Seminar series April -Nov 2021
Invited speakers
This seminar series takes place virtually on a Tuesday at 12 noon (unless otherwise stated)
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
| 20th April 2021 |
Professor Anna Bigas, Cancer and Stem Cells Research Group, Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM), Barcelona |
"Different Notch requirements for Hematopoietic stem cell origin" |
Professor Elaine Dzierzak |
| 4th May 2021 – CIR/GUT joint seminar | Professor Alison Simmons, Professor of Gastroenterology, MRC Human Immunology Unit, University of Oxford |
"New insights into the cellular anatomy of human intestinal development, health and disease" |
Dr Gwo-Tzer Ho |
| 4pm 18th May 2021 |
Professor Matt Bogyo, Professor of Pathology and of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University |
“Chemical probes for imaging and inhibition of hydrolyses in cancer and infectious diseases” |
Professor Marc Vendrell |
| 8th June 2021 |
Professor Charles Durand, IBPS Laboratory of Developmental Biology, Sorbonne University |
"Transcriptional profiling of the Aorta-Gonad-Mesonephros hematopoietic microenvironment" | Professor Elaine Dzierzak |
| 15th June 2021 | Dr Clare Bennett, UCL Institute for Immunity and Transplantation & Cancer Institute, University College London | “Maintaining the skin immune barrier: how is the Langerhans cell network repaired after disease?” | Dr Jenna Cash |
| 14th September 2021 | Professor Jenny Mjösberg, Centre for Infectious Medicine, Karolinska Institute | "Tissue and inflammation-specific transcriptional imprinting of human innate lymphoid cells" | Dr Chengcan Yao |
| 21st September 2021 |
Professor David Tobin, Associate Professor, Departments of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine |
"Macrophage Reprogramming during Tuberculosis" | Dr Yi Feng |
| 2pm - 5th October 2021 |
Professor Alessandro Gardini, Gene Expression and Regulation, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia |
“Epigenetic regulation of cell fate and inflammation in myeloid cells” |
Dr Samanta Mariani |
| 12th October 2021 |
Dr Milka Sarris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge |
“Signalling dynamics of neutrophil migration at sites of tissue damage” |
Dr Yi Feng |
| 2nd November 2021 | Dr Claire Higgins, Senior Lecturer, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Imperial College London | Title TBC | Dr Jenna Cash |
|
9th November 2021 CIR/GUT joint seminar |
Dr Frode Jahnsen, Mucosal Immunology and Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital |
"Spatiotemporal single cell analysis of human gut macrophages in health and disease" | Dr Calum Bain |
| 23rd November 2021 | Professor Simon A Jones, Division of Infection & Immunity, Cardiff University | "Sensing and interpreting Jak-STAT cytokine signalling in disease" | Dr Chengcan Yao |
Organiser: Sonia Rafferty (sonia.rafferty@ed.ac.uk)