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 2013

Friday 12th April 2013

Presentation by:

Yi Feng, Chancellor’s Fellow - Live imaging reveals a trophic role for innate immunity during tumour initiation in zebrafish

Friday 19th April 2013

Presentations by:

Stephen O’Neill, Tissue Injury & Repair Group - The Role of Heat Shock Protein 90 in Modulating Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in the Kidney

Boris Betz (Visiting Clinical Fellow), Phagocyte Inflammation Group Affiliation - Identifying pathways of injury and repair in diabetic kidney disease

Friday 26th April 2013

Presentation by:

Gareth Tomlinson (Final), Phagocyte Inflammation Group - The intracellular mechanisms of α-defensins that elucidate the anti-inflammatory effect on macrophages

Friday 3rd May 2013

Presentation by:

Sonja Vermeren, Chancellor’s Fellow - The PI3K regulates endothelial cells and neutrophils by signalling through ARAP3

Friday 10th May 2013

Presentation by:

Ben Arnold, Inflammation and Cancer Group - Functional properties of lactoferrin in Burkitt's lymphoma

Friday 17th May 2013

Presentation by:

Chris Lucas (Final), Lung Inflammation Group - Modulating inflammatory cell apoptosis in lung inflammation

Friday 24th May 2013

Presentation by:

Stephen Jenkins, Chancellor’s Fellow - Macrophage diversity in tissue homeostasis and diseas

Friday 31st May 2013 - Cancelled

Presentations by:

Emily Findlay, Lung Inflammation Group - Cathelicidin-mediated protection during influenza infection

Rob Gray, Lung Inflammation Group - Title to be confirmed

This has been CANCELLED

Friday 7th June 2013

Presentation by:

Marie-Claire Edmunds (Date Confirmed Final), Renal Inflammation Group - Paradoxical effects of HO-1 induction on myocutaneos flaps

Friday 14th June 2013

Presentations by:

David Dorward, Lung Inflammation Group - Evaluating the effects of damage associated molecular patterns in infective lung injury

Vicki Snowdon, Liver Group - Relaxin as a therapeutic haemodynamic modulator in liver disease

Everyone welcome, refreshments afterwards in east end break room E2.32