MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: “Delayed-acceptance Sequential Monte Carlo”

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Joshua Bon, Queensland University of Technology.

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 21 May 2020, 10:00-11:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Of cats and men: Studying feline biliary tract disease’

During Covid lockdown these seminars will be held via Zoom

Dr Penny Watson, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Metabolomics: Applications and impact in animal health and husbandry

During Covid lockdown these seminars will be held via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/834693107 Meeting ID: 834 693 107

Alessandro Busetti, Metabolomics Field Application Scientist, Metabolon, Inc..

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/834693107 Meeting ID: 834 693 107.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Using genomics to enrich our knowledge of the human gut microbiome

During Covid lockdown these seminars will be held via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/834693107 Meeting ID: 834 693 107

Dr Alexandre Almeida, ESPOD Postdoctoral Fellow - Finn research group, EMBL-EBI.

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/834693107 Meeting ID: 834 693 107.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Virtual Seminar: “Including expert knowledge in genomic selection through intuitive tree-based joint priors”

Ingeborg Hem, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 16 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

To be confirmed

Neva Caliskan (University of Wurzburg).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Dogs, Cats, Disease, and the Galapagos Islands

Ben Howitt MRCVS, Galapagos Animal Doctors.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

TALK POSTPONED

Conni Ciavarella, Imperial.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Tumours induce immune cell-mediated steroid biosynthesis to evade immunity.

Bidesh Mahata, University of Cambridge. Hosted by CIN.

Bidesh Mahata, University of Cambridge. Hosted by CIN..

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Isolation and analysis of Immune niches along the human intestine.

Host: Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15

Dr. William Winston Agace, Danish Technical University .

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

“Squeezing the most out of ridge”

Professor Mark van de Wiel, Amsterdam University Medical Center.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Worms and Bugs

Multi-Scale Superinfection Models in Evolutionary Epidemiology

Helena Stage, Manchester.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

African swine fever virus mechanisms for evading host defences and application to vaccine development

Linda Dixon (Pirbright Institute).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Genomic epidemiology of bacterial antimicrobial resistance across the One Health spectrum

Dr Alison Mather, Group Leader and Food Standards Agency Fellow, Quadram Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Protection against pathogen colonisation and transmission by the microbiota.

Host: Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15

Dr. Thomas B. Clarke, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Perutz LMB Seminar Series: How our chromosomes are replicated

John Diffley, Associate Research Director, the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Mitochondrial Behaviour

Jodi Nunnari, Distinguished Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Univeristy of California, Davis.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

NK cells and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.

Veronique Braud, Nice, France. Hosted by Francesco Colucci.

Veronique Braud, Nice, France. Hosted by Francesco Colucci..

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Exploring the intimacy between bats and viruses: the evolution and function of bat antiviral IFITM proteins

Dr Camilla Benfield, Royal Veterinary College, University of London.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Oxygen-dependent control of T-cell mediated immunity.

Host: Nick Holmes, (nh106@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15

Dr. Sarah Ross, Babraham Institute.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Antagonistic inflammatory phenotypes dictate tumor fate and response to immunotherapy.

Santiago Zelenay, The University of Manchester, Hosted by Bidesh Mahata

Santiago Zelenay, The University of Manchester, Hosted by Bidesh Mahata.

LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Vector-host interactions and innate immunity in hematopoietic stem cell gene engineering

Anna Kajaste (Ospedale San Raffaele Milan).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

A Wobbly Path: Looking for answers on Cervical Spondylomyelopathy

Professor Ronaldo C. da Costa, The Ohio State University, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

The translational journey of quorum sensing inhibition approach to managing chronic bacterial infections: a case study.

Michael Graz, University of Bristol, Hosted by Ankur Mutreja

Michael Graz, University of Bristol, Hosted by Ankur Mutreja.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Mechanisms of germinal centre dependent antibody dysregulation in early life.

Host: Naomi McGovern, nm390@cam.ac.uk; Tea and coffee will be available at 12.15

Dr James Harker, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Defining “at risk states”: molecular pathways and clinical phenotypes associated with rheumatoid arthritis.

Andrew Cope, King’s College London. Hosted by Ken Smith.

Andrew Cope, King’s College London. Hosted by Ken Smith..

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 31 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Transforming heathcare through AI-enabled pathways.

Mihaela van der Schaar, The Alan Turing Institute, Hosted by Andres Floto

Mihaela van der Schaar, The Alan Turing Institute, Hosted by Andres Floto.

LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Candida recognition and manipulation of NK cells.

Host: Dr Francesco Colucci (fc287@medschl.cam.ac.uk)

Professor Ofer Mandelboim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Ancient DNA, extinction, domestication and the cost of modern farming

Dr Laurent Frantz, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Adaptive control of RIPK1 dependent cell death signalling in T-cells.

Tea and coffee will be available at 12.15

Professor Ben Seddon, University College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Milstein LMB Seminar Series: Stem Cells in Silence, Action and Cancer

Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute .

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 27 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Mechanisms of immune decline and strategies for enhancing immunity during ageing.

Arne Akbar, University College London, Hosted by Menna Clatworthy

Arne Akbar, University College London, Hosted by Menna Clatworthy.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 24 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Unravelling mysterious interactions between viruses and antibodies: molecular mechanisms and importance in vaccination

Dr Sarah Caddy, Senior Research Fellow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Molecular approaches for studying antigen processing topology and T-cell activation kinetics.

Host: Louise Boyle (lhb22@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15pm

Dr. Sander van Kasteren, Leiden University.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Within-host bacterial infection dynamics: from cells to vaccines.

Piero Mastroeni, University of Cambridge, Hosted by Menna Clatworthy

Piero Mastroeni, University of Cambridge.

LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

Friday 17 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Unravelling early host intestinal epithelia interactions with whipworms.

María Adelaida Duque-Correa, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hosted by Gordon Dougan

María Adelaida Duque-Correa, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hosted by Gordon Dougan.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Organoids: closing the gap between in vitro & in vivo models

Professor Jerry Wells (Wageningen University & Research).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Epitope target discovery: what can we see when we think outside the box.

Host: Louise Boyle (lhb22@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15pm

Dr Michele Mishto, Kings College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Immunology in Pathology

Integrative NMR, Molecular Modeling, and Functional studies of immune recognition complexes

Host: Louise Boyle (lhb22@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15pm

Dr Nikolaos Sgourakis, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Immunology of the human biliary tract: from basic mechanisms to a single gene causing disease

Niklas Bjorkstrom, Karolinska Institute. Hosted by Tim Halim.

Niklas Bjorkstrom, Karolinska Institute. Hosted by Tim Halim..

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 06 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Host factors that shape influenza evolution.

Wendy Barclay.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 06 December 2019, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Purinergic control of inflammation and cell death

Leanne Stokes (UEA Norwich), Hosted by Jane Goodall

Leanne Stokes (UEA Norwich), Hosted by Jane Goodall .

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Paint-on antimicrobial bandages: a new approach for veterinary wound management

Dr Nuno Faria (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Fishing for mechanisms of genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis

Francisco J Roca, University of Cambridge. Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan

Francisco J Roca, University of Cambridge. Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan.

LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

Friday 29 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Antiviral Immunity against dengue and Zika viruses in Aedes mosquitoes

João Trindade Marques, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The lectin pathway of complement: The Swiss army knife of innate immunity

Professor Peter Garred, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Meticulous and Multifaceted: How herpes viruses fine tune the innate immune response.

Host: Brian Ferguson (bf234@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Melanie Brinkman, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

KRAB zinc finger proteins, transposable elements and the evolution of gene regulatory networks

Michael Imbeault, University of Cambridge. Hosted by Paul Lehner

Michael Imbeault, University of Cambridge. Hosted by Paul Lehner.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Folding and assembly of newly synthesized proteins revealed by ribosome profiling

Bernd Bukau, Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University and German Cancer Research Center.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Immune cell recognition on a nanoscale.

Host: Louise Boyle (lhb22@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Daniel Davis, University of Manchester.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Discovering essential extracellular receptor-ligand interactions: methods and application to pathogen and human leukocyte cellular recognition”

Gavin Wright, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Hosted by Julian Rayner.

Gavin Wright, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Hosted by Julian Rayner..

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Immune cell and microbiome niches of the healthy colon

Kylie James, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Hosted by Ken Smith.

Kylie James, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Hosted by Ken Smith..

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Monday 18 November 2019, 14:30-15:30

Worms and Bugs

Modelling Large Scale Epidemiological Modelling of Infectious Tree Disease

John Holden, Leeds.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Living with a million-year long infection

George Kassiotis, Frances Crick Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Dissecting the host response during pathogen-specific mastitis in cows

Dr Wolfram Petzl, Ludwig (Maximillians-Universitat Munich (LMU)).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

HLA-E Revisited

Host: John Trowsdale (Jt233@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Andrew McMichael, Oxford University.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

From rarity to clarity: gamma/delta T cells in cancer

Seth Coffelt, University of Glasgow. Hosted by Maike De La Roche

Seth Coffelt, University of Glasgow. Hosted by Maike De La Roche.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Genome remodelling in Streptococcus pyogenes

Dr Claire Turner (The University of Sheffield).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Understanding hepatic macrophage heterogeneity and function in NAFLD

Host: Naomi McGovern (nm390@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Charlotte Scott, University of Ghent.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Worms and Bugs

Modelling Ebola vaccination

Roz Eggo, LSHTM.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 01 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Epithelial endoplasmic reticulum stress drives intestinal immune responses

Joep Grootjans, Amsterdam University. Hosted by Arthur Kaser

Joep Grootjans, Amsterdam University. Hosted by Arthur Kaser .

LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

Friday 01 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

CD8 T cell surveillance of lymphoid and non-lymphoid tissues.

Host: Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Jens Stein, University of Fribourg.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Identifying and responding to crisis after vaccination

Madhava Ram Balakrishnan, WHO. Hosted by Ankur Mutreja

Madhava Ram Balakrishnan, WHO. Hosted by Ankur Mutreja.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 25 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Role of extracellular vesicles in helminth-host interactions: From immunomodulation to vaccine development

Dr Javier Sotillo-Gallego (Instituto Carlos III, Madrid).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

How do macrophages respond to danger?

Host: Naomi McGovern, nm390@cam.ac.uk; Tea and coffee will be available at 12.15

Dr Gloria Lopez-Castejon, University of Manchester.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Reconstructing the thymus microenvironment: implications for tissue engineering

Paola Bonfanti, The Francis Crick Institute. Hosted by Jongeun Park.

Paola Bonfanti, The Francis Crick Institute. Hosted by Jongeun Park..

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 18 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

A novel mechanism of stress response antagonism by viral accessory proteins

Frank van Kuppenveld, University of Utrecht.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The role of nutrients in host-pathogen interactions

Dr Sheena Cotter (University of Lincoln).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Equine Rotavirus Diarrhoea in Neonates: Situation in Argentina and optimisation of prevention and therapeutic methods

Dr Aldana Vissani, Institudo de Investigación Virología, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Feast, famine, and function: Towards imaging nutrient micro-environments and their impact on immunity.

Mark Boothby, Vanderbilt University. Hosted by James Nathan.

Mark Boothby, Vanderbilt University. Hosted by James Nathan..

LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

Friday 04 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Can plant viruses manipulate their transmission by insects and influence the evolution of their hosts?

John Carr, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 03 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Kendrew Lecture - How a ubiquitin-like protein brings ubiquitylation to life

Brenda Schulman, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 03 October 2019, 10:30-11:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Tumor-derived glucocorticoids as a novel immune escape mechanism

Thomi Brunner, University of Konstanz. Hosted by Bidesh Mahata

Thomi Brunner, University of Konstanz. Hosted by Bidesh Mahata.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 27 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Staying in shape: mechanisms and consequences of cell morphology in the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori

Nina Salama, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan

Nina Salama, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan.

LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

Friday 20 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Organelle contact sites: a new layer in the organization of Eukaryotic cells

Benoit Kornmann, Associate professor – Dept. of Biochemistry, Oxford University, and C.W. Maplethorpe Tutorial Fellow in Bio-chemistry – St-Hugh’s College, Oxford University.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 12 September 2019, 10:30-11:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

T cell tolerance: new thoughts on an old issue

Hosted by Gillian Griffiths, Speaker Jonathan Sprent, Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Jonathan Sprent, Garvan Institute of Medical Research.

CIMR, Sackler Lecture Theatre.

Friday 30 August 2019, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Reining in T follicular helper cells in humoral immunity and T cell lymphoma

Hosted by: Klaus Okkenhaug. There will be tea and coffee available at 12.15.

Woong-Kyung SUH, Ph.D. Research Unit Director, Immune Regulation Laboratory, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (IRCM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 21 August 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Antibodies against Ebola and Lassa: A Global Collaboration

Erica Ollmann Saphire, La Jolla Institute for Immunology.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Monday 19 August 2019, 12:00-13:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Antibodies against Ebola and Lassa: A Global Collaboration

Erica Ollmann Saphire, Professor Department of Immunology and Microbiology California Campus.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 23 July 2019, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Francis Crick Lecture - Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life

Frances Arnold, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, U.S.A..

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Integrating T cell Signals

Note unusual time, (Tuesday 1230) (12.15 Refreshments available)

Dr Pamela Schwartzberg MD PhD, Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Immune System Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 16 July 2019, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Determining the role of lineage-defining transcription factors in ILC3 and Th17 cell function

Hosted by Menna Clatworthy, Speaker Dave Withers, University of Birmingham

Dave Withers, University of Birmingham.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 12 July 2019, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Comparative transcriptomics identifies a single SNP mutation that controls virulence of African Salmonella

Hosted by Leo James, Speaker Jay Hinton, University of Liverpool

Jay Hinton, University of Liverpool.

LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

Friday 05 July 2019, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Genetic basis for immunoglobulin repertoire diversity and plasma cell differentiation

Hosten by Ken Smith, Speaker Gunilla B. Karlsson Hedestam, Karolinska Institute

Gunilla B. Karlsson Hedestam, Karolinska Institute.

LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 04 July 2019, 13:30-14:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

IL-22 and inflammatory bowel disease – hunting the wolf in sheep’s clothing

Hosted by James Lee, Speaker Nicholas Powell, Kings College London

Nicholas Powell, Kings College London.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 28 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

What next for your career in science?

Rebecca Aarons, Jenny Gallop, Emma Gleave.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 28 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

'Hitchin' a ride: how herpesviruses modulate host-cell membrane trafficking

Dr Stephen Graham (University of Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 27 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

The pathogenesis and management of HIV-associated tuberculosis

Hosted by Paul Lehner, Speaker Robert Wilkinson, The Francis Crick Institute

Robert Wilkinson, The Francis Crick Institute.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Monday 24 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Regulation of mucosal macrophage function by the microbiota,

Hosted by Arthur Kaser, Speaker Elizabeth Mann, University of Manchester

Elizabeth Mann, University of Manchester.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 21 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Hijacking the Golgi: insights into the mechanism of Orthobunyavirus assembly in mammalian cells

Luis da Silva, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Structural and mechanistic studies of key components in DNA damage signalling and repair

Xiaodong Zhang.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 18 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Cellular and molecular mechanisms underpinning antibiotic resistance evasion

Luiz de Carvalho, The Francis Crick Institute

Luiz de Carvalho, The Francis Crick Institute.

LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

Friday 14 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Folding and assembly of newly synthesized proteins revealed by ribosome profiling

Bernd Bukau, Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University and German Cancer Research Center.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 14 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The parallelism of evolution of multi-drug resistant clones

Professor Alan McNally, Institute of Microbiology and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

From SNPs to biology in autoimmune disease

Host: James Traherne (jat51@cam.ac.uk)

Dr James Lee, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow and Consultant Gastroenterologist, University of Cambridge .

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“How much T cell immunity is sufficient? - Lessons from primary immunodeficiencies”

Hosted by Gillian Griffiths

Stephan Ehl, Centre for Chronic Immunodeficiency, Freiburg.

CIMR, Sackler Lecture Theatre.

Friday 07 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Studying viruses in people using mathematics

Dr Chris Illingworth ( Department of Genetics, Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Canceled - will be rescheduled

Dr Alex Cagan, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Intracellular trafficking for immunity

Host: Brian Ferguson (bf234@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Justine Mintern, Head of Vaccine Biology Laboratory & ARC Future Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

An atlas of human thymic development reveals single cell dynamics of TCR repertoire formation

Jong-Eun Park, The Sanger Institute.

LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

Friday 31 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Understanding Unconscious/Implicit Bias

Dr Miriam Lynn, Equality and Diversity Consultant, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Uterine immunity one cell at a time

Host: Dr Bidesh Mahata (bm11@sanger.ac.uk)

Dr Roser Vento-Tormo, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Towards a mechanistic understanding of cellular processes by cryo-EM

Gaia Pigino, Research Group Leader at the MPI-CBG.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB PNAC Seminars

Black Spot, Black Death, Black Pearl: The Tales of Bacterial Effectors

Prof. Kim Orth, Chair in Biomedical Science, UT Southwestern Medical Center, .

Sanger Room, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 10:00-11:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Interrogating effector T cell signalling and function in hypoxic environments

Dr. Sarah Ross.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 24 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - The 100,000 genomes project and beyond

Tim Hubbard, Professor of Bioinformatics & Head of Department, King’s College London.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Regulating the balance of cytomegalovirus latency and reactivation through the viral GPCR US28

Christine O'Connor, Cleveland Clinic, USA.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Sickle cell anaemia: the first molecular disease

Prof John Gibson, Department of Veterinary Medicine..

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

‘In vivo tracking of immune cell migration: towards a better understanding of tumour infiltrating lymphocytes’

Host: Dr Bidesh Mahata (bm11@sanger.ac.uk)

Dr David Withers, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, Birmingham.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

Nieng Yan, Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Saturday 18 May 2019, 00:00-00:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Modifications of RNA: their function and role in cancer

Tony Kouzarides, PhD FRS FMedSci, Professor of Cancer Biology, Cancer Research UK Gibb Fellow, Director of the Milner Therapeutics Institute, Member of the Department of Pathology.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

How Listeria sense the environment-to-host transition via PrfA

Professor Jose Vazquez-Boland, Chair of Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Adaptive immunity in wild songbirds

Host: Professor Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Helena Westerdahl, Lund University,Sweden.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Worms and Bugs

Co-infections by non-interacting pathogens are not independent: deriving new tests of interaction

Nik Cunnifee, Department of Plant Sciences.

Meeting Room 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Canine Babesiosis: selected aspects of the topic

Prof. Stanislaw Winiarczyk, University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Lublin, Poland.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Antigen receptor repertoires and specificities at single-cell resolution

Host: Dr Bidesh Mahata (bm11@sanger.ac.uk)

Dr Mike Stubbington, 10X Genomics.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Synthesis and hydrolysis of the gram-positive cell wall: revisiting old models with new data

David Rudner, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 03 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Merkel cell polyomavirus: the role of the early gene products during viral life cycle and Merkel cell cancer pathogenesis

Nicole Fischer, University of Hamburg, Germany.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Immunology in Pathology

Regulators of chicken B cell development – basic research and application

Host: Professor Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Dr. Sonja Härtle, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - CryoEM of proton pumping macromolecular machines

John Rubinstein.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 29 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Worms and Bugs

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Meeting Room 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Functional interactions between components involved in alphavirus regulation

Andres Merits, University of Tartu, Estonia.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Machine Learning in Radiology

Dr Joshua Kaggie, Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Fish 'n' HIFs: Hypoxia signalling in zebrafish models of infection and inflammation

Host: Dr Naomi McGovern (nm390@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Philip Elks, University of Birmingham .

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Building Representative Matched Samples with Multi-valued Treatments in Large Observational Studies”

Professor Jose Zubizarreta, Harvard University.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Factors and Functions of ER Membrane Contact Sites

Gia Voeltz PhD, HHMI Investigator and Professor University of Colorado at Boulder.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Information theory in dose-finding trials"

Prof. Thomas Jaki, Lancaster University.

Small Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Monday 08 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Pathogen restriction and host specificity: insights from the human pathogen Salmonella Typhi

Jorge Galan, PhD, DVM, Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Professor of Cell Biology; Chair, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 05 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

Gerry Rubin, Vice President, HHMI, and Executive Director, Janelia Research Campus.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 00:00-00:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

Gerry Rubin, Vice President, HHMI, and Executive Director, Janelia Research Campus.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 00:00-00:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Stromal cells act as niches for lymphoid macrophages

Hosted by Menna Clatworthy, Speaker: Marc BAJENOFF

Marc BAJENOFF, Marseilles.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 29 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

RNA interference as an antiviral immunity in mammals

Xi Zhou, Wuhan Institute of Virology, China.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

Julie Ahringer, PhD FMedSci, Director, Wellcome Senior Research Fellow, Professor of Genetics and Genomics, Member of the Department of Genetics.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 00:00-00:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

Julie Ahringer, PhD FMedSci, Director, Wellcome Senior Research Fellow, Professor of Genetics and Genomics, Member of the Department of Genetics.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 00:00-00:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Targeted cancer immunotherapy using oncolytic viruses"

Hosted by Leo James, Speaker: Len Seymor

Len Seymor, Oxford University.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 22 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Bluetongue virus structure and replication

Polly Roy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Drug Development in Obstructive Lung Disease: why it is hard and how we can make progress"

Hosted by Ankur Mutreja, Speaker: Stephen Rennard

Stephen Rennard, University of Nebraska Medical Centre / AstraZeneca.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 15 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Hitchin' a ride: how herpesviruses modulate host-cell membrane trafficking

Dr Stephen Graham (University of Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - ANNA KARENINA AND THE GENETICS OF COMPLEX DISEASE: DE NOVO MUTATIONS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

Mary-Claire King, human geneticist professor, University of Washington.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Direct from sputum sequencing of TB in the field, and connecting them to a global google.

Dr Zamin Iqbal, Research Group Leader, The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Immune regulatory functions of group 2 innate lymphoid cells

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Tim Halim, CRUK.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Worms and Bugs

TALK POSTPONED

Nik Cunniffe, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Interferon Induced Guanylate Binding Proteins (GBPs) Mediate Immunity Against Intracellular Pathogens“

Hosted by Felix Randow, Speaker: Klaus Pfeffer

Klaus Pfeffer, University of Düsseldorf.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 08 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Animating Molecular Biology

Janet Iwasa, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry Department, University of Utah.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 08 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Pathophysiology of feline diabetes mellitus

Prof Thomas Lutz, University of Zurich | UZH · Institute of Veterinary Physiology.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Niche dependencies for normal and malignant B1 cells

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Ingo Ringshausen, Department of Haematology.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series Milstein Lecture - Intracellular Membrane Contact Sites, Lipid Dynamics and Neurodegeneration

Pietro De Camilli Departments of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Kavli Institute for Neuroscince, Yale University School of Medicine.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Ecology and emergence of bat-borne viruses

Emma Glennon, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Interferon-induced GBPs assemble non-canonical inflammasomes on cytosolic bacteria"

Hosted by Paul Lyons, Speaker Michal Wandel

Michal Wandel, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

CIMR (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research), Sackler Lecture Theater on level 7.

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Stem cells, regeneration and organoid cultures

Meritxell Huch, Wellcome Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Member of the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Spatiotemporal regulation of host immune defences to HSV-1 infection

Chris Boutell, University of Glasgow.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The dynamics of haemorrhagic fever in Africa

Prof Simon Frost, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Organoid Systems to Study the Maternal-Fetal Interface of Human Pregnancy

Host: Dr Naomi McGovern (nm390@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Margherita Turco, Department of Pathology, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Optimal Feature Selection using model-based Deep Reinforcement Learning”

Dr Konstantina Pallas, Microsoft.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Worms and Bugs

Genomic and epidemiological surveillance of Zika and yellow fever virus: lessons from Brazil

Nuno Faria, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Mind the gut: environmental influences on intestinal inflammation and homeostasis”

Hosted by Arthur Kaser, Speaker: Brigitta Stockinger

Brigitta Stockinger, The Francis Crick Institute.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 22 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Sample size considerations for the design clinical trials – quantifying the target difference and the target no-difference”

Prof Steven Julious, University of Sheffield.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Broad complement inhibition in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

Dr Elena M. Ribe, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Beyond the cancer cell: Exploring the tumour stroma as immune modulators

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Jacqueline Shields, MRC Cancer Unit.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Worms and Bugs

When does spatial diversification usefully maximise the durability of crop disease resistance?

Benjamin Watkinson-Powell, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 15 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Innate immune training resulting from malaria

Hosted by Clare Bryant, speaker: Doug Golenbock

Doug Golenbock, University of Massachusetts Medical School.

CIMR (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research), Sackler Lecture Theater on level 7.

Friday 15 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

RNA-binding proteins step into the host-virus battlefront

Alfredo Castello, University of Oxford.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The Evolutionary Genomics of Staphylococcus aureus Infections

Prof Daniel Wilson, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Engineering the genetic events of lymphomagenesis in normal human germinal centre B-cells

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Daniel Hodson, Department of Haematology.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"From genetic associations to disease biology in autoimmunity"

Hosted by Andrew Thompson, Speaker: James Lee

James Lee, University of Cambridge.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 08 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Udderly different?: A comparative approach to studying the mammary gland in health and disease.

Dr Kate Hughes, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Mathematical modelling at different stages of an infectious disease outbreak

Robin Thompson, Christ Church, University of Oxford.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 01 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Dendritic Cells and Macrophages: From Development to Functions"

Hosted by Ken Smith, Speaker: Florent Ginhoux

Florent Ginhoux, A*STAR.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 01 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Viruses and the circadian clock: Rhythms, replication and pathogenesis

Rachel Edgar, Imperial College London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Jockeying for position: defining Streptococcus equi gene essentiality in the horse

Dr Andrew Waller, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

CANCELLED

Canceled

Dr Andrea Ablasser, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Epigenetic inheritance in mammals

Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics, Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Probabilistic approaches for optimal sequential feature acquisition"

Dr Christopher Yau, University of Birmingham and The Alan Turing Institute.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Monday 28 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

'Unexpected targets of intracellular antibodies - LCMV and rotavirus'

Hosted by Josefin Bartholdson-Scott, Speaker: Sarah Caddy

Sarah Caddy, LMB .

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 25 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Darwin's digital moth: predicting the existence of new components of immune systems by evaluating convergent patterns of nucleotide motif usage in viruses and their hosts

Host: Dr Brian Ferguson (bf234@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Francisco Lobo, Belo Horizonte.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 25 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “How to obtain valid tests and confidence intervals for treatment effects after confounder selection”

Dr Oliver Dukes, Ghent University .

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Worms and Bugs

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Understanding cell fate decisions in early development using single cell genomics"

Hosted by Paul Lyons, Speaker John Marioni

John Marioni, EBI.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 18 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

New materials and devices for interfacing with the nervous system

Prof George Malliaras, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Flavivirus assembly and maturation process

Shee-Mei Lok, Duke – NUS Medical School, Singapore.

LMB MRC.

Friday 11 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Phasevarions of bacterial pathogens: shedding new light on old enemies

Dr John M. Atack, Research Fellow, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University .

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 12 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Macrophage reprogramming in mycobacterial granuloma formation”

Mark Cronan, Duke University.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 07 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Solving a 3D jigsaw with 1000 pieces - Structure and assembly of the nuclear pore complex

Martin Beck.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 03 December 2018, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

‘Dissecting the fibrotic niche of human liver cirrhosis using single cell transcriptomics’

Hosted by Menna Clatworthy, Speaker: Neil Henderson

Neil Henderson, University of Edinburgh.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 30 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Perutz Lecture- How synapses work: Architecture and mechanism of neurotransmitter receptors and transporters

Eric Gouaux.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Estimation in two-stage adaptive threshold enrichment clinical trials”

Dr Peter Kimani, University of Warwick.

Small Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:30-14:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Emerging virus spillover - overcoming the entry-barrier

Jonathan Ball, University of Nottingham.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Challenges in Veterinary Forensic Pathology

Dr Lorenzo Ressel, Head of Department of Veterinary Pathology and Public Health, University of Liverpool.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Mitochondria as inflammatory killers

Host: Dr Brian Ferguson (bf234@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Stephen Tait, University of Glasgow.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Macrophages, type 2 immunity and tissue repair: Learning from helminths

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Judith Allen

Judith Allen, University of Manchester.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 23 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Brachycephalic dogs: There is plenty of bad news. So is there any good news?

Dr David Sargan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

T cell intrinsic role of Arginase 2 in modulating anti-tumor immunity

Host: Professor Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Walter Reith, University of Geneva .

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

Carrie Partch.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Harnessing Natural Killer cells against cancer”

Hosted by Maike De La Roche, speaker: Adelheid Cerwenka

Adelheid Cerwenka, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 16 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Reconstructing Tissue Architecture by Single Cell Genomics

Sarah Teichmann.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Comparative glucocorticoid metabolism; lessons from horses, humans and mice

Dr Ruth Morgan, University of Edinburgh.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Should we expect attack rates for infectious disease to vary across small spatial scales?

David Haw (Imperial).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Unsupervised substructure discovery in mass spectrometry metabolomics data”

Dr Simon Rogers, University of Glasgow.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Activation of T cells is under mechanical control"

Hosted by Gillian Griffith, speaker; Marco Fritzsche

Marco Fritzsche, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine University of Oxford.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Vaccines for Notorious Zoonotic Viruses

Jonathan Heeney, University of Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

AGE IMMUNE: do bats hold the secret of extended longevity?

Professor Emma C Teeling, School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Host MHC and genomic diversity retards experimental evolution of viral virulence

Host: Professor Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Wayne Potts, University of Utah.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Worms and Bugs

Modelling social structure and infectious disease: transmission, control and equity

James Munday (LSHTM).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Cancer immune cellular therapy

Hosted by Ankur Mutreja, Speaker: Peng Li

Peng Li, Tsinghua University.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 02 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of host cells in time and space

Max Gutierrez.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Influenza virus-host cell interactions

Nadia Naffakh, Institut Patsur, Paris, France.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Primary Antibody Defects: Insights and Surprises”

Hosted by Andres Floto, Speaker: Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles

Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Sanger Seminar Room, MRC LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, CBC.

Monday 29 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Worms and Bugs

BBC Pandemic, National Edition

Petra Klepac (DAMTP and LSHTM).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Generating data-informed cellular consensus maps as exemplified for the human myeloid cell compartment

Hosted by Paul Lyons, Speaker Joachim Schultze

Joachim Schultze, University of Bonn.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 26 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Understanding human innate immune memory

Host: Dr Naomi McGovern (nm390@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Andreas Schlitzer,University of Bonn.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Light Sleep

Gero Miesenboeck.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

Worms and Bugs

BBC Pandemic, Haslemere Edition: Evaluating epidemic dynamics using fine-scale interpersonal distance data from mobile phones

Stephen Kissler (DAMTP).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“ A powerful methodology for detecting health consequences from any treatment: test cases of suspected toxins, mutations, MHC, pharmaceuticals and diet”

Hosted by Jim Kaufman, speaker; Wayne Potts

Wayne Potts, University of Utah.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 19 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

The viral capsid, a critical determinant of Enterovirus pathogenicity

Caroline Tapparel, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Engineering biology – where science meets imagination

Dr Wayne Bowen, Chief Scientific Officer, TTP Laptech.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Monocyte kinetics and functions in health and disease

Host: Dr Naomi McGovern (nm390@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Simon Yona, University College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Worms and Bugs

Accelerating the control of bovine TB in developing countries

Andrew Conlan (Vet School).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 12 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“The human antibody response in dengue and Zika virus infection”

Hosted by Patrick Maxwell, Speaker Gavin Screaton,

Gavin Screaton, University of Oxford, .

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 12 October 2018, 14:30-15:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"The Unfinished Saga of the Hepatitis C Epidemic: Is Virus Neutralizing Antibody the Last Piece of the Puzzle in Vaccine Development?"

Hosted by Julia Kenyon, Speaker: Mansun Law

Mansun Law, The Scripps Research Institute.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 12 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

New insights into how Butyrophilin(-like) proteins shape gammadelta T cell repertoires

Host: Professor Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Pierre Vantourout, Kings College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Rescuing T Cell Function in Nutrient Restricted Environments”

Hosted by Andrew McKenzie, Speaker: Erika Pearce

Speaker to be confirmed.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 05 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Ubiquitin-mediated regulation of innate immune signaling during influenza virus infection

Sumana Sanyal, University of Hong-Kong, Hong-Kong.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 04 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The HIV glycan shield as a target for broadly neutralizing antibodies

Dr Katie Doores, MRC Career Development Fellow, Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London .

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Statistical learning for drug screening in personalized cancer therapy”

Manuela Zucknick, University of Oslo.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 02 October 2018, 15:30-16:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Reconstructing the human maternal-fetal interface during early pregnancy using single cell transcriptomics

Hosted by Sarah Teichmann, Speaker: Roser Vento-Tormo

Roser Vento-Tormo, Sanger Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 28 September 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“The role of the intestinal microbiome in allo HCT”

Hosted by Dr Hilary Browne on behalf of Dr Trevor Lawley

Marcel van den Brink, Head of the Division of Hematologic Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. .

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Tuesday 25 September 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Lncing 3D chromatin structure to trained to immunity

Hosted by Andres Floto, Speaker: Musa Mhlanga

Musa Mhlanga, University of Cape Town.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 21 September 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Evidence that sub-cellular oscillators may time and execute organelle biogenesis

Jordan Raff.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 20 September 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Tracking hematopoietic clonal life histories in the rhesus macaque model

Host: Dr Andrew Sharkey (as168@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Cindy Dunbar, NIH / NHLBI.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 12 September 2018, 09:30-10:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Quantitative assays to measure human B lymphocyte health”

Hosted by Ken Smith, Speaker: Jessica Tempany

Jessica Tempany, PhD Student, Hodgkin Laboratory,.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Monday 10 September 2018, 14:30-15:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Nitric Oxide in Host-Bacterial Interactions

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Ferric Fang

Ferric Fang, University of Washington.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Monday 10 September 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Tapping into developmental processes to discover new targets for cancer therapy

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Joan Heath

Joan Heath, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne.

KLUG seminar room, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Wednesday 01 August 2018, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“T cell immunity during dengue virus infection”

Hosted by Ken Smith, Speaker: Laura Rivino

Laura Rivino, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore .

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Wednesday 18 July 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Using Gaussian processes to model branching dynamics from single-cell data" (provisional)

Prof. Magnus Rattray, University of Manchester.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 17 July 2018, 14:30-15:30

Worms and Bugs

Modelling avian influenza outbreak risk in the Australian chicken industry

Prof. Katie Glass, Australian National University.

Meeting room 4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 16 July 2018, 12:00-13:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Kaposi Sarcoma Herpesvirus Latent Nuclear Antigen (LANA): multiple facets of latent replication”

Hosted by Paul Lehner, speaker Thomas Schulz

Thomas Schulz, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 13 July 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Mycobacterial adaptive translation, indirectly speaking"

Babak Javid, Tsinghua University School of Medicine.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 06 July 2018, 15:00-16:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Genes, Sex and SLE”

Hosted by Ken Smith, Speaker: Tim Vyse

Tim Vyse, King’s College.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 06 July 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

'HIV-1 evasion of antiretroviral drugs and innate immunity'

Ravindra Gupta, UCL.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Thursday 05 July 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

'Immune Evasion Strategies of M. tuberculosis'

Jennifer Philips, Washington University School of Medicine.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 29 June 2018, 15:00-16:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Effects of Influenza Immune History on Responses to Influenza Vaccines

Hosted by Jim Kaufman, speaker; Tomer Hertz

Tomer Hertz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 29 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Kinetochore Structure

Steve Harrison.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Global outbreaks: interferons as first responders

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Eleanor N Fish, University of Toronto.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Understanding diversity in the human immune system"

Hosted by Alice Denton, Speaker: Adrian Liston

Adrian Liston, Univ. of Leuven.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 22 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

'Targeting proteostatic mechanisms of resistance in malaria’

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Kasturi Haldar

Kasturi Haldar, University of Notre Dame.

KLUG seminar room, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 22 June 2018, 10:00-11:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

‘Fetal tolerance and anti-viral immunity at the maternal-fetal interface in human pregnancy’

Hosted by Francesco Colucci, Speaker: Tamara Tilburgs

Tamara Tilburgs, Harvard University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Thursday 21 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

'Friends or Foes? Helminth-microbiota interactions in the equine gastrointestinal tract

Dr Laura Peachey, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Understanding the dynamics of host-pathogen interaction"

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Amit Singhal

Amit Singhal, A. Star Singapore.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 15 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Biomarker discovery through statistical signal processing and Bayesian modelling on large-scale quantitative proteomics data”

Professor Andrew Dowsey, University of Bristol.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Cell-Autonomous Mechanisms of HIV Suppression

Michael Malim, King's College London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Who gave that to me? Carriage and transmission of Staphylococcus aureus in schools.

Citizen Scientists from Cottenham Village College and St Bedes Inter-Church School and Dr Andrew Conlan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Iron at the interface of immunity and infection"

Hosted by Arthur Kaser, Speaker: Günter Weiss

Günter Weiss, Medical University of Innsbruck.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 08 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Mass spectrometry-based proteomics: challenges and opportunities"

Dr Laurent Gatto, University of Cambridge .

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Immunology in Pathology

Challenges in human respiratory viral infection

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Christopher Chiu, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Regulation of natural killer cell responses in the tumor microenvironment"

Hosted by Maike De La Roche, speaker: Andreas Lundqvist

Andreas Lundqvist, Karolinska Institute.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 01 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Adaptive immunesurveillance by human γδ T cells

Host: Dr David Rhodes (dar32@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Martin Davey, University of Birmingham.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

Michael Hall.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Optimal bootstrapping with dependent data"

Prof Alastair Young, Imperial College London.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 14:30-15:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Novel signalling pathways controlling T cell adhesion and migration”

Hosted by Gillian Griffiths, speaker; Victor Tybulewicz

Victor Tybulewicz, Francis Crick Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 25 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Role of RNA chaperons in segment assortment and RNA packaging of dsRNA viruses

Roman Tuma, Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Unlocking medical questions with a developmental biology key

Dr Laura Hardwick, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Regulation of resistance and tolerance at the intestinal barrier

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Virginia Pedicord, Sanger Institute.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

Titia De Lange Rockefeller.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Local environmental cues in the specification of red pulp macrophages"

Ziad Mallat, University of Cambridge.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 18 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Vaccines for notorious Zoonotic Viruses

Prof. Jonathan Heeney, Department of Veterinary Medicine, (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Red Queen drives selection on MHC genes

Host: Professor Jim Kaufman(jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Jacek Radwan, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"The ZFP36-family of RNA Binding Proteins are regulators of lymphocyte activation and differentiation''

Hosted by Andrew McKenzie, Speaker: Martin Turner

Martin Turner, Babraham Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 11 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Cox-process representation and inference for stochastic reaction-diffusion processes”

Dr Guido Sanguinetti, University of Edinburgh.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

In pursuit of a broad spectrum antiviral: High resolution structures of antiviral targets in the calnexin cycle

Nicole Zitzmann, University of Oxford.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Optimisation of a recombinant vaccine to control parasitic nematodes

Dr Alasdair Nisbet, Moredun Research Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Gut microbiota in IBD: from description to intervention"

Hosted by Arthur Kaser, Speaker: Harry Sokol

Harry Sokol, Paris, France.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 04 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The Power of Non-invasive Approaches to Conservation Science

Professor Samuel K Wasser, Department of Biology, University of Washington on sabbatical, Department of Zoology, Cambridge University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

A novel aspect of Macrophage biology: learning from the great opportunist HIV-1

Host: Dr Naomi McGovern (nm390@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Petra Mlcochova, University College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Intestinal epithelial cells integrate cues from the microbiota to modulate pathogen resistance"

Hosted by Paul Lyons, Speaker Virginia Pedicord

Virginia Pedicord, Dept Medicine & Sanger Institute.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 27 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Kendrew Lecture-Electron cryo-microscopy

Jacques Dubochet.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Exchangeable Random Measures for Sparse and Modular Graphs with Overlapping Communities”

Prof. François Caron, University of Oxford.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Mechanisms of influenza A virus modulation of host membrane trafficking

Maria Amorim, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Insect-based biomass valorisation: using Hermetia illucens to convert waste into food & medicine

Miha Pipan, Entomics, Chief Scientific Officer, Entomics.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Novel kinases controlling T cell development, trafficking and immune responses

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Robert Koechl, King's College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

A Universal Approach to Optimise the Folding and stability of Pre-fusion-Closed Viral Enveloped Trimers

Johannes Langedijk, Janssen Vaccines & Prevention, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 19 April 2018, 12:00-13:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Bayesian adaptive designs for Phase III trials”

Dr. Liz Ryan, University of Warwick.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 April 2018, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Alternative Cell Death Pathways in Antiviral Host Defense

Edward Mocarski, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 05 April 2018, 12:00-13:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“How leukocytes adapt their function to changes in local inflammation”

Hosted by Menna Clatworthy, Speaker: Dietmar Zaiss

Dietmar Zaiss, University of Edinburgh.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 23 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Accelerating the control of bovine Tuberculosis in developing countries

Dr Andrew Conlan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 21 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Antigen-presenting ILC3 as regulators of adaptive immune responses at mucosal barrier sites"

Hosted by Menna Clatworthy, Speaker: Matthew Hepworth

Matthew Hepworth, University of Manchester.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 16 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

Lukas Kapitein.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

How Does A Synthetic Antiviral Developed For Influenza Virus Inhibit Other Viruses?

Stephen Polyak, University of Washington.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Sneks long balus

Professor David Pritchard, University of Nottingham.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Type I IFN induces CXCL13-driven B cell recruitment to the lung to enable tertiary GC formation

Host: Dr Brian Ferguson (bf234@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Michelle Linterman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 12:30-13:30

Immunology in Pathology

Characterizing Immunogenetic Mechanisms through HIV Disease Analysis

Host: Dr James Traherne (jat51@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Mary Carrington, NIH, NCI.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Monday 12 March 2018, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

‘Oral pathobiont Porphyromonas gingivalis promotes arthritis by perturbing resolution responses and gut barrier function’

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Magdalena Flak

Magdalena Flak, William Harvey Research Institute.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 09 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Genomic control mechanisms that establish T-cell identity”

Hosted by Gillian Griffiths, speaker; Ellen Rothenberg

Ellen Rothenberg, CalTech.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Metabolic regulation of T cell trafficking

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Federica Marelli-Berg, Queen Mary University London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Structure and function of retroviral integrase

Hosted by Leo James, Speaker: Peter Cherepanov

Peter Cherepanov, The Francis Crick Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 02 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Emerging Human coronavirus virulence and protection

Luis Enjuanes, Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Immunology in Pathology

NK cells: in and out of the circulation

Host: Dr Andrew Sharkey (as168@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Viki Male, University College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Autoimmunity versus anti-tumour Immunity: the flip sides of CD8 T cell responses”

Hosted by Bidesh Mahata, speaker: Rose Zamoyska

Rose Zamoyska, THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 23 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The MHC ligandome of two contagious cancers within the Tasmanian devil population, Devil Facial Tumour 1 and Devil Facial Tumour 2

Dr Hannah Siddle, Lecturer in Molecular Immunology, University of Southampton.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

'Gene regulation in the innate and adaptive immune systems'

Host: Dr Nick Holmes (nh106@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Rahul Roychoudhuri, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Quasi Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods”

Dr. Ben Calderhead, Imperial College London.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 14:30-15:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“A cellular response pathway to viroporin induced aberrant neutrality”

Hosted by David Thomas, Speaker: Rupert Beale

Rupert Beale, University of Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 16 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

Elizabeth Murchinson, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Participatory approaches to encourage responsible use of antibiotics in livestock

Dr Kristen Reyher, Senior Lecturer in Farm Animal Science, University of Bristol.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

A sex-linked supergene controls sperm morphology and swimming speed in a songbird

Host: Professor Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Jon Slate, University of Sheffield.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Human type I interferonopathies

Hosted by Sarah Teichmann, Speaker: Yanick Crow

Yanick Crow, Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Neuroinflammation, France.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 09 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Streptococcus suis - managing a global zoonotic pathogen of pigs

Dr Dan Tucker, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

How T-cells cause autoimmune disease and hold the key to curing cancer

Host: Professor Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Andrew Sewell, Cardiff University.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

HypOxyResp Network Research Meeting

Dr Neda Farahi, Baraa Kwieder.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Monday 05 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Pursuing precision in PBC”

Hosted by Arthur Kaser, Speaker: George Mells

George Mells, Consultant Hepatologist, NIHR Postdoctoral Fellow.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Monday 05 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Regulation of neutrophil function by the interplay between oxygen and metabolite sensing pathways

Hosted by James Nathan, Speaker: Sarah Walmsley

Sarah Walmsley, THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 02 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Life on the edge of equilibrium: The roles of asymmetric components in ssRNA viruses

Peter Stockley, University of Leeds.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Cancelled - Intracellular Salmonella persisters

Canceled - This talk will be rescheduled for a later date

Dr. Sophie Helaine, MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Phenotypic model explains adaptation of T cell responses to antigen by TCR downregulation

Host: Dr Nick Holmes (nh106@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Omer Dushek, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

'Gene regulation in the innate and adaptive immune systems'

Hosted by Tim Halim, Speaker: Rahul Roychoudhuri

Rahul Roychoudhuri, Babraham Institute.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 26 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

DEVELOPMENT OF BIOMATERIALS AND CELL THERAPIES FOR BONE REGENERATION

José Miguel Campos DVM MRCVS, Veterinary Clinics, Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS), University of Porto (UP), Porto, PORTUGAL.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"A tale of two autoantigens"

Hosted by Paul Lyons, Speaker Richard Kitching

Richard Kitching, Monash University.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

T cell mediated immunity in the tuberculous granuloma

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Kevin Urdahl

Kevin Urdahl, Center for Infectious Disease Research/ Seattle.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 19 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Potato mop-top virus co-opts the HIPP26 drought stress sensor for long distance movement

Lesley Torrance, University of St Andrews, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 12:00-13:00

Immunology in Pathology

Diversity of the human response to malaria

Host: Dr Maja Wållberg (mw394@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Phil Spence, University of Edinburgh.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Kendrew Lecture- Illuminating biology at the nanoscale and systems scale by imaging

Xiaowei Zhuang .

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 15 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Elucidating evolutionary patterns and identification of novel drug resistance markers”

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Keira Cohen

Keira Cohen, John Hopkins Center for TB.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Monday 11 December 2017, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“TB pathogenesis: subversion by small molecules”

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; William Bishai

William Bishai, John Hopkins Center for TB.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 08 December 2017, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Localised RNA-based mechanisms underlie neuronal wiring

Christine Holt.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 04 December 2017, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

'Linear ubiquitin chains go anti-viral'

Hosted by Andrew McKenzie, Speaker: Brian Ferguson

Brian Ferguson, University of Cambridge.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 01 December 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

A novel innate immune antagonist function in influenza A virus?

Prof. Paul Digard, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Rapid host-pathogen co-evolution following a severe emerging infectious outbreak

Dr Camille Bonneaud, Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, University of Exeter.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Metabolic adaptation as a disease tolerance mechanism against infection

Host: Dr Brian Ferguson (bf234@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Miguel Soares, IGC Lisbon.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Exploring and Exploiting the Diversity of Secretory Routes in Mammalian Cells

Franck Perez.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Interplay between age, immunity, cancer and CMV"

Hosted by Mark Wills, speaker: Graham Pawelec

Graham Pawelec, University Of Tuebingen.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 24 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of arbovirus pathogenesis: implications for therapeutic interventions

Lisa Fong Poh NG, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Horizontal transfer of antimicrobial resistance drives multi-species population level epidemics

Dr Kate Baker, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Immunity in early life: the case of gammadelta T cells

Host: Dr David Rhodes (dar32@cam.ac.uk)

Dr David Vermijlen, Universite libre de Bruxelles.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Continuous inference for aggregated point process data

Dr Ben Taylor, University of Lancaster.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 14:30-15:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Immune-mediated nerve damage in leprosy: insights from a zebrafish model"

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Cressida Madigan

Cressida Madigan, UCLA.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 17 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The value of improving livestock health and fitness through genetics

Prof Eileen Wall, Professor of Integrative Livestock Genetics at SRUC.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Stromal microenvironments and the control T-cell development and selection

Host: Dr Nick Holmes (nh106@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Graham Anderson, Universitiy of Birmingham.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Manipulating T cell signalling to improve anti-tumour immunity”

Hosted by Maike de la Roche, Speaker: Robert Salmond

Robert Salmond, Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 10 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

The trials and tribulations of using field deployable genomics during epidemic response

Prof. Ian Goodfellow, University of Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Dissecting disease transmission between species

Dr Mafalda Viana,Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Glucose inhibits Dendritic cell-induced CD8 T cell responses

Host: Dr Maja Wallberg (mw394@cam.ac.uk)

Dr David Finlay, Trinity College, Dublin.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

'The RNA synthesis machine of influenza virus and innate immune sensing'

Hoted by Rupert Beale, Speaker Ervin Fodor

Ervin Fodor, University of Oxford .

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 03 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Genomic and cellular integration of bacterial endosymbionts into host cells

John McCutcheon.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 03 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

What does endogenising a retrovirus do to its host, the example of koala retrovirus?

Dr Rachel Tarlington, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Immunology in Pathology

Genetic analyses of ANCA-associated vasculitis inform diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.

Host: Dr James Traherne (jat51@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Paul Lyons, CIMR.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Individual dynamic predictions using landmarking and joint modelling: validation of estimators and robustness assessment

Dr Loic Ferrer, ISPED, Bordeaux.

Small Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 14:30-15:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Developing new immune therapies to treat Type 1 diabetes"

Frank Waldron-Lynch, University of Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 27 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Sustainability of livestock production: water, welfare and woodland

Professor Don Broom, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Dendritic cells and antigen export into the cytosol for cross-presentation

Host: Dr Louise Boyle (lhb22@cam.ac.uk

Dr Patrycja Kozik, MRC LMB, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Host-Microbiota Interactions Shaping Health and Disease

Hosted by Arthur Kaser, Speaker: Trevor Lawley

Trevor Lawley, Sanger Institute.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 20 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

The importins of Herpes Simplex Virus nuclear targeting

Prof. Beate Sodeik, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Immunology in Pathology

Exploring the functions of monocyte subsets

Host: Dr Naomi McGovern (nm390@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Kevin Woollard, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Inflammation-driven Disruption of Iron Homeostasis In Parkinson’s Disease”

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Raffaella Gozzelino

Raffaella Gozzelino, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 13 October 2017, 13:30-14:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Could pluripotent stem cells ever be used for equine tendon regeneration?

Dr Debbie Guest, Centre for Preventive Medicine, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, UK.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Immunometabolism taught by patients"

Hosted by Ken Smith, Speaker: Christoph Hess

Christoph Hess, University of Basel.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

The Janus-face nature of MmpL transporters in Mycobacterium abscessus

Hosted by Andres Floto, Speaker: Laurent Kremer

Laurent Kremer, Université de Montpellier.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 06 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Extended multivariate generalised linear and non-linear mixed effect models

Dr Michael Crowther, University of Leicester.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Studying the structure and assembly of HIV-1 and other enveloped viruses using cryo-electron tomography

Dr John Briggs, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

A transmissible RNA pathway in honeybees

Dr Eyal Moari, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Death receptors and ubiquitin in cell death, inflammation and immunity

Host: Dr Brian Ferguson (bf234@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Henning Walczak, University College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Genome-wide epistasis in bacteria, new statistical tools and fresh biological insight

Prof Jukka Corander, University of Oslo.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series- Stories from the first year of the Central Oxford Structural Microscopy and Imaging Centre - closing in on bacterial protein secretion systems.

Susan Lea.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 02 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Navigating the ILC Transcriptional Landscape

Hosted by Sarah Teichmann, Speaker: Gabrielle Belz

Gabrielle Belz, WEHI.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 29 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Immunorecognition and disease therapy

Host: Prof Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Alexander Barrow, Washington University, St Louis.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Novel mechanisms that induce or control IL-1-driven inflammation and immune dysfunction"

Hosted by Clare Bryant, speaker: Murray CH Clarke

Murray CH Clarke, University of Cambridge.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 22 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Network Time Series

Prof Guy Nason, University of Bristol.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 September 2017, 14:30-15:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series- How T cells control secretion to optimise target cell killing

Gillian Griffiths.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 19 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“The impact and outcomes of fluoroquinolone usage”

Hosted by Arthur Kaser, Speaker: Stephen Baker

Stephen Baker, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam / University of Cambridge (Dept of Medicine).

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 15 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

A Bayesian model-based approach to finding cell-type level associations in heterogeneous methylation samples

Daniel Kennedy, Queensland University of Technology.

Small Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 September 2017, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Dirichlet Process Mixtures of Multivariate Skew t-distributions for Unsupervised Clustering of Cell Populations from Flow-Cytometry Data

Dr Boris Hejblum, University of Bordeaux.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 September 2017, 14:30-15:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Skin-resident memory T cells in melanoma surveillance

Hosted by Alice Denton, Speaker: Thomas Gebhardt

Thomas Gebhardt, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection & Immunity.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 08 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Crick Lecture-The Surprising Chemistry of Non-enzymatic RNA Replication

Jack Szostack, Harvard, USA .

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 07 September 2017, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Integrated structural biology of gene transcription

Patrick Cramer, Max Planck Institute.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 05 September 2017, 16:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“BACH 2 basics : from transcription factor to T cell biology”

Hosted by Ken Smith, Speaker: Ben Afzali

Ben Afzali, (NIH/NIAMS).

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Tuesday 05 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Novel insights into HIV assembly and maturation

Dr Eric O. Freed, National Cancer Institute, NIH - Frederick, MD, USA.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Monday 04 September 2017, 12:00-13:00

BRC Seminar Series

“Translational control of axonal mRNAs can accelerate regeneration”

Jeff Twiss, Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina.

Clifford Allbutt Building Lecture Theatre.

Monday 04 September 2017, 12:00-13:00

Immunology in Pathology

Dr David Tscharke: Vaccinia virus presents: A proteome-wide view of antigen presentation during virus infection

Host: Dr Brian Ferguson (bf234@cam.ac.uk)

Dr David Tscharke, Australian National University, Canberra .

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 26 July 2017, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Leukocytes in action - watching them at work in zebrafish fungal infection models"

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Graham Lieschke

Graham Lieschke, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute.

Sanger Room, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 14 July 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“New mechanisms of inflammasome activation and autoinflammatory disease”

Hosted by Ken Smith, Speaker: Seth Masters

Seth Masters, WEHI.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 14 July 2017, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-RNA quality control and the nuclear RNA exosome

Chris Lima.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 14 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

'IgG4 disease and Erdheim-Chester'

Hosted by David Jayne; speaker: Augusto Vaglio

Augusto Vaglio, Parma Italy.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Monday 10 July 2017, 14:00-15:00

BRC Seminar Series

“Innate Immunity in Injury and Disease in the Nervous System”

Professor Shlomo Rotshenker,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 12:00-13:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series- Title to follow

Andreas Matouschek, Northwestern University, USA.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 03 July 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

HypOxyResp Network Research in Progress Meeting

Jenna Stephen, Charaka Hadinnapola, Arlette Vassallo.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Monday 03 July 2017, 16:00-17:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Lung epithelia under attack: influenza, interferons and pollutants”

Hosted by Leo James, Speaker: Andreas Wack

Andreas Wack, Crick Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 30 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

How the tubercle bacillus reprograms host immunity to cause tuberculosis

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; David Tobin

David Tobin, Duke University.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Monday 26 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Using single-cell transcriptomics to examine T helper cell fate decisions in vivo

Hosted by Sarah Teichmann, speaker; Ashraful Haque

Ashraful Haque, QIMR, Brisbane.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 23 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Accelerating vaccine and immunotherapy development for cancer, infectious diseases and type 1 diabetes

CRUK CI seminar

Prof Mark Poznansky, MD, PhD (Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School).

Martin Cohen Lecture Theatre, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

“Joint variational inference for genetic association studies with multiple outcomes”

Hélène Ruffieux, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

BRC Seminar Series

"In Vivo Glia-to-Neuron Conversion For Brain Repair"

If you would like to meeti with Professor Chen please contact Nicole on nh481@cam.ac.uk to arrange a time before or after the seminar

Gong Chen,Professor and Verne M. Willaman Chair in Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-DNA Methylation: From stem cell differentiation to chromatin organisation

Margaret Goodell.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 11:15-12:15

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Nucleation, Heritability and Dynamics of Specialized Chromatin Domains

Hosted by Paul Lehner, speaker Robin Allshire

Robin Allshire, University of Edinburgh.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 16 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Linking Mammary Development and Breast Cancer

Professor Pamela Cowin, NYU School of Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Prof Robyn Slattery: The Songlines between Scientific and Social Silos: A nomadic approach to Immunology teaching, learning and research

Host: Dr Nick Holmes (nh106@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Robyn Slattery, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Greaves Room, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Human fetal immunology: New insights on fetal mononuclear phagocytes and their contribution to prenatal immune suppression

Hosted by Ashley Moffett, Speaker: Naomi McGovern

Naomi McGovern, University of Cambridge.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 09 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Hepatitis B virus cccDNA regulation and spatial nuclear organization

Dr Christine Neuveut, Institut Pasteur, France.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Selection and diseases in structured populations

Dr. Andrea Manica ( Dept. of Zoology, Cambridge University).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Dr Maike de la Roche: Hedgehog Signalling in T cells

Host: Dr Louise Boyle (lhb22@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Maike de la Roche, Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Inflammation control by Inflammasomes”

LMB seminar hosted by Leo James

Kate Schroder, University of Queensland, Australia.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Cell stress at the edge of inflammation and tumorigenesis – the microbial twist

Hosted by Arthur Kaser, Speaker: Dirk Haller

Dirk Haller, ZIEL – Institute for Food & Health.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 02 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Compensatory lameness in dogs: kinematic description and inertial sensors detection

Dr Constanza B. Gómez Álvarez, Lecturer in Musculoskeletal Biomechhanics, Head of Veterinary Biomechanics Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Dr Becca Asquith: KIRs, CD8 T cell dynamics and control of chronic viral infection

Dr Becca Asquith, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

“The xyz algorithm for fast interaction search in high-dimensional data”

Dr Rajen Shah, University of Cambridge.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Cryomicroscopy of viruses, from atomic-resolution structure to in situ 3D imaging

Dr David Bhella, University of Glasgow, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

THERE IS NO TALK ON WEDNESDAY 24TH May

Cancelled.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Dr Sarah Teichmann: Understanding Cellular Heterogeneity

Host: Dr Nick Holmes (nh106@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Sarah Teichmann, Sanger Institute.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

BRC Seminar Series

"Polymerase Chain Reaction: Methods, Principles and Application"

Dr Romina Vuono, John Van Geest Centre For Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge.

Herchel Smith Building Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

“Identifying and evaluating personalised treatment recommendations”

Prof Richard Emsley, Centre for Biostatistics, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Approaches to our two greatest challenges in AIDS research - Making effective vaccines and understanding then eliminating HIV reservoirs

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Jim Mullins

Jim Mullins, University of Washington.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Molecular epidemiology studies of a major TB outbreak

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Marcel Behr

Marcel Behr, McGill University.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 19 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Recent advances in the molecular diagnosis of canine and feline lymphoma

Dr Sabine Hammer (Molecular Geneticist), and Dr Barbara Rütgen (Clinical Pathologist) Dept of Pathobiology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Dr Tony Jackson: Protein neighbours and proximity proteomics

Host: Prof Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Tony Jackson, Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Early Career Immunology Journal Club

Michael Harris, MRC-LMB.

Brenner Seminar Room, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 19:00-20:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Charting the response to DNA damage

Dan Durocher, University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 15 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Atypical heterochromatin controls telomere maintenance

Hosted by Paul Lehner, speaker Jerome Dejardin

Jerome Dejardin, Montpellier, France.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 12 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

The role of the host and co-infections in Ebola virus disease and its outcome

Prof. Julian Hiscox, University of Liverpool, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Can we exploit companion dogs to advance therapies for spinal cord injury?

Dr Nicolas Granger, Research Fellow, School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Professor Alain Vanderplasschen: Conserved fever pathways across vertebrates: a herpesvirus delays fish behavioural fever through expression of a decoy Tnfα receptor

Host: Prof Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Alain Vanderplasschen, University of Liege.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Mulitispectral imaging to uncover the organelle interactome

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, National Institute of Health, Maryland, USA.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 08 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Cambridge HypOxyResp Network Meeting

Cambridge HypOxyResp Network Meeting

Jo Pocock and Stefan Graf; University of Cambridge.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Monday 08 May 2017, 16:00-17:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

‘Allorecognition – only relevant for transplantation?’

Hosted by Paul Lyons, speaker; Gavin Pettigrew

Gavin Pettigrew, University of Cambridge.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 05 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Molecular dissection approaches to study diseased tissues

Dr Walker Jackson, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Dr David Komander: Studying non-existent ubiquitin chains

Host: Dr Brian Ferguson (bf234@cam.ac.uk)

Dr David Komander, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Inflammasomes at the crossroads of innate and cell-autonomous immunity”

Hosted by Clare Bryant, speaker: Petr Broz

Petr Broz, University of Basel.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 28 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Towards understanding the molecular mechanism(s) of IFITM-mediated restriction of viral entry

Prof. Mark Marsh, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 12:00-13:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Max Perutz Lecture- Antisense transcription and epigenetic switching

Caroline Dean, John Innes Centre, Norwich.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 11:00-12:00

Immunology in Pathology

Prof Jan Rehwinkel: Nucleic Acid Sensing by Innate Immune Receptors

Host: Dr Brian Ferguson (bf234@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Jan Rehwinkel, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

To the Edge of Necroptosis and Back

Hosted by Ken Smith and Richard Gilbertson, speaker Doug Green

Douglas Green, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Martin Cohen Lecture Theatre, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Thursday 13 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Pancreatic Cancer: Cachexia, Systemic Metabolism, Immunity and Occult Metastases

Hosted by Paul Lehner, speaker Douglas Fearon

Douglas Fearon, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Thursday 13 April 2017, 12:00-13:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Cambridge HypOxyResp Network Research in Progress Meetings

Zhen Tong, Alex Wood, David Thomas.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Monday 03 April 2017, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Alphavirus induced inflammatory disease: new insights into disease mechanisms and therapeutic approaches

Prof. Suresh Mahalingam, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 30 March 2017, 12:00-13:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"The Analysis of Recurrent Events: A Summary of Methodology and Informative Censoring Considerations"

Dr Jennifer Rogers, University of Oxford.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 March 2017, 14:30-15:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

RNA methylation in development and disease

Michaela Frye, Stem Cell Institute and Department of Genetics, Cambridge.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 24 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

IgA-mediated enchained growth mediates protection and modulates bacterial evolution in the intestinal lumen

Dr Emma Slack, Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

TBC

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Meindert Lamers

Meindert Lamers, LMB.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Tuesday 21 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

BRC Seminar Series

“Axon death pathways converge on Axed to promote functional and structural axon disassembly”

Dr Lukas Neukomm, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States .

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Friday 17 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY: ANTIBODIES, MICROBES AND IMMUNITY

Prof Clare Bryant, Dr Eoin McKinney, Dr Maike De La Roche, Dr Sam Forster.

Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Mill Lane, CB2 1RW.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Deregulation of long-range gene control in lymphoma: insights from Epstein-Barr virus

Prof. Michelle West, University of Sussex, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

It's a dog's life - or is it? The health and welfare of dogs owned by homeless people

Dr David Williams, Associate Lecturer in Veterinary Ophthalmology, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Dr Amir Horowitz: Harnessing NK cell functions for treatments against viruses and cancers

Host: Dr Andrew Starkey

Dr Amir Horowitz, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Rockefeller University, New York.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Worms and Bugs

A novel method to quantify the impact of weather on Lyme disease

Gianni Loiacono (PHE).

Meeting room 4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

'Mucosal immunology of asthma'

Hosted by Tim Halim, Speaker: Bart Lambrecht

Bart Lambrecht, Ghent University.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 10 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Group 2 innate lymphoid cells and allergic lung inflammation"

Hosted by Tim Halim, Speaker: Fumio Takei

Fumio Takei, University of British Columbia.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 13:30-14:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Please note: Talk now Cancelled

Canceled

Dr Jaume Forcada, British Antarctic Survey.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Prof Serge Muyldermans: Nanobodies, a versatile tool for multiple applications

Host: Lisa Kent (lsk29@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Serge Muyldermans, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Membrane proteins - the lipid connection

Carol Robinson, university of Oxford.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

HypOxyResp Network Research in Progress Meeting

Dr Katharine Lodge, Dr Elaine Soon, Dr Mike Newman, University of Cambridge.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Monday 06 March 2017, 16:00-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Short talks: Sophie Ip & Veni Karamitsou

Mulitple speakers.

Meeting room 4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Calcineurin and the microbiota in intestinal tumor development"

Hosted by Arthur Kaser, Speaker: Sebastian Zeissig

Sebastian Zeissig, Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 03 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Studying virus infection in cells with new imaging techniques

Dr Cristina Risco, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Madrid, Spain.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Vector-borne helminths of zoonotic concern in Europe: emerging or neglected?

Professor Domenico Otranto, Professor of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, University of Bari.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Prof Benedikt Kaufer: Herpesvirus latency: From neuronal models to integration into host telomeres

Host: Prof Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Benedikt Kaufer, Institute of Virology, Freie Universitat, Berlin.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Spatio-temporal dynamics of collective CD8 T cell responses

Hosted by James Thaventhiran, speaker: Audrey Gerard

Audrey Gerard, University of Oxford.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 24 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

CANCELLED - Identifying and evaluating personalised treatment recommendations

Prof Richard Emsley, University of Manchester.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 14:30-15:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Sensitivity to BST-2 restriction correlates with Orthobunyavirus host range.

Dr Mariana Varela, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Dr Serge Mostowy: New roles for the cytoskeleton in cell-autonomous immunity

Host: Dr Francesco Colucci (fc287@medschl.cam.ac.uk)

Dr Serge Mostowy, Imperial College, London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Andrea Manica ( Dept. of Zoology, Cambridge University).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Food poisoning, Salmonella and their molecular contribution to gallbladder and colon cancer"

Hosted by Paul Lehner, speaker Jacques Neefjes

Jacques Neefjes, Netherlands Cancer Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 11:00-12:00

Worms and Bugs

Short talks: Elliott Bussell, Theresa Reiker, Chris Illingworth

Multiple speakers.

Meeting room 4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Infection, Inflammasomes and Autophagy”

Hosted by Clare Bryant, speaker: Tom Evans

Tom Evans, University of Glasgow.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 17 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Host cell/virus interactions in the late stages of the HIV life cycle

Prof. Andrew Lever, Univeristy of Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

A Biotechnology Start Up Approach to Developing Medicines for Animal Health

Simon Aspland, General Manager Acidophil Ltd, VP Business Development.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Prof Steve Renshaw: Will zebrafish help lead a revolution in inflammation biology?

Host: Dr Milka Sarris (ms543@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Steve Renshaw, University of Sheffield.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Immunology in Pathology

Prof Peter Parham: Resurrecting an Intermediate in the Evolution of Human HLA-C specific NK Cell Receptors

Host: Prof Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Peter Parham, Stanford University.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 14 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Next generation association studies for complex traits"

Hosted by Ken Smith, Speaker: Ele Zeggini

Ele Zeggini, Sanger Institue.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 10 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Milstein Lecture- Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission

Thomas Südhof, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Papillomavirus sabotage of epithelial growth and differentiation pathways: New targets for intervention?

Dr Andrew Macdonald, University of Leeds, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

'Translational orthopaedics - vet in a medics world'

Dr Fran Henson, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Dr Neil McCarthy: Human Vδ2+ T-cells in Intestinal Inflammation

Host: Dr David Rhodes (dar32@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Neil McCarthy, The Blizard Institute, The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Genome-Wide Association Studies on Infection and the Non-Coding Human Genome

Hosted by Sergey Nejentsev, speaker; Rolf Horstmann

Rolf Horstmann, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Monday 06 February 2017, 13:30-14:30

Worms and Bugs

Hunting for viral packaging signals

Dr Julia Gog (DAMTP).

Meeting room 4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"New insights into the mechanisms controlling MHC class I peptide selection"

Hosted by Patrycja Kozik, Speaker: Louise Boyle

Louise Boyle, University of Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 03 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Understanding and manipulating the T-cell response to peptide-MHC

Prof Linda Wooldridge, University of Bristol.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Dr Leonie Unterholzner: Sensing intracellular DNA as "stranger" and "danger" signal

Host: Ben Trigg (bjt40@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Leonie Unterholzner, University of Lancaster.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Amino acid degrading enzymes and their role in tumour immune escape mechanisms"

Hosted by Maike de la Roche, Speaker: Vincenzo Cerundolo

Vincenzo Cerundolo, University of Oxford.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 27 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Antibody Responses in Dengue and Zika Infection

Prof. Gavin Screaton, Imperial College London, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Zoonotic leishmaniosis: don’t put the blame on dogs only

Professor Emanuele Brianti, Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, University of Messina.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Dr Frank Waldron-Lynch: Immune Cell Responses in Participants with Type 1 Diabetes after doses of Interleukin-2 in adaptive-response clinical trials

Host: Dr Louise Boyle (lhb22@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Frank Waldron-Lynch, Division of Experimental Medicine & Immunotherapeutics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Early developmental program shapes colony morphology in bacteria

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Gideon Mamou,

Gideon Mamou, Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

Sanger Room, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 12:15-13:15

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Early developmental program shapes colony morphology in bacteria

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Gideon Mamou,

Gideon Mamou, Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

Sanger Room, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 12:15-13:15

MRC LMB Seminar list

Comparative studies of intrinsically disordered proteins

Professor Jane Clarke, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge .

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 23 January 2017, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

From Cellular Microbiology to Cell Physics investigating host cell response to infection

Hosted by Felix Randow, Speaker: Frank Lafont

Frank Lafont, Institut Pasteur.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 20 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"Dynamic prediction of survival using landmarking in large healthcare databases, with an application in cystic fibrosis"

Dr Ruth Keogh, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 14:30-15:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Mechanical signalling in stem cells and development

Dr Kevin Chalut, WT-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

“Statistical opportunities and challenges in observational health data: Addressing missingness using two-phase sampling for nonresponse: methods and benefits"

Dr Matthew Sperrin, University of Manchester.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 January 2017, 14:30-15:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Complement therapeutics on the crossroads between inflammatory and infectious disease

Professor Wilhelm Schwaeble, Professor of Immunology, University of Leicester.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 11 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Complement therapeutics on the crossroads between inflammatory and infectious disease

Department of Veterinary Medicine Departmental Seminars Lent Term 2017

Professor Wilhelm Schwaeble, Professor of Immunology, University of Leicester.

Department of Veterinary Medicine , Lecture Theatre 2, Refreshments in SCR from 3.45.

Wednesday 11 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Provisional title: "Percentage study weights in meta-analysis and meta-regression"

Professor Richard Riley, Keele University.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 13 December 2016, 14:30-15:30

Immunology in Pathology

Prof Anthony Purcell: New insights into antigen presentation using quantitative immunopeptidomics

Host: Dr Louise Boyle (lhb22@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Anthony Purcell, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 13 December 2016, 12:30-13:30

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Mitochondria-associated ER membranes are immunometabolic hubs that orchestrate the rapid recall response of CD8 T cells

Hosted by Ken Smith, Speaker: Christoph Hess

Christoph Hess.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Monday 12 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Large Animal Models For Retinal Gene Therapy

Prof Simon Petersen-Jones, Myers-Dunlap Endowed Chair in Canine Health, Michigan State University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 07 December 2016, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"T Cell Memory and Exhaustion: Implications for Cancer Immunotherapy"

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Rafi Ahmed

Rafi Ahmed, Emory Vaccine Center.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Tuesday 06 December 2016, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Disease models & droplet-microfluidics to understand IgG antibody biology

Hosted by Leo James, Speaker: Pierre Bruhns

Pierre Bruhns, Institut Pasteur.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 02 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Ten rules for the presentation and interpretation of data in publications”

Hosted by Ken Smith, Speaker: David Vaux

David Vaux, WEHI.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 13:30-14:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

The long journey of hepatitis C virus entry into hepatocytes

Dr Jean Dubuisson, Center for Infection & Immunity of Lille, Université de Lille, France.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The highs and lows of rotavirus vaccines; why don’t they work as well where they are needed most?

Prof Miren Iturriza-Gomara, Institute of Infection and global health, Univeristy of Liverpool.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Immunology in Pathology

Dr Oliver Bannard: Germinal centres; regulation by position and program

Host: Dr Nick Holmes (nh106@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Oliver Bannard, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"A Bayesian analysis of microbiome data"

Dr Sergio Bacallado, University of Cambridge.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 14:30-15:30

Worms and Bugs

Distance metrics in modelling the spatial spread of the 2009 influenza pandemic in the US

Maria Tang & Stephen Kissler, DAMTP.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 25 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“How oncogenes reprogramme inflammation”

Hosted by Maike de la Roche, Speaker: Gerard Evan

Gerard Evan, University of Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 25 November 2016, 13:00-14:00