Centre for Inflammation Research seminar series: January - March 2013
Centre for Inflammation Research seminar series 2013, held in the Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI, Little France at 12 noon.
Monday 25th March 2013 - QMRI Seminar
Title: Perivascular cells: Important New Players in Diseases of the Kidney
Speaker: Professor Jeremy Duffield, Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Division of Nephrology and Lung Biology, University of Washington
Friday 15th March 2013
Title: Outcome of streptococcus pneumonia infection in a mouse model of relapsing and remitting allergic asthma
Speaker: Dr Michelle Epstein, Laboratory of Experimental Allergy, Division of Immunology, Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Medical University of Vienna
Tuesday 12th March 2013 - QMRI Seminar
Title: Non-genetic transgenerational effects in mammals - what is real and what isn't?
Speaker: Dr Vardhman Rakyan, Queen Mary, University of London
Friday 8th March 2013
Title: Understanding Immune Correlates of Protection in Respiratory Disease- A Step Towards New Approaches to Vaccination?
Speaker: Dr Tom Wilkinson, Senior Lecturer Respiratory Medicine, Southampton University
Friday 1st March 2013
No Seminar
Tuesday 26th February 2013 -QMRI Seminar
Title: Epigenetic epidemiology: population based approaches for understanding the role of epigenetic variation in common complex disease
Speaker: Dr Caroline Relton, Newcastle University
Friday 22nd February 2013
Title: The ABCs of Liver Fibrosis
Speaker: Professor Klaas Nico Faber, Department of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, University of Groningen
Friday 15th February 2013
No seminar (school holidays)
Friday 8th February 2013
Title: Aberrant TLR3 activation and Pulmonary Fibrosis
Speaker: Professor Seamas Donnelly, School of Medicine & Medical Science, St Vincent's Hospital
Friday 1st February 2013
Title: The importance of MHC protein dynamics for antigen presenting function
Speaker: Professor Tim Elliott, Professor of Experimental Medicine, University of Southampton
Thursday 31st January 2013 -QMRI Seminar
Title: Use of zebrafish tumour models to study the role of macrophages in tumour responses to chemotherapy
Speaker: Professor Claire Lewis, Professor of Molecular & Cellular Pathology, University of Sheffield
PLEASE NOTE: Start time 1pm
Friday 25th January 2013
Title: tbc
Speaker: Professor Doug Turnbull, Professor of Neurology, Newcastle University
Monday 21st January 2013
Title: Oxidative Stress and Disease: Impact on inflammation and immunity
Speaker: Dr Paul Kirkham, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London
PLEASE NOTE: Start time 3pm
Monday 21st January 2013 - QMRI Seminar
Title: tbc
Speaker: Professor Penny Gowland, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Nottingham
PLEASE NOTE: Start time 12.30pm
Friday 18th January 2013
Title: Design, discovery, and potential therapeutic applications of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors
Speaker: Professor Peter M Fischer, Division of Medicinal Chemistry & Structural Biology, University of Nottingham
Friday 11th January 2013
Title: Cytokine receptors at the dendritic cell immune synapse
Speaker: Dr Siobhan Burns, Reader and Consultant in Immunology, University College London
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