Seminar series Aug - Dec 2018
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 |
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24th August 2018
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Professor David Naor, The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, The Hebrew University – Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem |
'5-MER peptide , targeting amyloid proteins , inhibits mouse models of inflammatory (RA , MS, IBD) and neurodegenerative (Alzheimer’s) diseases, sharing these pathological amyloids' |
Professor Giles Hardingham |
| 31st August 2018 | Dr Amiram Ariel, The Laboratory for Molecular Pathways in the Resolution of Inflammation, University of Haifa, Israel |
‘New cellular and molecular effectors in macrophage-mediated resolution of inflammation’ |
Professor Adriano Rossi |
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7th Sept 2018 13:15 Chancellor's Aud B |
Professor Bin Zhao, Life Sciences Institute, Zhejiang University |
‘Hippo signaling and liver tumorigenesis’ |
Dr Carsten Hansen |
| 14th September 2018 |
CANCELLED - TO BE RESCHEDULED Professor Aras Kadioglu, Department of Clinical Infection Microbiology & Immunology, University of Liverpool |
TO BE RESCHEDULED | Professor David Dockrell |
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21st September 2018 Chancellor's Aud B |
Professor Cormac Taylor, Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin | 'Hypoxia as a key regulator of inflammatory processes’ | Dr Rodger Duffin |
| 28th September 2018 | Professor Mihaela van der Schaar, Chancellor’s Professor, UCLA Electrical Engineering Department |
‘Machine Learning for Medicine: Predicting, Pre-empting and Treating Disease’ |
Professor Damian Mole |
| 5th October 2018 | Professor Alison Condliffe, Department of Infection, Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease, University of Sheffield |
‘Infection and Inflammation Secondary to PI3-Kinase Mutations - From Bedside to Bench and Back Again' |
Professor Sarah Walmsley |
| 12th October 2018 | Professor Maggie Dallman, Cell and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London |
'Modelling mucosal immunity and inflammation in the zebrafish' |
Professor Adriano Rossi |
| 26th October 2018 | Professor Neil Carragher, Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, MRC IGMM, University of Edinburgh |
'Advancing cell based models of disease: new approaches in drug discovery and development' |
Professor Adriano Rossi |
| 2nd November 2018 | Dr Jennifer Regan, Institute of Immunology & Infection Research, University of Edinburgh |
'Drugs and bugs: why do males and females age differently?' |
Dr Steve Jenkins |
| 9th November 2018 | Professor Chris Pugh, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Physiology, University of Oxford | ‘Reversible immune dysregulation after systemic silencing of the HIF hydroxylase Phd2’ | Professor Sarah Walmsley |
| 23rd November 2018 |
Dr Stephen Tait, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, University of Glasgow |
'Mitochondria as inflammatory killers' | Professor Chris Gregory |
| Thursday 29th November | Professor Wencai Ye, Jinan University, China | TBC | |
| 30th November 2018 | Dr Emma Rawlins, The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge | 'Stem cell strategies for lung growth, maintenance and repair' | Professor Damian Mole |
| 1.30pm Monday 3rd December | Professor Pradeep Singh, Professor of Microbiology and Medicine, Director, Cystic Fibrosis Research and Development Program, University of Washington | 'Pathogen Diversification During Chronic Infections, lessons from Cystic Fibrosis' |
Organiser: Sonia Rafferty (sonia.rafferty@ed.ac.uk)