018

Melina Michael

Eilise Ryan

Sonja Vermeren

Sarah Walmsley

'Analysis of PI3K dependent Control of Immunosenescence in the neutrophil'

‘Mechanisms to reverse impaired macrophage function in COPD’

7th December 2018 Lisa Kelly Yi Feng

'Investigating Metabolic Reprogramming During Tumour Initiation'