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.

Spring 2012

Friday 20th January

Presentation by:

Dr Pierre Bagnaninchi, Centre for Biomedical Engineering & Centre for Regenerative Medicine - Technological developments in monitoring growth, development and behaviour of cells

Friday 27th January

Presentation by:

Rhoanne McPherson, Immunity& Chronic Inflammation Group - Peptide Therapeutics in CNS autoimmune disease

Friday 3rd February

Presentation by:

Hui Zhang, Multiple Sclerosis Group - Nervous System Remyelination in Culture

Friday 10th February

Presentations by:

Jagath Kasturiarachchi, Lung Inflammation Group - Aptamer derived molecular probes to detect Staphylococcal infection

and

Richard Mellanby, Immunity and Chronic Inflammation Group - Vitamin D modulation of dendritic cell function

Friday 17th February

No meeting today.

Friday 24th February

Presentations by:

Amy Miele, Lung Inflammation Group - Clinical, histopathological and molecular characterisation of asinine pulmonary fibrosis

and

Leticia Alessandri, Lung Inflammation Group - Augmenting human eosinophil apoptosis; role of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors

Friday 2nd March

Presentation by:

Dr Jonathan Fallowfield, Liver Inflammation Group - Targeting the dynamic component of portal hypertension

Friday 9th March

Presentation by:

Jennifer Raftis, Edinburgh Lung and the Environment Group - Initiative Nanoparticles and Atherosclerosis resolving the paradox

Friday 16th March

Presentations by:

Andreas Alber, Lung Inflammation Group - PHD inhibition induces alternatively activated macrophages and has differential affects on lung fibrosis

and

Neil McDonald, Lung Inflammation Group - Molecular Diagnostics for Lung Inflammation and Infection

Friday 23rd March

Presentation by:

Anne Ilchmann, Immunity and Chronic Inflammation Group - Using a mouse model to elucidate the mechanisms which link RSV infection to a subsequently increased risk for childhood asthma

Friday 30th March

Presentations by:

Amanda McFarlane, Immunity and Chronic Inflammation Group - Immune mechanisms of interactions between nematode and respiratory syncytial virus infections

and

Mel Leech, Immunity and Chronic Inflammation Group - T cells in CNS autoimmune disease