Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series - Oxford Talks

Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

TIME 11.30am, WEDNESDAYS TERM TIME
LOCATION DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1

MT 2024 SPEAKER 1 SPEAKER 2
1 16/10/2024 12noon Introduction to the theme IDP Pis
2 23/10/2024 External speaker Rupert Beale (The Francis Crick Institute)
3 30/10/2024 Internal speakers Eugene Lin (Baker) Sean Burnap (Struwe)
4 06/11/2024 Internal speakers Mohammad Sharif Shohan (Bashford-Rogers) Bevin Gangadharan (Zitzmann)
5 13/11/2024 Seventeenth Unither Baruch Blumberg Lecture
6 20/11/2024 Internal speakers Snezana Vasiljevic (Wrobel) tbc (Draper)
7 27/11/2024 Internal speakers Alexander Long (Bashford-Rogers) Valeria Calvaresi (Struwe)

Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser: Konstantina Foteinou (University of Oxford)
Timing: WEDNESDAYS AT 11.30-12.30
Organising department: Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 4 March 2015

11:00 - Understanding the mechanism of chromosome segregation
Bungo Akiyoshi

Friday 20 March 2015

11:00 - Bats, viruses and longevity: what's the link?
Prof. Linfa Wang (Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore and the Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Australia)

Wednesday 13 May 2015

11:00 - 'The ER stress pathway: an immunologist's perspective'
Dr Jane Goodall (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 27 May 2015

11:00 - 'Dissecting the regulation and dynamics of malaria parasite egress from its host red blood cell'
Mike Blackman (The Francis Crick Institute)

Wednesday 14 October 2015

11:00 - New insights into disease pathogenesis provided by enhanced bioluminescence imaging of experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infections
Professor John Kelly (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Wednesday 21 October 2015

11:00 - Veni, Vidi, Voronoi: Attacking Viruses with Spherical Voronoi Diagrams
Dr Tyler Reddy (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 October 2015

11:00 - Protein export by the malaria parasite
Andrew Osborne (UCL/Birkbeck)

Wednesday 11 November 2015

16:30 - “Responding to the West African Ebola Outbreak: the Médecins Sans Frontières Experience”
Dr Armand Sprecher (Médecins Sans Frontières)

Wednesday 18 November 2015

11:00 - Host and vector regulate malaria chronicity and virulence
Jean Langhorne (Crick Institute)

Wednesday 25 November 2015

11:00 - Dengue therapeutics: current state and future directions
Jamie Whitehorn (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Wednesday 2 December 2015

11:00 - The impact of Immunogenetics on human disease
Mary Carrington (Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor in Medical, Biological and Chemical Sciences)

Wednesday 9 December 2015

11:00 - The anti-filoviral drug U18666A increases lysosome pH and disrupts glycolipid transport.
Dan Sillence (De Montfort University)

Wednesday 13 January 2016

11:00 - "Vaccine design insights from pre-fusion RSV and HIV-1 glycoprotein trimer structures"
Dr Guillaume Stewart-Jones, Dr Guillaume Stewart-Jones (Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.)

Wednesday 3 February 2016

11:00 - 'Broad Neutralization of Influenza Virus & Implications for a Universal Vaccine and Therapy’
Professor Ian Wilson (Scripps Research Institute in San Diego)

Wednesday 2 March 2016

11:00 - GNT-V TARGETING BY THE PHOSTINE PST3.1a INHIBITS GBM STEM CELLS STEMNESS AND THEIR IN VIVO PROLIFERATION AND INVASIVENESS
Professor Norbert Bakalara (The Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier)

Wednesday 8 June 2016

11:00 - Identification of protective carbohydrate epitopes for the development of fungal glycoconjugate vaccines"
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Professor Stefan Oscarson (University College Dublin)

Wednesday 18 January 2017

11:00 - Investigating potential drug targets to prevent vascular leak in acute dengue
Professor Neelika Malavig (University of Sri Jayawardanapura)

Wednesday 8 February 2017

11:00 - Antibody Responses in Dengue and Zika Infection
Professor Gavin Screaton (Imperial College London)

Wednesday 15 February 2017

11:00 - How HIV gets around
Professor Quentin Sattenau (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 July 2017

11:00 - ‘Sensing and responding to respiratory virus infections’
Professor Patrick Reading (Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne)

Monday 11 September 2017

11:30 - "Modulation of innate immunity by dengue virus: feeling the STING"
Professor Ana Fernandez-Sesma (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)

Wednesday 18 October 2017

11:00 - Arboviruses in Cameroon: history, current status, challenges and perspectives"
Professor Maurice Demanou (Centre Pasteur, Cameroun)

Wednesday 25 October 2017

11:00 - “Recombinant vaccines for emerging and reemerging viruses”
Professor Ian Jones (University of Reading)

Wednesday 8 November 2017

16:30 - “The Philosophical Virus: What Viruses Tell Us About What It Means To Be Alive And What It Means To Be Human”
Carl Zimmer (New York Times Columnist )

Wednesday 9 May 2018

11:00 - “Border patrol: mechanisms of membrane protein quality control”
Prof Pedro Carvalho (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Wednesday 6 February 2019

12:15 - Using a human challenge model to characterise the early host response to enteric fever
Amber Barton (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 13 February 2019

11:00 - Rotavirus infection: immune responses, correlates of protection, and factors involved in differences of vaccine effectiveness by country
Dr Ulrich Desselberger (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 20 February 2019

11:00 - Part II Talks
Bora Guloglu (University of Oxford), Katie Hammond (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 27 February 2019

10:00 - Part II Talks
Mateusz Kotowski (University of Oxford), Amber Stewart (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 6 March 2019

10:00 - Part II Talks
Lucy Britton (University of Oxford), Jonathan Machin (University of Oxford)

Thursday 21 March 2019

14:00 - Early events in dengue and chikungunya virus infection
Prof. Jolanda Smit (University of Groningen)

Wednesday 15 May 2019

11:00 - Re-engineering SAS-6: from spirals to rings
Jodie Ford (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 May 2019

11:00 - The Laos Central Nervous System Infection study
Dr Audrey Dubot-Peres (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement and LOMWRU)

Wednesday 29 May 2019

11:00 - DPhil Talk
Natalie Barber (Univeristy of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 June 2019

11:00 - DPhil Talks
Thomas Harrison (University of Oxford), Samuel Gerard (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 12 June 2019

11:00 - DPhil Talks
Juli Brun (University of Oxford), Re'em Moskovitz (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 19 June 2019

11:00 - DPhil Talks
Tehmi Bharucha (University of Oxford), Mario Hensen (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 October 2019

11:00 - Regulation of chronic inflammation by the circadian clock
Dr Julie Gibbs (The University of Manchester)

Wednesday 23 October 2019

11:00 - Structural and functional studies of the antiviral target proteins HCV p7 and ER alpha-glucosidase II
Mario Hensen (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 30 October 2019

11:00 - Pills, Germs and Iron: From membrane protein structure to mechanistic insights
Dr Petra Lukacik (Diamond Light Source, Research Complex)

Wednesday 6 November 2019

11:00 - (Dr Mohamad): Magnetically aligned bilayers as a novel tool for membrane protein crystallisation; (Dr Margolin): Leafing cell culture behind: making viral glycoprotein vaccines in plants
Dr Nada Mohamad (University of Oxford), Emmanuel Margolin (University of Cape Town)

Wednesday 20 November 2019

11:00 - Host-virus interactions: It's about time
Dr Rachel Edgar (Imperial College)

Wednesday 27 November 2019

11:00 - Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of centriole assembly and polarity
Dr Anastasia Kantsadi (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 4 December 2019

11:00 - A novel system to study dengue/zika virus replication organelle biogenesis independent from viral RNA replication
Dr Berati Çerikan (University of Heidelberg)

Wednesday 5 February 2020

11:00 - Thomas Harrison: Structural basis for RIFIN-mediated activation of an inhibitory immune receptor in malaria, Patryk Ludzia: Structural characterisation of unconventional kinetochore protein: KKT4
Thomas Harrison (University of Oxford), Patryk Ludzia (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 4 March 2020

11:00 - Honglin Chen "Elucidating the impact of interferon signalling in the cellular proteome " and Wael Kamel “Discovering the composition of viral ribonucleoproteins using “Viral RNA interactome capture""
Hoglin Chen (University of Oxford), Wael Kamel (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 October 2024

11:30 - Infection and Disease Processes seminar series
Various Speakers

Wednesday 23 October 2024

11:30 - Title TBC
TBA

Wednesday 30 October 2024

11:30 - Title TBC
TBA

Wednesday 6 November 2024

11:30 - Title TBC
TBA

Wednesday 20 November 2024

11:30 - Title TBC
TBA

Wednesday 27 November 2024

11:30 - Title TBC
TBA

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Editor: Konstantina Foteinou

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