CIR seminar series
Invited speakers
This seminar series takes place in the IRR South seminar room 1.05 on Tuesday's or Friday's at 11am (unless otherwise stated)
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|
Friday 2nd February |
Professor Alberto Sanchez-Fueyo, Professor of Hepatology, Academic Head of the Institute of Liver Studies, King’s College London |
“Immunomodulation, cell therapy & liver transplantation: trials and tribulations” |
Wei-Yu Lu |
| Friday 9th February |
Dr Charlotte Scott, Center for Inflammation Research, VIB-UGent |
“Unravelling the functional heterogeneity of hepatic macrophages in health and disease” |
Calum Bain |
|
Friday 23rd February |
Professor David Hodson, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford |
“Visualizing and interrogating diabetes, obesity and MASLD drug targets from the single cell to the tissue” |
Marc Vendrell |
|
11:30 Thursday 29th February |
Professor John Simpson, Newcastle University |
“The acquired innate immune dysfunction induced by critical illness” |
Chris Lucas |
| Tuesday 5th March | Dr John Grainger, Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine, The University of Manchester |
“Decoding Circulating Monocyte States to Interpret Local-Systemic Crosstalk in Tissue Immunity” |
Jenna Cash |
| Tuesday 19th March |
Dr Manikandan Subramanian, Cardiovascular Inflammation, The William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London |
"Defective Macrophage Efferocytosis in Atherosclerotic Plaques – Mechanistic Insights and Therapeutic Strategies" | Steve Jenkins |
| 10:30 Tuesday 26th March |
Dr. Saumya Agrawal, Riken Center for Integrative Medical Science, Japan |
"Role of chromatin structure in determining targets of regulatory elements" |
Kenny Baillie |
| 11am Wednesday 27th March | Dr Ed Roberts, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, University of Glasgow | "Choreographing immunity: key cellular interactions are disrupted in the tumor draining lymph node" | Jurgen Schwarze |
| 12pm Tuesday 16th April |
Professor Gang Zheng, Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto |
“Porphysome Nanotechnology: Discovery, Translation and Beyond” | Marc Vendrell |
| Friday 19th April |
Professor Tom van der Poll, Internal Medicine & Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam University Medical Centre |
"Sepsis: Immunopathology, Host Response Phenotypes and Precision Medicine" |
Manu Shankar-Hari |
| Friday 26th April |
Professor Ning Xu Landen, Dermatology and Venereology Division, Karolinska Institute |
Title TBC |
Jenna Cash |
| Tuesday 14th May |
Professor Adam Byrne, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London |
Title TBC | Nik Hirani |
| Friday 7th June |
Professor Martin Humphries, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, University of Manchester |
Title TBC | Marc Vendrell |
| Friday 14th June |
Dr Marijana Basic, Institute for Laboratory Animals Science, Hannover Medical School |
Title TBC | Chengcan Yao |
| Friday 21st June |
Professor Richard White, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford |
“Melanocyte cell fate – from the inside and the outside” | Yi Feng |
| Monday 24th June |
Professor Slava Epelman, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto |
Title TBC | Chris Lucas |
| Tuesday 25th June |
Professor Takao Shimizu, Director, Lipid Signaling Project, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan |
“Phospholipid diversity, mechanism and biological significance” | Chengcan Yao |
| Friday 20th September |
Dr Matthew Hepworth, Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine, The University of Manchester |
Title TBC | CJ Anderson |
| Friday 27th September |
Professor Emanuele Azzoni, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan |
"Dissecting heterogeneity of pre-natal hematopoiesis in health and disease” | Samanta Mariani |
| Tuesday 8th October |
Dr Filippo Del Bene, INSERM, Sorbonne University, Paris |
Title TBC | Yi Feng |
| Friday 1st November | Professor Mihai Netea, Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Radboud University, Netherlands | “Personalized immunotherapy in severe infections” | Manu Hankar-Shari |
| Friday 29th November |
Professor Stephen Tait, CRUK Scotland Institute, Glasgow |
“Investigating mitochondria as age-old drivers of inflammation” | Chris Gregory/Will Wood |
Organiser: Sonia Rafferty (sonia.rafferty@ed.ac.uk)