Cambridge Infectious Diseases

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

Transposon escape points to function in somatic cells?

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

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

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

From structure prediction to therapeutics: the rapidly evolving landscape of biomolecular modeling and simulations

User Prem Chapagain.

Tuesday 09 April 2024, 12:00-13:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

A multifunctional biosynthetic machine that makes an interesting, underappreciated green polymer

User Martin Schmeing .

Friday 05 April 2024, 15:00-16:00

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

Maximising the impact of CAR T cell therapy for acute leukaemia

User Sara Ghorashian, Honorary Associate Professor, University College London.

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

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Cutting back malaria: CRISPR-based approaches for antimalarial target discovery

User Professor Marcus Lee - Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, University of Dundee.

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

User Ms Tania Branigan.

Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Ross Waller.

Friday 08 March 2024, 15:00-16:00

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

Empowering T Cell Therapy through Stemness and Mitochondria

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

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

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Expanding BioID: the nuclear pore complex of trypanosomes

User Dr Susanne Kramer - Universität Wüerzburg - Germany..

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

When should lockdown be implemented? Devising cost-effective strategies for managing epidemics amid vaccine uncertainty

User Nathan Doyle (University of Warwick).

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Endocrine signaling and physiological constraint drive a reproduction-immunity tradeoff in Drosophila

User Brian Lazzaro.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells

User Professor Nick Lane, University College London.

Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Unravelling the mechanisms of a splicing regulator

User Chris Smith .

Friday 01 March 2024, 15:00-16:00

Detecting superspreaders in wildlife reservoirs of disease

User Evandro Konzen (University of Warwick).

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Webinar (via Teams).

Bradford Hill Seminar - Social justice and health equity

User Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Institute of Health Equity and UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art

User Professor Frances Spalding.

Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Introducing the Tchasovnikarova Lab

User Iva Tchasovnikarova.

Friday 23 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

New Strategies for how modification enzymes distinguish tRNAs (or not)

User Eva Kowalinski.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

The Exoplanet Revolution

User Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

Friday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Jussi Taipale.

Friday 16 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

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

Mechanisms controlling gene expression in hypoxia and inflammation

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

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

Understanding Virus Evolution and Outbreaks through Phylodynamics: From Theory to Practice

User Marina Zamudio (UCL).

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Visualizing virus infection in situ by cryoET

User Peijun Zhang.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis

User Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Therapeutic manipulations of phosphatases and kinases controlling protein quality control systems: From the bench, to the clinic and back

User Anne Bertolotti.

Friday 09 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

What is still so fascinating about the trypanosome coat?

User Prof Markus Engstler - Universität Wüerzburg - Germany.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Generating Medium-Term Projections of Covid-19 for Wales.

User Daniel Archambault (Newcastle University) & Alma Rahat (Swansea University).

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Airway Biology at the Nanoscale

User Vito Mennella.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Are Revolutions Justified?

User Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

Friday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Disorder at different length scales from a chromatin perspective

User Katherine Stott .

Friday 02 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Reassessing red blood cell invasion in malaria parasites

Please note 16:00 start time for this seminar

User Dr Robert Moon - LSHTM.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Reciprocal gut/body interactions in health and disease

User Julia Cordero.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

The Genetic Revolutions

User Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

Friday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Short term forecasting of Acute Respiratory Infections and their impact on NHS hospital pressures for situational awareness over Winter.

User Jonathon Mellor (UKHSA).

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Adaptation of the cytoskeleton for pathogenicity in the malaria parasite

User Josie Ferreira.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

User Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

Friday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

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

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

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

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Modelling optimal intervention strategies for animal diseases in data poor settings

This talk will be streamed and will be accessible remotely once it has started, with raven login here: https://cambridgelectures.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx#folderID=%220c72d750-7bc0-4938-88f2-ae7c00b8c25d%22

User Professor Mike Tildesley, Professor of Infectious Disease Modelling, University of Warwick.

Friday 19 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

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

Neuroimmune signalling at and across brain borders regulating neuronal fate

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

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

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

Regulation of natural killer cell activity in solid tumours

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

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

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Investigating host-parasite interactions in malaria to improve diagnostics and treatments

User Prof Aubrey Cunnington - Imperial College London.

Wednesday 06 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

TBA

User Katharina Hoefer.

Tuesday 05 December 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Luca Pellegrini.

Friday 01 December 2023, 15:00-16:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Physiological roles of aberrant DNA methylation in vitro and in vivo

User Gabriella Ficz.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Daniel Nietlispach.

Friday 24 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Predicting in vivo metabolic vulnerabilities in Streptococcus suis using metabolic models

User Karl Kochanowski.

House by zoom.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

CANCELLED: Unravelling the whipworm niche at the host intestinal epithelia

Unfortunately, this seminar had to be cancelled. There will be a new date for it soon.

User Dr Maria Duque-Correa - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute - UoC.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Within-host models of viral and bacterial infection

User Martin Lopez-Garcia (University of Leeds).

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Bradford Hill Seminar – What are the Policy Levers for Impact on Health and Sustainability?

User Professor Jeremy A. Lauer, University of Strathclyde.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Photosynthesis on an electrode

User Jenny Zhang.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Eric Miska.

Friday 17 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Understanding the regulation of membranes in health and disease

User Stefano Pagliara.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Cells within cells: Orientia tsutsugamushi and the obligate intracellular bacterial lifestyle

User Jeanne Salje.

Friday 10 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Riitta Lahesmaa .

Friday 10 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Collaborating across disciplines to model the elimination of an endemic livestock disease

User Ewan Colman - University of Bristol.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Repurposing the Plasmodium falciparum mitotic machinery for roles in gametocytogenesis and cell polarity

User Leann Tilley.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Genome editing of red cell precursors and Plasmodium falciparum to study host-parasite interactions in malaria

User Prof Alex Rowe (University of Edinburgh).

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Integrating economics and behaviour into disease transmission modelling

User David Haw, University of Liverpool.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Mathew Coleman .

Friday 27 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Real-world effectiveness of oral antiviral treatment for COVID-19 in Hong Kong

User Carlos Wong.

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Evolution of endocellular trafficking in the eukaryotes: tethers, retromer and factors affecting the shape of the ER

User Lila Koumandou.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Custom low-cost "robotics" and AI: Plant-parasitic nematode phenotyping, at scale

User Dr Sebastian Eves-van den Akker. Department of Plant Sciences - University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Exploring novel regulators in nitrate signaling

User Kun-Hsiang Liu.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Clemens Plaschka.

Friday 13 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Bradford Hill seminar - Tweeting through the storm: how to use social media during a pandemic

User Meaghan Kall, UK Health Security Agency.

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Ivan Ahel .

Friday 06 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

The Burden of Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Nigeria, Control Efforts and the Need for Research Collaboration

User Professor Olaoluwa Pheabian Akinwale - Nigerian Institute of Medical Research.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Comparative insights from modelling animal and human infectious diseases and applications for One Health

User Emily Nixon (University of Liverpool).

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Bradford Hill Seminar – Tackling Bias and Inequities in Health and Genomic Data

User Dr Maxine Mackintosh, Genomics England.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Bradford Hill Seminar – Tackling Bias and Inequities in Health and Genomic Data

User Dr Maxine Mackintosh, Genomics England.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Dissecting coronavirus-host interactions in bats and white-tailed deer

User Arinjay Banerjee and Samira Mubareka, Laboratory of Zoonotic Viruses and Comparative Immunology (LZCI) Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) University of Saskatchewan.

Tuesday 03 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Cammie Lesser.

Friday 29 September 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

How do chromatin remodelling enzymes reshape chromatin?

User Joel Mackay.

Monday 25 September 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Melanie Brinkmann .

Friday 22 September 2023, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Clec9A-targeting as a pathogen agnostic vaccine platform for pandemic vaccine response

User Dr Sylvie Alonso, Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases Translational Research Programme (ID TRP) .

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 22 September 2023, 12:00-14:00

Multireceptor targeting of the glioma microenvironment

User Dr John Rossmeisl, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Monday 18 September 2023, 16:30-17:30

Nationwide HLA frequency and Network based viral host prediction.

User Dr David Wells, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Vaccitech Ltd, Oxford.

Wednesday 13 September 2023, 10:30-11:30

Health care expenditures and national security: transformation of causal patterns in time of COVID-19

User Alina Vysochyna (Sumy State University).

Wednesday 09 August 2023, 12:00-13:00

House On Microsoft Teams (email ec682@cam.ac.uk for the link) .

AMPK phosphorylation of FNIP1 dictates the kinetics of lysosome and mitochondrial biogenesis

User Nazma Malik.

Wednesday 12 July 2023, 12:30-13:30

The role of climate change in altering the risk of vector-borne disease

User Helena Stage (University of Potsdam).

Wednesday 12 July 2023, 12:00-13:00

Detection of outbreaks using epidemiological and genetic data: case-study of Campylobacter infections in England

User Laura Guzman (University of Warwick).

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Wednesday 05 July 2023, 12:00-13:00

Tick-borne diseases with special focus on Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever in Humans and Animals

User Dr. Lawrence Mugisha, Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and BioSecurity (COVAB), Makerere University Department of Wildlife and Animal Resources Management (WARM).

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Postponed - Bradford Hill Seminar – Tweeting through the storm: how to use social media during a pandemic

User Meaghan Kall, UK Health Security Agency.

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Bradford Hill Seminar – Tweeting through the storm: how to use social media during a pandemic

User Meaghan Kall, UK Health Security Agency.

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Lessons from the COVID-19 on pandemic preparedness and response in Hong Kong

User Kathy Leung, HKU.

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Trade-off theory and the surprising efficacy of early public health interventions: the case of faecal-oral diseases in England c.1840-1930

User Romola Davenport (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure).

Wednesday 21 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

RNA Controls DNA in the Human Cell Nucleus

User Tom Cech, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 15:00-16:30

Modelling of the transmission of H5N1 in poultry farms and wild birds in the UK - preliminary results

User Mike Tildesley and Jimmy McKendrick (University of Warwick).

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

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

The virome of insect vectors

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

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

The role of climate change in altering the risk of vector-borne disease

User Helena Stage.

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Mitigating zoonotic risk from bats in rural Kenya

User Dr Kristian Forbes, University of Arkansas.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

House MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Bradford Hill Seminar – Tackling Bias and Inequities in Health and Genomic Data

User Dr Maxine Mackintosh, Genomics England.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Improving surveillance and software for epidemic response

User Dr Adam Kucharski.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Improving surveillance and software for epidemic response

User Dr Adam Kucharski.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

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

Organoid models for human picornaviruses: from gut to brain

User Dr Katja Wolthers. Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands.

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

Approximating First Passage and Peak Timing Distributions for Epidemics

User Jacob Curran-Sebastian, University of Manchester.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Coping with the stress of studying novel human DNA replication deficiency disorders

User Grant Stewart - University of Birmingham.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 12:30-14:00

House Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building, Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Markus Zettl Seminar.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 12:30-14:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

New trends in Immuno-Oncology - towards personalised cancer treatment

User Markus Zettl - CureVac.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 12:30-14:00

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

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

User Dr Hannah Burgess. University of Surrey, UK..

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

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Three proteins walk into a "var"…

User Dr Jessica Bryant (Institut Pasteur, Paris) .

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Warwick-Lancaster global COVID-19 model

User Ioana Bouros, University of Warwick.

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Real-time Genomics and One Health – The River Cam and novel pathogen surveillance technology

User Dr Lara Urban & Anastasia Grekova, Helmholtz AI, Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Technical University of Munich.

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 11:30-12:30

One Health In Action in the Caribbean

User Professor Chris Oura, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of the West Indies.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

The role of small non-coding RNAs in Strongyloides parasitism

User Dr Vicky Hunt (University of Bath).

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Decoding the gene regulatory architecture in the genome

User Bing Ren.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 12:30-14:00

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

The deafening silence of Plasmodium falciparum asymptomatic infections

User Dr Antoine Claessens (Université Montpellier, France).

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Brain and Serum profile of the African Giant Rat brain (Cricetomys gambianus) after natural exposure to heavy metal environmental pollution in the Nigerian Niger Delta

User Professor James O Olopade, Alexander von Humboldt Center of Excellence for Zoonotic Arboviral Diseases (ACEZAD) University of Ibadan.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Molecular Memories

User Oded Rechavi - Tel Aviv University.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 12:30-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Scalable monitoring of Infectious Diseases through biological weather stations

User Prof Simon Frost, Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft Research, Professor of Pathogen Dynamics at LSHTM.

Friday 28 April 2023, 12:00-13:00

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

An ancient DNA perspective on virus evolution

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

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

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Genome-wide functional profiling and its application to decoding mitotic regulation in trypanosomes

User Dr Bill Wickstead (University on Nottingham) .

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Mark Howarth - Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 12:30-14:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Choices in regeneration: How planarians produce missing parts

User Peter Reddien - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Tuesday 18 April 2023, 12:30-14:00

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

CANCELLED Early infection response of the first-trimester placenta at single cell resolution

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

User Dr Roser Vento-Tormo (Wellcome Sanger Institute).

Wednesday 05 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Bradford Hill Seminar – Driving sustainable improvements in patient outcomes through point of care patient outcome measurement and clinical benchmarking

User Professor Kathy Eagar, Australian Health Services Research Institute.

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 09:00-10:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Jenny Gallop.

Friday 24 March 2023, 15:00-16:30

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

How to kill your rivals: Inter-microbial competition mediated by the Type VI secretion system

User Sarah Coulthurst.

Thursday 23 March 2023, 12:30-14:00

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

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

User Dr Vanessa Sancho-Shimizu. Imperial College London.

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

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Dynamic assembly of TNA-protein complexes

User Sarah Woodson, Johns Hopkins University.

Tuesday 21 March 2023, 12:30-14:00

Tragicomedy of the COVID-19 Response in Latvia – confession of a policymaker/modeller

User Nikita Trojanskis - University of Oxford.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

New insights into cerebellar disorders

User Esther Becker.

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 12:30-14:00

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

User Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

Friday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Nick Gay.

Friday 10 March 2023, 15:00-16:30

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

SchistoTrack: A community-based, prospective cohort in rural Uganda to examine causes of periportal fibrosis associated with hepatic schistosomiasis

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

User Dr Goylette Chami.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

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

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

User Prof. Stuart Neil King's College London.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Optical monitoring of cerebral metabolism: from seizures to dogs

Re-scheduled!

User Dr Gemma Bale, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Incorporating contact network structures into SARS-CoV-2 transmission models for care homes

User Li Pi, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

A novel discrete-time model with waning immunity

User Desmond Lai, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Non-cell-autonomous regulation of cell reprogramming: how to be an active bystander

User Maria Christophorou.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 12:30-14:00

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

User Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

Friday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Models and Bayesian inference for disease outbreaks with whole-genome-sequence data

User Philip O'Neill, University of Nottingham.

Friday 03 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Epigenetic memoirs of a parasite

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details.

User Dr Richard Bartfai (Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands) .

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Life as a Guide to the Origin of Life

User Nick Lane.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 12:30-14:00

Are we alone in the Universe?

User Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Svetlana Khoronenkova.

Friday 24 February 2023, 15:00-16:30

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

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

User Dr Juan Fontana Jordán de Urriés. University of Leeds.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Unravelling the whipworm niche at the host intestinal epithelia

User Dr Maria Duque, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Modelling informing policy: Process and the Modeler’s role

User Hannah Clapham, National University of Singapore.

Monday 20 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

User Professor Philip Jones, University College London.

Friday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Marko Hyvonen.

Friday 17 February 2023, 15:00-16:30

Improving the representativeness of UK’s national COVID-19 Infection Survey through spatio-temporal regression and post-stratification

User Koen Pouwels, Oxford.

Friday 17 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Bradford Hill Seminar - Social justice and health equity – Professor Sir Michael Marmot

User Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Institute of Health Equity.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Next generation approaches to understanding the regulation of steroid hormone response

User Andrew Holding .

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 12:30-14:00

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

User Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

Friday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

"Immune therapies for targeting cancers that express LGR5”

User Marc de la Roche.

Friday 10 February 2023, 15:00-16:30

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Can small RNAs help address the big issues in helminth parasite control?

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details.

User Dr Paul McVeigh (Queen's University, Belfast).

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Inference on compartmental models: COVID-19 modelling at Sussex

User Eduard Campillo-Funollet, Lancaster.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Standing at the crossroads: having defined their pathogenicity at length, can we now exploit the beneficial properties of Burkholderia bacteria?

User Eshwar Mahenthiralingam.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 12:30-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Contribution of pneumococci to the risk of developing pneumonia: The Drakenstein Child Health Study

User Dr Felix Dube, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Cape Town.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

The Closeting of Secrets

User Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

Friday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

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

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

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

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

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Unraveling mechanisms of human-specific brain development and evolution using organoids

User Madeline Lancaster.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 12:30-14:00

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia

User Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University.

Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

How not to eat your own brain 101 (feat. Syk and P2Y6)

User Guy Brown - Jacob Dundee & Tim Birkle.

Friday 27 January 2023, 15:00-16:30

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Pdr5—a tale of ATP, drugs, and promiscuity

User Lutz Schmitt.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 12:30-14:00

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

User Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

Friday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Mark Carrington.

Friday 20 January 2023, 15:00-16:30

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

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

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

The importance of vaccinated individuals to population-level evolution of pathogens

User Maria A. Gutierrez - University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

The PTMeXchange project: finding evidence for post-translational modifications - crosstalk, competition and conservation across Life

User Andy Jones.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 12:30-14:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Paul Dupree.

Friday 13 January 2023, 15:00-16:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Spillover Surveillance and One Health Response: Understanding Emerging Zoonotic Threats in Real Time

User Professor Emily Gurley, Johns Hopkins University.

Tuesday 10 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Jody Rosenblatt.

Tuesday 10 January 2023, 12:30-14:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar “The Cdc42-ACK signalling network”

User Darerca Owen.

Friday 16 December 2022, 15:00-16:30

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Schistosoma-gut microbiome interactions: Implications for the pathophysiology of the infection (and more?)

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

User Alba Cortéz Carbonell (Universitat de València, Spain) .

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Plant pathogens manipulate host microbiota to promote disease development

User Bart Thomma.

Tuesday 13 December 2022, 12:30-14:00

House This talk will happen virtually via Zoom (due to speaker location).

CD4+ T cell memory during type 1 immune response

Professor Marc Jenkins, University of Minnesota. Hosted by Dr Antonio Pagan-Velez.

User Professor Marc Jenkins, University of Minnesota. Hosted by Dr Antonio Pagan-Velez..

Friday 09 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Learning About Long COVID from Patients: The Power of Narrative Evidence

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 07 December 2022, 13:00-14:00

Learning About Long COVID from Patients: The Power of Narrative Evidence

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 07 December 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building, Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Going down the rabbit hole: Drugging Mycobacterium tuberculosis metabolic pathways

User Dany Beste.

Tuesday 06 December 2022, 12:30-14:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Philip Zegerman.

Friday 02 December 2022, 15:00-16:30

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

Infecting under the radar: lentiviral evasion of DNA sensing

User Dr Rebecca Sumner (University of Surrey, UK).

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

Modelling the impact of social behaviour on infectious disease transmission: what we do and don't know!

User Alison Hale, University of Lancaster.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Defining genetic and environmental determinants of malaria transmission

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

User Prof Matthew Marti. University of Glasgow..

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

"Bacterial retrons: a new type of phage defense systems"

User Nassos Typas Seminar .

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 12:30-14:00

House Meeting in person, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre .

How Salmonella reprogrammes a host kinase to drive macrophage polarisation

Dr Teresa Thurston, Imperial College London. Hosted by Professor Felix Randow

User Dr Teresa Thurston, Imperial College London. Hosted by Professor Felix Randow.

Friday 25 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Modelling informing COVID policy in a highly vaccinated Singapore

User Hannah Clapham (NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health).

Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

House MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Bradford Hill Seminar – Designing efficient clinical trials during a pandemic

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building, Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

“Mechanistic insights into controlling cell identity by transcription factors”

User Abdenour Soufi.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 12:30-14:00

House Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building, Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

How can life sciences help meet climate challenges?

User George Monbiot.

Friday 18 November 2022, 16:00-17:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The journey of XDR typhoid in Pakistan

User Dr. Farah Naz Qamar, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health Medical College, The Aga Khan University, Pakistan.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building, Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

'Electron tomography of prokaryotic cell surfaces'

User Tanmay Bharat.

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 12:30-14:00

House Meeting in person, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre .

"BYOB – Organising Appropriate Gatherings in the Lymph Node"

User Dr Ed Roberts, CRUK Beatson Institute. Hosted by: Dr Maike De La Roche.

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Chris Smith.

Friday 11 November 2022, 15:00-16:30

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Taming your inner parasite: novel tools to study cryptosporidiosis

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details.

User Dr Adam Sateriale (Francis Crick Institute).

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Disordered proteins: expanding the rules of molecular recognition

User Katherine Stott.

Friday 04 November 2022, 15:00-16:30

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

Zika virus emergence: the African exception

User Dr Louis Lambrechts (Institut Pasteur, France).

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

Data-driven approaches to surveillance of Covid-19 in the UK.

User Ben Swallow University of St Andrews.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

House In person meetings, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre .

Team with Microbes: Lessons from the Zebrafish Digestive Tract

Professor Karen Guillemin, University of Oregon. Hosted by Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan.

User Professor Karen Guillemin, University of Oregon. Hosted by Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan..

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

"Why a bacterial army marches on its stomach"

User Martin Welch.

Friday 28 October 2022, 15:00-16:30

Prediction Models For COVID-19 – lessons learnt

User Glen Martin (University of Manchester).

Thursday 27 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Evidence for pervasive transcription in trypanosomes

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

User Dr Antonio Estevez (Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina 'López-Neyra’, IPBLN-CSIC, Granada, Spain).

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Hybrid meeting, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre and Via Zoom, for more details go to https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/.

Adventures in Inflammation Research

Prof Luke O'Neill, Trinity College Dublin. Hosted by Prof Clare Bryant

User Prof Luke O'Neill, Trinity College Dublin. Hosted by Prof Clare Bryant.

Friday 21 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

“Role of size exclusion and super-enhancers in control of gene expression”

User Jussi Taipale.

Friday 21 October 2022, 15:00-16:30

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

Investigating enteric virus-host interactions in human intestinal organoids

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

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

A retrospective look at the challenges of modelling for policy during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Kenya from Jan 2020 to BA.2/3/4/5

User Sam Brand, University of Warwick.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

A retrospective look at the challenges of modelling for policy during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Kenya from Jan 2020 to BA.2/3/4/5

User Sam Brand, University of Warwick.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building, Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

'Multivalent RNA regions regulate nuclear export of functionally related mRNAs'.

User Ule Jernez.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 12:30-14:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Eric Miska.

Friday 14 October 2022, 15:00-16:30

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

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

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

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

An estimation framework to study epidemic fade-out using multiple outbreak data

User Punya Alahakoon, University of Melbourne.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Mathematical modelling in the neglected topical disease elimination era

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

User Dr Martin Walker. (Royal Veterinary College and Imperial College London).

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Hybrid meeting, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre and Via Zoom, for more details go to https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/.

Cell death and decision making in macrophages during inflammation

Associate Professor Jelena Bezbradica Mirkovic, Kennedy Institute, Oxford. Hosted by Professor Felix Randow

User Associate Professor Jelena Bezbradica Mirkovic, Kennedy Institute, Oxford. Hosted by Professor Felix Randow.

Friday 07 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Predictive performance of Covid-19 forecasts

User Seb Funk LSHTM.

Thursday 06 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre.

Cell death as an antimicrobial mechanism against extracellular bacterial infection

User Assistant Professor Kaiwen Chen, National University of Singapore .

Wednesday 05 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

Title to be confirmed

User Salim Khakoo.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 12:30-13:30

House Queens College, Cambridge.

Cambridge Immunology Forum - 22nd Cambridge Immunology Forum: Cancer at the interface of immunity, metabolism and microbiota

User Please see speakers below.

Friday 23 September 2022, 08:30-18:00

House CRUK Cambridge Institute lecture theatre, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE.

Immunotherapy: A piece of the puzzle for treating brain cancer

Associate Professor Misty Jenkins, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne. Hosted by Prof Gillian Griffiths

User Associate Professor Misty Jenkins, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne. Hosted by Prof Gillian Griffiths.

Friday 09 September 2022, 12:30-13:30

House Sanger Seminar Room, Level 3, LMB.

Of novel MAMPs and DAMPs: Discovery of novel inflammatory pathways mediated by innate immunity

Prof Alex Weber, University of Tübingen, Germany. Hosted by Prof Felix Randow

User Prof Alex Weber, University of Tübingen, Germany. Hosted by Prof Felix Randow.

Monday 05 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building, Perham Seminar Room.

naRNA is a canonical neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) component and novel inflammation-amplifying composite DAMP

User Alex Weber, Professor of Innate Immunity at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Wednesday 17 August 2022, 14:30-16:00

House Seminar Room, Sanger Building, 80, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1GA.

naRNA is a canonical neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) component and novel inflammation-amplifying composite DAMP

Prof Alex Weber, University of Tübingen, Germany. Hosted by Prof Nick Gay

User Prof Alex Weber, University of Tübingen, Germany. Hosted by Prof Nick Gay.

Wednesday 17 August 2022, 14:30-15:30

House Hybrid meeting, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre and Via Zoom, for more details go to https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/.

Location matters: the complosome and cell physiology in health and disease

Professor Claudia Kemper, NIH/NHLBI, Bethesda MD. Hosted by Professor Menna Clatworthy

User Professor Claudia Kemper, NIH/NHLBI, Bethesda MD. Hosted by Professor Menna Clatworthy.

Friday 29 July 2022, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

One health, many challenges no silver bullet.

User Andres M Perez, University of Minnesota.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 20 July 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Hybrid meeting, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre and Via Zoom, for more details go to https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/.

Mechanisms underlying host-microbiota relationships in the vertebrate intestine

Prof John Rawls, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Hosted by Prof Lalita Ramakrishnan

User Prof John Rawls, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Hosted by Prof Lalita Ramakrishnan.

Friday 15 July 2022, 16:00-17:00

Introducing JUNE

User Frank Krauss, Durham University.

Wednesday 13 July 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Hybrid meeting, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre and Via Zoom, for more details go to https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/.

Capsid and the inhibition of retroviral replication

Prof Jonathan Stoye, The Francis Crick, London. Hosted by Prof Paul Lehner

User Prof Jonathan Stoye, The Francis Crick, London. Hosted by Prof Paul Lehner.

Friday 08 July 2022, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome economization for pathogenesis: “More from less for more”

Room changed - will be Seminar Rooms 2/3, Pathology Block, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

User Prof Seyed E. Hasnain, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Sharda University, Greater Noida .

House Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 07 July 2022, 16:00-17:00

Identifying sources of transmission for zoonotic mosquito-borne viruses

User Dr Jennifer Lord, Department of Vector Biology Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Wednesday 06 July 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Martin Welch

Meeting ID: 999 5680 8169 Passcode: deMmtye1zg

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 01 July 2022, 15:00-16:30

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

Phenotypic Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Variants

User Dami Aderonke Collier.

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

Critical weaknesses in shielding strategies for COVID-19

User Cameron Smith & Kit Yates, University of Bath.

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

Unexpected roles for ubiquitin in immunity.

User Justine Mintern .

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 12:30-13:30

House Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Ross Waller

Meeting ID: 993 1526 0508 Passcode: TAWdC8cqMD

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 24 June 2022, 15:00-16:30

House Hybrid meeting, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre and Via Zoom, for more details go to https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/.

Immunity to acute and persistent virus infections with aging

Prof Janko Nikolich- Žugich, University of Arizona. Hosted by Dr Mark Wills

User Prof Janko Nikolich- Žugich, University of Arizona. Hosted by Dr Mark Wills.

Friday 17 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Jussi Taipale

Meeting ID: 979 8470 1876 Passcode: W5S08q2quf

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 17 June 2022, 15:00-16:30

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

CpG Enrichment as a Vaccine Strategy for Influenza A Virus

User Dr Elly Gaunt, The University of Edinburgh.

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

House Department of Pathology Lecture Theatre.

Finding a needle in a haystack: Genome-wide analyses of anthelmintic resistance in helminths of livestock

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

User Dr Roz Laing (University of Glasgow).

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

What activity types posed the greatest risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection for a university community?

User Kirsty Bolton (University of Nottingham) & Emma Fairbanks (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute).

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Hybrid meeting, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre and Via Zoom, for more details go to https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/.

Leukocyte dynamics in lung metastasis

Dr Leo Carlin, University of Glasgow. Hosted by Dr Maike De La Roche

User Dr Leo Carlin, University of Glasgow. Hosted by Dr Maike De La Roche.

Friday 10 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Darerca Owen

Meeting ID: 919 1975 8672 Passcode: 1WMGiqg61s

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 10 June 2022, 15:00-16:30

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Modelling the impact of asymptomatic testing and isolation policies on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in workplaces

User Carl Whitfield, University of Manchester.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

Therapeutic targeting of recurrently mutated driver oncogenes using TCR gene therapy

User Chris Klebanoff.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 12:30-13:30

House Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building, Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Kambo Wong (TBC)

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 12:00-14:30

House Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

Can viral infections exacerbate the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease?

User Mathew Clement.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 12:30-13:30

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Chris Smith

Meeting ID: 925 5194 3600 Passcode: gf2rNvxpG0

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 27 May 2022, 15:00-16:30

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

SARS-CoV-2 evolution: (Dis)entangled on multiple scales

User Simon Rella, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

Regulation of innate immune activation during viral infections

User Ian Humphreys.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

House Hybrid meeting, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre and Via Zoom, for more details go to https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/.

Into Thin Air: the Hypoxia / Inflammation axis

Prof Cormac Taylor, University College Dublin. Hosted by Prof James Nathan

User Prof Cormac Taylor, University College Dublin. Hosted by Prof James Nathan.

Friday 20 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - George Salmond

Meeting ID: 953 2306 3274 Passcode: 252g33MihX

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 20 May 2022, 15:00-16:30

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

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

User Prof. Stephen Harrison.

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

House Marjory Stephenson Seminar Room, Hopkins Building, Dept of Biochemistry.

Genome-led vaccine target discovery for parasitic infections

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

User Professor Gavin Wright (University of York).

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pathology and on Microsoft Teams.

T cells in the brain

User Professor Adrian Liston.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 12:30-13:30

House Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building, Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Biochemistry Tea Club Seminar - Tobias Spielmann

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 12:00-14:30

House Hybrid meeting, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre and Via Zoom, for more details go to https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/.

Understanding alloreactive T cell targeting of leukaemia for therapeutic application

Prof Paresh Vyas, Professor of Haematology, University of Oxford. Hosted by Prof Paul Lehner

User Prof Paresh Vyas, Professor of Haematology, University of Oxford. Hosted by Prof Paul Lehner.

Friday 13 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Venue to be confirmed.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar TBC

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 13 May 2022, 15:00-16:30

What kind of distance underlies influenza transmission in the US?

User Maria Tang, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

The future of cancer screening: stratified, pan, both or neither?

User Professor Peter Sasieni, King’s Clinical Trials Unit, King’s College London.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Hybrid meeting, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre and Via Zoom, for more details go to https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/.

Lung epithelia under attack: Infections, Interferon, Inflammation

Prof Andreas Wack, The Francis Crick Institute. Hosted by Prof James Nathan

User Prof Andreas Wack, The Francis Crick Institute. Hosted by Prof James Nathan.

Friday 06 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Thomas Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Luca Pellegrini

Meeting ID: 927 7127 1361 Pmwq2w2WnK

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 06 May 2022, 15:00-16:30

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

The Role of Mononuclear Phagocytes in Sexual Transmission

User Dr Andrew Harman, The University of Sydney.

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

House Thomas Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Biochemistry (Sanger).

Taming your intestinal parasite - building the tools to study Cryptosporidium

Canceled

User Dr Adam Sateriale (Francis Crick Institute).

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Estimating global spatial dynamics and vaccine-induced fitness changes of Bordetella pertussis using genetic data.

User Noemie Lefrancq (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Jean Thomas Lecture theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tea Club Seminar - Sarah Butcher

Meeting ID: 962 1088 7232 Passcode: Q9hkyPXgQM

User Sarah Butcher.

Tuesday 03 May 2022, 12:30-14:00

House Via Zoom, for more details go to https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/.

Leveraging early life immunity to end pandemics

Prof Sallie Permar, Dept of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine. Hosted by Dr Sarah Caddy

User Prof Sallie Permar, Dept of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine. Hosted by Dr Sarah Caddy.

Friday 29 April 2022, 16:00-17:00