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