Centre for Inflammation Research seminar series 2011
Centre for Inflammation Research seminar series 2011, held in the Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI, Little France at 12 noon.
Friday 25th November
Title: tbc
Speaker: tbc
Friday 18th November 2011 - QMRI PhD Open Day
The on-campus Open Day is a great opportunity to learn more about the University and College, to meet staff and current students, and to tour the facilities.
QMRI PhD Open Day
Friday 11th November 2011
Title: From tissue homeostasis to repair; the role of neural stem cells in brain regeneration
Speaker: Prof Gianvito Martino, Division of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan
Friday 4th November 2011
No seminar.
Monday 31st October - QMRI Seminar
Title: TGF-β superfamily signalling: mechanism and function
Speaker: Dr Caroline Hill, CRUK London Research Institute
Friday 28th October 2011 - QMRI Seminar
Title: Effects of cell death and inflammation on atherosclerosis; IL-1 alpha-induced sterile inflammation is necrotic cell type-dependant
Speaker: Dr Murray Clarke, Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Cambridge
Friday 21st October 2011
No seminar.
Friday 14th October 2011
Title: Discovery and Validation of Biochemical Markers for COPD and Cystic Fibrosis
Speaker: Dr Jeffrey Huang, Director, Biomarker and Drug Analysis Core Facility, University of Dundee
Friday 7th October 2011
Title: A Role for Autophagy in the control of Inflammation
Speaker: Dr James Harris, School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin
Friday 30th September 2011
Title: A new immune-metabolic axis uncovered by a non-sterile sterol inflammatory pathway
Speaker: Professor Peter Ghazal, Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine, University of Edinburgh
Tuesday 27th September 2011 -QMRI Seminar
Title: The role of macrophage receptors in innate immunity
Speaker: Professor Siamon Gordon, Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford
Friday 23rd September 2011
Title: Specialized Pro-Resolving Mediators in Airway Inflammation and Disease
Speaker: Dr Bruce Levy, Harvard Medical School
Friday 17th June 2011
Title: Evolution of mammalian transcription
Speaker: Dr Duncan Odom, Regulatory Systems Biology Laboratory, Cambridge Research Institute
Friday 10th June 2011
Title: Research into pulmonary fibrosis: new findings and future directions
Speaker: Professor Geoff Laurent, Centre for Respiratory Research, University College London
Friday 3rd June 2011
Title: Impact of mononuclear phagocyte epithelium crosstalk on pneumonic alveolar injury and repair
Speaker: Professor Jurgen Lohmeyer, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Giessen
Friday 20th May 2011
Title: Human rhinoviruses and dysregulation of the immune response in asthma
Speaker: Professor John Upham, Respiratory Medicine, University of Queensland
Friday 13th May 2011
Title: Using pathogens to understand microRNA function and mechanism in immune signalling
Speaker: Dr Amy Buck from the Centre for Immunity, Infection & Evolution, University of Edinburgh
Friday 6th May 2011
Title: DNA methylation in health and disease
Speaker: Professor Adrian Bird, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh
Friday 25th March 2011
Title: Fall of a Wall: The early stages of autoimmune brain disease
Speaker: Professor Hartmut Wekerle, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried
Friday 18th March 2011
Title: IL-1: The Good, the Bad and the Unknown
Speaker: Dr David Brough, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester- Host: Dr Donald Davidson
Friday 11th March 2011
Title: NK cells and hepatitis C: activation, inhibition and antagonism
Speaker: Professor Salim Khakoo, Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellow/Professor of Hepatology, Imperial College London
Friday 4th March 2011
Title: Role of the cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide LL-37 in lung disease
Speaker: Professor Pieter Hiemstra, Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Thursday 3rd March 2011 - special seminar
Title: The key roles of the lectin pathway of complement activation in infectious and non-infectious human disease
Speaker: Professor Wilhelm Schwaeble, Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation at the University of Leicester.
1pm -2pm
Friday 25th February 2011
Title: Regulation of endothelial activation and vascular inflammation by shear stress
Speaker: Dr Paul Evans, BHF Cardiovascular Sciences Unit, NHLI, Imperial College London
Friday 11th February 2011
Title: Hypoxic sensing and macrophage responses to infection
Speaker: Dr. Andreas Lengeling from the Infection & Immunity Division, The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Veterinary Research Centre
Friday 4th February 2011
Title: TGF-beta signalling in lung fibrosis
Speaker: Dr Gisli Jenkins, Clinical Associate Professor & Reader in Pulmonary Biology, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham
Friday 28th January 2011
Title: tba
Speaker: Professor V Hugh Perry, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton
Tuesday 25th January 2011
Title: tba
Speaker: Professor Siamon Gordon, Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford
Friday 14th January 2011
Title: Regulation of cancer cell proliferation and survival by NF-kB
Speaker: Professor Neil Perkins, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University.
All Welcome