The virome of insect vectors

Dr Ioannis Karakasiliotis. Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.

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

Thursday 08 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Organoid models for human picornaviruses: from gut to brain

Dr Katja Wolthers. Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands.

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

Thursday 25 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Exploiting the host: viral co-option of RNA modification and decay pathways

Dr Hannah Burgess. University of Surrey, UK..

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

Thursday 18 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

An ancient DNA perspective on virus evolution

Dr Charlotte Houldcroft. Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK.

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

Thursday 27 April 2023, 12:00-13:00

Human inborn errors of immunity: revealing key mechanisms of antiviral immunity

Dr Vanessa Sancho-Shimizu. Imperial College London.

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

Thursday 23 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Double-edged swords: innate and adaptive immune factors that inhibit or promote SARS-CoV-2 entry

Prof. Stuart Neil King's College London.

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

Thursday 09 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Using cryo-EM to unravel bunyavirus native RNPs and endosomal K+ requirement during entry

Dr Juan Fontana Jordán de Urriés. University of Leeds.

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

Thursday 23 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

The interplay between cell cycle and immunity in the setting of viral infection

Dr Petra Mlcochova. Department of Medicine/Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre.

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

Thursday 02 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Systematic discovery of ORFs in ~700 human viruses using massively parallel ribosome profiling

Dr Shira Weingarten-Gabbay. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, USA.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 19 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Infecting under the radar: lentiviral evasion of DNA sensing

Dr Rebecca Sumner (University of Surrey, UK).

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

Thursday 01 December 2022, 12:00-13:00

Zika virus emergence: the African exception

Dr Louis Lambrechts (Institut Pasteur, France).

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

Thursday 03 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

Investigating enteric virus-host interactions in human intestinal organoids

Dr Christiane Wobus (University of Michigan Medical School, USA).

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

Thursday 20 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

The many ways that vaccinia virus interferes with interferon: does monkeypox virus do so too?

Prof. Geoffrey Smith (Department of Pathology. University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 13 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Phenotypic Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Variants

Dami Aderonke Collier.

https://zoom.us/j/3099086970?pwd=NDhZc2ZjUkNaOXQ5SlZha1k2QjVZZz09.

Thursday 30 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

CpG Enrichment as a Vaccine Strategy for Influenza A Virus

Dr Elly Gaunt, The University of Edinburgh.

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

Thursday 16 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Attachment, Uptake and Cytosol Penetration: How non-enveloped viruses enter the cell

Prof. Stephen Harrison.

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

Thursday 19 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

The Role of Mononuclear Phagocytes in Sexual Transmission

Dr Andrew Harman, The University of Sydney.

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

Thursday 05 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Transcription and Genome Replication Machinery of Non-segmented Negative Strand RNA Viruses

Dr Rachel Fearns, Boston University, USA.

https://zoom.us/j/94063949846?pwd=UW8wTlNKR09UTWZqdHBubjlQSGJxUT09.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Systemic Cancer Therapy with Oncolytic Adenovirus

Dr Svetlana Atasheva, Emory University, USA.

https://zoom.us/j/99110614960?pwd=OG1oLzdEMTNvQWQ2VTZmMGo4UFJRZz09.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Ecology and Evolution of Plant and Fungal Viruses

Prof. Marilyn Roossinck, Pennylvania State University.

https://zoom.us/j/97565767222?pwd=WTdERFh2L2ZTUWVNZGtJVFhMekhOdz09.

Thursday 10 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Coronaviruses: activation and antagonism of innate immune response

Prof Susan Weiss (Dept Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, USA).

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3acc3fcb2535da4e97be5f2664d5e1673c%40thread.tacv2/1615452276828?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22d2a81d23-5c22-41c0-990d-f480478a0a4c%22%7d.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

The wonderful world of archaeal viruses

Via Microsoft Teams

Dr Mart Krupovic (Institut Pasteur, Paris).

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3acc3fcb2535da4e97be5f2664d5e1673c%40thread.tacv2/1601401009394?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22d2a81d23-5c22-41c0-990d-f480478a0a4c%22%7d.

Thursday 08 October 2020, 12:00-13:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flavivirus assembly and maturation process

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

LMB MRC.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genetic and Proteomic Approaches to Viral Evasion

Prof. Paul Lehner, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, UK.

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

Thursday 10 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

Structural insights into how picornaviruses infect cells and how we might stop them

Prof. David Stuart, Division of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, UK.

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

Thursday 27 October 2016, 12:00-13:00

Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus as a valuable model system for cancer biology research

Prof. Päivi Ojala, Division of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, UK.

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

Thursday 20 October 2016, 12:00-13:00

Vaccinia virus induces a cytoplasmic DNA damage response to facilitate replication

Dr Antonio Postigo, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.

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

Thursday 06 October 2016, 12:00-13:00

HIV-1 restriction by SAMHD1

Dr Kate Bishop, The Francis Crick Institute, UK.

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

Thursday 16 June 2016, 12:00-13:00

The Nidovirus Connection: from Arteriviruses to MERS-coronavirus, and back

Prof. Eric Snijder, Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands.

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

Thursday 02 June 2016, 12:00-13:00

Noncytotoxic immune control of cytomegalovirus by killer cell proteases

Dr Neils Bovenschen, Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands.

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

Thursday 26 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

Host determinants of HTLV-1 integration

Dr Goedele Maertens, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.

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

Thursday 19 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

Pre-emptive vaccine updates and immunity management: A new strategy for vaccinating against influenza viruses

Prof. Derek Smith, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK.

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

Thursday 12 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

Interferons, paramyxoviruses and host cell interactions: molecular mechanisms and biological consequences

Prof. Rick Randall, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, UK.

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

Thursday 21 April 2016, 12:00-13:00

Flavivirus sensing and signalling

Dr Nolwenn Jouvenet, Department of Virology, Viral Genomics and Vaccination, Pasteur Institute, France.

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

Thursday 17 March 2016, 12:00-13:00

Domestication, imperialism and the emergence of pandemic retroviral infection in small ruminants

Dr Robert Gifford, Centre for Virus Research, MRC / University of Glasgow, UK.

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

Thursday 03 March 2016, 12:00-13:00

Antigenicity of the HPV major capsid protein

Dr Simon Beddows, Virus Reference Department, Public Health England, UK.

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

Thursday 18 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

The long road to global polio eradication

Dr Javier Martin, Division of Virology, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, UK.

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

Thursday 04 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

Why do insects vary genetically in susceptibility to viral infection?

Dr Frank Jiggins, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK.

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

Thursday 21 January 2016, 12:00-13:00

New insights into HIV replication and spread in T cells

Dr Clare Jolly, Division of Infection & Immunity, University College London, UK.

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

Thursday 26 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Human Papillomaviruses: From Infectious Entry to Malignancy

Dr Lawrence Banks, Tumour Virology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy.

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

Thursday 29 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

Role of ISG15 in poxvirus infection in macrophages

Dr Susana Guerra, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health and Microbiology, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain.

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

Thursday 22 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

Veni, vidi, virion: new conquests of hepatitis C virus

Dr Brett Lindenbach, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, USA.

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

Thursday 15 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

Lessons in viral pathogenesis from the barnyard

Prof. Massimo Palmarini, Centre for Virus Research, MRC / University of Glasgow, UK.

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

Thursday 08 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

Host cell ion channels as new anti-viral targets?

Dr Jamel Mankouri, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, UK.

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

Thursday 21 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Trim28 and KRAB-zinc finger proteins silence retrotransposons and cellular genes

Dr Helen Rowe, Division of Infection & Immunity, University College London, UK.

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

Thursday 14 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Structural and functional insights into RNA polymerases from –ve sense RNA viruses

Dr Jonathan Grimes, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK.

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

Thursday 07 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

The APOBEC antiviral response, HPV and Cancer

Dr Tim Fenton, UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, UK.

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

Thursday 30 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

To sense or not to sense viral RNA - essentials of coronavirus innate immune evasion

Prof. Volker Thiel, Institute of Virology and Immunology, University of Bern, Switzerland.

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

Thursday 16 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

Novel proteins encoded by genomes of vector-borne dsRNA viruses and their involvement in innate immune modulation both in the arthropod vector and mammalian host

Dr Houssam Attoui, Arbovirus Molecular Research Group, The Pribright Institute, UK.

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

Thursday 19 March 2015, 12:00-13:00

What we can learn from the structure of viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase complexes

Dr Núria Verdaguer, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, CSIC, Spain.

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

Thursday 05 March 2015, 12:00-13:00

The DNA repair machinery; more than just repairing DNA

Dr Brian Ferguson, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK.

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

Thursday 19 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Poxvirus Entry and Uncoating

Dr Jason Mercer, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, UK.

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

Thursday 05 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Lessons from murine norovirus

Dr Christiane Wobus, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, USA.

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

Thursday 22 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

HIV and Cell Autonomous Innate Immunity: Going under the radar

Prof. Greg Towers, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 12:00-13:00

Structural insights on cell entry of enveloped RNA viruses and the antiviral activities of viperin

Dr Yorgo Modis, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

RNA virus evolution in vitro and in vivo: Monitoring and predicting evolutionary trajectories

Dr Marco Vignuzzi, Viral Populations and Pathogenesis Unit, Institut Pasteur, France.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Regulation of hepatitis C virus by liver-specific microRNA-122

Dr Catherine Jopling, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Immunotherapy for Human Papillomavirus Infections

Professor Ian Frazer, Translational Research Institute, University of Queensland, Australia.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 02 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Integrated processes of induced cellular migration and immune mediated effects in herpesvirus cell-to-cell transmission

Prof. Peter O'Hare, Imperial College London, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Human Papillomavirus Life-Cycle Regulation and Association with Cancer

Dr John Doorbar, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Identification of novel cellular factors regulating Vaccinia virus replication

Dr Pip Beard, The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

Dr Steeve Boulant, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Capturing the spread and evolution of influenza A

Dr Julia Gog, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 12:00-13:00

Viral and cellular membrane fusion proteins: tracking common origins

Prof. Felix Rey, Institut Pasteur.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 13 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Intracellular antibodies: in the wrong place, at the right time

Dr Leo James, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 27 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

RNA aptamers as novel tools to study virus biology

Dr Nicola Stonehouse, University of Leeds.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 13 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

The Cell Biology of Human Cytomegalovirus: Replication Compartments and the Nucleolus

Dr Blair Strang, St George's, University of London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 30 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

Antivirals, still many viruses to go

Prof. Johan Neyts, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Belgium.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 28 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

Solving the m04 paradox: NK cell activation and immune evasion in murine CMV infection

Dr Lars Dölken, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

Life (and death) after the genome

Dr Mike Allen, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 31 October 2013, 12:00-13:00

The avian innate immune system and its modulation by viruses

Dr Michael Skinner, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 12:00-13:00

Dengue drug discovery and vaccine development

Professor Pei-Yong Shi, Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases, Singapore.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 05 September 2013, 15:00-16:00

Nuclear control of viral persistence: The Herpes simplex virus type 1 latency paradigm

Dr Patrick Lomonte, Center for Molecular and Cellular Genetics and Physiology, University of Lyon, France.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Latent HCMV infection - can changes in the latently infected cell be targeted to clear latent infection?

Prof. John Sinclair, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Structural and functional studies on old and newly emerged bunyaviruses

Prof. Richard Elliott, MRC Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Targeting hepatitis C virus particle release through inhibitors of the p7 proton channel

Dr Stephen Griffin, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 02 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Molecular identification of Bluetongue virus, and recent vaccination successes in northern Europe

Prof. Peter Mertens, Vector-borne Diseases Programme, Pribright Institute, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 12:00-13:00

Nuclear control of viral persistence: The Herpes simplex virus type 1 latency paradigm

Dr Patrick Lomonte, Center for Molecular and Cellular Genetics and Physiology, University of Lyon, France.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

Understanding the host range barriers in influenza

Prof. Wendy Barclay, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

Through the bottleneck and what we found there, the adventures of whole viral genome sequencing from clinical material (with apologies to Lewis Carroll)

Prof. Judith Breuer, Division of Infection & Immunity, University College London, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 12:00-13:00

A tale of two viruses: HIV-1 and HIV-2 Gag synthesis, trafficking and assembly

JANE ALLEN SEMINAR

Dr Emma Anderson, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 17 January 2013, 12:00-13:00

Translational control of RNA virus gene expression

Dr Ian Brierley, Division of Virology, University of Cambridge, UK .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 12:00-13:00

CANCELLED - Understanding the host range barriers in influenza

Prof. Wendy Barclay, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 12:00-13:00

Electron cryomicroscopy of enveloped viruses

Dr Juha Huiskonen, Oxford Particle Imaging Centre, University of Oxford, UK .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 12:00-13:00

Targeting host cell genome integrity pathways: Novel mechanisms of HPV persistence.

Dr Jo Parish, School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

BAC: open sesame! to CMV biology

Professor Ulrich Koszinowski, Max von Pettenkofer Inst, Munich.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 28 June 2012, 12:00-13:00

Shall we Dance? Choreographing HIV Proviral DNA Synthesis by Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Dr Stuart Le Grice, NCI-Frederick, USA.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 21 June 2012, 12:00-13:00

How does HSV1 exploit endocytosis?

Dr Gillian Elliott, Imperial College, London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 12:00-13:00

Activation and evasion of pattern recognition receptor signalling by paramyxoviruses

Dr Steve Goodbourn, St George's Hospital Medical School, London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

New insights into cell transforming mechanisms of HTLV-1 Tax using mouse models

Dr Kuan-Teh Jeang National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases, Bethesda, USA.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 12:00-13:00

Mutual viral host interactions controlling cellular and viral gene expression programs

Dr Christian Hagemeier Charite, University of Berlin, Germany.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

The life cycle of influenza viruses

Dr Jeremy Rossman, School of Biosciences, University of Kent.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 12:00-13:00