College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

Centre for Inflammation Research - Research in Progress

Centre for Inflammation Research research in progress presentations are held every Friday in the The Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI, Little France at 4pm-5pm.

Programme for Sept - Dec 2011

Friday 23rd September

Presentation by:

Professor Chris Gregory, Inflammation & Cancer Group - Apoptosis and the microenvironment of normal tissues and tumours

Friday 30th September

Presentation by:

James Chalmers, Lung Inflammation Group - Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the FCN2 gene impair complement mediated clearance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in bronchiectasis

Friday 7th October

Presentation by:

Sana Sarvi, Inflammation & Cancer Group - Small Cell Lung Cancer and Cancer Stem cell

Friday 14th October

Presentation by:

Fiona Murphy, Edinburgh Lung and the Environment Group Initiative - The length-dependent pathogenicity of Carbon Nanotubes in the pleural space

Friday 21st October

Mid-term break - No RIP

Friday 28th October

Presentations by:

Ayub Qureshi, Phagocyte Inflammation Group - Novel role of human beta defensin-2 as a protease inhibitor in protecting keratinocytes against Staph.aureus secreted proteases

Dominika Nowakouska, Autoimmunity & Chronic Inflammation Group - Regulatory T-Cells and Allergic Lung Inflammation

Friday 4th November

Presentations by:

Marie Claire Haddock, Renal Inflammation & Injury Group - Pharmacological preconditioning to improve outcome in free tissue transfer. Investigating the role of HO-1

Jorine Willems, Inflammation & Cancer Group - Phagocyte migratory responses to apoptotic cells.

Friday 11th November

Presentation by:

Ben Reynolds, Autoimmunity & Chronic Inflammation Group - Explaining the bystander suppressive effect of regulatory T cells

James Richards, Autoimmunity & Chronic Inflammation Group - The role of lymphocytes in hepatic IRI

Friday 18th November

QMRI Open Day - No RIP

Friday 25th November

Presentations by:

Siobhain Ni Choillean, Autoimmunity & Chronic Inflammation Group - Regulation of CD-46 in T-Cell Activation

Helen Cambrook, Autoimmunity & Chronic Inflammation Group - The role of T-bet in pathogenic and protective T cell responses to a CNS autoantigen

Friday 2nd December

Presentation by:

Eleni Kouverianou, Autoimmunity & Chronic Inflammation Group - Galectin-3 Regulation of Lung Tumour Growth and Metastasis

All welcome.