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.