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.

Summer 2012

Friday 15th June

Presentations by:

Gwo-Tzer Ho, Liver Inflammation Group - The role of multi drug resistance-1 gene (MDRI) in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis.

and

Neil Henderson, Liver Fibrosis Group - Development of a Novel Strategy to inactivate genes in pericytes and tissue myofibroblasts during organ fibrogenesis

Friday 8th June

Presentation by:

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

Friday 1st June

Presentation by:

Ben Reynolds (Final PhD presentation), Autoimmunity & Chronic Inflammation Group - iTreg - unravelling the what, when and where of suppression

Friday 25th May

Presentations by:

Anja Schinwald, ELEGI - High aspect ratio nanomaterials and the asbestos pathogenicity paradigm

and

Vicki Snowdon, Liver Inflammation Group (STMTI) - Relaxin as a therapeutic haemodynamic modulator in liver disease

Friday 18th May

Presentations by:

Gareth Tomlinson, Phagocyte Inflammation Group - Calcium homeostasis and macrophage regulation

and

Chris Lucas, Lung Inflammation Group (ECAT) - title tbc

Friday 11th May

Presentations by:

David Dorward, Lung Inflammation Group (STMTI) - Evaluating the effects of neutrophil induced 'damage'-associated molecular patterns during acute lung injury

and

Kev Dhaliwal, Lung Inflammation Group - Optical Molecular Imaging in ICU and Beyond

Friday 5th May

Presentation by:

Dr Mohini Gray, CIR Principal Investigator - Autoimmunity and B cells; the Role of TLR9 Dependent Regulation