Monday 9 February 2015

• 12:00 - Calcium Regulation: From Rhinos to Molecules
  Prof. Rajesh Thakker (May Professor of Medicine, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, OCDEM, Churchill Hospital, University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - The two faces of mesenchymal stem cells in myeloproliferative disorders
  Simon Mendez-Ferrer
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 11 February 2015

• 11:00 - TBC
  Professor Tatjana Sauka-Spengler (University of Oxford)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 13 February 2015

• 14:00 - A new logic for polycomb chromatin domain formation
  Prof. Rob Klose (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 16 February 2015

• 12:00 - Controlling Destructive T cells in CNS Autoimmune Disease
  Prof. Stephen Anderton (University of Edinburgh, MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, Queen's Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Friday 20 February 2015

• 09:15 - Biophysical tools for membrane research in immunology
  Erdinc Sezgin (Eggeling Group)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 14:00 - The E3 Ligase Listerin/Ltn1 links Co-translational Protein Quality Control and Neurodegeneration
  Prof. Claudio Joazeiro (The Scripps Research Institute)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 23 February 2015

• 12:00 - Using Zebrafish to Unpick the Relationship Between Genes and Loading in Shaping a Joint
  Dr Chrissy Hammond (School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol)
  Kennedy Institute 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

Thursday 26 February 2015

• 11:00 - Building effective cancer immunotherapy. Lessons from ovarian cancer
  Prof. George Coukos (Director of the Ludwig Cancer Research Center, University of Lausanne)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 27 February 2015

• 09:15 - Title TBC
  TBA
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 14:00 - Protecting our genomes against toxic metabolism
  Prof. K J Patel (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

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

Friday 6 March 2015

• 09:15 - Title TBC
  TBA
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 14:00 - NETs - the second function of chromatin
  Prof. Arturo Zychlinsky (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Tuesday 10 March 2015

• 11:00 - Human gamma/delta T cells: from immunobiology to immunotherapy
  Prof. Marc Bonneville (Institut Merieux, Lyon, France)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 11 March 2015

• 12:00 - Autoimmunity and Immune Modulation in Complex Regional Pain Syndrom
  Dr Andreas Goebel (Senior Lecturer in Pain Medicine, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - Seeing Type Three Secretion activity during Shigella infection: think globally, act locally
  Francois-Xavier Campbell-Valois (Institut Pasteur)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 13:30 - Tissue-specific control of tolerance by Dendritic Cells
  Prof. Thomas Brocker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Germany)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 13 March 2015

• 09:15 - Title TBC
  Elina Lipina (Cerundolo Group)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 14:00 - A role for cohesin in regulating enhancer interactions and enhancer-proximal genes
  Prof. Matthias Merkenschlager (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, London)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 16 March 2015

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

Friday 20 March 2015

• 09:15 - Title TBC
  Paul Klenerman
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 11:00 - Breaking the Rules of CD8+ T Cell Recognition with Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Vectors
  Prof. Louis Picker (Oregon Health & Science University)
  Jenner Seminars
• 14:00 - DNA strand break repair and links to human disease
  Prof. Stephen West (London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, Cancer Research UK)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 23 March 2015

• 12:00 - Immunoregulation of Intestinal Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease (GVHD) and Germinal Center Responses in Chronic GVHD
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Bruce Blazer (Department of Paediatrics, Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

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

Friday 27 March 2015

• 14:00 - Border patrol: regulation of membrane function and identity by ubiquitin dependent proteolysis
  Dr Pedro Carvalho (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

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

Monday 13 April 2015

• 12:00 - Structural insights into severe malaria
  Assoc Prof Matt Higgins (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Jenner Seminars
• 12:00 - Mechanisms Underlying A Related Loss of Skeletal Muscle
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Malcolm Jackson (University of Liverpool)
  Kennedy Institute 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

• 11:00 - Bacterial autophagy and the cytoskeleton in host defence
  All welcome to attend
  Dr Serge Mostowy (Imperial College, London)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 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

• 14:00 - Pericentromeres and chromosome segregation in mitosis and meiosis
  Dr Adele Marston (Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 27 April 2015

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

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

• 14:30 - Polycomb Repressor Proteins in Cancer
  Dr Adrian Bracken (Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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

Tuesday 5 May 2015

• 12:00 - Electronic Health Records (EHR) Systems in Kenya
  Refreshments will be provided. Please arrive promptly.
  Dr Chris Paton (University of Oxford)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars

Wednesday 6 May 2015

• 11:00 - G-actin as a signalling molecule
  Prof. Richard Treisman (Francis Crick Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Thursday 7 May 2015

• 11:00 - Transcriptomics Seminar: Democratizing Systems Approaches for Human Immunology and Clinical Studies
  Dr Damien Chaussabel (Director, Systems Biology Department, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar Foundation)
  Jenner Seminars

Friday 8 May 2015

• 09:15 - Fast-tracked trials for Ebola vaccines
  Katie Ewer (Hill Group)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 14:00 - Conserved and non-conserved pathways underlying vertebrate limb regeneration
  Prof. Elly Tanaka (Technical University of Dresden, DFG Research Centre for Regenerative Therapies)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 11 May 2015

• 12:00 - Linking Cis-acting Elements
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

Thursday 14 May 2015

• 12:00 - Dynamic Imaging of Lymphocyte Activation – From Single Molecule to Living Tissue
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Facundo Batista (Head, Lymphocyte Interaction Group, London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Friday 15 May 2015

• 09:15 - The thymus: an evolutionary accident of no great significance?"
  Georg Hollander
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 14:00 - Sensing and Restricting: Innate immune control of HIV
  Dr Jan Rehwinkel (MRC Human Immunology Unit, WIMM, University of Oxford )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 18 May 2015

• 12:00 - The Genetic Structure of the British Population
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Walter Bodmer (Cancer & Immunogenetics Laboratory, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - Genome regulation during developmental transitions
  Eileen Furlong (Head: Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory - EMBL)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

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

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

Monday 1 June 2015

• 12:00 - Poxvirus Immune evasion proteins and interference with intrinsic innate immune responses
  Prof Joanna Shisler (University of Illinois)
  Jenner Seminars

Tuesday 2 June 2015

• 10:00 - Gender equity in academia - issues and actions
  Professor Jennifer L Martin (The University of Queensland, Australia)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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

• 12:00 - Innate immune responses in bovine tuberculosis
  For any enquiries regarding the seminar or to meet with the speaker, please email lisbeth.soederberg@ndm.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Jayne Hope (The Roslin Institute & R(D)SVS)
  Jenner Seminars
• 12:00 - Peripheral and Central Mechanisms of OA Pain
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Victoria Chapman (Arthritis Research UK Pain Centre, University of Nottingham)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - Making Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Backwards and Sideways
  Derrick Rossi (Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 10 June 2015

• 11:00 - Interaction profiling through proteomic peptide phage display
  Dr Ylva Ivarsson (University of Uppsala)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Fc Receptors: Critical regulators of antibody biology and therapy
  Professor Mark Cragg (University of Southampton)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 11 June 2015

• 12:00 - Pandemics: Can we learn the lessons of history?
  Refreshments will be provided - Please arrive promptly.
  Professor Michael Baker (University of Otago, Wellington)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars

Friday 12 June 2015

• 09:15 - BRCA1 in Innate Immunity
  Daniel Gaughan (Simmons Group)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 11:15 - Glycoconjugate and Generalized Modules for Membrane Antigens (GMMA) approaches for a vaccine against invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella
  Dr Francesca Micoli (GlaxoSmithKline)
  Jenner Seminars

Monday 15 June 2015

• 12:00 - Consulting research stakeholders in Kilifi on fair practice in research data sharing: Findings and policy implications
  Refreshments will be provided - Please arrive promptly.
  Dr Vicki Marsh (University of Oxford)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars
• 12:00 - The Use of Biologic Therapies to Induce New Populations of Treg in Autoimmunity
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Clare Notley (Centre for Rheumatology, University College London, London )
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 17 June 2015

• 11:00 - Control of lysosomal integrity and autophagy by sphingolipids - possibilities for therapeutic intervention
  Prof. Marja Jaattela
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Mechanical Forces in B cell activation
  Dr Pavel Tolar (The Frances Crick Institute)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 13:00 - To be announced
  Dr Pavel Tolar (National Institute of Medical Research)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 18 June 2015

• 15:00 - Magnesium cation signaling in the healthy and diseased immune system
  Dr Michael Lenardo (NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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
• 14:00 - How to hit HIV where it hurts
  Professor Arup K Chakraborty (Departments of Chemical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, and Biological Engineering, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, MIT)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 22 June 2015

• 12:00 - The Cartilage Circadian Clock in Health and Disease
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Qing-Jun Meng (Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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
• 14:00 - Themis and PKCeta in regulation of TCR signaling and Treg activity
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Prof Nicholas R J Gascoigne (Dept of Microbiology, National University of Singapore)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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

Monday 29 June 2015

• 12:00 - The global picture of malaria: optimism or caution?
  Refreshments will be provided - Please arrive promptly.
  Professor Kevin Marsh (University of Oxford)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars
• 13:00 - Immune sensing of vitamin B metabolites
  Jamie Rossjohn (Monash University, Australia)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 1 July 2015

• 13:00 - The T-cell antigen receptor: The immune systems ultimate disease detection system?
  Dr David Cole (Cardiff University)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 2 July 2015

• 11:00 - The role of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in liver metastasis in colon cancer
  Dr Adele Murrell (University of Bath)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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

• 12:00 - Inhibitory Immune Receptors or Immune Switches? The Role of “Inhibitory” KIR Immune Receptor Interactions with HLA-Class I in Chronic Inflammation and autoimmunity. Lessons from HLA-B27 and Inflammatory arthritis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Simon Kollnberger (Botnar Research Centre, NDORMS, University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - The life of breath: stem cells of the adult lung
  Brigid Hogan (Duke University USA )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 8 July 2015

• 13:00 - Immune recognition à la physicienne
  Professor Paul Francois (McGill University)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 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

Monday 13 July 2015

• 12:00 - "In Vivo Imaging Revealed Early Microglial Responses and Blood Brain Barrier Disruption in Neuroinflammatory Disease"
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Dimitrios Davalos (Staff Research Scientist, Associate Director, Center for In Vivo Imaging Research, The Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, University of California, San Francisco, USA)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Tuesday 14 July 2015

• 12:00 - Stastical and Biological Insights from Multi-Phenotype Studies of Human Immune Disease"
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Luke Jostins (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 12:00 - New global standards for Fetal and Newborn growth- findings and implications of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project
  Refreshments are provided, please arrive promptly. Space is limited; first come, first served!
  Dr Jane Hirst (University of Oxford)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars

Wednesday 15 July 2015

• 13:00 - IDENTIFICATION OF CELL SURFACE RECEPTORS THAT ARE ESSENTIAL FOR SPERM-EGG RECOGNITION IN MAMMALS AND ERYTHROCYTE INVASION BY THE MALARIA PARASITE: METHODS, CELL BIOLOGY AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
  Dr Gavin Wright (Cell Surface Signalling Laboratory, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Friday 24 July 2015

• 11:00 - Natural and vaccine-induced immunity to S pneumoniae: from experiments to mathematical models
  Prof Marc Lipsitch (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
  Jenner Seminars

Monday 3 August 2015

• 11:00 - The initiation of DNA replication: detail of the reaction and its relationship between chromatin’
  Dr Seiji Tanaka (National Institute of Genetics, Japan)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 12:00 - Unravelling the cellular and molecular basis of naturally acquired immunity to malaria
  For any enquiries and to meet with the speaker, email lisbeth.soederberg@ndm.ox.ac.uk
  Prof Peter Crompton (Malaria Infection Biology and Immunity Unit, NIAID)
  Jenner Seminars

Tuesday 18 August 2015

• 12:00 - Trials and Tribulations: the Experience of an Ebola Clinical Research Team in West Africa
  Lunch provided. Please arrive promptly. Venue has limited seating - first come, first served. When leaving the building, please use the pedestrian path and not the road.
  Dr Jake Dunning (University of Oxford)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars

Thursday 20 August 2015

• 14:00 - Influence of p53 on human immune and inflammatory responses in cancer and primary cells
  Dr Michael Resnick (NIH)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Tuesday 1 September 2015

• 12:00 - "Tenascin-C as a Target for Regulation of Cardiacvascular Tissue Remodelling" and "Mice Immunized with Recombinant BCG Expressing Cardiac Myosin Epitope Develop Chronic Myocardial Inflammation: A New Model of Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy"
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Prof Kyoko Imanaka-Yoshida and Dr Kazuko Tajiri (Department of Pathology and Matrix Biology, University Research Center for Matrix Biology and Cardiovascular Division, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Japan)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 10 September 2015

• 11:00 - Post-translational control of protein homeostasis through regulatory ubiquitylation of the translation machinery
  Dr. Eric Bennett (UCSD)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 14 September 2015

• 12:00 - Vessel-tissue Interactions in the Skeletal System
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Anjali Kusumbe (Tissue Morphogenesis Department, Max Planck Institute For Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 16 September 2015

• 13:00 - Cellular signalling in T cells is captured by a modular phenotypic model
  Omer Dushek (University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Wolfson College)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 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
• 13:00 - Interference with Immunological and Neurological Synapses as Virulence Mechanisms of hRSV
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Alexis Kalergis (Facultdad de Ciencias Biologicas, Facultad de Medicine, Chile)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 21 September 2015

• 12:00 - Immunological in Synpases in Human Health and Disease
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Salvatore Valitutti (INSERM U1043, Chu Purpan, Toulouse, France)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Tuesday 22 September 2015

• 10:00 - Forward genetic screens in haploid mammalian stem cells: looking beyond CRISPR/Cas9
  Dr Josep Forment (Cambridge Cancer Centre)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Modeling and Tracking Glycan Diffusion Near Integrin Adhesions Using Biorthogonal Click-Chemistry and Interference Microscopy
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

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

Thursday 24 September 2015

• 11:00 - Synthetic Physiology: Optical Control of Cellular Signals
  Dr Harald Janovjak (IST Austria)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 25 September 2015

• 11:00 - 18th World Congress of the International Society on Toxinology
  Various (See programme)
  Tropical Medicine Seminars

Monday 28 September 2015

• 13:00 - Coordination of the Humoral Immune Response by the B Cell Identity Factor Pax5
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Stephen Malin (Karolinska Institute, Department of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 14:00 - Advances in Structural Biology that might help Vaccine Design
  Prof David Stuart (University of Oxford)
  Jenner Seminars

Wednesday 30 September 2015

• 14:00 - Disruptive technologies, developing drugs, and building companies to treat disease
  Prof. Harvey Lodish (Whitehead Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Cancer vaccines in the era of successful immunotherapies
  Professor Pedro Romero (Ludwig Center for Cancer Research, University of Lausanne)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 1 October 2015

• 13:00 - Herpesvirus infection causes a breakdown in transcriptional termination across host genome: high resolution gene expression profiling
  Professor Lars Dolken (Institut fur Virologie und Immunbiologie, Wurzburg)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 13:00 - The use of routine case record data to evaluate quality of inpatient hospital care for newborns and children in Kenya
  When arriving and leaving the building please use the marked pedestrian route, and not the road, due the building works.
  TBA
  Tropical Medicine Global Health 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
• 14:30 - Self-renewal of human hematopoietic progenitor cells: Development of novel therapies erythropoietin-resistant anemias
  Prof. Harvey Lodish (Whitehead Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 5 October 2015

• 12:00 - Resolution Pharmacology: Exploiting Pro-Resolving GPCRs for Therapeutic Innovation
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Mauro Perretti (Queen Mary University of London, London )
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Tuesday 6 October 2015

• 11:00 - Metabolic heterogeneity in molecular subtypes of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphomas
  Dr Nika Danial (Dana-Farber / Harvard Cancer Center)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 October 2015

• 12:00 - Interrogating and Manipulating Cytokine Receptor Signaling with Structure and Protein Engineering
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Ignacio Moraga (Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

Thursday 8 October 2015

• 14:00 - Genome Editing Comes of Age – Lessons learned from high throughput CRISPR targeting in human cell lines
  Chris Thorne (Horizon Discovery)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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

Monday 12 October 2015

• 12:00 - MMP Inhibition to Prevent Plaque Rupture
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Andrew Newby (Bristol Heart Institute, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol BS2 8HW)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

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

Friday 16 October 2015

• 12:00 - Fish vaccination: Successes and future needs
  Prof Chris Secombes (University of Aberdeen)
  Jenner Seminars
• 14:00 - The collective cell biology of organ formation
  Dr Darren Gilmour (EMBL Heidelberg )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 19 October 2015

• 12:00 - Mass Spectrometry Based Immunopeptidomics - From Discoveries to Therapies
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Michal Bassani-Sternberg (University of Lausanne)
  Jenner Seminars
• 12:00 - Mass Spectrometry Based Immunopeptidomics - From Discoveries to Therapies
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Michal Bassani-Sternberg (University of Lausanne)
  Jenner Seminars
• 13:00 - Brain energy use and supply in health and disease
  David Attwell (UCL Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 21 October 2015

• 13:00 - Co-circulation of human monkeypox virus and varicella-zoster virus (chickenpox) in the Sankuru district, Democratic Republic of Congo
  When arriving and leaving the building please use the marked pedestrian route, and not the road, due the building works.
  Chelsea McMullen (University of Oxford)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars
• 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

Thursday 22 October 2015

• 11:00 - Myeloid cell lifespan, death and activation in cancer inflammation
  Dr Peter Murray (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)
  Ludwig Institute 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

Thursday 29 October 2015

• 11:00 - Activation and regulation of innate immune responses to viral DNA
  Prof. Søren Riis Paludan (Aarhus University)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 30 October 2015

• 09:15 - Title TBC
  Bowness Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 14:00 - Species difference in ANP32A underlies influenza A virus polymerase host restriction
  Professor Wendy Barclay (Department of Medicine, Imperial College London )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

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
• 14:00 - At the intersection of ER protein quality control and lipid droplets
  Dr James Olzmann (UC Berkeley)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 November 2015

• 18:30 - Medicine for the 21st Century: a Personalised Approach to Clinical Practice – talks by Jenny Taylor, Rajarshi Banerjee & Katharine Owen
  Prof Katharine Owen (University of Oxford), Assoc Prof Jenny Taylor (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford), Rajarshi Banerjee (Perspectum Diagnostics)
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars

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

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
• 14:00 - Control of cell division by the PP2A-B55 pathway: basic principles really can be a matter of life and death
  Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 9 November 2015

• 12:00 - Using zebrafish to unpick the relationship between genes and loading in shaping and maintaining joints
  Lunch Provided
  Dr Chrissy Hammond (School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

• 11:00 - Linking angiogenesis and metabolism through FOXO transcription factors
  NOTE CHANGE OF TIME: 11 AM
  Dr Michael Potente (Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Tropical Medicine Day 2015
  Dr Chris Paton (University of Oxford), Professor Kevin Marsh (University of Oxford), Professor Trudie Lang (Professor of Global Health Research, University of Oxford), Prof Philippe Guerin (WWARN), Dr Amanda Rojek (University of Oxford), Dr Georgina Murphy (OHSCAR), Professor Hilton Whittle (LSHTM)
  Tropical Medicine Seminars
• 17:30 - The Genomic Revolution in Medicine: Historical Perspectives by Prof Steve Sturdy
  Prof Steve Sturdy (University of Edinburgh)
  Centre for Personalised Medicine 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
• 15:00 - Chaperone-assisted folding of the cystic fibrosis-related ABC-transporter CFTR
  Professor Ineke Braakman (Utrecht University )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 16 November 2015

• 12:00 - A Role for Neutrophils in Alzheimer's Disease
  Prof Gabriela Constantin (University of Verona)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

Wednesday 18 November 2015

• 13:00 - Mousematical modelling of Francisella tularensis infection
  Dr Thomas Laws (DSTL), Dr Joseph Gillard (DSTL)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Friday 20 November 2015

• 09:15 - S-FLU
  Alain Townsend (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 14:00 - Genome-embdedded ribonucleotides: in sickness and in health
  Professor Andrew Jackson (University of Edinburgh )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars
• 15:30 - Establishment of robust salivary gland-specific expression in transgenic anopheline mosquito
  Shigeto Yoshida (Kanazawa University School of Pharmacy, Japan)
  Jenner Seminars

Monday 23 November 2015

• 12:00 - Lessons from Animal Models of Giardiasis
  Prof Steven Singer (Georgetown University)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

• 12:00 - Research papers that make a difference: discussing research waste, reproducibility and impact
  Refreshments provided - please arrive early. First come, first served.
  Dr Iveta Simera (University of Oxford)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars

Wednesday 25 November 2015

• 12:00 - Alphavirus, encephalitis and arthralgia
  Prof John Fazakerley (Director of The Pirbright Institute)
  Jenner Seminars
• 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

Thursday 26 November 2015

• 11:00 - Novel system-wide methods to study protein-RNA interactions in infection and cell-fate decisions
  Dr Alfredo Castello Palomares (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  Ludwig Institute 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
• 11:00 - Imaging heart formation and function in zebrafish
  Prof Didier Stainier (Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Cellular responses to DNA replication stress in yeast and in human cells
  Professor Philippe Pasero (Institute of Human Genetics, Montpeillier, France)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 30 November 2015

• 12:00 - Early Life Microbiota-Host Interactions
  Dr Lindsay Hall (Microbiome Research Leader  Institute of Food Research)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

Wednesday 2 December 2015

• 11:00 - Surveying the centrosome landscape using super-resolution imaging and functional proteomics
  Professor Laurence Pelletier (University of Toronto)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 15:00 - Fruit fly topiary - using Drosophila to study molecular mechanisms of neuron tree growth and remodelling
  Dr Darren Williams (King's College)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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
• 14:00 - Lesson in viral pathogenesis from the barnyard
  Professor Massimo Palmarini (Director of centre for virus research, University of Glasgow)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars
• 14:30 - Moving the Centre of Gravity of Research in Africa
  Spaces are limited
  Professor Kevin Marsh (University of Oxford)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars

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

• 08:30 - Crossing Boundaries 2 – Health Research Relevant to LMIC Across Oxford’s Disciplines and Divisions
  TBA
  Tropical Medicine 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

Monday 14 December 2015

• 12:00 - Gaucher disease (with a skeletal perspective)
  Prof Timothy Cox (University of Cambridge)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 12:00 - Inducing intestinal immunity with live oral vaccines: lessons from poliovirus
  Prof Nick Grassly (School of Public Health, Imperial College London )
  Jenner 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

• 14:00 - Integrated analysis of anti-fungal innate immunity in C. elegans
  Dr Jonathan Ewbank (Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental 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 8 January 2016

• 14:00 - Systems based approaches to vaccine development
  Prof Bali Puledran (Emory University School of Medicine)
  Jenner Seminars

Monday 11 January 2016

• 12:00 - Microbiota-host interaction from the immune system point of view
  Prof Maria Rescigno (European Institute of Oncology)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Tuesday 12 January 2016

• 12:00 - Mechanisms of tumor evasion from NK cell surveillance and potential clinical applications
  Michele Ardolino (Raulet Laboratory, University of California, Berkley)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 13 January 2016

• 12:00 - Vaccine development against Fasciola hepatica, a major animal and human worm parasite
  Prof John Dalton (Medical Biology Centre, Queen's University Belfast)
  Jenner Seminars

Thursday 14 January 2016

• 11:00 - High-throughput Approaches in Cancer Cell Models to Enable Precision Cancer Medicine
  Dr Matthew Garnett (Sanger Institute)
  Ludwig Institute 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

• 12:00 - Functional plasticity of CD4+ T cells is driven by an asymmetric inheritance of mitochondria
  Prof Stephen Cobbold (University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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 - Interferons: Tug of war between host and pathogen
  Charlotte Odendall (Harvard Medical School)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 20 January 2016

• 11:00 - Genome editing in stem cells, animals and plants
  Professor Jin-Soo Kim (Seoul National University )
  Dunn School of Pathology Research 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

• 11:00 - Cis-regulation dynamics and chromatin architecture during development and evolution
  Dr Jose Luis Gomez Skarmeta (Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Seville)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Novel anti-chemokine peptides from ticks
  Prof Shoumo Bhattacharya (University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 15:00 - Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome in HIV: from bedside to bench
  Irini Sereti (Chief HIV Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, NIAID/NIH)
  Kennedy Institute 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
• 14:00 - Complex multi-enhancer contacts captured in ES cells by Genome Architecture Mapping, a novel ligation-free approach
  Professor Ana Pombo (Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Berlin)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 25 January 2016

• 12:00 - Chemokines and miRNAs in atherosclerosis
  Dr Christian Weber (Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention, Ludwig-Maximilians-University)
  Kennedy Institute 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

Monday 1 February 2016

• 12:00 - Altering the Vasculature to Promote Tumour Immunity
  Prof Awen Gallimore (University of Cardiff)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - Linking senesence and inflammation: the senesence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP)
  Jesus Gil (Hammersmith Hospital)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 2 February 2016

• 16:00 - Dissecting autoimmunity – B and T cell responses in Rheumatoid Arthritis
  Vivianne Malstrom, Professor in Rheumatological Immunology (Dept of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 4 February 2016

• 13:00 - The Regulation of Intestinal Immune Homeostasis in Mice and Men
  Dr Arthur Mortha (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Science and Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center )
  Kennedy Institute 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
• 14:00 - Ubiquitin and Autophagy Networks in Health and Disease
  Professor Ivan Dikic (Goethe University School of Medicine)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars
• 14:00 - Searching for a vaccine for melioidosis, and Update on the Zika virus epidemic
  Professor Susanna Dunachie (University of Oxford), Professor Peter Horby (University of Oxford)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars

Monday 8 February 2016

• 12:00 - Mechanisms of osteoarthritis progression following non-invasive repetitive murine knee trauma
  Dr Blandine Poulet (University of Liverpool)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - Harnessing sequencing innovations to identify and implement cancer predisposition genes
  Zazneen Rahman (institute of Cancer Research)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 10 February 2016

• 09:00 - MRC CiC Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium Meeting
  Various Speakers
  Jenner Seminars

Thursday 11 February 2016

• 11:00 - Aberrant phase transitions in cytoplasm: implications for neurodegeneration
  Professor Tony Hyman (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research 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
• 11:00 - Epstein-Barr virus vaccines: a fight on two fronts
  Dr Graham Taylor (Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham)
  Jenner 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

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
• 14:00 - Light, Sleep and Time: Neuroscience to therapeutics
  Professor Russell Foster (NDCN, University of Oxford )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 22 February 2016

• 12:00 - Oh To Be Seventeen Again: IL-17 signaling in fungal immunity
  Dr Sarah Gaffen ( King's College London, University of Pittsburgh)
  Kennedy Institute 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

Thursday 25 February 2016

• 11:00 - Droplet microfluidics: a tool for massively parallel single-cell analysis, sorting and sequencing
  Dr Linas Mazutis (Harvard)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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
• 14:00 - The Type VII protein secretion system of Staphylococcus aureus
  Professor Tracy Palmer (University of Dundee )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 29 February 2016

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

Tuesday 1 March 2016

• 10:30 - Mechanisms of Tankyrase Function in Signal Transduction
  Dr Sebastian Guettler (The Institute of Cancer Research, London)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 11:00 - Travel Medicine in the era of Chikungunya, Ebola, and Zika virus
  Dr Daniel Caplivski (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars
• 11:00 - Tissue-targeted therapy for cancer using a platform called AvidinOX
  Dr Rita De Santis (Sigma Tau SpA, Italy)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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

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
• 14:00 - PD-L1 blockade improves response of pancreatic adenocarcinoma to radiotherapy
  Emmanouil Fokas (University of Oxford)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 15:00 - EDMD and other muscular diseases linked to the nuclear envelope
  Dr Peter Meinke (The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 10 March 2016

• 11:00 - Cyclic nucleotide-phosphodiesterase signalling in cardiac neurons: therapeutic target?
  Professor David Paterson (University of Oxford)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 14:30 - The Drug Discovery challenges to eliminate malaria
  Dr Jeremy Burrows (VP, Head of Drug Discovery, Medicines for Malaria Venture)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Friday 11 March 2016

• 14:00 - HIV, DNA sensing and a new paradigm for antiviral therapeutics
  Professor Greg Towers (University College London )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 14 March 2016

• 12:00 - The maternal microbiota drives early postnatal innate immune development
  Prof Andrew Macpherson (Director of Gastroenterology University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - Nutritional control of neural stem cells
  Prof Andrea Brand (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 15 March 2016

• 13:00 - The role of inflammation in osteoarthritis
  Virginia Byers Kraus, MD, PhD (Professor of Medicine Duke University School of Medicine Duke Molecular Physiology Unit)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 17:30 - CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH DEBATE
  TBA
  Tropical Medicine Seminars

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

Thursday 17 March 2016

• 11:00 - Studying highly proliferative pluripotent animal adult stem cells and the potential for fundamental insights relevant to cancer biology
  Professor Aziz Aboobaker (Dept Zoology, University of Oxford)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - A universal influenza virus vaccine strategy based in the conserved hemagglutinin stalk domain
  Prof Florian Krammer (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
  Jenner Seminars

Friday 18 March 2016

• 09:15 - Update from the Cornall group
  Cornall Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 14:00 - Molecular mechanisms ensuring chromosome segregation
  Dr Julie Welburn (Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Oxford )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 21 March 2016

• 12:00 - A role for neutrophils in Alzheimer’s disease
  Prof Gabriela Constantin (University of Verona)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - The control of T cell metabolism and differentiation
  Prof Doreen Cantrell (Wellcome Trust Biocentre)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 23 March 2016

• 14:00 - Cellular Immunity for Influenza: Lessons from the Flu Watch Study
  Prof Andrew Hayward (Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research, Department of Infectious Disease Informatics, UCL)
  Jenner Seminars

Thursday 24 March 2016

• 11:00 - Temporal regulation of genome replication
  Prof Conrad A. Nieduszynski (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 1 April 2016

• 14:00 - Computational modeling of cell decision processes
  James Faeder (University of Pittsburgh)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Monday 11 April 2016

• 12:00 - Structural proteomics: development of an integrated pipeline from genes to crystals
  Prof Raymond Owens (University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 13 April 2016

• 15:00 - Transcriptional control of adaptive immunity by BACH2 - lessons from patients
  Dr Ben Afzali (Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Research Fellow, Honorary Consultant Nephrologist)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 14 April 2016

• 11:00 - Policing secretion: protein quality control and traffic COPs
  Dr Liz Miller (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Identifying malaria antigens associated with protection
  Prof Laurent Rénia (Laboratory of Pathogen Immunobiology, Singapore Immunology Network-BMSI-A*STAR )
  Jenner Seminars
• 13:00 - RAPIDE Platform for Ebola treatment studies
  Refreshments are provided, please arrive in good time.
  Professor Peter Horby (University of Oxford)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health 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
• 14:00 - Ebola: Response, sequencing, vaccines and survivors
  Please note new time. Refreshments provided - please arrive early
  Professor Miles W Carrol (Public Health England)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars

Monday 18 April 2016

• 12:00 - Recombinant MVA based vaccines for the Global Control of African Horse Sickness
  Dr Javier Castillo-Olivares (The Pirbright Institute)
  Jenner Seminars

Tuesday 19 April 2016

• 12:00 - Putting Programmers into Programs: modelling and capacity building in malaria control programs
  Refreshments provided - please arrive early
  Prof Lisa White (University of Oxford)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars

Wednesday 20 April 2016

• 14:00 - Specificity, cross-talk and adaptation in Type I Interferon signaling
  Professor Anton Zilman (Department of Physics and Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 21 April 2016

• 11:00 - Understanding regulatory circuitry through large-scale genetic perturbation analyses
  Prof Frank Holstege (University Medical Center, Utrecht)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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

Tuesday 26 April 2016

• 14:30 - Utilizing natural variations and systems biology to study the human immune system
  Dr John Tsang (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID))
  Jenner Seminars

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

Thursday 28 April 2016

• 11:00 - Supercharging cell division: how protein phosphatases define the temporal order of mitosis & cytokinesis
  Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
  Ludwig Institute 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

Tuesday 3 May 2016

• 11:00 - The Penicillin case. The history of antibiosis before and after Lord Florey
  Dr Giovanni Savignano (G. Moscati Hospital, Avellino, Italy)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Wednesday 4 May 2016

• 13:00 - Functional plasticity of CD4 T cells is driven by an asymmetric inheritance of mitochrondria
  Professor Stephen Cobbold (University of Oxford)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 5 May 2016

• 11:00 - Tissue micro environments in immune tolerance
  Prof Herman Waldmann (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 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
• 16:00 - Dissecting GlcNAc-1-Phosphotransferase Function - the key to understanding lysosomal enzyme trafficking
  Stuart Kornfeld (Professor of Medicine, Washington University in St Louis )
  Kennedy Institute 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
• 12:00 - Developing vaccines against human gram-negative bacterial pathogens Francisella tularensis, Burkholderia pseudomallei, and Coxiella burnetti
  Dr Carmen Denman (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Pathogen Molecular Biology)
  Jenner Seminars
• 13:00 - Vascular Mechanotransduction: a journey from the protein to the vessel
  Dr Ellie Tzima (Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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
• 11:00 - Real-time analysis of Rad51-mediated DNA strand exchange
  Prof Hiroshi Iwasaki (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan )
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 14:00 - Understanding Cellular Heterogeneity
  Dr Sarah Teichmann (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 16 May 2016

• 12:00 - Transcription activation and termination in a dynamic system: lessons from macrophages
  Prof Gioacchino Natoli (European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

Wednesday 18 May 2016

• 16:00 - From fitness comparison to spatial constrains: the many roads of cell competition
  Dr Romain Levayer (Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland )
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 19 May 2016

• 11:00 - Host factors that account for influenza host range barriers - what is the difference between a human and a chicken?!
  Professor Wendy Barclay (Department of Medicine, Imperial College London )
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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
• 11:00 - Role of TP53 in DNA methylation
  Dr Touati Benoukraf (CSI Singapore)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Salmonella diarrhea: inflammasome-driven disease, microbiota-interactions and fast phage traffic
  Professor Wolf-Dietrich Hardt (Institute of Microbiology (D-BIOL) ETH Zurich)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 23 May 2016

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

Thursday 26 May 2016

• 14:00 - Cytosolic anti-bacterial immunity: sensing & execution
  Dr Feng Shao (National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

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

Thursday 2 June 2016

• 11:00 - Live imaging the earliest events during tumour initiation
  Dr Yi Feng (University of Edinburgh)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 3 June 2016

• 09:15 - B Cell autophagy and lupus
  Alexander Clarke (Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 13:00 - A round-trip journey developing evidence-based guidelines for Kenyan children with indrawing pneumonia
  Dr. Ambrose Agweyu (KEMRI-Nairobi)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars

Monday 6 June 2016

• 13:00 - Regulation of lymphocyte development by RNA binding proteins
  Martin Turner (Babraham Institute, Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 14:00 - 2D analysis of TCR-pMHC interaction reveals differential cell fate governed by tissue compartmentalization
  Prof Cheng Zhu (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 14:00 - Harnessing the immune system: antibodies as therapeutics against viral and bacterial infections
  To request a meeting with the speaker please contact: lisbeth.soederberg@ndm.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Man-Wah Tan (Genentech)
  Jenner Seminars

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

Thursday 9 June 2016

• 12:00 - Single-cell omics with microfluidics and mass cytometry
  Due to unforeseen circumstances the seminar is now cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Dave Ruff (visiting Senior Research Fellow University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 12:30 - Pay for performance in health systems: Theory, evidence and case studies
  Professor Richard Scheffler (UC Berkeley School of Public Health)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars

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
• 14:00 - The ER exit sites at the heart of cellular stress response
  Dr Catherine Rabouille (Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 13 June 2016

• 12:00 - A role for blood derived mononuclear cells in joint surface defect repair
  Dr Frances Henson (University of Cambridge)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 14:00 - Meiosis, recombination, and the origin of a species
  Peter Donnelly
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 14:00 - ‘Non-coding RNAs in vascular disease detection and therapy’
  Lars Maegdefessel, MD PhD (Molecular Vascular Medicine, Karolinska Institute Center for Molecular Medicine Stockholm, Sweden)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

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
• 16:00 - Tumour-associated macrophages
  Toby Lawrence PhD ( Centre dImmunologie de Marseille- Luminy)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

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
• 14:00 - Microbial sensing in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae
  Dr Elena Levashina (Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie, Germany)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 20 June 2016

• 09:00 - Big Data, Ethics and the Market
  Oxford University students can apply for a sponsored place. Please email cpm@well.ox.ac.uk before filling in the online form,
  Adrian Walsh (University of New England, Australia), Natalie Banner (Wellcome Trust), Steve Sturdy (University of Edinburgh), Mark Bale (Genomics England), Sir Rory Collins (UK Biobank), Gil McVean (University of Oxford), Peter Donnelly (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars
• 10:00 - The actomyosin cytoskeleton directs hydra regeneration
  Prof Kinneret Keren (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 12:00 - Mitochondrial dysfunction and MAVS regulation in lupus: return of the LE cell
  Ralph C. Budd, M.D. (Professor of Medicine and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Martin Pule (Cancer Institute, UCL)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Cholesterol binding to TCRbeta keeps the TCR in the inactive conformation
  Prof Wolfgang Schamel (University of Freiburg, Germany)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Wednesday 22 June 2016

• 13:00 - Novel microscopy approaches for label-free sub-diffraction imaging
  Seminar time has changed from 1.30pm to 1pm
  Dr Kseniya Korobchevskaya (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

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

Thursday 30 June 2016

• 11:00 - Insights from methylome analysis
  Dr Stephan Beck (UCL Cancer Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 4 July 2016

• 11:00 - The Role of Promoter DNA Topology In Actively Transcribing Genes
  Dr Hans Elmlund (Monash University, Australia)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 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

Thursday 7 July 2016

• 11:00 - A novel role for (de)ubiquitinating enzymes in the MAPK and TGFB pathways
  Peiter Eichhorn (Cancer Science Institute Singapore)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 8 July 2016

• 14:00 - Translating Genomics and Stem Cell Technology into Therapies in Precision Medicine
  Professor Kang Zhang (University of California San Diego)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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

• 12:00 - C1q in health and disease – roles outside the complement system
  Prof Marina Botto (Professor of Rheumatology, Imperial College, London )
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:30 - 'Publishing in Science'
  The seminar has been postponed until further notice
  Stella Hartley (Senior Editor of Science)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 13 July 2016

• 15:00 - Dendritic Cell and Macrophage Biology: from Development to Functions
  Florent Ginhoux ( Senior Principal Investigator , Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Singapore)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 14 July 2016

• 11:00 - Single-cell genomics to study DNA-mutation, genetic heterogeneity and disease
  Prof Thierry Voet (Associate Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium & Associate Faculty Member, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Monday 18 July 2016

• 09:00 - Zika Virus
  Prof Stephen Higgs, University of Kansas (President of American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)
  Jenner Seminars

Tuesday 19 July 2016

• 15:00 - Regulation of signal strength through the T cell receptor
  Professor Nick Gascoigne (Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine :: National University of Singapore )
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Wednesday 7 September 2016

• 11:00 - Inhibition of the AAA-ATPase p97 with the first in class inhibitor CB-5083 as a novel approach to treat cancer
  Dr Daniel Anderson (Cleave Biosciences)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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

Monday 12 September 2016

• 11:00 - Realising the promise of stratified medicine in asthma
  Prof Stephen Holgate (MRC Professor of Immunopharmacology, Honorary Consultant Physician, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 12:00 - Probiotic and Prebiotic modulation of Brain Function
  Dr Philip Burnet (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES)
  Kennedy Institute 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
• 15:00 - Spatial and dynamic control of T cell activation
  Prof Bjorn Lillemeier (Nomis Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center The Salk Institute)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Friday 16 September 2016

• 14:00 - Regulation of microtubule end dynamics
  Prof Gohta Goshima (Division of Biological Science Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Monday 19 September 2016

• 12:00 - Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Thymus Function
  Prof Georg Holländer (Department of Paediatrics,University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 14:00 - Host cellular reprogramming induced by dengue virus infection
  Dr Sumana Sanyal (HKU - Pasteur Research Pole)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Wednesday 21 September 2016

• 13:00 - Prevalence and Outcomes of Viral Respiratory Tract Infections in Adult ICU Patients - a Prospective Observational Study
  Dr Frank van Someren Greve (Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars

Thursday 22 September 2016

• 11:00 - Complex origins of autoimmunity: genes, sex and the microbiome
  Dr Jayne Danska (Professor, Faculty of Medicine Dept. of Immunology and Dept. of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 12:30 - A Point-of-Care Assay to Detect Antimalarial Drugs from Finger Stick Blood Samples
  Refreshments are provided, please arrive in good time.
  Erin Coonahan (NIH Oxford Scholar)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars

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
• 12:00 - Novel mechanisms regulating B cell activation
  Due to unforeseen circumstances this seminar has been cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience caused
  Prof Bebhinn Treanor (University of Toronto)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 26 September 2016

• 12:00 - Epigenetic analysis of cartilage aging and osteoarthritis
  Lunch Provided
  Dr Louise Reynard (Newcastle University)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 28 September 2016

• 11:00 - mTORC1 Controls Ribosome Production via LARP1
  Dr Bruno Fonseca (Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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
• 11:00 - Enhancing Immunotherapy by Targeting the Cancer Stem Cell Niche
  Dr Vicki Plaks (University of California San Francisco)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 3 October 2016

• 13:00 - RNA Editing Enzyme Machines
  Professor Ruslan Afasizhev (Boston University )
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 13:00 - Molecular Instruments
  Professor Niles Pierce (California Institute of Technology)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 14:00 - NanoString ‘molecules that count’ and applications in disease research
  Ajay Johni (Regional Account Manager at NanoString Technologies), Jamie Rose Kuhar, Ph.D. (Associate Product Manager at NanoString Technologies)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Tuesday 4 October 2016

• 15:00 - The power of high content imaging and screening in addressing DNA damage stress response
  Dr Velibor Stavic (Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex )
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 6 October 2016

• 16:00 - CUSTOM –DESIGNED MOUSE AND RAT MODELS FOR YOUR RESEARCH
  Matthew Wheeler, PhD (Associate Director of European Markets)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

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
• 14:00 - Novel activation mechanism of macromolecular complex APC/C ubiquitin ligase
  Dr Hiro Yamano (UCL Cancer Institute)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Monday 10 October 2016

• 12:00 - Immunity in atherosclerosis
  Prof Ziad Mallat (Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

• 13:00 - Please join us to celebrate Patrick Venables’ career in medicine & science
  With an introduction from Fiona Powrie and Marc Feldmann, and tributes from Tiny Maini, Peter Taylor and Ted Mikuls Please RSVP to Kim Midwood to attend: kim.midwood@kennedy.ox.ac.uk
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Various Speakers
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

• 09:30 - Are you interested in learning about the underlying science of joint disease?
  Professor Jeremy Saklatvala (Emeritus Professor, Kennedy Institute), Dr Linda Troeberg (University Research Lecturer, NDORMS), Associate Professor Chris Murphy (Director of Graduate Studies, Kennedy Institute), Professor Tonia Vincent (Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology, NDORMS)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 11:00 - Ubiquitin in cancer and neurodegeneration
  Professor Michael Clague (University of Liverpool), Professor Sylvie Urbe (University of Liverpool)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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
• 14:00 - Epigenetic targeting during infection by Legionella pneumophila
  Professor Carmen Buchrieser (Biologie des Bactéries Intracellulaires, France)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 17 October 2016

• 11:00 - Chromatin, PolII elongation and DNA damage regulate alternative splicing.
  Prof Alberto Kornblihtt
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 12:00 - Neutrophil-vessel wall interactions in vivo: Mechanisms & Complexities of two way trafficking
  Sussan Nourshargh PhD FBPhS FMedSci (Head of Centre for Microvascular Research & Professor of Microvascular Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - En route to mending broken hearts
  Paul Riley (Dept of Physiology, Oxford)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 18 October 2016

• 14:30 - Mechanisms controlling intestinal IgA production
  Dr Andrea Reboldi (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 October 2016

• 13:00 - Effector and memory CD8+ T cell fate decisions.
  Professor Aymen Al-Shamkhani (Professor in Immunology, University of Southampton.)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 14:00 - New insights into the role of type I Interferons in regulating the innate immune response in infectious and inflammatory diseases
  Professor Paul Hertzog (Hudson Institute of Medical Research)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

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

Wednesday 26 October 2016

• 15:00 - Advancing the rational development of a malaria vaccine using systems immunology and genome-based technological advances
  Please email lisbeth.soederberg@ndm.ox.ac.uk to set up a meeting with the speaker.
  Prof Denise Doolan (Molecular Vaccinology )
  Jenner Seminars

Thursday 27 October 2016

• 11:00 - The oncogenic functions of mutant p53 proteins
  Dr Patricia Muller (University of Leicester)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Bat influenza viruses: from sequences to replicating viruses
  Dr Étori Aguiar Moreira (University of Freiburg)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Friday 28 October 2016

• 09:15 - Evolution of Seasonal Influenza
  Townsend Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 14:00 - Principle of Duality in Phospholipids: Regulators of Membrane Morphology and Dynamics
  Dr Banafshe Larijani (Basque Foundation for Science)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 31 October 2016

• 12:00 - Role of lymphocyte macroautophagy in the humoral response
  Frédéric GROS (Assistant Professor for Immunology,Strasbourg University)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

Tuesday 1 November 2016

• 14:00 - Quantitative Methods for Cell and Tissue Imaging
  Jens Rittscher (University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 2 November 2016

• 13:00 - Quantification of single-molecule super-resolution microscopy data of the T cell immunological synapse
  Dr Dylan Owen (Experimental Biophysics & Nanotechnology, Kings College, London)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 13:30 - DAMPening Autoreactivity at the First Tolerance Checkpoint
  Prof Garnett Kelsoe (Duke University School of Medicine)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 3 November 2016

• 11:00 - From genomic variation to molecular mechanism
  Dr Jan Korbel (EMBL)
  Ludwig Institute 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
• 14:00 - Chromosome silencing mechanisms in X chromosome
  Professor Neil Brockdorff (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental 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

• 14:00 - Follicular dendritic cell disruption as a novel mechanism of virus-induced immunosuppression
  Please email lisbeth.soederberg@ndm.ox.ac.uk to set up a meeting with the speaker.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Massimo Palmarini (University of Glasgow)
  Jenner Seminars

Wednesday 9 November 2016

• 17:15 - Human Genetics and the Discovery of New Medicines
  David Altshuler MD PhD, Executive Vice President for Global Research and Chief Scientific Officer, Vertex Pharmaceuticals gives the CPM Annual Lecture, 'Human Genetics and the Discovery of New Medicines'. The Centre for Personalised Medicine Annual Lecture will take place on Wednesday 9 November 2016 at 17.15 at the Mathematical Institute. The talk will be followed by drinks and nibbles. Please email cpm@well.ox.ac.uk if you have any questions.
  David Altshuler (Vertex Pharmaceuticals)
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars

Thursday 10 November 2016

• 11:00 - Understanding cellular heterogeneity
  Dr Sarah Teichmann (EMBL-EBI, Cambridge)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Please join us to celebrate Patrick Venables’ career in medicine & science
  With an introduction from Fiona Powrie and Marc Feldmann, and tributes from Tiny Maini, Peter Taylor and Ted Mikul. Please RSVP to Kim Midwood to attend: kim.midwood@kennedy.ox.ac.uk
  Various Speakers
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 14 November 2016

• 12:00 - Regulation of muscle fuel metabolism and mass under non-inflammatory and inflammatory conditions
  Prof Paul Greenhaff (Professor of Muscle Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences,University of Nottingham)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - Characterising genetic causes of bone marrow failure
  Tom Vulliamy (Queen Mary University of London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 15 November 2016

• 11:00 - The enigmatic role of lipids in membrane protein organization
  Dr Gerhard J.Schuetz (Institute of Applied Physics, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 12:00 - Roles of the ubiquitin system in host-pathogen interactions
  Prof. Dr. Christian Behrends (Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 16 November 2016

• 13:00 - Engineering T cell Specificity and Function for Cancer Therapy.
  Prof Hans Stauss (Professor of Tumour Immunology, UCL)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 17 November 2016

• 11:00 - Probing Cancer Epigenomes for New Therapeutic Strategies
  Dr Cheryl Arrowsmith (UHN)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 18 November 2016

• 14:00 - The true history of Penicillin: medicine's first spin story
  Dr Eric Sidebottom
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

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

Wednesday 23 November 2016

• 15:00 - Oral Pathobiont Regulation of n-3 Docosapentaenoic Acid-derived SPM in Inflammatory Arthritis
  Dr Magdalena B. Flak (Postdoctoral Research Fellow Centre for Experimental Medicine & Rheumatology William Harvey Research Institute)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 24 November 2016

• 11:00 - Immunology Career Day
  Various Speakers
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

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

Monday 28 November 2016

• 09:00 - Personalised Medicine in Practice Seminar Series: Cancer
  Professor Ian Tomlinson (University of Oxford), Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald (Cambridge University), Dr Tjalling Bosse (Leiden University), Dr Marco Gerlinger (Institute of Cancer Research), Professor Tim Maughan (Oxford University), Dr Louis Vermeulen (Amsterdam Medical Centre), Dr Sergio Quezada (University College London), Dr James Brenton (Cambridge University)
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars
• 12:00 - Innate lymphoid cells orchestrate organ homeostasis
  Prof Andreas Diefenbach (Chair of Medical Microbiology Coordinator of the Research Centre of Immunology Johannes-Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 30 November 2016

• 15:00 - HLA class I degradation by cytomegalovirus: uncovering novel features of ER-associated protein degradation using genetic screens
  Mike van de Weijer (Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 1 December 2016

• 11:30 - TERT Hypermethylated Oncologic Region - THOR: a new epigenetic cancer biomarker
  DR Pedro Castelo-Branco (Department of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine, University of Algarve)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research 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
• 11:00 - Vaccine Biomanufacturing
  Please email lisbeth.soederberg@ndm.ox.ac.uk to set up a meeting with the speaker.
  Dr Tarit Mukhopadhyay (University College London)
  Jenner Seminars
• 14:00 - Architecture of the eukaryotic replisome
  Dr Alessandro Costa (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 5 December 2016

• 12:00 - New mechanisms of auto inflammatory disease
  Dr Seth Masters (Laboratory Head Inflammation Division The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - 3D Chromatin Folding Determines Pathogenicity of Structural Variations
  Stefan Mundlos (Max Planck Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Transmission of signals across cell membranes: Elucidating the integrin and T-cell receptor activation mechanism via multi-scale simulations.
  Dr Antreas Kalli (Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, St James's University Hospital, University of Leeds)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Tuesday 6 December 2016

• 15:00 - PD-1 cancer immunotherapy
  Professor Gordon Freeman (Harvard Medical School)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 December 2016

• 10:00 - Some Malaria vaccine strategies
  Please email lisbeth.soederberg@ndm.ox.ac.uk to set up a meeting with the speaker.
  Prof Robert Sauerwein (Radboud UMC, Institute for Molecular Life Sciences)
  Jenner Seminars
• 10:00 - From in silico to the clinic: methods to study proteasome catalysed peptide splicing - AND - Proteasome-Catalyzed peptide splicing and its immunological relevance
  Juliane Liepe (Imperial College London), Michele Mishto (Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 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

• 11:00 - The control of replication fork repair and human disease
  Dr Peter McHugh (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 9 December 2016

• 16:00 - Beyond inflammation: MMP-9 in neuro-psychiatric disorders’
  Professor Leszek Kaczmarek (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 12 December 2016

• 11:00 - Characterisation of novel cellular pathways restricting virus replication in mammalian and plant cells: exploitation for vaccine design
  Please email lisbeth.soederberg@ndm.ox.ac.uk to set up a meeting with the speaker.
  Prof Peter Simmonds (University of Oxford)
  Jenner Seminars

Tuesday 13 December 2016

• 12:00 - Nuclear RNA surveillance
  Professor Torben Jensen (Centre for mRNP Biogenesis and Metabolism, Aarhus University, Denmark)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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
• 14:30 - Physiological role and optogenetic modulation of the transcription factor REST/NSRF in the nervous system
  Prof Fabio Benfenati (Professor of Neurophysiology, Center for Synaptic Neuroscience and Technology, The Italian Institute of Technology)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 15 December 2016

• 12:00 - 'Lipid galaxy – Engaging invariant Natural Killer T cells in immunoprotection
  Henk Schipper, MD PhD (Pediatric Resident Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital Utrecht / University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands Postdoctoral research fellow pediatric immunology / cardiology )
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Tuesday 20 December 2016

• 12:00 - Immune checkpoints in atherosclerosis
  Prof Esther Lutgens (Department of Medical Biochemistry Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Tuesday 10 January 2017

• 11:00 - Hsp90 supports a critical folding step of the ABC transporter CFTR
  Daniel Fonseca (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 11:00 - Stromal cell microenvironments in inflammation, autoimmunity and cancer
  Prof Mark Coles (Professor of Immunology Centre for Immunology and Infection University of York)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 11 January 2017

• 13:00 - TCR signal strength regulates Akt substrate specificity to induce alternate Th and Treg differentiation programs
  Prof Penny Morel (Professor of Immunology, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 12 January 2017

• 11:00 - An expanding job description for the Zinc finger transcriptional repressor Blimp1/Prdm1 in the developing mouse embryo
  Professor Elizabeth Robertson (University of Oxford)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 13 January 2017

• 11:00 - Macrophage signaling cascade determines breast cancer distal metastasis.
  Dr Bin-Zhi Qian (University of Edinburgh)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 16 January 2017

• 12:00 - Morphogen signalling in intestinal inflammation and cancer
  Professor Simon Leedham (University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - Transcriptional programmes of leukaemic fusion genes: from “omcis” to drugs
  Olaf Heidenreich (Newcastle University)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 17 January 2017

• 10:00 - Programming and reprogramming brain cancer stem cells
  Dr Steve Pollard (Edinburgh University)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Supporting your research career
  Dr C.J.S. Hassall (Head of Researcher Affairs Wellcome Trust)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 18 January 2017

• 13:00 - 'Adaptive stress surveillance’ – a new paradigm in human gamma delta T cell biology ?
  Prof Ben Willcox (Professor of Molecular Immunology, University of Birmingham)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 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

Thursday 19 January 2017

• 11:00 - Cell cycle governs the self-renewal and differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells
  Dr Siim Pauklin (Wellcome Trust-MRC Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Neurological complications of Zika virus. The experience in Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil)
  Refreshments provided. Please arrive in good time.
  Maria Lúcia Brito Ferreira (Restoration Hospital, Recife, Brazil)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars

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
• 12:00 - Human antibody responses to dengue/Zika virus infections
  Please contact lisbeth.soederberg@ndm.ox.ac.uk to set up a meeting with the speaker.
  Prof Gavin Screaton (Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College)
  Jenner Seminars
• 12:00 - If it’s about Quality and Cost, let clinicians run healthcare
  Prof Keith Willet (Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 14:00 - Centrosomes in development and disease: from control of spindle positioning to maintenance of genetic stability
  Dr Renata Basto (Institute Curie )
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 23 January 2017

• 12:00 - Herpesvirus-based Vaccines for Infectious Disease & Cancer: An uncarved block
  Please contact lisbeth.soederberg@ndm.ox.ac.uk to set up a meeting with the speaker.
  Dr Michael Jarvis (University of Plymouth)
  Jenner Seminars
• 12:00 - Neutrophils in infection and disease
  Venizelos Papayannopoulos (Group leader, Antimicrobial Defence Laboratory The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 25 January 2017

• 16:30 - The homologous recombination machinery & the DNA damage checkpoint co-ordinate chromosome mobility in diploid S. cerevisiae
  ****PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE AND TIMINGS****
  Prof Rodney Rothstein (Dept. Genetics & Development, Columbia University )
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 26 January 2017

• 11:00 - Nucleic acid sensing by innate immune receptors
  Dr Jan Rehwinkel (MRC Human Immunology Unit, WIMM, University of Oxford )
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 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
• 14:00 - Targeting heterochromatin to safeguard the genome : how and why
  Professor Susan Gasser (University of Basel)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 30 January 2017

• 12:00 - Novel Kinases controlling T cell development, trafficking and immune responses
  Dr Robert Köechl (The Francis Crick Institute)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

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

Thursday 2 February 2017

• 11:00 - Targeting Micrometastases for the Treatment of Ovarian Cancer
  Prof Ahmed Ahmed (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  Ludwig Institute 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
• 14:00 - TULiPs from Tübingen: sorting flowers from weeds in intracellular lipid traffic
  Dr Tim Levine (Department of Cell Biology, UCL Institute of Opthalmology, London)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 6 February 2017

• 10:30 - The establishment of new Shigella sonnei populations
  Professor Stephen Baker (OUCRU, Vietnam)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars
• 12:00 - Differentiation and function of regulatory B cells: what goes wrong in autoimmunity
  Prof Claudia Mauri (Professor of Immunology Vice-Dean (International) Faculty Medical Science Centre for Rheumatology Research)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - The challenge of translating new therapies to patients for Parkinson's Disease
  Roger Barker (University of Cambridge)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 7 February 2017

• 13:00 - Can unbiased single-cell analysis of immune cells improve data-driven selection of tailored therapies in human atherosclerosis?
  Chiara Giannarelli, MD, PhD (Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 9 February 2017

• 11:00 - Advanced oligonucleotide therapeutics for neuromuscular disease
  Professor Matthew Wood (University of Oxford)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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

Thursday 16 February 2017

• 11:00 - Cellular responses to DNA damage: mechanistic insights and applications in cancer therapy
  Prof. Steve Jackson (Head of CRUK, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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
• 09:30 - Improving the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy
  Prof. Benoit van den Eynde (Ludwig Cancer Research)
  Jenner Seminars

Monday 20 February 2017

• 12:00 - New paradigms in leukocyte trafficking in acute inflammation and chronic inflammatory disease
  Professor Ed Rainger (University of Birmingham)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

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

Thursday 23 February 2017

• 11:00 - The kinetic-segregation model and immunoreceptor signaling
  Professor Simon Davis (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  Ludwig Institute 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
• 14:00 - Reverse genetic screens in an intracellular malaria parasite: from cell fate decisions to genome evolution
  Dr Oliver Billker (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 27 February 2017

• 11:00 - (Big) Data driven inference of clinically relevant pharmacogenomic interactions in cancer
  Dr Francesco Iorio (European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Continuing to pursue Edward Jenner’s revenge: Sterilizing vaccines in chemotherapy for tuberculosis
  Please contact lisbeth.soederberg@ndm.ox.ac.uk to set up a meeting with the speaker.
  Prof William R. Jacobs (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
  Jenner Seminars
• 12:00 - Host-pathogen interactions: understanding viral infection and inflammation in airway epithelial cells
  Dr Lisa Parker (University of Sheffield)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

• 14:00 - Epigenetic inheritance and reprogramming in early mammalian development
  Dr Wei Xie (School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 March 2017

• 13:00 - How T-cells recognize antigens - an imaging approach
  Dr Johannes Huppa (Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology, Immune Recognition Unit, Medical University of Vienna)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 2 March 2017

• 11:00 - How the MyD88 signaling network is regulated to prevent autoimmunity and lymphoma
  Professor Sir Philip Cohen (Dundee University)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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
• 15:00 - Crosstalk of innate immunity and cell death pathways in inflammatory diseases and cancer
  Professor Maya Saleh (McGill University)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 6 March 2017

• 10:30 - T-B Crosstalk on the Germinal Centre Road to Memory
  Prof Hai Qi (Professor, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, China)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 12:00 - A DaNGeRous talk about dendritic cells
  Dr Caetano Reis e Sousa (The Francis Crick Institute)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Tuesday 7 March 2017

• 09:00 - Personalised Medicine in Practice: Advances in Reproductive Science   
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars

Thursday 9 March 2017

• 11:00 - Cell-free DNA as a Liquid Biopsy for Precision Cancer Medicine
  Professor Nitzan Rosenfeld (University of Cambridge)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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

• 11:00 - BCG induced trained immunity through epigenetic and metabolic reprogramming
  Please contact lisbeth.soederberg@ndm.ox.ac.uk to set up a meeting with the speaker.
  Prof Reinout van Crevel (Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences )
  Jenner Seminars
• 12:00 - Making Muscle Mighty
  Prof Mark Lewis (Dean of School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology Loughborough University)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - Identification of a novel DNA replication protein mutated in microcephalic primordial dwarfism
  Professor Grant Steward (University of Birmingham)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 15 March 2017

• 13:00 - Regulation of CD4 T cell activation and differentiation by CTLA-4
  Prof Lucy Walker (Institute of Immunity & Transplantation, UCL Division of Infection & Immunity)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 16 March 2017

• 11:00 - Introducing Whole Genome Sequencing into Routine Healthcare: The 100,000 Genomes Project and Beyond
  Dr Clare Turnbull (The Institute of Cancer Research)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 17 March 2017

• 09:15 - Innate activation of gut-homing T cells
  Tianqi Leng (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 14:00 - The Immunity War of Elie Metchnikoff
  Luba Vikhanski (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 20 March 2017

• 12:00 - Molecular mechanisms of the TGFß signalling pathway in human stem cell fate choice, tissue formation and disease
  Dr Siim Pauklin (University of Cambridge)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 22 March 2017

• 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

• 11:00 - Adipocytes in the melanoma microenvironment – insights from zebrafish models of cancer
  Professor Richard White (Sloan Kettering, New York)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Understanding the myeloma microenvironment
  Irene M. Ghobrial, MD (Attending Physician, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Director, Michele & Stephen Kirsch Laboratory)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 14:30 - The power of Single Cell Genomics: Discovery and Characterisation of novel human Immune Cells
  Dr Chloe Villani (Fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard and Harvard Medical School)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Friday 24 March 2017

• 11:00 - How Autophagy Defends the Cytosol Against Bacterial Invasion
  Professor Felix Randow (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge University)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 14:00 - RNA binding proteins play roles in B lymphocyte development, maintenance and activation
  Dr Martin Turner (Babraham Institute, Cambridge)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 27 March 2017

• 12:00 - Long-range training of mononuclear phagocytes following infection and injury
  Dr. John R. Grainger (Wellcome Trust & Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research (MCCIR), The University of Manchester)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 18:00 - Talks from Professor Taka-Aki Sato & Professor Yasuhiro Yasutomi
  Special Lectures to students / CPM members and the general biomedical community in Oxford by high-profile visitors from Japan Monday 27 March 18:00 – 20:00, Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College, Oxford. Refreshments will be served after the lectures. This event is free and no sign-up is needed. http://www.well.ox.ac.uk/cpm/talks-from-professor-taka-aki-sato-and-professor-yasuhiro-yasutomi
  Professor Taka-Aki Sato (University of Tsukuba, Japan), Professor Yasuhiro Yasutomi (Mie University, Japan)
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars

Thursday 30 March 2017

• 11:00 - Paracrine inflammatory signals from oncogene bearing stem cells drive tumour formation by non-stem cells: lessons from childhood pituitary cancer
  Professor J P Martinez-Barbera (UCL)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 3 April 2017

• 12:00 - Kynurenines and serine proteases: from brain to periphery and back
  Professor Trevor W. STONE (University of Glasgow)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Tuesday 4 April 2017

• 10:00 - ZEISS Lightsheet Z.1 imaging for cleared biological samples – to reveal the details deeper and clearer
  Dr Katherine Lau (3D Account Manager – West Region Microscopy)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

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

Monday 10 April 2017

• 12:00 - Role of neutrophils in health and disease
  Professor Paul Kubes (Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 15:00 - DNA methylation restrains effector functions in immune cells
  Dr Silvia Monticelli (Institute of Biomedical Research (IBR) - Bellinzona (Switzerland) )
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Tuesday 18 April 2017

• 12:00 - Cytosolic RNA sensing in T-dependent immunity
  Prof Cecile King (Associate Professor Department of Immunology Garvan Institute of Medical Research)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

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
• 15:00 - Signals that control growth and patterning
  Dr Jean-Paul Vincent (Francis Crick Institute, London)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 20 April 2017

• 11:00 - DNA methylation in mammals: a DNA methyltransferase can hide another
  Dr. Déborah Bourc'his (Institut Curie, Paris)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 21 April 2017

• 14:00 - Comparative approach to understanding mitotic division
  Dr Snezhana Oliferenko (Kings College, London)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

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

• 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
• 16:00 - Genome-Wide Organization of DNA Replication
  Prof Nick Rhind (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research 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 - Assessing costimulation and coinhibition in human T cells
  Prof Peter Steinberger (Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 13:00 - Beyond the bacterial paradigm in gene regulation
  Professor Jeremy Gunawardena (Harvard Medical School)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Tuesday 2 May 2017

• 12:30 - Molecular assessment of resistance markers for antimalarial drugs in Tanzania
  Dr Deborah Sumari (Ifakara Health Institute)
  Tropical Medicine Seminars
• 14:00 - One Health in Tanzania: interventions, insights and impacts
  Prof Sarah Cleaveland (University of Glasgow)
  Jenner Seminars

Thursday 4 May 2017

• 11:00 - Identifying metabolic dependencies in pancreatic cancer
  Prof Alec Kimmelman (NYU Langone Medical Center)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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
• 14:00 - The centrosome duplication cycle: impact of centrosome aberrations on microcephaly and cancer
  Professor Erich A Nigg (University of Basel)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 8 May 2017

• 12:00 - Investigating the mechanisms of regulatory T-cell differentiation in vivo by novel Fluorescent Timer reporters
  The talk has been rescheduled to 09/10/2017
  Dr Masahiro Ono, MD, PhD (Imperial College London)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

Tuesday 9 May 2017

• 12:00 - Genetic Diversity in Latin America and its implications in medical genomics
  Dr Andres Moreno Estrada (Stanford University)
  Jenner Seminars

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

• 11:00 - The Ubiquitin System: From Signalling to Cancer
  Dr Daniele Guardavaccaro (Hubrecht Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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
• 14:00 - Triggering mitosis: DNA replication as an integral component of the cell-cycle engine
  Dr Arne Lindqvist (Karolinska Institute)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 15 May 2017

• 12:00 - Regulatory T cell Fitness in Type 1 Diabetes - using a gene signature
  Anne M Pesenacker, PhD (Postdoctoral fellow, Megan Levings Lab Faculty of Medicine Department of Surgery The University of British Columbia (UBC) Child & Family Research Institute (CFRI))
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

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

• 14:00 - Role of the Microbiota in the control of immunity and inflammation
  Dr Yasmine Belkaid (National Institute of Health, NIAID, Bethesda USA)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 22 May 2017

• 12:00 - Krebs Cycle reprogrammed for Cytokines
  Professor Luke O’Neill (Chair and Professor of Biochemistry, School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

• 12:00 - Alarmin HMGB1 orchestrates tissue regeneration
  Marco E. Bianchi (Professor of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, San Raffaele University)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

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

Thursday 25 May 2017

• 11:00 - Reflections on the Complex Molecular and Clinical Nature of Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
  Prof David Malkin (University of Toronto)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 26 May 2017

• 13:00 - 'When MAITs matter – microbial defence and drug modulation’
  Dr Sidonia Eckle (The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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

• 12:00 - Inflammation control by inflammasomes
  Associate Professor Kate Schroder (Head, Inflammasome Lab, Institute for Molecular Bioscience The University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

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
• 12:00 - Oxysterol regulation of inflammation and immunity
  Prof Jason Cyster (Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, University of California, San Francisco Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 14:00 - Exploring Cancer’s addiction to deregulated G1/S cell cycle transcription
  Professor Robertus de Bruin (University College London)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 12 June 2017

• 12:00 - Bench to bedside and beyond. A journey that cannot get away from clinical trials
  Professor Sarah Lamb (Co-Director of the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit – University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 12:30 - Intellectual Property, Ethics and the Market in the Era of Personalised Medicine
  Professor Graham Dutfield (University of Leeds), Professor Shobita Parthasarathy (University of Michigan), Dr Nick Scott-Ram (Oxford AHSN), Dr Mark Bale (Genomics England), Dr Lawrence Cullen (UK IPO), Dr Siva Thambisetty (London School of Economics), Dr Katerina Sideri (University of Crete), Dr Julian Cockbane, Dr Naomi Hawkins (University of Exeter), Dr Richard Reschen (Oxford University Innovation), Professor Graeme Laurie (University of Edinburgh), Liam Curren (Genomics Plc.), Professor Timo Minssen (University of Copenhagen), Professor Isabelle Huys (KU Leuven), Professor Chas Bountra (Structural Genomic Consortium)
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars
• 13:00 - Transcriptional and epigenetic control of inflammatory gene expression
  Gioacchino Natoli ( Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 14 June 2017

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

Thursday 15 June 2017

• 11:00 - A role for low oxygen and hypoxia inducible factors to regulate viral replication and pathogenesis
  Prof Jane McKeating (University of Oxford)
  Ludwig Institute 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
• 14:00 - Deciphering the Guidance Cue Code for B cell Immunity
  Professor Jason Cyster (University of California)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Tuesday 20 June 2017

• 10:30 - Cutting Edge Osteoarthritis Symposium
  Various Speakers
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 11:30 - Leishmania genome instability as driver for fitness gain in the field and in culture
  Dr Gerald Spaeth (Institut Pasteur)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 13:00 - SEMINAR POSTPONED TO FRIDAY 18 AUGUST 2017 - The story of lumpy skin disease in Europe
  Dr Pip Beard (The Pirbright Institute, UK)
  Jenner Seminars

Wednesday 21 June 2017

• 12:00 - BRC3 Gastroenterology and Mucosal Immunity Theme Seminars
  Alison Simmons, Graham Ogg
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - New Insights into Immunology Revealed by Single Molecule Localization Microscopy
  Dr Stefan Balint (NDORMS, Oxford)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 13:30 - Functional genomic studies of the protein tyrosine phosphatase PTPN22
  Prof Andrew Cope ( Arthritis Research UK Professor of Rheumatology Head of Department, Academic Rheumatology King’s College, London)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 22 June 2017

• 11:00 - Evolution of the Cancer Genome
  Dr David Wedge (Big Data Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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

Monday 26 June 2017

• 12:00 - TGF-beta, Immune cells and Microbiota: three ingredients to control gut inflammation and colorectal cancer development
  Julien C. Marie, PhD (Helmholtz association investigator Department of Immunology Virology and Inflammation Cancer Research Center of Lyon, France )
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 28 June 2017

• 14:00 - Cues and barriers for lymphocyte emigration and proliferation
  Prof Ronen Alon (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

• 12:00 - Visualising Pattern Recognition Receptor Signalling
  Prof Clare Bryant (Professor of Innate Immunity,University of Cambridge)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Tuesday 4 July 2017

• 12:00 - Personalising treatment of inflammatory autoimmune arthritis: immune regulation and the microbiome
  Professor Ranjeny Thomas (Arthritis Queensland Chair in Rheumatology)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 5 July 2017

• 13:00 - Cell trafficking via lymph – interesting roles for a monotonous polysaccharide
  Prof David G Jackson (WIMM, Oxford)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 6 July 2017

• 11:00 - The role of sugars in HIV neutralizing antibody sensitivity and vaccine development
  Professor James Binley (San Diego Biomedical Research Institute, CA)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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

• 12:00 - Building tools and a common infrastructure for endotype discovery and response stratification in Immune-Inflammatory diseases
  Michael R Barnes, PhD (Director of Bioinformatics William Harvey Research Institute Queen Mary University of London)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 13 July 2017

• 11:00 - Biology of dendritic cells and Macrophages: From development to functions
  Florent Ginhoux ( Senior Principal Investigator , Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Singapore)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 17 July 2017

• 12:00 - Anti-TNF Therapy: How Did We Get There and Where To Next?
  Professor Sir Ravinder Maini FRS FMedSci (Emeritus Professor, Imperial College, London President, Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Tuesday 18 July 2017

• 14:00 - Activating inflammation
  Prof Adrian Liston (University of Leuven / VIB)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Wednesday 19 July 2017

• 16:00 - Syndecan proteoglycans: gatekeepers of the cell adhesion phenotype
  Professor John Couchman (Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC) University of Copenhagen)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 20 July 2017

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

Wednesday 26 July 2017

• 15:00 - On the role of the microbiota as a key modulator of the tumor microenvironment
  Dr Romina Goldszmid (NIH)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Swine influenza; a potpourri of pork and pathogen
  Dr Richard Webby (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee )
  Jenner Seminars

Monday 7 August 2017

• 12:00 - Single cell genomics:  tools for computational analysis with application to innate immune response to HIV-1 infection
  Nir Yosef (Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Center for Computational Biology, UC Berkeley)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 10 August 2017

• 13:00 - Structured illumination microscopy for super-resolution live cell imaging
  Prof Dong Li (National Laboratory of Biomarcomolecules, Institute of Biophysics Beijing, China)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Friday 18 August 2017

• 12:00 - The story of lumpy skin disease in Europe - impact and response to the rapid emergence of a poxviral transboundary disease of cattle
  Dr Pip Beard (The Pirbright Institute, UK)
  Jenner Seminars

Wednesday 6 September 2017

• 08:00 - From the Laboratory to the Clinic: Immune-Tissue Cell Interactions
  Various Speakers
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 10:00 - Immune Checkpoint Deficiencies in Large Vessel Vasculitis
  Cornelia M. Weyand, MD, PhD (Chief, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology Professor of Medicine Stanford University)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 11 September 2017

• 12:00 - A journey through the lymphatic vasculature: what turns neutrophils on?
  Dr Mathieu-Benoit Voisin PhD (University of London)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 14 September 2017

• 11:00 - Ascorbate regulates stem cell function and leukemogenesis
  Dr Michalis Agathocleous (UT Southwestern)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Dynamics of Cell Migration, Tissue Morphogenesis, and Cancer
  Prof Ken Yamada (NIH Distinguished Investigator, Chief, Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Biology, Head, Cell Biology Section)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Friday 15 September 2017

• 14:00 - Seminar Cancelled (Amino acid degrading enzymes and their role in tumour immune escape mechanisms)
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Vincenzo Cerundolo (MRC Human Immunology Unit, WIMM, University of Oxford)
  Jenner Seminars

Monday 18 September 2017

• 12:00 - Patching up the crypt: Innate immune cells orchestrate intestinal regeneration
  Associate Professor Tom Cupedo (Department of Hematology Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 21 September 2017

• 11:00 - Genetic Control of Apoptosis-induced Proliferation in Drosophila
  Dr Andreas Bergmann (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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

Monday 25 September 2017

• 12:00 - Pushing forward the limit of plasma DNA-based molecular diagnostics
  The Centre for Personalised Medicine is delighted to invite you to a talk by Professor Dennis Lo, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: Pushing forward the limit of plasma DNA-based molecular diagnostics The talk will take place on Monday 25th September at 12pm in Rooms A & B at The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. Lunch will follow from 1 – 2pm. Email cpm@well.ox.ac.uk if you have any questions.
  Professor Dennis Lo (The Chinese University of Hong Kong )
  Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars
• 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

• 11:00 - Glioblastoma network deplete neuronal wg and induces neurodegeneration
  Dr Sergio Casas-Tinto (Institute Cajal de Madrid)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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

Thursday 28 September 2017

• 15:00 - Role in cell-membrane organization of protein-protein interactions mediated by the membrane
  Prof. Nicolas Destainville (Université Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier/CNRS)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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
• 11:00 - Exploring mitochondrial shape and function
  Dr Sharon Grayer Wolf (Weizmann Institute of Science )
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 11:00 - Exploring mitochondrial shape and function
  Dr Sharon Grayer Wolf (Weizmann Institute of Science )
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 12:00 - Development of CpG Oligonucleotides for the Immunotherapy of Cancer
  Robert L Coffman PhD (Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Dynavax Technologies Corporation in Berkeley, CA, USA)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

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

Tuesday 3 October 2017

• 14:00 - Digestion-Ligation-Only Hi-C: a simple, cost-effective, and highly efficient method for Chromosome Conformation Capture
  Dr Guoliang Li (Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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

• 12:00 - Investigating the mechanisms of regulatory T-cell differentiation in vivo by novel Fluorescent Timer reporters
  Dr Masahiro Ono, MD, PhD (Imperial College London)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

Thursday 12 October 2017

• 11:00 - Genetic and epigenetic control of thymus development and function
  Georg Hollander
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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
• 14:00 - Aneuploidy in human cells: from Down's syndrome to cancer
  Dr Zuzana Storchova (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 16 October 2017

• 12:00 - Lung immunity and repair: effects of influenza, interferons and pollutants
  Dr Andreas Wack (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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 - HPV and Human Cancer: A prevention success and a therapeutic opportunity
  Peter Howley (Harvard)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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
• 14:00 - Caspase 3 initiates cell differentiation through targeted proteome and genome alterations
  Professor Lynn Megeney (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental 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

• 12:00 - Transcriptional profiling of macrophages in rheumatic disease for precision medicine based therapies
  Dr Harris Perlman (Northwestern University, CHI, USA)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 14:00 - Improving Openness and Reproducibility of Scientific Research
  Dr Timothy Errington (Metascience Manager from Cancer Biology Reproducibility Project )
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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
• 14:00 - How sensory neurons drive organ development and homeostasis– Drosophila models for hematopoiesis and immunity
  Dr Katja Brueckner (University of California)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 30 October 2017

• 12:00 - Deconstructing and reconstructing a metastatic tumour microenvironment
  Dr Oliver Pearce (Barts Cancer Institute, London)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

• 11:00 - Metabolomics enhances precision medicine and interpretation of gene mutation
  Various Speakers
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

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

• 11:00 - Developing new models of CRC for stratifying therapy
  Prof Owen Sansom (Beatson Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 3 November 2017

• 12:00 - Vaccination in crises: Minimizing the “muddle through”
  Dr Rebecca Grais (Epicentre, Paris)
  Jenner Seminars
• 14:00 - Global reprogramming of the Yersinia pseudotuberculosis transcriptional landscape in response to host signals
  Professor Petra Dersch (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 6 November 2017

• 12:00 - Sweet immunomodulation
  Dr Luisa Martinez-Pomares (University of Nottingham)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 12:30 - Webinar: Managing uncertainty in clinical trials: the role of adaptive trial designs
  The webinar will be recorded and later made available on the public facing website of GloPID-R
  Professor Steve Webb (Monash University)
  Tropical Medicine Seminars
• 13:00 - Mitochondrial DNA disease: challenges and solutions
  Professor Sir Doug Turnbull (Professor of Neurology, Newcastle University )
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 7 November 2017

• 12:00 - Leukocyte navigation in complex environments
  Dr Michael Sixt (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 9 November 2017

• 11:00 - Breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility: what have we learned from large international consortia?
  Dr Antonis Antoniou (Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Cambridge)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 13:30 - Glucocorticoid receptor action in osteoimmunology
  Prof Jan Tuckermann (Ulm University)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 14:00 - Development of a Human Adenovirus 5 Ebola Vaccine
  Dr Xuefeng Yu (CEO) (CanSino Biologics Inc.), Dr Dongxu Qui (CBO) (CanSino Biologics Inc.)
  Jenner Seminars
• 14:15 - Mechanisms of trinucleotide repeat induced epigenetic instability
  Dr Sasa Svikovic (MRC LMB, Cambridge)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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

Monday 13 November 2017

• 12:00 - Innate host defence: a playing field for the ubiquitin machinery
  Dr Mads Gyrd Hansen (Ludwig Cancer Research)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

• 12:00 - High profile seminar: Antimalarial drug resistance
  Professor Sir Nick White (University of Oxford)
  Tropical Medicine Seminars

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 13:00 - Optical control of T-cell signalling dynamics
  Dr John James (Cambridge Immunology Network / MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 13:30 - Catch me if you can – illuminating the onset of adaptive immunity
  Professor Robert Tampé (Goethe University Frankfurt)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 11:00 - Host Proteostasis Modulates RNA Virus Evolution
  Matthew Shoulders (MIT)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Trust None of What You Hear and Less of What You See: Living with Caspases and Dying Without Them
  Prof Eli Amara (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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
• 14:00 - Endothelial mechanobiology - going with the flow
  Professor Paul Evans (Sheffield University)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 20 November 2017

• 12:00 - Stromal cell niches in secondary lymphoid organs: how they develop and function in adaptive immunity
  Dr Sanjiv Luther (University of Lausanne)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 22 November 2017

• 11:00 - Glucose Transporters in the Biology of Leishmania Parasites – Unanticipated Complexities in Nutrient Uptake and Sensing
  Prof Scott Landfear (Oregon Health & Science University, USA)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 13:00 - Csk-CD148 and ITIM receptors: setting the threshold of platelet activation
  Prof Yotis Senis (Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 23 November 2017

• 11:00 - Targeting cancer therapy using oncolytic viruses
  Prof Len Seymour (Department of Oncology, University of Oxford)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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
• 11:00 - Dynamic network models complement machine learning to improve cancer treatment
  TBA
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Conserved roles of Rif1 in Chromosome Maintenance
  Professor Anne Donaldson (University of Aberdeen)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 27 November 2017

• 12:00 - Chondrocytes and snoRNAs: lost in translation?
  Dr Mandy Peffers (University of Liverpool)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 15:00 - Structures and functions of membrane interacting proteins using NMR, lipid screens and polymer-based nanodiscs.
  Prof Michael Overduin (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 11:00 - Understanding infection and pathogenesis from the epithelial point of view
  Dr Francesco Boccellato (Max Planck Institute for Infectious Biology)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 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
• 12:00 - Cellular Ecology
  Prof Ruslan Medzhitov (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, MD, USA)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 14:00 - Building a membrane on the other side of the wall
  Professor Thomas Silhavy (Princeton University)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 4 December 2017

• 12:00 - Cancer cells: the evil companions corrupting good tissue behaviour
  Prof Ilaria Malanchi (The Francis crick Institute)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 12:00 - Cancer cells: the evil companions corrupting good tissue behaviour
  Prof Ilaria Malanchi (The Francis crick Institute)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - Synthetic genetics: beyond DNA and RNA
  Professor Philipp Holliger
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Wednesday 6 December 2017

• 12:30 - Correlates of risk of TB disease and their back-translation into animal models
  Ass. Prof. Helen Fletcher (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Dr Andrea Zelmer (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
  Jenner Seminars
• 17:15 - Slum Health - Expert talk with Q&A - Global Health Systems Research
  Professor Richard Lilford (University of Warwick)
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars

Thursday 7 December 2017

• 08:30 - Crossing Boundaries 3 - Conference on Global Health Systems
  TBA
  Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars

Wednesday 13 December 2017

• 13:00 - Collective T cell decisions during immune responses
  Dr Audrey Gérard (University of Oxford)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 14 December 2017

• 14:00 - Rift Valley fever: exploring strategies for intervention and control
  Dr Alejandro Brun (Animal Health Research Centre (CISA), Madrid)
  Jenner Seminars

Wednesday 20 December 2017

• 13:00 - Decoding the functional roles of genetic variants in complex phenotypes
  Dr Justin O'Sullivan (Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Monday 8 January 2018

• 12:00 - Systems level analysis of human cell mediated immune responses in situ
  Dr Mahdad Noursadeghi (University College London (UCL))
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 10 January 2018

• 13:00 - Small proteins with big roles.
  Dr Andrea Pauli (IMP Vienna, Austria)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Thursday 11 January 2018

• 11:00 - Driver Mutations in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms and Secondary Myeloid Leukemia: From JAK2 V617F to a Mutated Chaperone
  Prof Stefan Constantinescu (Head, Signal Transduction & Molecular Hematology Unit, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brussels, Belgium)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 15 January 2018

• 12:00 - A new role for B cells in inflammation
  Dr Dagmar Scheel-Toellner (University of Birmingham)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR AS BEEN CANCELLED
  Sebastian Amigorena (Institute Curie, Paris)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 16 January 2018

• 15:00 - Life without DNA replication origins – Is there a minimum size limit for recombination-dependent DNA replication?
  Prof Thorsten Allers (University of Nottingham)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Wednesday 17 January 2018

• 13:00 - Understanding and manipulating the T-cell response to peptide-MHC
  Prof Linda Wooldridge (Chair in Translational Immunology, University of Bristol)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 13:30 - Self perception by natural killer cells
  Professor Petter Höglund (Karolinska Institutet)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 18 January 2018

• 11:00 - Exploring the dynamics of DNA methylation and interaction with genotype in response to inflammatory stimuli
  Benjamin Fairfax (Department of Oncology, University of Oxford)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 11:00 - At the intersection of chromatin structure, transcription and DNA repair.
  Dr Sergio de Almeida (iMM Lisbon, Portugal)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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
• 13:00 - Public debate at The Oxford Union: Climate Change and Health
  Various Speakers
  Tropical Medicine Seminars
• 14:00 - Learning from helminths: Macrophage Dynamics in Type 2 immunity
  Professor Judith Allen (University of Manchester)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 22 January 2018

• 12:00 - Increasing memory potential: How asymmetric cell division modulation impacts T cell fate
  Dr Mariana Borsa (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zürich))
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 24 January 2018

• 13:00 - Discovering and re-discovering human memory T cell differentiation by high-dimensional single cell analysis
  Dr Enrico Lugli (Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Italy)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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
• 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

Monday 29 January 2018

• 11:00 - Deciphering the tumour ecosystem
  Dr Yinyin Yuang (Institute for Cancer Research, London)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Reconstructing the immune system using single cell RNA sequencing
  Professor Muzlifah Haniffa (Newcastle University)
  Kennedy Institute 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
• 11:00 - A Tale of Two Evils: Aging and Cancer
  Dr Curtis Harris (NIH/NCI)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 14:00 - One step back, two steps forward: Toxin-antitoxin modules and persister formation of Escherichia coli
  Professor Kenn Gerdes (University of Copenhagen)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 5 February 2018

• 12:00 - Autoimmunity versus anti-tumour Immunity: the flip sides of CD8 T cell responses
  Prof Rose Zamoyska (Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, Edinburgh University)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

• 10:00 - Using a light-activatable TCR to study signalling dynamics in T cells
  Prof Wolfgang Schamel (BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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

Thursday 8 February 2018

• 11:00 - The Role Of The Unfolded Protein Response In Determining Lifespan
  Dr Rebecca Taylor (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Ludwig Institute 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

Monday 12 February 2018

• 12:00 - Citrullinated epitopes are excellent targets for cancer vaccines
  Prof Lindy Durrant (University of Nottingham)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

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

• 12:00 - Non-coding RNAs in immunity and inflammation
  Dr Dimitris Lagos (University of York)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

• 11:00 - Mitosis, genome stability and cancer chemotherapy
  Prof Stephen Taylor (Division of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Wednesday 21 February 2018

• 13:00 - Structure and mechanism of MHC I chaperone and peptide-loading complexes illuminate the onset of adaptive immunity
  Professor Robert Tampé (Goethe University Frankfurt)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 13:30 - Targeting immune regulation within tumours
  Professor Sergio Quesada (University College London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Thursday 22 February 2018

• 11:00 - Common genetic variants and breast cancer risk
  David Hunter (BDI, University of Oxford)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

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
• 14:00 - From lipid rafts to clinical lipidomics
  Professor Kai Simons (Max Planck Institute)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 26 February 2018

• 12:00 - Spatial Positioning of Innate Cells Controls B Cell Immunity to Infection
  Dr Mauro Gaya (Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Tuesday 27 February 2018

• 14:00 - Growth Factor Sensing; a new paradigm in tumour and pathogen immunosurveillance
  Alexander Barrow (Washington University in St Louis)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Thursday 1 March 2018

• 11:00 - THE PIDDOSOME IN PLOIDY CONTROL AND TISSUE REGENERATION
  Dr Andreas Villunger (University of Innsbruck)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation-induced chromatin relaxation at the sites of DNA damage
  Dr Gyula Timinszky (Institute of Genetics, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

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
• 14:00 - “Structural basis of long double-stranded RNA recognition by MDA5”
  Dr Yorgo Modis (University of Cambridge)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 5 March 2018

• 12:00 - Temporally regulated amino acid uptake through SLC7A5 is required for CD4+ effector T cell differentiation
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Linda Sinclair (University of Dundee)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 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

• 11:00 - Bacterial interactions with long-lived gastrointestinal stem cells and their niches - recipe for disaster?
  Michael Sigal (Max Planck Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 March 2018

• 13:00 - Coincidence detection tailors macrophage responses to inflammatory signals
  Dr Jelena Bezbradica (NDORMS, Oxford)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
• 13:30 - Metabolic adaptation as a protective strategy against infectious diseases
  Dr Miguel Soares (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

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
• 11:00 - Oesophageal Cancer; past, present and the future
  Professor Tim Underwood (University of Southampton)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Fundamental physiology and target discovery in type 2 diabetes: Science at the interface of academia and pharma
  Professor James Johnson (University of British Columbia)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 12 March 2018

• 09:00 - Understanding cancer using integrative network models
  Marieke Kuijjer (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - What do glucocorticoids really do to macrophages, and how?
  Prof Andy Clark (University of Birmingham)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 13:00 - Airway epithelia under attack: influenza, interferons and pollutants
  Andreas Wack (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS

Tuesday 13 March 2018

• 12:00 - Lymphocyte cytotoxicity in health and disease
  Yenan Bryceson (Karolinska Institute)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Thursday 15 March 2018

• 12:00 - Human nasal mucosal immune responses to grass pollen, rhinovirus and resiquimod
  The seminar will be followed by a buffet lunch.
  Dr Akhilesh Jha (Imperial College London), Dr Ryan Thwaites (Imperial College London), Prof Trevor Hansel (Imperial College London)
  Jenner Seminars

Monday 19 March 2018

• 10:00 - Macrophage heterogeneity in cancer metastasis and therapy resistance
  Dr Bin-Zhi Qian (University of Edinburgh)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
• 12:00 - Regenerative Medicine: From Stem Cell Biology to Therapeutics
  Prof Thomas Rando (Stanford University School of Medicine)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 21 March 2018

• 11:00 - These go up to eleven: molecular counting of RNA segments in dsRNA viruses
  Dr Alexander Borodavka (School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds)
  Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars

Friday 23 March 2018

• 14:00 - Not your average kinases - moonlighting functions of RAF and MEK in cancer and cell fate determination
  Professor Manuela Baccarini (University of Vienna)
  Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Monday 26 March 2018

• 12:00 - Measuring and manipulating the adaptive immune repertoire: A comparative approach
  Prof Adrian Smith (University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Tuesday 27 March 2018

• 11:00