Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Mechanisms of Xist RNA function in X chromosome Inactivation

Professor Neil Brockdorff, Biochemistry, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

RSV Revisited: Immune responses in the post vaccine era

Prof John Tregoning, Professor of Vaccine Immunology, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Innate immune regulation of lymphatic vessels

Dr Mayuri Gogoi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

“Reprogramming the Neutrophil”

Note unusual time

Prof Sarah Walmsley, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 16 January 2026, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

“Cryptic RNA splicing in tumors generates new protein isoforms and tumor-specific antigens”

Note unusual time

Dr Sebastian Amigorena, Head of the Immunology Department, Immunity and Cancer Unit, Institut Curie, Paris.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 27 November 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Virus‐host interactomics identify pathogen restriction factors and highlight the importance of non-canonical regulatory processes for antiviral immunity

Note unusual time

Prof Andreas Pichlmair, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich / DZIF, German Center for Infection Research.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Engineering antibodies for agonism: from Fc to Fab

Note unusual time

Prof Mark Cragg, Professor in Experimental Cancer Biology, University of Southampton.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 13 November 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Zombies, ninjas and all things killer cells

Dr Anneliese Speak, Principal Scientist and Group Leader, CITIID, Department of Medicine, Cambridge University.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 30 October 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Outside the brain: how glial cells orchestrate tissue immunity

Note unusual time

Dr Fränze Progatzky, Principal Investigator in Tissue Biology, Kennedy Institute, Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 16 October 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Chronic stress-mediated effects on the immune system: links to mental health

Note unusual time

Stacey Kigar, CRUK.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 02 October 2025, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

The impact of cellular senescence within a human inflammatory tissue environment

Note unusual time

Professor Arne Akbar, Professor of Immunology Aging, Rheumatology and Regenerative Medicine, University College London.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 25 September 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Systematic CRISPR-Cas9 Genetic Characterization of Epstein-Barr Virus/Host Interactions

Note unusual time

Ben Gewurz, .

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 01 August 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Systems Vaccinology

Dr. Bali Pulendran, Violetta L. Horton Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Director of the Institute for Immunology, Transplantation and Infection, and the Departments of Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology..

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Tuesday 29 July 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Elucidating T Cell Signalling Dynamics Using Reconstitution and Optogenetics

Dr John James, Warwick Medical School. Warwick Medical School.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 17 July 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Induction, persistence and function of microbiota-specific CD4 T cell memory

Jakob Zimmermann, Department for Biomedical Research, University of Berne.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 10 July 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

‘Unpicking the biology of healthy human nasal microbiome’

Dr Ewan Harrison, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 03 July 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

“Characterizing and preventing host cell entry of emerging RNA viruses”

Please note the change of venue to: Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC LMB

Professor Thomas Bowden, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH .

Thursday 12 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Regulation of human T cell responses by the microenvironment – novel mechanisms underlying T cell cytotoxicity

Prof. Christina Zielinski, Chair of Infection Immunology, Leibniz Institute HKI .

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Immune Escape and Immune Suppression in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Prof. Vincenzo Bronte, Universita di Verona, Italy.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

'DRiPs, SLiPs and Retirees, Oh My! Generating Peptides for MHC I Immunosurveillance'

Prof. Jonathan W Yewdell, Senior Investigator Cellular Biology Cellular Biology and Viral Immunology Section, The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

“Imaging the Immune System in Tissue Repair”

Professor Paul Kubes, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar - NO TALK

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 17 April 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

'Dendritic cells control the formation, maintenance, and function of tertiary lymphoid structures in cancer.' Raphael Mattiuz, Mount Sinai

Raphael Mattiuz, Post-doctoral Fellow in Immunobiology, Mount Sinai.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 10 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar - TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 03 April 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

'Targeting CD4+ T Cells to Enhance Tumour Immunity'

Professor Awen Gallimore, Co-Director of Systems Immunity Research Institute, Cardiff University.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

‘Humoral immunity in the lung of influenza infected mice’

Tal Arnon, Professor of Cellular Immunology, The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

“Primitive steroidogenesis in mast cells: A novel regulatory mechanism for mast cell function”

Dr Bidesh Mahata, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

“The multifaceted roles of gamma delta T cell subsets in colon cancer”

Seth B. Coffelt, Ph.D, Professor of Cancer Immunology, School of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

“Neutrophils drive vascular occlusion, pleomorphic tumour necrosis, and metastasis”

Jose M. Adrover, Francis Crick Institute.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Quantitative microbiome profiling in health and disease.

Prof. Jeroen Raes, Vice director, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Belgium.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

“Innate immune sensing of viral nucleic acids"

Dr. Brian Ferguson, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Pattern Recognition Receptor signalling in infection and sterile inflammation

Clare Bryant, Professor of Innate Immunity, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

“Host Determinants of Cancer Immunity. Killing cancer with a gut instinct.”

Dr. Evangelos Giampazolias, CRUK Manchester Institute.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 16 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

'An indirect way of detecting viruses: MDA5 guards against infection by surveying cellular RNA homeostasis'

Jan Rehwinkel, Professor of Innate Immunology, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 12 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

‘Immunological memory of ILC2s’

Itziar Martinez Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

“Memory output from the Germinal Centre. A second level of selection?”

Prof Kai-Michael Toellner, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

ZAPing viral RNAs: Targeted RNA degradation as an antiviral defence system

Dr Chad Swanson,Reader in Viral RNA Biology, Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences, King College London.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

'Fuelling Cancer: Exploring the Role of Metabolism in Tumorigenesis.'

Dr Guadalupe Sabio, Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), Madrid.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

'Enhancing T cell immunity to cancer metastasis.'

Dr Jie Yang, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Pathology.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Carbonyl adducts of nucleobases are new antigens stimulating T cells

Prof. Dr. Gennaro De Libero, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 18 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Failure to recruit lymph node resident cDC1 results in poorly functional anti-tumour CD8 T cell responses

Dr Ed Roberts, CRUK Scotland Institute (formerly the CRUK Beatson Institute), University of Glasgow.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

"Molecular methods to identify zoonotic coronaviruses"

Dr Suzannah Rihn, ERC Senior Research Fellow, CITIID.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Placental macrophages and how they fight Listeria monocytogenes infection.

Dr Naomi McGovern, Department of Pathology & Centre for Trophoblast Research, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 03 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

“Scientific publishing at JEM: What, How and Why”

Dr. Gaia Trincucci, Deputy Editor at Journal of Experimental Medicine, Rockefeller University Press.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 19 July 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Stromal/Immune crosstalk to control lymphoid tissue structure and function

Sophie Acton, LMCB Group Leader, Cancer Research UK Senior Research Fellow, MRC-UCL.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 12 July 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Human Immune organoids for investigating interactions and mechanisms in autoimmunity, vaccination and infection

Mark Davis, Professor, Stanford University.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 03 July 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Genetics and Environment Induce Loss of FoxP3+ Regulatory T cell Function in Autoimmunity

David A. Hafler, M.D. Edgerly Professor of Neurology and Immunobiology, Chairman, Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 21 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

“The Spliceosome in Health and Disease”

Daniel R. Larson, Ph.D., Head of Systems Biology of Gene Expression, Co-Chair Trans-NIH Myeloid Malignancies Program, NCI Centre for Cancer Research .

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Tuesday 18 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

STING and inflammatory disease: insights from monogenic conditions

Dr Karen Mackenzie, MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 24 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

The kinetic-segregation model of immune receptor signalling.

Professor Simon Davis, MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 10 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Transposon escape points to function in somatic cells?

Professor Geoff Faulkner, Professorial Research Fellow at Mater Research and Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), University of Queensland, Australia.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 12 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Maximising the impact of CAR T cell therapy for acute leukaemia

Sara Ghorashian, Honorary Associate Professor, University College London.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 22 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Empowering T Cell Therapy through Stemness and Mitochondria

Luca Gattinoni, Division of Functional Immune Cell Modulation, Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy (LIT), Regensburg, Germany.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 08 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Mechanisms controlling gene expression in hypoxia and inflammation

Professor Sonia Rocha, Executive Dean of the Institute of Systems Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 16 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

ILC2 regulation of tissue-localised immunity... and beyond

Dr. Andrew McKenzie, Head of Division & Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 19 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Neuroimmune signalling at and across brain borders regulating neuronal fate

Dr Soyon Hong, Programme lead - UK Dementia Research Institute, University College London.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 12 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series

Regulation of natural killer cell activity in solid tumours

Andreas Lundqvist, Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet Sweden.

Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Monday 11 December 2023, 14:30-15:30