Friday 20 February 2015

• 13:00 - What about teaching?
  Marco completed a Ph.D. in in the University of Rome and in the UCL followed by post-doctoral research in the MCRI, Surrey and in the LICR in Oxford. He then completed a PGCE in Physics in the IOE, London, and moved on to teach Physics, Science and Maths in Secondary schools.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Marco Pontecorvi (Wheatley Park School)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Wednesday 25 February 2015

• 13:30 - Virus-associated cancers of the aging skin
  Prof. Herbert Pfister (Institute of Virology, University of Cologne, Germany)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Monday 2 March 2015

• 13:00 - Epigenetic pathways and their role in cancer
  Prof. Tony Kouzarides (The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 11 March 2015

• 13:30 - Tissue-specific control of tolerance by Dendritic Cells
  Prof. Thomas Brocker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Germany)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Monday 16 March 2015

• 13:00 - 3D Chromatin interaction dynamics and gene regulation
  Wouter de Laat
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 17 March 2015

• 13:00 - FoldSynth: A physics-based interactive visualisation platform for proteins and other molecular strands
  Prof Frederic Fol Leymarie (Goldsmiths, University of London), Stephen Todd (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 25 March 2015

• 13:30 - Regulation of inflammasome activation
  Dr Mohamed Lamkanfi (VIB Department of Medical Protein Research, University of Ghent, Belgium)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 26 March 2015

• 14:30 - Molecular signals that regulate γδ T cells in human health and disease
  Dr Erin Adams (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 April 2015

• 13:30 - Intracellular DNA sensing mechanisms during pathogen infection
  Dr Andrea Ablasser (Global Health Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 April 2015

• 13:30 - Gate-keepers of the interfollicular area: ILCs as checkpoints for adaptive immune responses
  David Withers (School of Immunity and Infection, University of Birmingham)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 9 April 2015

• 12:30 - Electron microscopy techniques for biomedical research: from the traditional to the cutting-edge
  Dr Errin Johnson (University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Wednesday 15 April 2015

• 13:30 - A20 in inflammatory signaling and pathology
  Dr Geert van Loo (VIB Inflammation Research Centre, University of Ghent, Belgium)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 16 April 2015

• 14:30 - Ageing of haematopoietic stem cells
  PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY
  Gerald de Haan (European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Friday 24 April 2015

• 13:00 - A career within the Innovation Triple Helix
  Dr David Hardman (CEO, Innovation Birmingham Ltd)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Monday 27 April 2015

• 13:00 - Cohesin, enhancers and gene regulation
  Prof. Matthias Merkenschlager (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 28 April 2015

• 13:00 - Population and Rare Diseases Genomics: Any lessons learned about megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation?
  Prof Willem Ouwehand (Professor of Experimental Haematology University of Cambridge & Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and NHS Blood and Transplant)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 29 April 2015

• 13:30 - Endogenous retroviruses and the immune system of the host
  Professor George Kassiotis (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 30 April 2015

• 12:30 - DNA double-strand break repair in immunity and tumour suppression
  Dr Ross Chapman (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 1 May 2015

• 09:15 - Ex vivo characterization of competition during secondary immune responses
  Viveka Mayya (Dustin Group)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Career paths, work/life balance and quality/diversity (Athena Swan - Equality and Diversity Seminar)
  Athena Swan - Equality and Diversity Seminar
  Tudor Fulga (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Irene Roberts (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Professor Marella de Bruijn (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 5 May 2015

• 13:00 - Preferentially targeting Jak2-mutant cells in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN)
  Ann Mullally (Harvard Medical School, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 8 May 2015

• 09:15 - Fast-tracked trials for Ebola vaccines
  Katie Ewer (Hill Group)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 11 May 2015

• 13:00 - Single molecule approaches to intracellular regulation
  Johan Elf (Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 13 May 2015

• 13:30 - MAITS and their mates
  Prof. Paul Klenerman (Peter Medawar Building, NDM, Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 15 May 2015

• 09:15 - The thymus: an evolutionary accident of no great significance?"
  Georg Hollander
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 18 May 2015

• 13:00 - Genome regulation during developmental transitions
  Eileen Furlong (Head: Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory - EMBL)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 19 May 2015

• 13:00 - How does the embryo make haematopoetic stem cells?
  Prof Alexander Medvinsky (Institute for Stem Cell Research, Edinburgh)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 22 May 2015

• 09:15 - PA-X prevents activation of the RIG-I pathway by Influenza A
  Rachel Rigby (Rehwinkel Group)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 26 May 2015

• 09:15 - Defining and predicting the cross-reactivity of the T cell receptor
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Michael Birnbaum (Stanford University School of Medicine, USA)
• 13:00 - Regulation of bone morphogenesis by vascular niche
  Dr. Anjali Kusumbe (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Munster, Germany)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 27 May 2015

• 13:15 - Stem Cells, Clones and Cancer
  Dr Connie Eaves (Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 28 May 2015

• 14:30 - The Atypical Chemokine Receptor ACKR4 Mediates Dendritic Cell Migration during Inflammation
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Friday 29 May 2015

• 09:15 - Approaches for genetic fine-mapping of susceptibility loci to immune-mediated diseases.
  Adrian Cortes (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Wednesday 3 June 2015

• 13:30 - Iron, malaria and the gut microbiome
  Prof. Michael Zimmermann (ETH Zurich)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 5 June 2015

• 09:15 - GM-CSF/ Eosinophil Axis in IL-23-Driven Chronic Intestinal Inflammation
  Dr Isabelle Arnold (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 8 June 2015

• 13:00 - Making Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Backwards and Sideways
  Derrick Rossi (Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 9 June 2015

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  Dr Petter Woll (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Dr Kerol Bartolovic (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 12 June 2015

• 09:15 - BRCA1 in Innate Immunity
  Daniel Gaughan (Simmons Group)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 19 June 2015

• 09:15 - "Evidence of T Cell Driven Selection Pressure in the HIV-1 UTR"
  Katja Pfafferot (McMichael Group)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - From plasmid to patent attorney
  Robert Stephen (Partner, Olswang LLP)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Monday 22 June 2015

• 13:00 - Centrosomes in asymmetric stem cell divisions
  Hosted by Tudar Fulga
  Jordan Raff (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 23 June 2015

• 13:00 - How to build the largest functional domain in the human nucleus
  Professor Brian McStay (Centre for Chromosome Biology, National University of Ireland, Galway)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 14:30 - Peptide exchange on MHC class I molecules mediated by small molecules
  Prof Sebastian Springer (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany)

Wednesday 24 June 2015

• 13:30 - Environmental influences on inflammatory immune responses
  Prof. Brigitta Stockinger (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 26 June 2015

• 09:15 - A lymphatic route for macrophage clearance
  Shaumick Bhattacharjee (Jackson Group)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 11:00 - Mapping protein transport waves in podosome clusters in live immune dendritic cells with image correlation spectroscopy
  Professor Paul Wiseman (Biophysical Chemistry & Biophysics, McGill University)

Monday 29 June 2015

• 13:00 - Immune sensing of vitamin B metabolites
  Jamie Rossjohn (Monash University, Australia)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Friday 3 July 2015

• 09:15 - IFTIM3 Genetic Variation and Influenza Virus Infection
  Henry Laurenson-Schafer (Dong Group) (University of Oxford), Shokouh Makvandi-Nejad (Dong Group) (University of Oxford), Lili Wang (Dong Group) (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 6 July 2015

• 13:00 - The life of breath: stem cells of the adult lung
  Brigid Hogan (Duke University USA )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 8 July 2015

• 13:30 - Immunosurveillance of the Liver by Intravascular Effector CD8+ T Cells
  Dr Matteo Iannacone (San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 9 July 2015

• 12:30 - Benefits and pitfalls of using micro- and nanotechnology in biomedical research assays
  Professor Martin Dufva (DTU Nanotech)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Wednesday 15 July 2015

• 13:00 - Computational Genomics - Analysis and Training (CGAT)
  Dr. David Sims (MRC Functional Genomics Unit, University of Oxford), Dr Andreas Heger (MRC Functional Genomics Unit, University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 16 July 2015

• 14:30 - Forward genetic screens in haploid mammalian stem cells: looking beyond CRISPR/Cas9
  Dr Josep Forment (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 14:30 - Forward genetic screens in haploid mammalian cells: looking beyond CRISPR/Cas9
  Dr Josep Forment (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 20 July 2015

• 13:00 - Defining stem cell states and regulatory networks using single cell genomics
  Dr Bertie Göttgens (Dept of Haematology, Cambridge Inst for Medical Research)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 21 July 2015

• 13:00 - Inferring clonal T cell fates from single-cell transcriptomes
  Dr. Mike Stubbington (EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 27 July 2015

• 13:00 - Hematopoietic stem cell function in stress, disease and ageing
  Professor Emmanuelle Passegué (University of California, San Francisco)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 4 August 2015

• 13:00 - Understanding estrogen receptor activity in breast cancer
  Dr Jason Carroll (Cancer Research UK, University of Cambridge)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 14 August 2015

• 13:00 - Lgr5+ stem cells in epithelial homeostasis and cancer
  Professor Nicholas Barker (Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 25 August 2015

• 13:00 - Molecular investigations into -stem cell- ageing
  Professor Gerald de Haan (University Medical Center Groningen)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 1 September 2015

• 13:00 - The dynamic epigenome - challenges and opportunities for healthy ageing
  Professor Peter Adams (Beatson Institute for Cancer Research & University of Glasgow)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Wednesday 9 September 2015

• 13:30 - Opposing Roles of Obesity on Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  Dr William J Murphy (Dept of Internal Medicine-Division of Haematology/Oncology, University of California)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 10 September 2015

• 13:00 - Immunomodulatory Effects of Malaria Protein PfEMP1
  Natalia Sampaio (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, Australia)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Wednesday 16 September 2015

• 13:30 - Ubiquitin networks in blood pathologies
  Dr Heike Laman (Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 18 September 2015

• 09:15 - Autophagy is Essential for Neutrophil Differentiation – Guiding an Energy-Metabolic Switch
  Simon Group (University of Oxford), Tom Riffelmacher - Simon Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Wednesday 23 September 2015

• 13:30 - Exploring Functional Effects of Genetically Determined Gene Expression: From Inflammation to the DNA Damage Response
  Dr Ben Fairfax (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Tuesday 29 September 2015

• 11:00 - Systems Immunology – Using an Holistic Approach to Understand the Molecular Mechanisms of Immunity
  Dr Helder Nakaya (Assistant Professor - Dept. of Clinical Analyses & Toxicology, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 2 October 2015

• 09:15 - Cellular signalling in T cells is captured by a tractable modular phenotypic model
  Omer Dushek (University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Wolfson College)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 6 October 2015

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Ben Goldacre (Dept of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 7 October 2015

• 13:30 - Cellular Strategies for Airway Maintenance
  Dr Emma Rawlins (MRC Research Fellow, Dept of Pathology, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 9 October 2015

• 09:15 - Genetic Architecture of the Sepsis Response
  Knight Group (University of Oxford), Prof Julian Knight
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Living on the outside (or life in a Biotech company)
  Dr Jonathan Silk (Adaptimmune Ltd., Abingdon)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Monday 12 October 2015

• 13:00 - Analysing the emergence and evolution of bacterial pathogens using high-throughput genomics
  Julian Parkhill (Pathogen Genomics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 13 October 2015

• 13:00 - Dynamic phosphorylation patterns of RNA polymerase II CTD during transcription
  Prof Dr Dirk Eick (Dept of Molecular Epigenetics, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Muenchen, Germany)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 14 October 2015

• 13:30 - What Shapes the Human Immune System?
  Prof Adrian Liston (VIB Autoimmune Genetics Laboratory, Belgium)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Monday 19 October 2015

• 13:00 - Brain energy use and supply in health and disease
  David Attwell (UCL Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 20 October 2015

• 11:00 - Exploiting replication stress to target histone H3K36me3-deficient cancers
  Dr Tim Humphrey (University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Wednesday 21 October 2015

• 13:30 - Functional Adaptations of Thymic APCs for Central Tolerance Induction
  Prof Ludger Klein (AG Thymus Function, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 23 October 2015

• 09:15 - A Tale of Two MGITs: Using mycobacterial growth inhibition assays in TB vaccine and human immune response studies
  McShane Group (University of Oxford), Matt O'Shea (University of Oxford), Rachel Tanner (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 26 October 2015

• 13:00 - Gene Regulatory Networks, Germ Plasm and Rates of Evolution
  Matt Loose (Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Life Sciences, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 27 October 2015

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  Dr Bryony Graham (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM), Dr Neo Wen Hao (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 30 October 2015

• 09:15 - Title TBC
  Bowness Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 2 November 2015

• 13:00 - Metabolic reprogramming in innate immunity and inflammation: prospects for new therpeutics
  Luke O'Neill (Director, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Dublin)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 3 November 2015

• 13:00 - Chromatin repllication and epigenome maintenance
  Dr Anja Groth (Biotech Research & Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 4 November 2015

• 13:30 - Regulation of Immunity in the Allergic Lung
  Prof Clare Lloyd (Prof of Respiratory Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 5 November 2015

• 13:00 - Genetic and epigenetic roots of an autism spectrum disorder
  Professor Adrian Bird (Buchanan Chair of Genetics, University of Edinburgh)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 6 November 2015

• 09:15 - Unnatural Killer Cells
  Andrew McMichael (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), McMichael Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 9 November 2015

• 13:00 - The human retrovirus HTLV-1 alters higher-order chromatin structure in the host cell
  Professor Charles Bangham (Imperial College London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 11 November 2015

• 13:30 - ER Stress and Autophagy Conspiring in the Crohn's Disease Epithelium
  Prof Arthur Kaser (Head, Div of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cambridge University Hospitals)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 12 November 2015

• 12:00 - OIG Post Doc Day
  The event is directed at Post-docs working in immunology at Oxford, but everyone from the University is welcome. This time we have a very special set of guest speakers talking about: • Grant writing from a medical director’s perspective - Professor Alan Silman (Arthritis Research UK’s medical director for 8 years) • Career options for PhD holders: a patent attorney and a medical/scientific writer will be sharing their experiences • Techniques: genomics, CRISPR technology and imaging Registration is free and open to all: http://oig-post-doc-day.eventbrite.co.uk
  TBA
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 13 November 2015

• 09:15 - Autophagy Regulates Intestinal Inflammation by Controlling CD4+ T Cell Homeostasis
  Maloy Group (University of Oxford), Agnieszka Kabat (University of Oxford), Kevin Maloy (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - From Russia with Love: my journey in science
  Science Career Seminar
  Dr Natalia Gromak (Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Monday 16 November 2015

• 13:00 - THIS TALK AS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Peter Cameliet (Chief Operating Officer VIB3 - Vesalius Research, Leuven, Belgium )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 17 November 2015

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  Dr Dimitris Karamitros (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM), Dr Diu Nguyen (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 20 November 2015

• 09:15 - S-FLU
  Alain Townsend (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 23 November 2015

• 13:00 - Transcriptional responses to Ras and Rho
  Richard Treisman (Director - Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 24 November 2015

• 13:00 - Cohesin proteins bridge genome topology and function
  Dr Suzana Hadjur (University College London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 25 November 2015

• 13:30 - Human cytomegalovirus IE1: an enigmatic regulatory protein antagonizing innate immune defense mechanisms mediated by PML nuclear bodies
  Prof. Dr. Thomas Stamminger (Medical Immunology Campus Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 27 November 2015

• 09:15 - A New Way to Control (Some) Infections
  Drakesmith Group (University of Oxford), João Arezes (University of Oxford), Andrew Armitage (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 30 November 2015

• 13:00 - Gene expression oscillations control neural progenitor maintenance and the timing of differentiation
  Nancy Papalopulu (Faculity of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 1 December 2015

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  TBA
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 4 December 2015

• 09:15 - Insights into Immune Responses to Typhoid Using the Ultimate Animal Model
  Pollard Group (University of Oxford), Dr Christoph Blohmke (University of Oxford), Dr Jennifer Hill (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 7 December 2015

• 13:00 - THIS TALK AS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED
  Michele DeLuca (Professor of Biochemistry, Director, Centre for Regenerative Medicine "Stefano Ferrari", University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 8 December 2015

• 11:00 - The identification and characterisastion of disease genes in craniosynostosis
  Viva Seminar
  Aimee Fenwick (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medciine)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Wednesday 9 December 2015

• 13:30 - Cell entry and innate immune recognition of enveloped RNA viruses
  Professor Yorgo Modis (Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 11 December 2015

• 09:00 - Annual Oxford Developmental Biology Symposium in Oxford
  This is a one day meeting from approximately 9am until 4.30. Please email Linda.roberts@imm.ox.ac.uk for further details.
  James Briscoe (The Crick Institute, London), Wendy Bickmore (MRC Human Genetics Unit MRC IGMM, University of Edinburgh Western General Hospital), Makoto Furutani-Seiki (University of Bath), Ita Costello (University of Oxford), Ellie Tzima (University of Oxford), Tilly mommersteeg (University of Oxford), Bin Sun (University of Oxford), Lu Yang (University of Oxford), Peter Hammond (University of Oxford), ELENA SEIRADAKE (University of Oxford)
  Annual Oxford Developmental Biology Symposium in Oxford

Monday 14 December 2015

• 13:00 - Stimulating fetal haemoglobin expression for sickle cell disease
  Dr Mitch Weiss (St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 15 December 2015

• 11:00 - Analysis of transcription factor binding at cis-regulatory elements during blood development and differentiation
  Viva Seminar
  Maria Suciu (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Wednesday 16 December 2015

• 13:30 - ImmTAcs - Can a Biologic Eestablish the Missing Link Between Cancer and T Cells?
  Dr Bent Jakobsen (Chief Scientific Officer, Immunocore)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 18 December 2015

• 10:30 - The Use of Dendritic Cells in Cancer Immunotherapy
  Professor Derek Hart (ANZAC Research Institute, Dendritic Cell Biology and Therapeutics Group, Concord, Australia)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 21 December 2015

• 13:00 - Understanding regulation of zeta-globin transcription as the first step towards embryonic globin induction in pateints with severe alpha-thalassaemia
  Viva Seminar
  Duantida Songdej (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Wednesday 6 January 2016

• 13:30 - A Window into Virus-Host Interactions: The Dividend of Phenotypic Screens
  Professor Ray Chung (Director of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Harvard Medical School, USA )
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 15 January 2016

• 09:15 - Advanced Microscopy Studies of HIV-1 Dynamic Structure and Virus-Cell Interactions
  Jakub Chojnacki (University of Oxford), Eggeling Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 18 January 2016

• 13:00 - Clinical application of gene therapy in Hematology, where do we stand
  Prof Mariana Cavazzana (Hospital Necker Paris)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 19 January 2016

• 13:00 - Mechanisms and function of parental specific heterochromatin in mouse early embryos
  Prof Dr Antoine Peters (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 20 January 2016

• 12:30 - Identification of critical effectors of C/EBPalpha mutant AML - Novel molecular insights and targeting strategies
  Dr. Florian Grebien (CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Vienna, Austria)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:30 - The Role of TL1A/DR3 in Intestinal Inflammation
  Dr Fabio Cominelli (Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Director of the CWRU/UH Digestive Health Centre, USA)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 21 January 2016

• 11:30 - Unraveling the molecular and cellular mechanisms of fetal B cell lymphopoiesis to help understand childhood leukaemia
  Viva Seminar
  Joanna Green (Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 22 January 2016

• 09:15 - Regulatory T Cells in Skin Inflammation
  Powrie Group (University of Oxford), Krista Adelmann (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 10:15 - Unravelling haematopoietic stem cell dysfunction in isolated Del(5q) myelodysplastic syndromes
  Viva Seminar
  Laura Stenson (Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 28 January 2016

• 13:30 - Genome-wide analyses reveal new insights into MLL fusion protein recruitment mechanisms
  Viva Seminar
  Jon Kerry (Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 29 January 2016

• 09:15 - Lipid-specific T cells, filaggrin and atopic dermatitis
  Ogg Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Epigenetic dysfunction and its targeting in haematological malignancies
  Dr Brian Huntly (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 1 February 2016

• 13:00 - Linking senesence and inflammation: the senesence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP)
  Jesus Gil (Hammersmith Hospital)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 4 February 2016

• 13:00 - How a bioinformatics scientist turned entrepreneur
  Dr Fiona Nelson (CEO at DNAdigest and Repositive)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Friday 5 February 2016

• 09:15 - The remarkably low affinity of CD4/pMHC II interactions
  Davis Group (University of Oxford), Mafalda Santos (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - How to be open about the use of animals in scientific research
  Carmel Turner (Chief Press Officer, Medical Research Council)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 8 February 2016

• 13:00 - Harnessing sequencing innovations to identify and implement cancer predisposition genes
  Zazneen Rahman (institute of Cancer Research)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 9 February 2016

• 13:00 - Lineage bias and restriction of haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells
  Viva Seminar
  Joana de Teixeira Carrelha (Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 12 February 2016

• 09:15 - Dissecting the immune response to a human bacterial pathogen
  Cerundolo Group (University of Oxford), Giorgio Napolitani (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 15 February 2016

• 14:30 - Investigating the regulatory consequences of genetics and age on primary immune cell gene expression, DNA methylation and function
  Dr Ben Fairfax (Oxford Cancer Centre, Churchill Hospital)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Wednesday 17 February 2016

• 13:30 - Breaking Bad and Creating Good: Exploiting DNA as an Immune Adjuvant to Treat Cancer and Autoimmune Syndromes
  Professor Andrew Mellor (Professor of Translational Immunology, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 18 February 2016

• 13:15 - The large scale features of chromatin 3D organisation
  Professor Mario Nicodemi (Universita' di Napoli "Federico II", Italy)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 19 February 2016

• 09:15 - MAITs, Nodes and Chips
  Klenerman Group (University of Oxford), Chris Wilberg (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 11:30 - Statistical tools based on latent variable models to understand heterogeneity in single-cell gene expression data
  Dr. Florian Buettner (EMBL, European Bioinformatics Institute)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - From bench to backside: an editor's story
  Dr Yvonne Bordon & Dr Claudio Alves (Editors, Nature Reviews)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Wednesday 24 February 2016

• 13:30 - The Impact of Immunogenetic Variation on Human Health and Disease
  Professor Mary Carrington (Head, HLA Immunogenetics Section, National Cancer Institute, USA)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Single-Cell Systems Biology: The Now and The Next
  Dave Ruff (Visiting Senior Research Fellow & Principal Scientist at Fluidigm)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 25 February 2016

• 13:15 - Genetics and pathophysiology of coronal craniosynostosis revealed by Next-Generation DNA sequencing
  Viva Seminar
  Vikram Pramod Sharma (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 26 February 2016

• 09:15 - What doesn't kill you makes you stronger - how granulocytic MDSCs impact on T cell memory in severe influenza
  Adel Benlarech ((Ho Group))
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - The function and execution of RTEL1 activities at vertebrate telomeres
  Dr Simon Boulton (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 29 February 2016

• 13:00 - Cell death and ubiquitin in cancer and inflammation
  Henning Walczak (Cancer Research UK)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Friday 4 March 2016

• 09:15 - Location, Location, Location: CD8+ T cells and liver-stage malaria
  Hill Group (University of Oxford), Alex Spencer (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - "Career paths, work/life balance and equality/diversity"
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Angela Vincent ((Neurosciences/WIMM), University of Oxford), Professor Katja Simon ((Kennedy Institute) University of Oxford), Professor Paresh Vyas ((MHU/WIMM))
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 7 March 2016

• 13:00 - Molecular anatomy of the brain by large-scale single cell RNA-seq
  Sten Linnarsson (Karolinska Insitute)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 8 March 2016

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Anthony Cheong; Jennifer Chambers; Lucas Greder
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 11 March 2016

• 13:00 - Single-cell analysis of haematopoietic stem cell identity and behaviour
  Dr David Knapp (Terry Fox Laboratory, Vancouver)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 14 March 2016

• 14:00 - Maintenance of spermatogenic stem cell pool by mitogen competition
  Professor Shosei Yoshida (Division of Germ Cell Biology, Okazaki, Japan)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 15 March 2016

• 13:00 - Chaperones turned oncoproteins: calreticulin mutants pathologically activate TpoR and the JAK-STAT pathway in myeloid cancers
  Prof Stefan Constantinescu (Head, Signal Transduction & Molecular Hematology Unit, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brussels, Belgium)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 16 March 2016

• 13:30 - Natural Killer cell receptors and MHC class I ligands in humans and chimpanzees
  Professor Peter Parham (Professor of Structural Biology and of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, USA)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 18 March 2016

• 09:15 - Update from the Cornall group
  Cornall Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - From bench science to a career in science policy
  Dr Georgina Drury (Programme Manager, Medical Research Council)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Monday 21 March 2016

• 13:00 - The control of T cell metabolism and differentiation
  Prof Doreen Cantrell (Wellcome Trust Biocentre)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 22 March 2016

• 13:00 - Cooperative and dynamic organisation of DNA regulatory elements
  Dr Guillaume Orsi (Institut Curie - Centre de Recherche, Paris, France)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 5 April 2016

• 13:00 - DNA repair, NAD+ and mitophagy in neurodegeneration and ageing
  Dr Evandro Fang (National Institutes on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 12 April 2016

• 13:00 - Haematopoietic flow, cell competition and T cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
  Professor Hans-Reimer Rodewald (German Cancer Research Center)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 13 April 2016

• 16:00 - Evolutionary tradeoffs and the geometry of gene expression space
  Professor Uri Alon (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 17:15 - Love and fear in the lab - a guitar talk on the importance of emotions in science
  Professor Uri Alon (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 15 April 2016

• 09:15 - Autophagy defects in monogenic forms of Crohn's Disease
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Sumeet Pandey (Uhlig Group)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:15 - Rewards and challenges in career as a core facility manager
  Stephen Taylor (Head of Computational Biology Research Group, WIMM), Christoffer Lagerholm (Manager of Wolfson Imaging Facility, WIMM)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Tuesday 19 April 2016

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Julia Truch; Martin Larke; Eleni Louka
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 22 April 2016

• 09:15 - A role for LYVE-1 in the lymphatic dissemination of hyaluronan encapsulated Group A Streptococci
  Prof David Jackson (WIMM HIU)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 25 April 2016

• 13:00 - Targeting aberrant transcriptional and epigenetic networks for AML treatment
  Professor Eric So (Head, Leukaemia and Stem Cell Biology Group, King’s College London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Targeting aberrant transcriptional and epigenetic networks for AML treatment
  Professor Eric So (Head, Leukaemia and Stem Cell Biology Group, King’s College London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 14:30 - Restriction of HIV-1 and HIV-2 infection in myeloid and lymphoid cells
  Lise Chauveau (Pasteur Institute)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 26 April 2016

• 13:00 - Single cell gene expression dynamics
  Professor Jonathan Chubb (MR Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 27 April 2016

• 13:30 - A role for toll-like receptors in the regulation of cellular senescence
  Dr Juan Carlos Acosta (MRC Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 29 April 2016

• 09:15 - Exploring mechanisms of NOD2 function in innate immunity
  Daniele Corridoni (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Noncoding RNA regulation of myeloid transcription factors, DNA methylation and leukaemia
  Daniel G Tenen (Cancer Science Institute, National University of Singapore)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 3 May 2016

• 13:00 - Haematopoietic stem cells in development and disease
  Dr Katrin Ottersbach (MR Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 4 May 2016

• 13:00 - Crosstalk between RNA processing and chromatin remodelling as a modulator of genome integrity
  Dr Andres Aguilera (Department of Genetics, University of Seville, Spain)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 5 May 2016

• 13:30 - Lymphocyte population dynamics and genetic susceptibility to autoimmune disease
  Prof Rose Zamoyska (Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, Edinburgh University)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 6 May 2016

• 09:15 - A vaccine against Salmonella for Africa. Opportunities and Challenges
  Prof Cal Maclennan
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 9 May 2016

• 13:00 - Control of stem cell fate in mammalian epidermis
  Fiona Watt (Kings College, London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 11 May 2016

• 01:30 - Immunotherapy with dendritic cell nanovesicles
  Prof Jonathan Sprent (Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 13 May 2016

• 09:15 - Virus restriction and beyond: an update on SAMHD1
  Prof Jan Rehwinkel (WIMM HIU), Jonathan Maelfait, Tamara Davenne (WIMM, HIU)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Science in the midst of Surf and The Bay: Biotech Culture and Careers in California
  Dave Ruff (Visiting Senior Research Fellow & Principal Scientist at Fluidigm)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Monday 16 May 2016

• 13:00 - Chemotaxis using self-generated gradients - planning your own route works better than waiting for a signal
  Prof Robert Insall (CR-UK Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 19 May 2016

• 15:00 - The roles of the atypical chemokine receptors, ACKR2, in cancer
  Prof. Gerry Graham (Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Glasgow)

Friday 20 May 2016

• 09:15 - Resolving TYK2 locus genotype-to-phenotype conflict reveals therapeutic optimum for autoimmunity
  Dr Calliope A Dendrou
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 23 May 2016

• 13:00 - Signalling, cell biology, and rhomboids
  Prof Matthew Freeman (Dunn School of Pathology)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 24 May 2016

• 13:00 - Single-cell analysis of Blimp1+ cell types at the maternal-foetal interface
  Dr Andrew Nelson (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 27 May 2016

• 09:15 - To bnAb or not to bnAb- Are Tregs the answer?
  Dr Isabela Pedroza-Pacheco (Borrow Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - HSC developmental diversity
  Professor Elaine Dzierzak (MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 31 May 2016

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Cristina di Genua; Florian Bonkhofer; Alexander Thomas
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 3 June 2016

• 09:15 - B Cell autophagy and lupus
  Alexander Clarke (Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 6 June 2016

• 13:00 - Regulation of lymphocyte development by RNA binding proteins
  Martin Turner (Babraham Institute, Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 7 June 2016

• 13:00 - Insights into inherited susceptibility to B-cell malignancies
  Professor Richard Houlston (Institute of Cancer Research, London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 8 June 2016

• 13:30 - From Broadly Neutralising Antibodies to a New Mechanism of Diversification
  Professor Antonio Lanzavecchia (Director, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Bellinzona, Switzerland )
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 10 June 2016

• 09:15 - MAIT cell agonists: a novel class of adjuvants?
  Dr Mariolina Salio (MRC Human Immunology Unit, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 13 June 2016

• 14:00 - Meiosis, recombination, and the origin of a species
  Peter Donnelly
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 14 June 2016

• 13:00 - Novel mechanisms and therapies in acute myeloid leukaemia
  Professor Tim Somervaille (Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 15 June 2016

• 13:30 - Using super-resolution microscopy to watch immune cells kill
  Prof Dan Davis (Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series
• 15:15 - A systems biology approach to identifying drug targets and predicting therapeutic outcomes in myelodysplasia and acute myeloid leukaemia
  Ass. Professor John Pimanda (Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW, Australia)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 16 June 2016

• 11:00 - Thymic development of Mucosal-Associated Invariant T (MAIT) cells
  Dr Daniel Pellicci (Research Fellow, University of Melbourne)

Friday 17 June 2016

• 09:15 - An update on investigation of IFITM3-rs12252C and its association with influenza virus infection
  Henry Laurenson-Schafer (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 20 June 2016

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Martin Pule (Cancer Institute, UCL)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 21 June 2016

• 13:00 - The first human immortalised cell line generated from adult erythroid cells
  Dr Jan Frayne (School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 24 June 2016

• 09:15 - Understanding the cellular response to atherogenic lipid
  Dr Anil Chalisey (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 27 June 2016

• 13:00 - Inflammasomes dysbiosis and human disease
  Richard Flavell (Yale University School of Medicine)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 28 June 2016

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Juan Pablo Ruiz; Zahra Aboukhalil; Marieke Oudelaar
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 29 June 2016

• 13:30 - Development of the AGM region in the chick embryo
  Dr Tom Schultheiss (Dept of Genetics & Developmental Biology, Technion-Israel Inst of Technology, Haifa)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 4 July 2016

• 13:00 - Chromosome DNA strand break repair and genetic disease
  Keith Caldecott (Deputy Director, Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 6 July 2016

• 13:30 - The twisted paths between Iron and Inflammation
  Prof Martina Muckenthaler (Dept of Paediatric Oncology, Haematology, Immunology & Pulmonology, University of Heidelberg)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 8 July 2016

• 13:00 - Management of Ph+ AML Current and Future
  Professor Oliver Ottman (Division of Cancer & Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 11 July 2016

• 13:00 - Genome structure, gene expression and phenotypes
  Alex Reymond (Director, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 12 July 2016

• 13:00 - Clinical and molecular studies of congenital dyserythropoietic anaemia type 1
  Professor Hannah Tamary (Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 13 July 2016

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
• 13:30 - The transparent editorial process, data reproducibility and research integrity at EMBO Press
  Dr Roberto Buccione (EMBO Molecular Medicine, EMBO Press, Heidelberg)

Tuesday 26 July 2016

• 13:00 - Cellular and gene therapy for erythroid disorders: opportunities and challenges
  Dr Raffaele Renella (Hemato-Oncologue Pediatre FMH, Lausanne, Switzerland)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 8 September 2016

• 14:00 - Breaking the in vitro impasse: human lung small airway-on-a-chip for clinical translation
  Dr Kambez Benam (Wyss Institute, Harvard University)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 9 September 2016

• 13:00 - Bioinformatics Tools and Pitfalls with single-cell Data
  Davis McCarthy (EMBL-EBI)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 12 September 2016

• 13:00 - Characterising transcriptional heterogeneities during cellular differentiation
  Professor Fabian Theis (Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Germany)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 13 September 2016

• 11:00 - Role of DNA damage signaling machinery in innate immune regulation
  Professor Nelson Gekara (Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 23 September 2016

• 09:15 - Bones, BMPs and bad B cells: a new approach to multiple myeloma
  Sarah Gooding (Drakesmith Group)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 30 September 2016

• 09:15 - Germinal centers: programmed for antibody affinity maturation
  Dr Oliver Bannard (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - From the Bench to Computer Science
  Jim Hughes (MRC WIMM), Dominic Waithe (MRC WIMM)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Monday 3 October 2016

• 13:00 - Molecular Instruments
  Professor Niles Pierce (California Institute of Technology)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 4 October 2016

• 13:00 - Introducing GSK Discovery Partnerships with Academia - Innovative Medicines from integrated industry-academia partnerships
  Dr Andrew Pearce (GSK Medicines Research Centre, Stevenage)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 7 October 2016

• 09:15 - Re-examining the role of CD2 in the immunological synapse
  Professor Mike Dustin (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 10 October 2016

• 13:00 - Regulation of distinct states of stem cells during development and regeneration
  Shahragim Tajbakhsh (Institut Pasteur, Paris)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 12 October 2016

• 13:30 - Improving the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy
  Prof Benoit Van den Eynde (Tumor Immunology Group, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 13 October 2016

• 16:00 - NGS-Sig
  Dr Thomas Smith (CGAT, University of Oxford), Dr Margarita Schlackow (William Dunn School of Pathology, Univeristy of Oxford)

Friday 14 October 2016

• 09:15 - Development of a Vaccine against Zika Virus
  Dr Cesar Lopez-Camacho (Reyes-Sandoval group)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Nuclear inositide pathways: Phospholipase C signalling and initiation of cancer
  Professor Lucio Cocco (Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 17 October 2016

• 13:00 - En route to mending broken hearts
  Paul Riley (Dept of Physiology, Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 18 October 2016

• 13:00 - Eavesdropping on embryonic development with multimodal imaging
  Dr Scott Fraser (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 14:30 - Mechanisms controlling intestinal IgA production
  Dr Andrea Reboldi (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 21 October 2016

• 09:15 - Impact of oxygen and time on virus replication
  Prof Jane McKeating (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 25 October 2016

• 12:00 - Molecular mechanisms regulating human pluripotent stem cell differentiation
  Dr Siim Pauklin (Wellcome Trust-MRC Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - Single cell analysis of the bone marrow niche identifies novel regulators of haematopoietic regeneration
  Dr Lev Silberstein (Dept of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 28 October 2016

• 09:15 - Evolution of Seasonal Influenza
  Townsend Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 31 October 2016

• 13:00 - Delivering precision medicine: are we ready yet?
  Richard Marais (Cancer Research UK, Manchester Institute)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 15:00 - Mucosal Associated Invariant T cells: Friend or Foe?
  PLEASE NOTE THE DATE (Monday 31st) and time (3pm) - not the usual slot
  Professor James McCluskey (University of Melbourne)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 2 November 2016

• 13:30 - DAMPening Autoreactivity at the First Tolerance Checkpoint
  Prof Garnett Kelsoe (Duke University School of Medicine)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 4 November 2016

• 09:15 - Approaches to immune target validation and prioritisation leveraging genetics
  Dr Hai Fang (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Science and KBO
  Professor Hal Drakesmith (MRC Human Immunology Unit)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Monday 7 November 2016

• 13:00 - Light on the dark side of the genome - lessons from T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
  Marc Mansour (UCL)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 8 November 2016

• 13:00 - DNMT3A in normal and malignant haematopoiesis
  Dr Margaret Goodell (Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 11 November 2016

• 13:00 - Career paths, work/life balance and equaity/diversity
  Athena Swan - Equality and Diversity Seminar
  Dr Rui Monteiro, Dr. Lynn Quek & Professor Catherine Porcher (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 14 November 2016

• 13:00 - Characterising genetic causes of bone marrow failure
  Tom Vulliamy (Queen Mary University of London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 15 November 2016

• 13:00 - What is the reproducibility crisis in science and what can we do about it?
  Professor Dorothy Bishop (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 21 November 2016

• 13:00 - Control of B cell immunity and leukaemia by the transcription factor Pax5
  Meinrad Busslinger (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 22 November 2016

• 13:00 - Use of single cell transcriptomics to study blood stem cells formation
  Dr Christophe Lancrin (EMBL Monterotondo Mouse Biology Unit, Monterotondo, Italy)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 25 November 2016

• 09:15 - The Secret Life of HLA-E
  Dr Simon Brackenridge (University of Oxford), Lucy Walters (University of Oxford), Professor Sir Andrew McMichael (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Planning your career: what helps?
  Dr Bill Dunn (Oxford Learning Institute), Dr Rachel Bray (Oxford University Careers Service)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Tuesday 29 November 2016

• 13:00 - Stem cell dynamics in homeostasis and cancer
  Dr Edward Morrissey (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 1 December 2016

• 11:00 - New approaches to the investigation of the interactions between enhancers and promoters during haemopoiesis
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Dr James Davies (Prof Doug Higgs' Group, Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:30 - Targeting leukemia by lipid specific T cells
  Dr Giulia Casorati (Experimental Immunology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 2 December 2016

• 09:15 - Plasma membrane lipids: a passive or active environment?
  Prof Christian Eggeling (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Long-distance interactions in gene expression control: function and regulation by the 3D genome's architecture
  Dr Francois Spitz (Dept of Developmental Biology & Stem Cells, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 5 December 2016

• 13:00 - 3D Chromatin Folding Determines Pathogenicity of Structural Variations
  Stefan Mundlos (Max Planck Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 6 December 2016

• 13:00 - Exploring the role of SCF at the onset of haematopoiesis
  POSTPONED TO THE NEW YEAR
  Emanuele Azzoni (MRC MHU, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 15:00 - PD-1 cancer immunotherapy
  Professor Gordon Freeman (Harvard Medical School)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 December 2016

• 13:30 - Antibody Responses in Dengue and Zika Infection
  Prof Gavin Screaton (Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 8 December 2016

• 09:00 - Annual Oxford Developmental Biology Symposium
  This is a one day meeting from approx 9am until 4.30am with two external speakers and approx 10 local speakers to give an interesting blend of topics. Registration is £10. Please email Linda.roberts@imm.ox.ac.uk for further details.
  Shane Herbert (University of Manchester), Marysia Placzek (University of Sheffield)
  Annual Oxford Developmental Biology Symposium in Oxford

Wednesday 14 December 2016

• 13:30 - IFITM3 Regulation of Viral Pathogenesis
  Prof Ian Humphreys (Systems Immunity Research Institute, Cardiff University)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 December 2016

• 11:00 - Lineage commitment and chromatin dynamics
  Professor Frank Grosveld (Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - The role of elements binding CTCF and Cohesin in directing tissue-specific enhancer activity
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Lars Hanssen (Prof Doug Higgs' Group, Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 12 January 2017

• 11:00 - Cell type-specific Runx1 enhancer-reporter mouse lines to study hemogenic endothelium
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Christina Rode (Prof Marella de Bruijn's Group, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 16 January 2017

• 13:00 - Transcriptional programmes of leukaemic fusion genes: from “omcis” to drugs
  Olaf Heidenreich (Newcastle University)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 17 January 2017

• 13:00 - AML genetics, forward and reverse
  Dr George Vassiliou (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 18 January 2017

• 13:30 - From happiness on twitter to the genome: Network based integrative approaches in epigenomics
  Dr Vera Pancaldi (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 20 January 2017

• 09:15 - A reexamination of Fc receptor triggering
  Dr James Felce (University of Oxford), Dr Erdinc Sezgin (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Wednesday 25 January 2017

• 13:00 - Genetic and epigenetic determinants of blood cells and links to human disease
  Professor Nicole Soranzo (The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 26 January 2017

• 11:30 - The genetic and epigenetic principles of V(D)J recombination during B cell development
  Dr Hashem Koohy (Babraham Institute, Cambridge)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 27 January 2017

• 09:15 - Understanding and targeting human Th17 cells in inflammatory diseases
  Dr Liye Chen (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - A career in science outside of the lab: science administration and funding policy
  Dr Ruth McCaffrey (RDM)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Monday 30 January 2017

• 13:00 - Structure and function of K2P and PKD ion channels, targets for pain and polycystic kidney disease
  Professor Liz Carpenter (SGC, NDM, Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 31 January 2017

• 13:00 - How replication impediments impair epigenetic memory
  Dr. Julian Sale (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 1 February 2017

• 13:30 - A DaNGeRous talk about dendritic cells
  Professor Caetano Reis e Sousa (Immunobiology Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 3 February 2017

• 09:15 - A novel cytokine-stromal cell axis that promotes pathogenic intestinal inflammation
  Dr Nathaniel West (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 6 February 2017

• 13:00 - The challenge of translating new therapies to patients for Parkinson's Disease
  Roger Barker (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Friday 10 February 2017

• 09:15 - Collective T cell decisions during immune responses
  Dr Audrey Gérard (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 17 February 2017

• 09:15 - The positive and negative selection of B cells during ontogeny
  Xijin Xu (Cornall group) (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 20 February 2017

• 13:00 - Dynamic interactions of healthy and malignant haematopoietic stem cells with the bone marrow microenvironment
  Cristina Lo Celso (Imperial College London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 21 February 2017

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Yavor Bozhilov; Laura Godfrey; Andrew King (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 22 February 2017

• 13:30 - Pathogenesis of arbovirus-induced diseases: role of follicular dendritic cells
  Professor Massimo Palmarini (Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 24 February 2017

• 09:15 - Monocyte-derived macrophages and pulmonary fibrosis
  Emily Fraser (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - The windy road of a scientific career - “connecting the dots looking backwards”
  Dr Namir Hassan (Immunocore Ltd)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Monday 27 February 2017

• 13:00 - Chromosome 21: its critical role in childhood leukaemia (other than Down Syndrome)
  Christine Harrison (Newcastle University)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 28 February 2017

• 13:00 - A view of haematopoietic development and disease from the Petri dish
  Dr. Andrea Ditadi (San Raffaelle Scientific Institute, Milan)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 2 March 2017

• 13:00 - Proteomic modeling of erythropoiesis
  Dr Marjorie Brand (Sprott Center for Stem Cell Research, University of Ottawa)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 3 March 2017

• 09:15 - Control of meningitis: induction of functional antibody against Neisseria meningitidis
  Dr Christine Rollier (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 7 March 2017

• 13:30 - Congenital dyserythropoietic anaemias: from clilnical manifestations to molecular pathogenesis
  Achille Iolascon (Dept of Molecular Medicine & Medical Biotechnology, University of Naples, Italy)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 10 March 2017

• 09:15 - Analysis of arginine metabolism in AML blasts and T lymphocytes provides insights into tumour immune escape strategies
  Andreas Hadjinicolaou (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 13 March 2017

• 13:00 - Identification of a novel DNA replication protein mutated in microcephalic primordial dwarfism
  Professor Grant Steward (University of Birmingham)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Friday 17 March 2017

• 09:15 - Innate activation of gut-homing T cells
  Tianqi Leng (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Wednesday 22 March 2017

• 13:00 - LMO2 protein complexes driving haematopoietic cell fate and leukaemogenesis
  Dr Trang Hoang (Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC), Montreal, Canada)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:30 - Goldilocks & 3 Tales of the Immune System
  Professor Sophie Hambleton (Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 23 March 2017

• 11:15 - "A common functional role of SCL and LYL1 in red cell and platelet production”
  Prof David Curtis (Monash University, Australia)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 28 March 2017

• 13:00 - Computational approaches to gene expression and regulation in blood cells and cancer
  Professor David Westhead (Head of the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 30 March 2017

• 14:00 - Single-cell RNAseq NGS-SIG
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 4 April 2017

• 13:00 - Evolution of tissue-specific enhancers across mammals
  Dr Duncan Odom (CRUK Cambridge Institute & WT Sanger Institute, Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 7 April 2017

• 14:30 - A role for immune cells in sterile injury
  Professor Paul Kubes (Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 April 2017

• 13:30 - New cancer immunotherapy strategies: the host is the target
  Dr Tobias Janowitz (University of Cambridge)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Monday 24 April 2017

• 13:00 - The A to Zika of Guillain-Barre syndrome
  Hugh Willison (University of Glasgow)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 25 April 2017

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Tomasz Dobrzycki; Akiko Hashimoto; Dominic Owens (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 15:00 - Novel Technologies For Rapid Generation Of Custom-Designed Animal Models
  Dr Matthew Wheeler (Associate Director of European Markets Cyagen Biosciences GmbH)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 April 2017

• 13:00 - Assessing the effect of single nucleotide variants on the expression of key human genes
  Professor Merlin Crossley (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 28 April 2017

• 09:15 - Analysis of gonorrhoea in coastal Kenya
  Dr Ana Cehovin (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 11:00 - CHD7 in CHARGE: the implications of neural crest specific regulation of chromatin remodeller CHD7 in CHARGE syndrome
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Günes Taylor (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - A career as a Patent Attorney
  Dr Kapil Tuladhar (JA Kemp)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Tuesday 2 May 2017

• 13:00 - Dysregulated haematopoiesis in chronic inflammatory diseases
  Dr. Thibault Griseri (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 5 May 2017

• 09:15 - Rejuvenation of the aged adaptive immune response and the discovery of a novel autophagy pathway
  Hanlin Zhang ((Simon Group) University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 8 May 2017

• 13:00 - Regenerative medicine by somatic stem cells: the paradigm of epithelial stem cells
  Michele De Luca (University of Modena and Teggio Emilia, Italy)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 15:30 - Pluripotent stem cells to model human hemato-lymphoid development
  Professor Dan Kaufman (Dept of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 9 May 2017

• 13:00 - Aberrant chromatin programming in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
  Professor Constanze Bonifer (Institute for Cancer & Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 10 May 2017

• 13:30 - A novel pathway controlling metabolite sensing and ILC function in the intestine
  Dr Tim Willinger (Karolinska Institutet)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 11 May 2017

• 13:00 - Jordan Translational Medicine Lecture 2017. “Cancer immunotherapy by blockade of the lymphocyte surface receptor PD-­‐1”
  Professor Tasuku Honjo (Kyoto University)

Friday 12 May 2017

• 09:15 - A novel innate immune pathway induces antigen presentation to CD8+ T cells
  Dr Daniele Corridoni (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Wednesday 17 May 2017

• 13:30 - Exploiting neo-antigens for cancer immunotherapies
  Dr John Castle (Senior Director - Computational Biology & Genomics, AGENUS )
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 18 May 2017

• 09:30 - Highly multiplexed imaging of tissues with subcellular resolution by imaging mass cytometry
  Dr Hartland W. Jackson (Laboratory of Prof. Bernd Bodenmiller, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland )
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 19 May 2017

• 13:00 - From Academia to Biotech Account Management
  Dr Clare Marchant (Miltenyi)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Monday 22 May 2017

• 13:00 - Stem cell niches in bone marrow
  Sean Morrison (Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern, Dallas, USA)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 23 May 2017

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Hannah Ralph; Helen Doolittle; Helena Francis (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 24 May 2017

• 13:30 - When MAITs matter – microbial defence and drug modulation
  Dr Sidonia Eckle (The University of Melbourne)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 26 May 2017

• 13:00 - "The role of histone demethylase LSD1/KDM1A in zebrafish haematopoiesis"
  Makoto Kobayashi (University of Tsukuba)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 30 May 2017

• 13:00 - Towards the understanding of molecular mechanisms of epigenetic reporgramming in vivo
  Dr. Petra Hajkova (MRC Institute of Medical Sciences, London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 2 June 2017

• 09:15 - Defence and Counter-Defence: The interplay between Zika virus and innate immunity
  Jonny Hertzog (Rehwinkel Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 5 June 2017

• 13:00 - Evasion and chromatin-mediated silencing in HIV infection
  Paul Lehner (University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine)

Tuesday 6 June 2017

• 13:00 - MRC Translational Activities and Opportunities
  Dr. Alex Pemberton (Medical Research Council, London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 9 June 2017

• 09:15 - Coincidence detection tailors macrophage responses to inflammatory signals
  Jelena Bezbradica Mirkovic (KTRR SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 12 June 2017

• 13:00 - Transcriptional and epigenetic control of inflammatory gene expression
  Gioacchino Natoli ( Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 13 June 2017

• 13:00 - GATA2 zinc finger interactions with DNA and FOG1 are structurally encoded
  Dr Sarah Nurmohamed (Division of Structure Biology, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 14 June 2017

• 13:30 - Rare diseases as tools to understand autoimmunity
  Professor Olle Kämpe (Karolinska University Hospital)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 16 June 2017

• 09:15 - Interactions between HIV-1 and the mucosa of the female genital tract; The structure and function of HIV-2 nef – why is it not a T-cell target?
  Professor Sarah Rowland-Jones (Professor of Immunology, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford), Dr Sophie Andrews (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Thursday 22 June 2017

• 13:00 - Glioblastomas: A Tale of Stem Cells, Dedifferentiation and Transdifferentiation
  Inder Verma (The Salk Institute)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 23 June 2017

• 09:15 - Iron and malaria: austerity works. Strong and stable adaptive immunity: yet more irony.
  Andrew Armitage (University of Oxford), Joe Frost (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - From Academia to Medical Communication
  Berit Sund (dna Communications), Dr Rebecca Bachmann (dna Communications)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Monday 26 June 2017

• 13:00 - The power of adoptive T cell therapy
  Thomas Blankenstein (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin)

Tuesday 27 June 2017

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Akiko Hashimoto; Michael Weinberger, Catherine Garnett, Carolline Telfer (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 28 June 2017

• 16:00 - Targeting DNA Repair in Cancer Therapy
  NB: this meeting will take place on a Wednesday instead of a Monday
  Alan D'Andrea (Harvard Medical School, Dana-Barber Cancer Institute, Boston)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Friday 30 June 2017

• 09:15 - Analysis of immune checkpoint receptors on T cells indicates the design of mono-and combinatorial blockade cancer immunotherapy
  Xi Li ((Dong Group) University of Oxford), Chi Zhang ((Dong Group) University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 3 July 2017

• 13:00 - Reconstructing Gene Regulation Networks from Single Cell Data
  Michael Stumpf (Imperial College London)

Friday 7 July 2017

• 15:00 - Using NKT Cell Antigens as Vaccine Adjuvants
  Professor Ian Hermans (Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, New Zealand)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Monday 10 July 2017

• 13:00 - Stroma in the evolving tumour microenvironment: modulators of immune dysfunction?
  Jacqueline Shields (University of Cambridge )

Tuesday 11 July 2017

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Christopher Booth; Alba Rodriguez Meira, Caroline Harrold (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 12 July 2017

• 10:30 - A new approach for single cell whole genome amplification
  TBA
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 14 July 2017

• 13:00 - Characterizing the molecular identity of dormant hematopoietic stem cells
  Dr Florian Buettner (EMBL)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 20 July 2017

• 14:30 - BRC G-Mi Monthly Seminar
  Various Speakers
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Tuesday 5 September 2017

• 13:00 - Metabolism, control of cell fate decisions, and stem cell renewal
  Dr Keisuke Ito (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 12 September 2017

• 13:00 - Dynamic remodelling of the haematopoietic stem cell niche
  Dr Owen Tamplin (Dept of Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 19 September 2017

• 12:00 - The biology of ELTD1/ADGRL4: a novel regulator of tumour angiogenesis
  VIVA SEMINAR
  David Favara (Department of Molecular Oncology, MRC WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - Development, maintenance and function of tissue resident macrophages
  Dr Elisa Gomez Perdiguero (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 22 September 2017

• 09:15 - En route to deep profiling of tumour-specific MHC-associated peptidomes by mass spectrometry
  Dr Nicola Ternette (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - “Insights into Hematopoiesis and Aging from the Rhesus Macaque Model”
  Cynthia Dunbar (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 25 September 2017

• 13:00 - The role of miRNA haploinsufficiency in MDS pathogenesis
  Dr Aly Karan (BC Cancer Agency – Genome Sciences Centre, Vancouver)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 26 September 2017

• 13:00 - Mechanotransduction in physiology and cardiovascular disease
  Professor Ellie Tzima (Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 27 September 2017

• 13:30 - Inflammation at the interface: dendritic cell coordination of Type 2 immunity
  Prof. Andrew S. MacDonald (University of Manchester)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 29 September 2017

• 09:15 - Structural and regulatory diversity shape HLA-C protein expression levels
  Dr Gurman Kaur ((Fugger Group) University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 2 October 2017

• 13:00 - Regulation of Inflammation by non-coding RNAs and nucleic acid binding proteins
  Please note this is a Litchfield Lecture
  Professor Kate Fitzgerald (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 16:00 - "Identifying the key function of MeCP2 via genetic manipulation in mice"
  TBA
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 3 October 2017

• 13:00 - Understanding regulatory variation in humans through variable chromatin modules
  Dr Bart Deplancke (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 6 October 2017

• 09:15 - Broadly protective influenza vaccines
  Professor Alain Townsend (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 9 October 2017

• 13:00 - How efficient is modern medicine
  Professor Peter Rothwell (Action Research Chair of Neurology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Friday 13 October 2017

• 09:15 - Exploring peroxisomes - an advanced microscopy study
  Dr Silvia Galiani (University of Oxford), Dr Katharina Reglinski (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 16 October 2017

• 13:00 - Laboratory of Angiogenesis and Vascular Metabolism,Vesalius Research Center, Leuven
  Professor Peter Carmeliet (Laboratory of Angiogenesis and Vascular Metabolism, (former) Vesalius Research Center, now VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 17 October 2017

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 20 October 2017

• 09:15 - How to PERK up your iNKT cells: A novel mechanism of iNKT cell activation via ER-stressed APCs
  Melissa Bedard (Cerundolo Group) (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - “CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing: Defining Genome-wide Activity for Therapeutics”
  Shengdar Tsai (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 23 October 2017

• 13:00 - Does evasion of innate sensing explain pandemic potential of primate lentiviruses in humans
  Professor Greg Towers (Infection and Immunity, University College London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 24 October 2017

• 13:00 - The emergence of erythropoiesis from the early haematopoietic hierarchy: a single cell-RNA-seq approach
  Assoc Prof Merav Socolovsky (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 26 October 2017

• 13:00 - As a mouse in a maze: Finding a group leader position
  Dr Alfredo Castello Palomares (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Friday 27 October 2017

• 09:15 - Activation of human innate-like T cells by adenovirus vectors
  Dr Nicholas Provine (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - How LAB282 accelerates Oxford drug discovery
  Thomas Hank (Evotec)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 30 October 2017

• 13:00 - The first ten hours in the life of the frog
  Sir Jim Smith (Director of Science, Wellcome Trust, 215 Euston Road, London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 31 October 2017

• 13:00 - Exploring the mechanisms of haematopoietic lineage progression at the single-cell level
  Professor Ana Cvejic (WT-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 1 November 2017

• 13:30 - Asymmetric signaling endosomes in asymmetric division
  Professor Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan (University of Geneva)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 10:00 - “Definition and Analysis of an MLL-AF4 Gene Regulatory Network”
  Ross Thorne (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 6 November 2017

• 13:00 - Mitochondrial DNA disease: challenges and solutions
  Professor Sir Doug Turnbull (Professor of Neurology, Newcastle University )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 7 November 2017

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 10 November 2017

• 09:15 - Gp130 defects as cause of immunodeficiency and craniosynostosis
  Dr Dominik Aschenbrenner ((Uhlig Group) University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Fostering the next generation of scientists: Could we do better?
  Dr Gary McDowell (Executive Director, Future of Research)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Monday 13 November 2017

• 13:00 - Zika virus interactions with host cells and tropism
  Dr Alain Kohl (MRC Programme Leader, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 14 November 2017

• 13:00 - Visualisation in biology: much more than pretty pictures
  Dr. Monica Zoppe (Institute of Clinical Physiology-CNR, Pisa, Italy)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 13:30 - Catch me if you can – illuminating the onset of adaptive immunity
  Professor Robert Tampé (Goethe University Frankfurt)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 17 November 2017

• 09:15 - Dendritic cell migration in the lymphatics – new insights into biology and mechanisms
  Dr Louise Johnson ((Jackson Group) University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 21 November 2017

• 13:00 - Forward programming and gene editing: the tools for making blood cells with added clinical benefit
  Dr Cedric Ghevaert (Cambridge Blood Centre, Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 24 November 2017

• 09:15 - The unfolding story of HLA-E (G.Gillespie/L.Walters) & Showing restraint: NK cell regulation of HIV-1 broadly neutralising antibody induction (I.Pedroza-Pacheco)
  Dr Geraldine Gillespie (University of Oxford), Lucy Walters (University of Oxford), Dr Isabela Pedroza-Pacheco (Borrow Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Chopping and changing: from microtome to drug hunter
  Dr. Adrian Moore (Senior Principal Scientist at UCB pharma)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Tuesday 28 November 2017

• 13:00 - Mechanisms behind mammalian early embryogenesis in vitro and in vivo
  SEMINAR POSTPONED TO THE NEW YEAR DUE TO ILLNESS
  Prof Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz (Mammalian Embryo & Stem Cell Group, University of Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 29 November 2017

• 13:30 - Catch me if you can – illuminating the onset of adaptive immunity
  Professor Robert Tampé (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 12:30 - “Molecular Regulation and Function of GATA2 in the Programming of Haemogenic Endothelium”
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Tomasz Dobrzycki (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 14:30 - Discovery of Novel and Misfit Lipids that Control Human Macrophage Activation and T cell Response
  Professor Branch Moody (Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 1 December 2017

• 09:15 - Bacterial sensing through ILC2 presentation of endogenous CD1a lipid antigens
  Dr Clare Hardman ((Ogg Group) University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 4 December 2017

• 13:00 - Synthetic genetics: beyond DNA and RNA
  Professor Philipp Holliger
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 5 December 2017

• 12:00 - Biotagging, a genetically encoded toolkit in the zebrafish, reveals novel non-coding RNA players during neural crest and myocardium development
  Vanessa Mae Ren CHONG (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - DNA methylation of transcribed CpG islands depends on their transcriptional activity during differentiation and disease
  Dr. Danuta Jeziorska (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 14 December 2017

• 11:30 - Identification of Novel Runx1 Targets Involve in HSC Development
  Florian Bonkhofer (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 15 January 2018

• 13:00 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR AS BEEN CANCELLED
  Sebastian Amigorena (Institute Curie, Paris)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 17 January 2018

• 11:00 - "Collaboration of Ezh2 and Runx1 Inactivating Mutations in Malignant Haematopoiesis”
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Chris Booth (MRC Weatherall Institute Molecular Medicine)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 12:00 - "The role and impact of Del(5q) and TP53 mutations on haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells during progression of Myelodysplastic Syndromes to Acute Myeloid Leukaemia”
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Helen Doolittle (MRC Weatherall Institute Molecular Medicine)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:30 - Self perception by natural killer cells
  Professor Petter Höglund (Karolinska Institutet)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 19 January 2018

• 09:15 - Close encounters of the B-T kind: Dock8 and the lack of memory
  Dr Mukta Deobagkar-Lele (Cornall Group, University Of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 26 January 2018

• 09:15 - Targeting the immune checkpoint receptor BTLA in autoimmunity and cancer
  Chris Paluch (Davis Lab, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 11:30 - Next generation sequencing to identify new genetic causes of familial craniosynostosis
  Akiko Hashimoto (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR IS ON A FRIDAY. Title: Morphogenesis: from whole organism integration to biophysical principles
  PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR IS ON A FRIDAY
  Professor Maria Leptin (EMBO Director)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Friday 2 February 2018

• 09:15 - Cytotoxic T cells send death in an envelope’
  Dr Stefan Balint (NDORMS, Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - "Is hard work enough to be successful?" A perspective from experiences in Government, Business and Health Care
  Millie Banerjee (NHS Blood Transfusion)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 5 February 2018

• 13:00 - Metabolic reprogramming in innate immunity and inflammation: prospects for new therapeutics
  Luke O’Neill (Inflammation Research Group School of Biochemistry and Immunology Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute Trinity College Dublin)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 6 February 2018

• 13:00 - Targeting splicing in myeloid neoplasms - from bench to bedside
  Professor David Steensma (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 7 February 2018

• 13:30 - Control of signal-driven gene expression in innate and adaptive lymphocytes
  Dr Rahul Roychoudhuri (Babraham Institute, Cambridge)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 9 February 2018

• 09:15 - Potential for HIV Cure/Remission in Paediatric Infection
  Prof. Philip Goulder (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 13 February 2018

• 13:00 - Student presentations
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 16 February 2018

• 09:15 - Pathogenic immune responses in spondyloarthritis
  Dr Hussein Al-Mossawi (Bowness Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 19 February 2018

• 13:00 - Toasting the genome - How alcohol and endogenous aldehydes damage stem cells
  Professor KJ Patel (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 20 February 2018

• 13:00 - How chromatin organises in mammalian cells - lessons from 3D super-resolution microscopy
  Dr. Lothar Schermelleh (Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 21 February 2018

• 13:30 - Targeting immune regulation within tumours
  Professor Sergio Quesada (University College London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 22 February 2018

• 13:00 - 'The role of DOT1L in MLL-AF4 leukaemia’
  Viva Seminar
  Laura Godfrey (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 23 February 2018

• 09:15 - Single cell deconvolution of the intestinal mesenchyme in inflammatory bowel disease
  Dr Hannah Chen (Simmons Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 27 February 2018

• 13:00 - Enhancers of Sonic hedgehog gene expression and making long distance relationships work
  Professor Robert Hill (MRC Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 2 March 2018

• 09:15 - Defining the involvement of monocytes in lung fibrosis
  Prof Ling-Pei Ho (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Career seminar: "Life beyond academia: the charity sector, funding bodies, clinical trials and beyond...”
  Dr Sumithra Subramaniam (Cancer Research UK (CRUK))
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Monday 5 March 2018

• 13:00 - KEAP1-NRF2 Antioxidant Response System and Sickle Cell Anemia
  Professor Masayuki Yamamoto (Department of Medical Biochemistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 6 March 2018

• 13:00 - Gene therapy for hemoglobinopathies: where we are and future perspectives
  Professor Giuliana Ferrari (San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Milan, Italy)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 7 March 2018

• 13:30 - Metabolic adaptation as a protective strategy against infectious diseases
  Dr Miguel Soares (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 8 March 2018

• 12:00 - “Regulating Pol II transcription for genome stability”
  Dr Taka Nojima (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 9 March 2018

• 09:15 - Cytoskeletal control of antigen dependent T-cell activation
  Dr Huw Colin-York (Fritzsche Group, University of Oxford )
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 12 March 2018

• 13:00 - Airway epithelia under attack: influenza, interferons and pollutants
  Andreas Wack (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 13 March 2018

• 09:15 - Analysis of a gain-of-function mutation that produces a new transcriptional unit in the α-globin locus
  Viva Seminar
  Yavor Bozhilov (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, MRC WIMM)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - Student presentations
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 20 March 2018

• 13:00 - How do gene families evolve?
  Ed Tunnacliffe (MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 27 March 2018

• 13:00 - Single Cell Data Analysis Using Partek Flow
  Ivan Lukic (Partek Inc), Alison Hargreaves (Partek Inc)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 13 April 2018

• 12:00 - The Nature of Nurture
  Professor Augustine Kong (Big Data Institute, University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 19 April 2018

• 13:00 - “Immortal Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Their Epigenetic Regulation”
  Margaret (“Peggy”) Goodell (Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 23 April 2018

• 09:00 - Oxford Single Cell Symposium 2018
  Speakers so far confirmed are: Wolf Reik (Babraham Institute); Ido Amit (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  Various Speakers
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 24 April 2018

• 12:45 - Student presentations
  Please note earlier start time for these presentations
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 25 April 2018

• 13:00 - Elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying the endothelial to hematopoietic transition
  Viva Seminar
  Lucas Greder (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 27 April 2018

• 09:15 - Enhanced immunogenicity of mitochondrial localised proteins in cancer cells
  Dr Gennaro Prota (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Life beyond academia: the charity sector, funding bodies, clinical trials and beyond
  Dr Sumithra Subramaniam (Cancer Research UK (CRUK))
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Wednesday 2 May 2018

• 13:30 - Human gamma delta T cells – unconventionally adaptive
  Professor Benjamin Willcox (University of Birmingham)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 4 May 2018

• 09:15 - Change and Judgement: B Cell Receptor Exchange and Screening in Germinal Centres
  Isabelle Stewart (Bannard Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 11 May 2018

• 09:15 - Characterising inter-individual variation in transcriptional response to checkpoint inhibitors across a patient cohort
  Dr Ben Fairfax (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 14 May 2018

• 13:00 - Fine Tuning the CTL response: from genes to membranes
  Prof Gillian Griffiths (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 15 May 2018

• 12:45 - Student presentations
  Please note earlier start time for these presentations
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 18 May 2018

• 13:00 - "Career paths, work/life balance and equality/diversity"
  Anne Bridgeman (University of Oxford), Mira Kassouf (University of Oxford), Tiago Luis (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 21 May 2018

• 13:00 - Novel mechanisms of tumour-stroma crosstalk
  Prof Erik Sahai (Crick Institute)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 22 May 2018

• 13:00 - Charting the cellular and molecular journey of single stem cells in ageing and cancer
  Dr David Kent (Wellcome/MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 25 May 2018

• 09:15 - Exploring DNA sensing with genome-wide CRISPR screens
  Jan Rehwinkel (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 11:00 - CANCELLED: Translating Immunity: Literally
  Professor Jon Yewdell (Chief, Cellular Biology Section, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, USA)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Tuesday 29 May 2018

• 13:00 - Novel metabolic regulators of haematopoietic stem cell biology and leukaemic transformation
  
  Kamil Kranc (MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh )
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 4 June 2018

• 13:00 - Origins, Evolution and treatment of childhood leukaemia
  Professor Tariq Enver (Stem Cell Laboratory, University College London Cancer Institute)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 5 June 2018

• 13:00 - Asynchronous T and B lineage priming condition commitment in fetal hematopoietic progenitors
  Professor Ana Cumano (Institut Pasteur, France)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 6 June 2018

• 13:30 - Litchfield Lecture - "MR1-Restricted T Cells and Mycobacterium tuberculosis"
  Professor David Lewinsohn (Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 8 June 2018

• 09:15 - IL-23 responsive, commensal-reactive T cells promote barrier immunity; Uncovering microbial drivers of inflammatory disease
  Dr Emily Thornton (Powrie Group, University of Oxford), Dr Lilian Lam (Powrie Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Intellectual property in Academia
  Dr Philip Webber (Partner at Dehns)

Monday 11 June 2018

• 13:00 - Exploring non-coding variants at two loci associated with developmental abnormalities of the macula
  Prof Veronica van Heyningen (UCL)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 12 June 2018

• 13:00 - Targeting autophagy and metabolic dependencies in leukaemic stem cells
  Vignir Helgason (Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre, University of Glasgow)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 15 June 2018

• 09:15 - Iron, infants and adaptive immunity
  Dr Andrew Armitage (Drakesmith Group, University Of Oxford), Joe Frost (Drakesmith Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 18 June 2018

• 13:00 - New Levels of complexity in Arp2/3 driven actin polymerisation
  Dr Michael Way (The Crick Institute, London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 19 June 2018

• 13:00 - Using single-cell technologies and planarians to study stem cells, their differentiation and their evolution
  Jordi Solana (Dept of Biological & Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 22 June 2018

• 09:15 - Genetic association analysis across tree-structured routine healthcare data
  Dr Adrian Cortes (Fugger Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 26 June 2018

• 13:00 - Controlling mouse HSC function and myelopoiesis in vivo
  Claudia Waskow (TU Dresden, Germany)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 28 June 2018

• 14:00 - Characterising the Role of the Novel C-type lectin Receptor CD302 in Dendritic Cell Migration
  Dr Pablo Silveira (University of Sydney)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 29 June 2018

• 09:15 - Genomic approaches to understanding the dysregulated host response in sepsis
  Prof Julian Knight
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 2 July 2018

• 11:00 - Genome Editing of Stem Cells: Moving Towards the Clinic
  Dr. Matthew Porteus (Stanford University, School of Medicine)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - Interpreting the CpG island signal
  Prof Rob Klose (University of Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 15:00 - Migraine – a real headache for science patients and society
  Dr. Danny Bar Zohar (Novartis Pharma AG)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 6 July 2018

• 09:15 - Statins – the good and the bad: What microscopy tells us
  Dr Dilip Shrestha (Eggeling Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 10 July 2018

• 11:00 - In vivo imaging of adaptive immune responses to pathogens and tumors
  Dr Matteo Iannacone (San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 September 2018

• 13:00 - “Disentangling the interconnected roles between DNA repair, NAD+, and mitophagy in ageing and neurodegeneration”
  Dr. Evandro F. Fang (University of Oslo )
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 10 September 2018

• 11:30 - “Elevation of D133p53b isoform expression - a mechanism for wild type p53 to cause cancer”
  Professor Antony Braithwaite (School of Medicine, University of Otago)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:45 - "The three-dimensional regulatory landscapes of the globin genes”
  TBA
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 11 September 2018

• 13:00 - How to switch on human genes
  Prof Patrick Cramer (Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemsitry)
  Jordan Translational Medicine Lecture
• 16:00 - “The Notch signaling pathway – simple in design but diverse in function”
  Professor Urban Lendahl (Karolinska Institutet)
  Litchfield Lecture

Tuesday 18 September 2018

• 13:00 - Employing CRISPR to understand neurodegenerative disease in human induced pluripotent stem cells
  Dr Andrew Bassett (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 19 September 2018

• 13:30 - Ebola: Molecular epidemiology, transcriptomics, acquired immunity & vaccines
  Professor Miles Carroll (Public Health England)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 20 September 2018

• 16:00 - The organization and function of immune cell plasma membranes
  Dr Ilya Levental (McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas - Houston)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 21 September 2018

• 09:15 - Regulation of natural killer T cell responses in bacterial infection and rheumatoid arthritis
  Professor Mitch Kronenberg (La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 28 September 2018

• 09:15 - The lymphatics: a gateway to immune responses and cancer metastasis
  Dr Louise Johnson ((Jackson Group) University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Embracing Fear and Rejection – How I become an Editor
  Dr Carolina Perdigoto (Nature Communications)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Monday 1 October 2018

• 13:30 - Finally: empty class I molecules
  Prof Sebastian Springer (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 5 October 2018

• 09:15 - In depth analysis of poorly enhancing but potently neutralizing antibody against dengue virus
  Wanwisa Dejnirattisai (Screaton Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 8 October 2018

• 13:00 - RAS, from cancer to development (and back)
  Prof Hélène Cavé (Institut Universitaire d'Hématologie, Hôpital Robert Debré )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Friday 12 October 2018

• 09:15 - “The weakness of the enemy makes our strength”: exploiting SAMHD1 mutations to kill cancer cells
  Tamara Davenne (Rehwinkel Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 15 October 2018

• 13:00 - Mechanisms controlling homeostasis in mammalian epidermis
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Fiona Watt (Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, KCL & CE MRC)
  Jordan Translational Medicine Lecture
• 13:00 - THIS SEMINAR HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED - Mechanisms controlling homeostasis in mammalian epidermis
  THIS SEMINAR HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED 2018 Craig Jordan Lecture
  Professor Fiona Watt (Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, King's College London)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Wednesday 17 October 2018

• 13:30 - Unexpected roles of tissue-localized macrophages in the developing CNS
  Dr Yosuke Mukoyama (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 19 October 2018

• 09:15 - Genome organisation and chromatin analysis identify transcriptional downregulation of insulin-like growth factor signalling as a hallmark of aging in the developing B cells
  Dr Hashem Koohy (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 23 October 2018

• 11:00 - CANCELLED: Vector-mediated prophylaxis against airborne infectious viruses
  Professor Maria Limberis (University of Pannsylvania)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Discovery of cellular and molecular targets to extend hematopoietic healthspan
  Dr Jennifer Trowbridge (The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 24 October 2018

• 14:00 - Advanced single-molecule imaging of cellular proteins, from surface to nucleus
  Dr Aleks Ponjavic (University of Cambridge)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 26 October 2018

• 09:15 - Exploring the immunology in autoantibody mediated diseases of the central nervous system
  Associate Professor Sarosh Irani (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 29 October 2018

• 13:00 - Salmonella persisters during infection
  Dr Sophie Helaine (Imperial College, London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Thursday 1 November 2018

• 13:30 - Epithelial damage and tissue gd T cells promote a unique tumour-protective IgE response
  Dr Greg H Crawford (Imperial College London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 2 November 2018

• 09:15 - MAITs at work: tales from down under
  Prof. Paul Klenerman (Peter Medawar Building, NDM, Oxford), Dr Timothy Hinks (Oxford Respiratory Unit, NDM), Dr Sarah Sasson (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 5 November 2018

• 13:00 - The Genomic Epidemiology of Emerging Viruses: Disease X, Yellow Fever, and Zika
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Oliver Pybus (Zoology Department, University of Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 7 November 2018

• 13:30 - Pathologically distinct fibroblast subsets drive inflammation and tissue damage in arthritis
  Professor Christopher Buckley (University of Birmingham)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 9 November 2018

• 09:15 - When hitting one affects many - The expanding spectrum of GP130-associated Mendelian diseases
  Dr Hebe Chen (University of Oxord)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - CANCELLED - Inspiring the young generation of scientists - Equality and Diversity Seminar
  Professor Marianne Bronner (California Institute of Technology)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 12 November 2018

• 13:00 - Molecular mechanisms to cope with endoplasmic reticulum stress
  Prof David Ron (CIMR, University of Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 13 November 2018

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  TBA
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 14:30 - Targeting subcellular trafficking behaviour for the design of therapeutic antibodies
  Professor E. Sally Ward (University of Southampton)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 16 November 2018

• 09:15 - Follicular connections: bloody Tfh cells in sight
  Elena Brenna (McMichael Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 19 November 2018

• 13:00 - The Role of Protein Complexes in Human Genetic Disease
  Dr Joe Marsh (University of Edinburgh)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 20 November 2018

• 13:00 - Balancing cell potency and specification in stem cells and in the early embryo
  Dr Veronique Azuara (Institute of Reproductive & Developmental Biology, Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 21 November 2018

• 09:15 - “How does leukaemia disrupt hematopoiesis?” Viva Seminar
  Viva Seminar
  TBA
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:30 - A Ready Made killer: Preconfiguration of the chromatin landscape and fate determination for virus-specific CD8+ killer T cells
  Professor Stephen Turner (Monash University)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 23 November 2018

• 09:15 - Spontaneous and targeted disruption of thymus development and function: Lessons learnt
  Wei Wu (Holländer Group, University of Oxford), Ioanna Rota (Holländer Group, University of Oxford), Prof Georg Holländer (Department of Paediatrics,University of Oxford), Stanley Cheuk (Holländer Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 14:30 - Molecular intricacies of T-cell receptor autoreactivity towards CD1 molecules presenting self-lipids
  Dr Adam Shahine (Monash University, Melbourne)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Monday 26 November 2018

• 13:00 - JAK/STAT signalling, stem cell subversion
  Professaor Tony Green (Director, Wellcome Trust/MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 27 November 2018

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  TBA
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 28 November 2018

• 13:30 - The transcriptional regulation of mucosal tolerance
  Professor Graham Lord (King's College London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 30 November 2018

• 09:15 - Translational impact of single cell studies of the skin
  Dr Yi-Ling Chen (MRC Human Immunology Unit, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 3 December 2018

• 13:00 - Detoxifying and improving doxorubicin for different and better anti-cancer treatment
  Prof Jacques Neefjes (LUMC, Leiden NL)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 4 December 2018

• 11:00 - Salmonella species as initiators of gallbladder and colon carcinoma
  Professor Sjaak Neefjes (Leiden University)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Understanding early mouse and human development
  Dr Magdalana Zernicka-Goetz (University of Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 6 December 2018

• 12:00 - VIVA -Modelling Arterial and Haemogenic Endothelium Development from Mouse and Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
  JUAN RUIZ VILLALOBOS (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 7 December 2018

• 09:00 - Annual Oxford Developmental Biology Symposium
  Supported by the J.W.Jenkinson Memorial Fund. Fee, including lunch: £15. To register or for more information please contact Katherine.mcneil@dpag.ox.ac.uk. Organisers: Roger Patient, Marella de Bruijn, Paul Riley, Liz Robertson, Shankar Srinivas and Sarah De Val
  Professor Nancy Papalopulu (The University of Manchester), Professor Steve Wilson (UCL), Irina Lupu (Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford), Dr Markus Toegel (WIMM), Professor Alison Woollard (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford), Professor Greger Larson (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford), Marieke Oudelaar (WIMM), Professor Andrew Gillis (University of Cambridge), Dr Ruth Williams (WIMM), Dr Oliver Stone (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG)), Anna Senft (Dunn School), Professor Andy Greenfield (MRC Harwell)
  Annual Oxford Developmental Biology Symposium in Oxford
• 09:15 - DeCRYPTing epithelial barrier breakdown in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  David Fawkner-Corbett (Simmons group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 10 December 2018

• 11:30 - VIVA - “Fine tuning gene expression levels in mammalian cells with engineered microRNA target sites”
  Yale Michaels (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 12:45 - VIVA - “Phenotyping and Genotyping characterisation of Juvenile Myelomonocytic leukaemia”
  Eleni Louka (University of Oxford)
• 14:30 - VIVA - “Cancer cell killing using engineered antibody fragments”
  Jennifer Chambers (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 11 December 2018

• 13:00 - From the immune system to cancer: 53BP1 cooperation with the Rev7-Shieldin complex underpins DNA structure-specific non-homologous end joining
  Dr Ross Chapman (Head of Genome Integrity Laboratory, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 13 December 2018

• 09:30 - VIVA "Characterising early human lympho-myeloid harmatopoetic progenitors and their relationship with acute myeloid leukaemia stem cells"
  Zahra Aboukhalil (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 12:00 - VIVA - "Acquired Alpha Thalassaemia in Myelodysplastic Syndrome"
  Pak Leng Cheong (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:30 - VIVA - ‘The molecular and cellular basis for oncogene collaboration in acute myeloid leukaemia’
  Cristina Di Genua (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 14 December 2018

• 13:00 - CAREER SEMINAR “A story of development and differentiation – from red blood cells to career moves”
  Dr Maria Suciu (Genomics plc)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 18 December 2018

• 13:00 - VIVA - "Evaluating selfish spermatogonial selection and its role in human disease"
  Hannah Ralph (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 8 January 2019

• 13:00 - VIVA - "Role of the chromatin remodeler ATRX in the regulation of gene expression"
  Julia Truch (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 14 January 2019

• 13:00 - Reconstructing the immune system using single cell RNA sequencing
  Prof Muzlifah Haniffa (Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 15 January 2019

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 16 January 2019

• 13:30 - Molecular archaeology of cancer
  Dr Peter Van Loo (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 18 January 2019

• 09:15 - An essential role for the Zn2+ transporter ZIP7 in B cell development
  Professor Richard Cornall (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 11:00 - Accessories to the crime: functions of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment
  Dr Arianna Calcinotto (Institute of Oncology Research, Bellinzona, Switzerland)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Monday 21 January 2019

• 13:00 - CAREER SEMINAR: “Tales from our WIMM Job Club – University Teaching and Analytical Support to Industry”
  Lucy Eddowes (Costello Medical), Emma Jones (University of Sheffield)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Tuesday 22 January 2019

• 13:00 - The human centromere, a paradigm in chromatin-based epigenetic inheritance
  Dr Lars Jansen (Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 30 January 2019

• 13:30 - Uncovering the enigmatic role of IL-33 in GI inflammation and cancer
  Professor Theresa Pizarro (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 1 February 2019

• 09:15 - Developing a Bead Supported Lipid Bilayer System to Study the dynamics of receptor-ligand pair interactions at the immune synapse and their resulting inclusion in synaptic ectosomes
  Pablo Cespedes (Dustin Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 4 February 2019

• 13:00 - Chromosome Replication: From Mechanism to Misregulation in Cancer
  Prof John Diffley (The Francis Crick Institute)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 6 February 2019

• 13:30 - Cellular mechanics of B cell responses
  Dr Pavel Tolar (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 8 February 2019

• 09:15 - A re-examination of B-cell receptor triggering
  Martin Wilcock (Davis/Cornall Groups, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 11 February 2019

• 13:00 - Sex chromosome functions in development and disease
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 12 February 2019

• 13:00 - Mechanisms controlling homeostasis in mammalian epidermis
  Prof Fiona Watt (Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, KCL & CE MRC)
  Jordan Translational Medicine Lecture

Friday 15 February 2019

• 09:15 - Identifying HLA-E and CD94/NKG2a as an inhibitory receptor-ligand in cancer'
  Megat Bin Abd Hamid (Dong Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - "Living with uncertainty: The joy of being wrong”
  TBA
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 19 February 2019

• 13:00 - Stem cells and differentiation in myelodysplastic syndromes
  Professor Eva Hellstrom Lindberg (Dept of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 22 February 2019

• 09:15 - Autophagy, hematopoietic stem cells, and amino acids
  Dr Sandrine Obba (Simon Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 25 February 2019

• 13:00 - Utilising the totality of mutagenesis for clinical purposes
  Dr Serena Nik-Zainal (Sanger Institute, Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 26 February 2019

• 13:00 - Spatial In Vivo Transcription Profiling with Single-Molecule Imaging
  Dr Antti Lignell (Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 27 February 2019

• 13:30 - Inferring epitope-specific T-cell receptor sequence motifs from immune repertoire sequencing data
  Dr Mikhail Shugay (Skoltech, Russian Medical State University, Moscow, Russia)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 1 March 2019

• 09:15 - Examining pulmonary interstitial macrophage heterogeneity and self-renewal potential
  Dr Laura Denney (Ho Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 4 March 2019

• 13:00 - Cellular plasticity, cellular heterogeneity and single cell sequencing
  Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 5 March 2019

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Benjamin Fairfax (Molecular Oncology, MRC WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 7 March 2019

• 16:00 - A Human Liver Cell Atlas: Revealing Adult Liver Progenitors by Single-Cell RNA-sequencing
  If you would like to speak to Dominic before his talk contact edward.morrissey@imm.ox.ac.uk
  TBA
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 8 March 2019

• 09:15 - Hydrothermal vents, T cells and immunometabolism
  Professor Hal Drakesmith (MRC Human Immunology Unit), Joe Frost (Drakesmith Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 12 March 2019

• 13:00 - Regulation of dormant hematopoietic stem cells
  Dr Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid (Max-Planck-Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 13 March 2019

• 13:30 - Identification of relevant antigenic targets for successful liver cancer immunotherapy
  Professor Anna Pasetto (Karolinska Institutet)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 15 March 2019

• 09:15 - Up-close-and-personal characterisation of antigen-specific T cell responses to immunotherapy treatment in melanoma patients
  Victoria Woodcock (Cerundolo Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - TBA - Equality and Diversity seminar
  Jo Pisani (PwC Strategy)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 19 March 2019

• 13:00 - Exploring the role of RNA modifications in myeloid leukaemogenesis
  Dr Konstantinos Tzelepis (WT-CRUK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 20 March 2019

• 13:30 - “How to Write a Histone Code”
  Professor David Shechter (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 22 March 2019

• 09:15 - SIMON, an automated machine learning system reveals immune signatures of influenza vaccine responses
  Dr Adriana Tomic (Institute for Immunity, Stanford University)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Dr. Jesse Toe - Business Development and Technology Transfer at Cancer Research UK
  Dr. Jesse Toe (Cancer Researck UK)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Tuesday 26 March 2019

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 27 March 2019

• 13:30 - Dissecting the role of programmed cell death-1 receptor (PD-1) in the immune system
  Dr Shoba Amarnath (Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 28 March 2019

• 16:00 - Organisation and turnover of developmental regulatory elements in Metazoan genomes
  If you would like to speak to Prof. Lenhard, please contact supat.thongjuea@imm.ox.ac.uk
  Prof. Boris Lenhard (Imperial College London)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 2 April 2019

• 13:00 - Repression of gene expression by Groucho/TLE family proteins during development and disease
  Dr Barbara Jennings (Dept of Biological & Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 5 April 2019

• 09:15 - Regulation of endogenous retroviruses
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Akiko Iwasaki (Yale University School of Medicine)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 10 April 2019

• 11:30 - Democratising Live-Cell Compatible High-Speed Super-Resolution Microscopy
  Professor Ricardo Henriques (University College London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 12 April 2019

• 13:00 - "Challenges to understanding the lateral organization and mobility of plasma membrane components"
  Prof. Ken Jacobson (UNC Chapel Hill )
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 23 April 2019

• 13:00 - Functional dissection of the 3D genome
  Elzo de Wit (The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 29 April 2019

• 13:00 - Neurodegeneration: mechanism to medicines
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Giovanna Mallucci (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 30 April 2019

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 1 May 2019

• 13:30 - Protective and pathogenic effects of type I interferon: lessons from human genetics
  Dr Christopher Duncan (Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Tuesday 7 May 2019

• 13:00 - Rewriting the mammalian cell ’source code’
  Professor Tudor Fulga (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 9 May 2019

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Monday 13 May 2019

• 13:00 - A genetic and structural basis for immune variation and the implications for vaccination
  Prof Adrian Hayday (King's College London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 14 May 2019

• 13:00 - Asymmetric stem cell division to tissue engineering
  Dr Shukry Habib (Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, King's College London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 14:00 - "Editing the human genome with programmable and tunable zinc finger nucleases"
  Adrian Woolfson (Sangamo), Ed Rebar (Sangamo)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 17 May 2019

• 09:15 - Stratifying Genetic Risk in Multiple Sclerosis
  Dr Kathrine Attfield (Fugger Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 20 May 2019

• 13:00 - "Pooled CRISPR/Cas9 genetic screening: methods, applications and an unexpected finding"
  If you would like to speak to Bernhard, please contact Philip philip.hublitz@ndcls.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Bernhard Schmierer (Karolinska Institute )
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 21 May 2019

• 13:00 - Genetic determinants of context specific gene expression and DNA methylation in primary human monocytes
  Dr Benjamin Fairfax (Dept of Oncology, WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 22 May 2019

• 13:30 - The human leukaemia virus HTLV-1: chromatin structure, epigenetics and regulation of latency
  Professor Charles Bangham (Imperial College London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 24 May 2019

• 09:15 - Proteasomal cut-and-pasting: a small splice of the class I peptide pie?
  Dr Wayne Paes (Borrow Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 28 May 2019

• 13:00 - Surveying structural variation landscapes in single cells by strand-specific sequencing reveals complex genomic rearrangements in T-ALL
  Dr Ashley Sanders (Genome Biology Unit, EMBL, Heidelberg)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
• 14:30 - Glycolipid-peptide vaccination induces liver-resident memory CD8+ T cells that protect against malaria
  Professor Gavin Painter (Ferrier Research Institute, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 30 May 2019

• 14:00 - cGAS STING signalling in cancer
  Dr Eileen Parkes (Health Sciences Bldg, Queens University Belfast)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 31 May 2019

• 09:15 - Novel Roles for Hyaluronan and its Receptors in Lymphatic Trafficking
  Jackson Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 3 June 2019

• 13:00 - Engineering genomes, karyotypes and the dark matter of the human genome
  Dr Jef Boeke (NYU Langone Medical Center)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 4 June 2019

• 11:00 - Sweet Drug Delivery Systems: Heparosan-based Enhancers for Protein & Liposomal Therapeutics
  Professor Paul DeAngelis (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series
• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Various Speakers
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 5 June 2019

• 13:30 - Energy metabolism in macrophage plasticity and inflammatory disease
  Dr Jacques Behmoaras (Department of Medicine, Imperial College London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 7 June 2019

• 09:15 - Host-microbial cross-talk in the intestine in health and disease
  Dr Nicholas Ilott (Powrie Group, University of Oxford), Yisu Gu (Powrie Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 10 June 2019

• 13:00 - Changing Neighbours: bone marrow remodeling during ageing and age-related myeloproliferative disorders
  Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Friday 14 June 2019

• 09:15 - Dynamics of resident memory B cell responses in the lung
  Andrew Maclean (Arnon Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 17 June 2019

• 13:00 - How human cells defend their cytosol against bacterial invasion
  Dr Felix Randow (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 19 June 2019

• 13:30 - Airway Macrophage phenotypic and metabolic alterations during lung fibrosis
  Dr Adam Byrne (Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 21 June 2019

• 09:15 - Systematic co-stimulation of human CD8+ T cells through CD27, 4-1BB, GITR and OX40 differentially regulates cytokine production
  John Nguyen, Dushek Group, University of Oxford
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - The 2019 MRC WIMM Diversity in Science award winners - Career Paths and Work/Life Balance
  Jill Brown (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Erdinc Sezgin (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 24 June 2019

• 13:00 - Cytokine interference in immunity to infection with a focus on tuberculosis
  Prof Anne O'Garra (The Francis Crick Institute)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 26 June 2019

• 13:30 - Regulation of adaptive immunity in viral infections
  Professor Annette Oxenius (Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 28 June 2019

• 09:15 - Leveraging GWAS for immune drug target discovery
  Prof Julian Knight
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 2 July 2019

• 13:00 - Genetic engineering of human hematopoiesis for treating inherited diseases and cancer
  SEMINAR CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS OF SPEAKER
  Dr Luigi Naldini (San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Milan, Italy)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 5 July 2019

• 09:15 - Identification of CD8+ Peripheral T-cell Clonal Subsets that Predict Clinical Benefit from Immunotherapy for Melanoma
  Dr Benjamin Fairfax (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 9 July 2019

• 12:30 - Applying precision medicine to a third world country: an experience from Thailand
  Please note earlier start time of 12.30 pm
  Professor Vip Viprakasit (Professor of Paediatrics, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 16 July 2019

• 09:30 - The role of the acute-phase protein serum amyloid A in colitis-associated cancer
  Dr Tanja Davis (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 July 2019

• 13:30 - Antibody germline gene variation in the human population
  Professor Gunilla B. Karlsson Hedestam (Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Monday 29 July 2019

• 13:00 - “Stem cells for studying dendritic cell development and leukaemia”
  TBA
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 12 August 2019

• 12:30 - "Mechanism of improved human hematopoietic stem cell engraftment in NSGW41 mice"
  Dr Susann Rahmig (Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Thursday 15 August 2019

• 11:00 - "The long non-coding RNA CRNDE regulates growth of multiple myeloma cells via an effect on IL6 signalling"
  Antoine David (INSERM Unité 976, Université Pari)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 6 September 2019

• 11:00 - Unexpected New Functions of the Cells and Molecules Involved in Antigen Presentation
  Prof. Jose Villadangos (The University of Melbourne)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 13 September 2019

• 09:15 - Applying reverse immunology to vaccine design: A ZIKV vaccine engineered to abrogate antibody-dependent enhancement of dengue infection
  Dr Jose Slon-Campos (Screaton Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 20 September 2019

• 09:15 - Ebola
  Dr Julie Xiao (Townsend Group, University of Oxford), Professor Alain Townsend (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - From Dopamine to Data Science: My Journey From Neurobiology to Product Analytics
  Dr Andrew Hart (Facebook)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars

Friday 27 September 2019

• 09:15 - MAITs: Vaccines and Variation.
  Lucy Garner (Klenerman Group, University of Oxford), Dr Nicholas Provine (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - “Ribosomopathies: Biology, Diagnosis and New Treatment Directions”
  Anu Narla (Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, CA,)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 1 October 2019

• 13:00 - Spatial enhancer-promoter networks in pluripotent stem cells
  Dr Stefan Schoenfelder (Babraham Institute, Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 2 October 2019

• 14:30 - NO TIME TO DIE: how herpesviruses and host ensure their survival
  Prof. Melanie Brinkmann (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 4 October 2019

• 09:15 - Using the immune system’s Trojan horse for vaccination
  Dr Lise Chauveau (Rehwinkel Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 7 October 2019

• 13:00 - Human Dendritic Cell Subsets in the High-Dimensional Era
  Prof. Juliana Idoyaga (Microbiology and Immunology Department, Stanford University, USA)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Tuesday 8 October 2019

• 13:00 - Innate host defence: a playing field for the ubiquitin machinery
  Dr Mads Gyrd-Hansen (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 10 October 2019

• 14:15 - MRC: priorities and funding opportunities
  Dr Martin Broadstock (Programme Manager for Immunology and Vaccines, Medical Research Council)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 11 October 2019

• 09:15 - Colonic CD8+ remodelling in IBD
  Dr Daniele Corridoni (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 14 October 2019

• 13:00 - Human immune systems are shaped by environmental exposures early in Life
  Assoc Prof Petter Brodin (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 15 October 2019

• 13:00 - Does nuclear size matter? Abnormal megakaryocyte polyploidization and maturation in myelofibrosis
  Rong Li (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, MRC WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 18 October 2019

• 09:15 - Malaria Vaccines – Every Antibody Counts!
  Prof Simon Draper (Jenner Institute, University of Oxford), Dr David Pulido-Gomez (Jenner Institute, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 21 October 2019

• 13:00 - C1q in health and disease – roles outside the complement system
  Prof Marina Botto (Imperial College, London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 22 October 2019

• 13:00 - Single-cell analysis of structural variations and complex rearrangements with tri-channel-processing
  Dr Jan Korbel (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 23 October 2019

• 13:30 - Metabolic control of Natural Killer Cell anti-tumour responses
  Professor David Finlay (Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 25 October 2019

• 09:15 - Interactions between hypoxia and immunity – a chance discovery leading to opportunities for collaboration’
  Professor Chris Pugh (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Thursday 31 October 2019

• 11:30 - VIVA - How do Gata1 and cohesin gene mutations contribute to the development of myeloid leukaemia?
  Catherine Garnett (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 1 November 2019

• 09:15 - Systems-level analysis of monocyte cytokine responses in inflammatory bowel disease
  Dr Dominik Aschenbrenner ((Uhlig Group) University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 4 November 2019

• 13:00 - Phase separation and formation of condensates in physiology and disease
  Tony Hyman (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 5 November 2019

• 13:00 - Predicting the progression of myeloid neoplasms
  Dr Moritz Gerstung (EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, Cambridge)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 6 November 2019

• 13:30 - Organization of intracellular antiviral defense mechanisms and disturbance by viruses
  Prof. Andreas Pichlmair (Institute of Virology, TUM School of Medicine, Munich, Germany)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 8 November 2019

• 09:15 - Circadian regulation of viruses
  Dr Alan Zhuang (McKeating Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 11 November 2019

• 11:00 - VIVA - “Functional Dissection of a Single Enhancer at the Mouse a-Globin Locus”
  Helena Francis (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - Applying chemistry in regenerative medicine: from small molecule discovery to mechanism elucidation
  Prof Angela Russell (OxSTEM )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Friday 15 November 2019

• 09:15 - From the lung to the gut and back: Mucosal T cells impact health and disease
  Dr Emily Thornton (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 18 November 2019

• 13:00 - Using single cell RNA sequencing to investigate mechanisms of liver fibrosis and regeneration
  Prof Neil Henderson (University of Edinburgh)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 16:00 - “Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease”.
  Siddhartha Jaiswal (Stanford University, USA)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 19 November 2019

• 13:00 - Recent progress towards understanding the molecular mechanism of X chromosome inactivation
  Professor Neil Brockdorff (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 20 November 2019

• 14:30 - Overcoming constraints on adaptive immunity to HBV
  Professor Mala Maini (UCL Division of Infection and Immunity)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 21 November 2019

• 13:30 - The regulation of zeta-globin
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Dr. Andrew King (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 22 November 2019

• 09:15 - Epigenetic regulation governs the differential response of cancer and T-cells to arginine starvation
  Dr Nicholas Crump (Milne Lab, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - “Ontogeny of hematopoiesis: making blood before a blood stem cell”
  James Palis, M.D (University of Rochester Medical Center)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 25 November 2019

• 13:00 - Using genetic association to understand human biology
  Professor Gil McVean (University of Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 26 November 2019

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  Dr Robert Beagrie (Prof D Higgs' laboratory, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit), Dr Sarah Gooding (Prof P Vyas' laboratory, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 28 November 2019

• 13:00 - From nuclei to nuclei: transitioning from theoretical physics to biology
  Dr Ed Morrissey (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Science Career Seminars
• 14:00 - “Long-term ex vivo expansion of functional hematopoietic stem cells”
  TBA
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 29 November 2019

• 09:15 - Strange E Things
  Lucy Walters (University of Oxford), Dr Simon Brackenridge (University of Oxford), Dr Hongbing Yang (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 2 December 2019

• 13:00 - The “dark side” of the genome: how histone H3K9 methylation stabilizes repeats
  Prof Susan Gasser (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 3 December 2019

• 13:00 - Dissecting erythropoiesis in Diamond-Blackfan anaemia at single-cell resolution
  Dr Deena Iskander (Imperial College, London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 4 December 2019

• 13:00 - Genetic screening to investigate treatment resistance in MLL-rearranged leukaemia
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Maximilian Jamilly (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 6 December 2019

• 09:15 - Dissecting autoimmune b-cell receptor responses in autoimmune encephalitis
  Bo Sun (Irani Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 16 December 2019

• 11:00 - Investigating the mechanisms and elements responsible for regulatory domain formation during gene regulation
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Caroline Harrold (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 12:00 - Precision and Plasticity in Animal Transcription
  Assoc Prof Angela DePace (Blavatnic Institute, Harvard Medical School)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 13:30 - Human fetal B-lymphopoiesis and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: the impact of trisomy 21
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Ms Sorcha O'Byrne (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 17 December 2019

• 13:00 - Re-configuration of chromatin structure during the mitosis-G1 phase transition
  Dr Gerd Blobel (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 7 January 2020

• 13:00 - Form and function of the genome: an overview of genomic editing and topology studies
  Professor Wouter de Laat (Hubrecht Institute, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 8 January 2020

• 09:45 - Elucidating the cis-regulatory logic of Runx1 during developmental haematopoiesis
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Dominic Owens (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Wednesday 15 January 2020

• 13:30 - New immunomodulatory role of epidermal hepcidin in infectious conditions
  Dr Carole Peyssonnaux (DR2 INSERM, Institut Cochin, Paris)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 17 January 2020

• 09:15 - Empowering Proteins with Spy Superglues for Plug-and-display Immunology
  Professor Mark Howarth (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 20 January 2020

• 13:00 - New Targeted Therapeutics to Enhance the Radiation Response of Tumours
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Amato Giaccia (University of Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Friday 31 January 2020

• 09:15 - Monocytes as immune drivers of chronic lung fibrosis and aberrant regeneration
  Prof Ling-Pei Ho (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 3 February 2020

• 11:30 - Genetic modelling of human erythroleukemia
  Alexandre Fagnan (Institut Gustave Roussy)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - Reverse engineering of the global Neural Crest Gene Regulatory Network in vivo
  Professor Tatjana Sauka-Spengler (University of Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 13:00 - Dissecting the molecular mechanisms underpinning gene dysregulation caused by a regulatory SNV
  Dr Yavor Bozhilov (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, MRC WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 10 February 2020

• 13:00 - Progressive irreversible DNA methylation programming facilitates identification of lineage restriction points in hematopoisis
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Michael Milsom (German Cancer Research Centre)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 13:00 - Ageing and leukemia: synergistic interplay between the hematopoietic system and the bone marrow microenvironment
  Simona Valletta (MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, MRC WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 12 February 2020

• 13:30 - Role of MAIT cell responses in viral and bacterial infections in humans
  Professor Johan Sandberg (Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 14 February 2020

• 09:15 - 124 years of challenges in vaccine control of enteric fever
  Professor Andrew Pollard (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - 9 useful ideas for women (and men) who work
  Diversity and Inclusion Seminar
  Kathryn Bishop (Said Business School)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Monday 17 February 2020

• 13:00 - Method development for the generation and selection of precise genomic edits in human cells
  Viva Seminar
  Alice Lightowlers (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 13:00 - Mining whole genome sequencing for pathogenic copy number and structural variants: the exmaple of craniosynostosis
  Dr Eduardo Calpena (Clinical Genetics, MRC WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 20 February 2020

• 11:00 - G-quadruplex structures in neurobiology and neuropharmacology
  Dr Norifumi Shioda (Dept of Genomic Neurology, Kumamoto University, Japan)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Friday 21 February 2020

• 09:15 - The role of Dock8 in humoral immunity
  Dr Mukta Deobagkar-Lele (Cornall Group, University Of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 24 February 2020

• 13:00 - Deciphering T cell evolution in lung cancer
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Sergio Quezada (University College London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 13:00 - Genetic Engineering of Human Hematopoiesis for Treating Inherited Diseases and Cancer
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Luigi Naldini (San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Milan, Italy)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 28 February 2020

• 09:15 - Autophagy & Immunity - Thinking outside the cell
  Felix Richter (Simon Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 2 March 2020

• 13:00 - New Targeted Therapeutics to Enhance the Radiation Response of Tumours
  Professor Amato Giaccia (University of Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 13:00 - Free Heme overload in DBA progenitors and HSP70/GATA1 involvement in the globin/heme dysequilibrium
  Professor Lydie da Costa (Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, France)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 4 March 2020

• 13:30 - A cubist approach to translational “omics”: immune memory and immune deficiency
  Professor Ken Smith (Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 6 March 2020

• 09:15 - Ligand discrimination by the T-cell receptor studied on ‘2nd generation’ lipid-bilayers
  Edward Jenkins (Davis Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - Career paths and life journeys
  Diversity in Science Seminar
  Beth Psaila (University of Oxford), Professor Tatjana Sauka-Spengler (University of Oxford)

Monday 9 March 2020

• 13:00 - The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and disease
  Prof Patrick Chinnery (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 10 March 2020

• 13:00 - The role of the Chromatin Remodelling factor ATRX in genome stability and cancer
  Dr David Clynes (Dept of Oncology, MRC WIMM)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 13 March 2020

• 09:15 - Establishing biophysical methods for quantitative research in immunology
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Falk Schneider (Fritzsche Group, University of Oxford), Dr Huw Colin-York (Fritzsche Group, University of Oxford ), Veronika Pfannenstill (Fritzsche Group, University of Oxford), Liliana Barbieri (Fritzsche Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 16 March 2020

• 13:00 - Quorum sensing and competition in African trypanosomes
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Keith Matthews (University of Edinburgh)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Friday 20 March 2020

• 09:15 - Human Cancer specific cytotoxic T cells- updates from Tao Dong’s group
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Yanchun Peng (Dong Group, University of Oxford), Dr Xuan Yao (Dong Group, University of Oxford), Dr Charlotte Rich (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 24 March 2020

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  SEMINAR CANCELLED
  Xiying Ren, David Cruz Hernandez
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 30 March 2020

• 10:00 - “The HUSH epigenetic repressor complex – defending the genome from retroelement attack”
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Profressor Paul Lehner (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - Genetic and molecular basis of myeloid neoplasms at single cell resolution
  VIVA SEMINAR
  Alba Rodriguez-Meira (University of Oxford)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars

Tuesday 31 March 2020

• 13:00 - Too much and not enough: Balancing the scales of haematopoiesis
  SEMINAR CANCELLED
  Dr. Ian Hitchcock (Department of Biology, University of York)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 14 April 2020

• 13:00 - Paediatric myeloid leukemia: fusion oncogenes, transcriptional alterations and age specificities
  SEMINAR CANCELLED
  Dr Thomas Mercher (Gustave Roussy, France)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 21 April 2020

• 13:00 - Looking under the hood of cells with new microscopy techniques
  SEMINAR CANCELLED
  Dr Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (Janelia Research Campus, Virginia, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 24 April 2020

• 09:15 - MAIT cells, CMV, & Checkpoint immunotherapy - Insights from studying large datasets
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Ben Fairfax (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 27 April 2020

• 13:00 - Deconstructing Down Syndrome
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Victor Tybulewicz (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 28 April 2020

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  SEMINAR CANCELLED
  Joe Harman, Tom Kent, Spencer Tong
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 4 May 2020

• 13:00 - Mechanistic insights into cellular reprogramming by transcription factors
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Abdenour Soufi (University of Edinburgh)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Monday 11 May 2020

• 13:00 - Spinal Muscular Atrophy : How a lethal genetic disease of children is slowly disappearing (in Southern Belgium and North Westphalia)
  ZOOM Only available to Oxford University email addresses
  Prof Laurent Servais (University of Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 12 May 2020

• 13:00 - Tumor exosomes and exomeres promote systemic effects of metastatic cancer
  SEMINAR CANCELLED
  Professor David Lyden (Dept of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical College, NY, USA)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 18 May 2020

• 10:00 - The role of MYB in MLL-AF9 leukaemia
  Viva Seminar
  I-Jun Lau (University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - Improved genetic understanding of rare and common immune mediated diseases through information-borrowing and informed dimension reduction
  Zoom - Only available to Oxford University email addresses
  Dr Chris Wallace (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 19 May 2020

• 13:00 - Hemodynamics during vascular development – How mechanical forces shape the blood vessels
  SEMINAR CANCELLED
  Professor Elizabeth Jones (Dept of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 22 May 2020

• 09:15 - Regulatory T-cells dominate the microenvironment of pancreatic cancer, putting the brakes on CD8 T-cells
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Enas Abu Shah (Dustin Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 26 May 2020

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  SEMINAR CANCELLED
  Jennifer O'Sullivan, Wei Xiong Wen, Caitlin Murnane
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Monday 1 June 2020

• 13:00 - From basic bone physiology to breast cancer prevention
  Litchfield Lecture without Title
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Joseph Penninger (Professor of Genetics, University of Vienna)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Friday 5 June 2020

• 09:15 - Hypoferraemia and immune impairment: relevance to influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Hal Drakesmith (MRC Human Immunology Unit)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 8 June 2020

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Stefan Constantinescu (Ludwig Cancer Research Brussels)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Friday 12 June 2020

• 09:15 - Molecular characterisation of cGAS antagonism by Varicella-Zoster Virus ORF9
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Jonny Hertzog (Rehwinkel Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 15 June 2020

• 13:00 - Cyclin B1 and the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint: a 15 year odyssey
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Jon Pines (ICR, Chester Beatty Labs, London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 23 June 2020

• 13:00 - The cellular and molecular logic of neural tube development
  If you would like to register for this seminar, please email emma.butterfield@ndcls.ox.ac.uk
  Dr James Briscoe (Developmental Dynamics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Tuesday 30 June 2020

• 13:00 - MHU Student Presentations
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Nikolaos Sousos, Grigore Gafencu, Siyu Liu, Yuqi Shen
  Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 3 July 2020

• 09:15 - Revisiting T cell antigen discrimination using ultra-low affinity pMHC ligands
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Omer Dushek (University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Wolfson College)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 10 July 2020

• 09:15 - Immune response in hospitalised COVID-19 patients and immune therapeutics- current state of play in UK
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Prof Ling-Pei Ho (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Tuesday 14 July 2020

• 14:00 - Transcriptional silencing of exogenous and endogenous retroelements
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Paul Lehner (Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, University of Cambridge)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 23 July 2020

• 09:30 - Tissue immunity – defence at the borders
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Prof. Menna R. Clatworthy (University of Cambridge)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 August 2020

• 14:00 - Multidimensional Single Cell Approaches to Define Intestinal Immunoregulatory Circuits
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Alison Simmons (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 August 2020

• 14:00 - Viruses, vaccines and (unconventional) T cells
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Prof. Paul Klenerman (Peter Medawar Building, NDM, Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 21 August 2020

• 11:00 - Remember COVID-19?
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor David Price (School of Medicine, Cardiff University)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 August 2020

• 14:00 - Hepcidin and the Immune Response
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Hal Drakesmith (MRC Human Immunology Unit)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 4 September 2020