College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

Centre for Inflammation Research seminar series 2012

Centre for Inflammation Research seminar series 2012, held in the Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI, Little France at 12 noon.

Friday 7th December 2012 - Cancelled

Title: The brain in flames! Microglial mechanisms of inflammatory neurodegeneration

Speaker: Dr Guy Brown, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge

WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN 2012

Friday 30th November 2012

Title: The vulnerable newborn: novel insights into neonatal immunology

Speaker: Professor Adrian Hayday, Department of Immunology, Infection and Inflammatory Disease, King's College London

Friday 23rd November 2012

Title: Mechanisms underlying the onset and maintenance of paediatric allergic airways disease

Speaker: Dr Sejal Saglani, Clinical Senior Lecturer Respiratory Paediatrics, Imperial College London

Monday 19th November 2012

Title: Defining a post-transcriptional mechanism for the anti-inflammatory action of glucocorticoids.

Speaker: Professor Andy Clark, Professor of Inflammation Biology, University of Birmingham

Change of start time: 12.30pm

Friday 16th November 2012

Title: Complement inhibition: bringing pregnancy to term

Speaker: Dr Guillermina Girardi, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh

Friday 9th November 2012

Title: B-13/H cells: An unlimited supply of functional hepatocytes for toxicological (and clinical) research

Speaker: Professor Matthew Wright, Professor of Toxicology, Newcastle University

Friday 2nd November 2012

Title: Innate and adaptive regulation of CNS autoimmune inflammation in MS - Toll-like receptors can modulate regulatory T cells

Speaker: Dr Bruno Gran, Clinical Neurology, Nottingham University Hospitals, Queen's Medical Centre

Friday 26th October 2012

Title: TBC

Speaker: TBC

Friday 19th October 2012

No seminar today

Friday 12th October

Title: TBC

Speaker: Professor Tom Kirkwood, Associate Dean for Ageing, Newcastle University

Friday 5th October 2012

Title: Complement, Atherosclerosis and SLE: lessons from animal models

Speaker: Professor Marina Botto, Professor of Rheumatology, Imperial College London

Friday 28th September 2012

Title: RNA methylation pathways in tissue stem cells and diseases

Speaker: Dr Michaela Frye, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge

Friday 21st September 2012

Title: New insights into the role of HLA-B27 in inflammatory arthritis

Speaker: Dr Simon Powis, Senior Lecturer, Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St Andrew's

Monday 2nd July 2012

Title: Allergen recognition and uptake by innate immune cells: potential targets for developing novel intervention strategies

Speaker: Professor Amir Ghaem-Maghami, Associate Professor in Immunology, Nottingham University

SPECIAL SEMINAR: Change of start time - 2pm

Friday 22nd June 2012

Title: Clearance of dying cells and its relevance for tumor therapy

Speaker: Professor Kirsten Lauber, Molecular Oncology, Universität München, Germany

Friday 15th June 2012

NO SEMINAR

Friday 8th June 2012

NO SEMINAR

Friday 1st June 2012

Title: Imaging and treating metastatic melanoma

Speaker: Professor Marisol Soengas, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Melchor, Fernandez Almagra, Madrid

Friday 25th May 2012

Title: Energy insufficiency in neuroinflammatory lesions

Speaker: Professor Kenneth Smith, Head, Department of Neuroinflammation, UCL Institute of Neurology

Friday 18th May 2012

Title: How Multi-tasking Macrophages Deal with Death, Damage and Development

Speaker: Dr Will Wood, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath

Friday 11th May 2012

Title: Beta-defensin copy number variation and disease

Speaker: Dr Ed Hollox, Department of Genetics, University of Leicester

Friday 4th May 2012

No seminar today.

Monday 30th April 2012

Title: Genomic imprinting and the epigenetic control of developmental processes

Speaker: Dr Anne Ferguson-Smith, Dept of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge

DIFFERENT START TIME - 12.30pm

Friday 27th April 2012

Title: Manipulating the vascular response to injury by inhibition of tissue factor, thrombin and protease activated receptors

Speaker: Professor Anthony Dorling, Head of Innate Immunity Section, Division of Transplantation Immunology and Mucosal Biology, King’s College London

Easter Break

Friday 9th March 2012

Title: Mechanisms of co-receptor function in T-cells

Speaker: Professor Chris Rudd, Professor of Molecular Immunology, Head - Cell Signalling Section, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge

Friday 2nd March 2012

No seminar today.

Friday 24th February 2012 - Additional seminar

Title: Ambivalent role of neutrophil-derived cathelicidin in atherosclerosis and vascular healing

Speaker: Dr Oliver Soehnlein, Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich

Change of venue: Lecture Theatre A, Chancellor's Building

Monday 23rd February 2012 - Additional seminar

Title: BMP signalling and cell fate specification in Drosophila

Speaker: Dr Hilary Ashe, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester

Please note change of time for this seminar only - 2pm.

Friday 10th February 2012

Title: Systems Biology of Innate Immunity: From basic research to novel therapies

Speaker: Dr Bob Hancock, Centre for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research, University of British Columbia

Friday 3rd February 2012

Title: From B cells to osteoclasts and back again

Speaker: Dr Carl Goodyear, University of Glasgow

Monday 23rd January 2012 - Special seminar

Title: Innate immune signalling pathways in rhinovirus infection

Speaker: Dr Michael R Edwards, Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine & Infections, Asthma UK Research Fellow, National Heart Lung Institute, Imperial College London.

Please note change of time for this seminar only - 5.15pm.

Friday 20th January 2012

Title: Nuocytes in type-2 immunity and asthma

Speaker: Dr Andrew McKenzie, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge

Friday 13th January 2012

Title: Helper T cell allorecognition pathways in post-transplant humoral immunity

Speaker: Mr Gavin Pettigrew, Clinical & Translational Immunology, University of Cambridge.

All Welcome