College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

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