Seminar series Sept-Dec 2017
Invited speakers
This seminar series takes place on a Friday at 12 noon (unless otherwise stated) in the Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI and is not open to the general public.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|
15 September 2017 |
Dr Daniela Ferreira Mucosal Infection and Vaccinology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine |
Controlled human infection with pneumococcus: what have we learned so far? | Professor Debby Bogaert |
| 29 September 2017 |
Professor Sejal Saglani Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College London |
Mechanisms mediating severe asthma in children: the role of innate lymphoid cells |
Dr Henry McSorley |
| 6 October 2017 |
Dr Kenneth Baillie Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh |
Post-GWAS: routes from genomic variant to pathogenesis of disease | Dr Rodger Duffin |
| 13 October 2017 |
Dr Suzanne Cohen Principal Scientist, MedImmune Ltd |
Epithelial cytokines in respiratory disease | Dr Henry McSorley |
| 27 October 2017 |
Professor Robert Insall Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, University of Glasgow |
Self-generated gradients - a new paradigm for chemotactic steering, and why immunologists need to know about it |
Dr Sonja Vermeren |
| 3 November 2017 |
Dr Dawn Bowdish Associate Professor, McMaster University |
Age-associated inflammation and microbial dysbiosis impair macrophage function | Dr Donald Davidson |
| 15 November 2017 |
Dr Esther Heideveld Sanquin Research and Landsteiner Laboratory, Amsterdam |
The role of macrophages in erythropoiesis | Professor Elaine Dzierzak |
|
Wed 22 November 2017 (10 am Chancellors Building, Auditorium A) |
Professor Kun-Liang Guan Department of Pharmacology and Moores Cancer Center, UCSD |
The Hippo pathway in cell growth, tissue homeostasis, and cancer |
Dr Carsten Hansen |
|
1 December 2017 |
Professor Jane Davies Department of Gene Therapy, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London |
TBC |
Dr Robert Gray |
Organiser: Sonia Rafferty (sonia.rafferty@ed.ac.uk)