Cambridge Infectious Diseases

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.

House LT1.

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.

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 .

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

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - CANCELLED

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 29 April 2022, 15:00-16:30

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

Seminar by Prof Sheena D’Arcy - "Affinity Determinants of RNA binding by Helicase Mtr4 using HDX"

User Prof Sheena D’Arcy - completed PhD in the Blundell group.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 11:30-14:45

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

Hunting the Silent Killer: Investigating Chagas disease in a murine model

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

User Dr Martin Taylor. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

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

Preventing and reversing immunopathology: respective roles of regulatory CD4 T cells and regulatory plasma cells

User Professor Simon Fillatreau.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 12:30-13:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - CANCELLED

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 22 April 2022, 15:00-16:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar [TBC]

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 08 April 2022, 15:00-16:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar [TBC]

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Special Seminar - Dan Lu, Ph.D "Dynamic combinatorial p53 post-translational modifications regulate cell outcomes"

User Dan Lu, Ph.D - Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School.

Monday 28 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Sarah Lummis

Meeting ID: 947 3247 9631 Passcode: 37W4C1pEEx

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 25 March 2022, 15:00-16:30

The ethics of being a disease modeler

User Dr Nathaniel Hupert, Weill Cornell Medicine.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Juan Mata

Meeting ID: 971 4570 4914 Passcode: rQ7tciZwBd

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 18 March 2022, 15:00-16:30

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

Mazes models and maths - discovering how chemotactic cells decide where to go, and how reverse chemotaxis can work

User Professor Robert Insall.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 12:30-13:30

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

User Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

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

Coordination of Transcription and Repair during the DNA damage response

Dr Ana Tufegdzic Vidakovic, MRC-LMB, Cambridge. Hosted by Prof Paul Lehner

User Dr Ana Tufegdzic Vidakovic, MRC-LMB, Cambridge. Hosted by Prof Paul Lehner.

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

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Kathryn Lilley

Meeting ID: 956 3636 0736 Passcode: SZC8sBv2kf

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

House https://zoom.us/j/94063949846?pwd=UW8wTlNKR09UTWZqdHBubjlQSGJxUT09.

Transcription and Genome Replication Machinery of Non-segmented Negative Strand RNA Viruses

User Dr Rachel Fearns, Boston University, USA.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

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

The discriminatory power of the T cell antigen receptor

User Omer Dushek.

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 12:30-13:30

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

Tea Club Seminar - Rosalind Rickaby - "Evolving chemistry of the oceans shapes the ecological niche of modern phytoplankton"

Meeting ID: 981 9338 7883 Passcode: 4EVEyQPswv

User Rosalind Rickaby.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 12:30-14:00

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

User Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

Friday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Laue Group - “Multi-way chromosomal hubs that form during the exit from naïve pluripotency are sites of early transcriptional priming of developmental genes”

Meeting ID: 969 2747 6407 Passcode: 6q6VqEcsHU

User Drs David Lando and Xiaoyan Ma .

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

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

From tagging to transcription activation in trypanosomes

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

User Dr Jack Sunter.

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

A household-structured approach to modelling non-pharmaceutical interventions

User Dr Joe Hilton, University of Warwick.

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

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

Control of cGAS-STING signalling in cancer

User Eileen Parks (Oxford).

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 12:30-13:30

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

Tea Club Seminar - Manu Hegde "How our cells make multi-pass membrane proteins"

Meeting ID: 963 8187 2446 Passcode: 0KgJWz4zNX

User Manu Hegde.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 12:30-14:00

Food and Cultural History

User Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

Friday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

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

Mycobacterial virulence vs. macrophage metabolism in the TB granuloma

Dr Antonio Pagán, University of Cambridge. Hosted by Prof Lalita Ramakrishnan

User Dr Antonio Pagán, University of Cambridge. Hosted by Prof Lalita Ramakrishnan.

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

House the Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre at the Sanger Building.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Dr Svetlana Khoronenkova "Microglial dysfunction and cerebellar neurodegeneration"

User Dr Svetlana Khoronenkova.

Friday 25 February 2022, 15:00-16:30

House https://zoom.us/j/99110614960?pwd=OG1oLzdEMTNvQWQ2VTZmMGo4UFJRZz09.

Systemic Cancer Therapy with Oncolytic Adenovirus

User Dr Svetlana Atasheva, Emory University, USA.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

The COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub: a multi-model effort towards addressing uncertainty during the pandemic in the United States

User Dr Rebecca Borchering, The Pennsylvania State University.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Epidemiology and control of COVID-19 in Hong Kong

User Professor Benjamin Cowling, School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong.

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

Tea Club Seminar - Jan Löwe “Molecular nanomachines illuminated by cryo-EM”

Meeting ID: 950 7956 8003 Passcode: G0m8QqxV1V

User Jan Löwe.

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

Food as Expression

User Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

Friday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

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

Myeloid Cell Dynamics in Type 2 immunity: insights from tissue-dwelling nematodes

Prof Judi Allen, University of Manchester. Hosted by Dr Rahul Roychoudhuri

User Prof Judi Allen, University of Manchester. Hosted by Dr Rahul Roychoudhuri.

Friday 18 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

House the Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre at the Sanger Building.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Anthony Jackson "Sodium channel mutants, toxins and antibodies"

Meeting ID: 959 7772 6993 Passcode: G7MxabDbFH

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 18 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Dixon Greaves Room, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Using scRNAseq to understand malaria parasite development and evolution

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person - no booking required - or via zoom. See abstract for details

User Dr Virginia Howick .

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

Neighbourhood Disadvantage, Everyday Urban Mobility, and Well-Being

User Professor Robert J Sampson, Harvard University.

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

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

Tea Club Seminar - Sophien Kamoun “How to trick a plant pathogen”

Meeting ID: 916 5548 5016 Passcode: H9mx8DtZ9S

User Sophien Kamoun.

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

X-rays and Food Safety

User Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

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

Neural stem cells encounters with immunity in the adult brain

Prof Isabel Fariñas, University of Valencia. Hosted by Dr Alexandra Nicaise

User Prof Isabel Fariñas, University of Valencia. Hosted by Dr Alexandra Nicaise.

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - CANCELLED

User Marko Hyvönen.

Friday 11 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

House https://zoom.us/j/97565767222?pwd=WTdERFh2L2ZTUWVNZGtJVFhMekhOdz09.

Ecology and Evolution of Plant and Fungal Viruses

User Prof. Marilyn Roossinck, Pennylvania State University.

Thursday 10 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Tea Club Seminar - Jessica Downs "G2/M checkpoint maintenance defects lead to DNA damage-induced inflammatory signalling in SWI/SNF deficient cells"

User Jessica Downs.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 12:30-14:00

Food, Power and Society

User Ms Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

Friday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

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

A MAIT cell journey, from Salmonella to COVID

Dr Mariolina Salio, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford. Hosted by Prof Gillian Griffiths

User Dr Mariolina Salio, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford. Hosted by Prof Gillian Griffiths.

Friday 04 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Howe Group - 'What do genes, medieval manuscripts, Persian carpets and folk tales have in common?'

User Prof Christopher J. Howe.

Friday 04 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

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

Multidisciplinary approaches to understanding Schistosoma mansoni hotspots in Uganda

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

User Dr Poppy Lamberton (University of Glasgow).

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

User Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

Friday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

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

Necrophagia, DaNGeRous indigestion and immunity to cancer

Prof Caetano Reis e Sousa, The Francis Crick Institute, London. Hosted by Prof Yorgo Modis

User Prof Caetano Reis e Sousa, The Francis Crick Institute, London. Hosted by Prof Yorgo Modis.

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Hollfelder Group "From Methods to Models for Cell Biology: Cells in Gels”

User Liisa Van Vliet, Timo Kohler, Clara Munger and Alisa Maring .

Friday 28 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Tea Club Seminar - Florian Schmidt "Interrogating Infection and Immunity with Camelid Nanobodies"

User Florian Schmidt.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 12:30-14:00

Food and Climate Change

User Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

Friday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

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

How cells defend their cytosol against bacteria: Ubiquitylation of LPS and other tricks

Prof Felix Randow, MRC-LMB, Cambridge. Hosted by Prof Paul Lehner

User Prof Felix Randow, MRC-LMB, Cambridge. Hosted by Prof Paul Lehner.

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar-Hendrich Group "Control of signal-responsive enhancer resetting by NuRD"

User Brian.Hendrich (University of Cambridge).

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

Modelling the COVID-19 pandemic in England using a metapopulation approach

User Dr Christopher Davis (University of Warwick).

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar [TBC]

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

The progression of severity of variants throughout the pandemic

User Dr David Pascall (MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge).

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar [TBC]

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 07 January 2022, 15:00-16:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar [TBC]

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 17 December 2021, 15:00-16:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Prof Mark Carrington

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 10 December 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Fast runners and lazy couch potatoes – the spectrum of migrating immune cells

Dr Tim Lämmermann, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics Freiburg, Germany. Hosted by Prof Menna Clatworthy.

User Dr Tim Lämmermann, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics Freiburg, Germany. Hosted by Prof Menna Clatworthy..

Friday 10 December 2021, 13:00-14:00

Tea Club Seminar - Prof Denis Guttridge “Uncovering potential new biomarkers and mechanisms of muscle wasting in pancreatic cancer cachexia”

User Prof Denis Guttridge.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 14:00-15:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - CANCELLED

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 03 December 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Connecting myeloid cell metabolism and function

Dr David Sancho, The National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), Madrid. Hosted by Dr Patrycja Kozik.

User Dr David Sancho, The National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), Madrid. Hosted by Dr Patrycja Kozik..

Friday 03 December 2021, 13:00-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Dupree Group "Shutting the Door on Polysaccharide Methylation"

User Dr. Henry Temple (University of Cambridge).

Friday 26 November 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Multi-omics analysis of in vivo human immune response to malaria

Assistant Professor Youssef Idaghdour, New York University Abu Dhabi. Hosted by Dr Bidesh Mahata.

User Assistant Professor Youssef Idaghdour, New York University Abu Dhabi. Hosted by Dr Bidesh Mahata..

Friday 26 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Effectiveness of symptomatic and asymptomatic testing strategies on reducing transmission in a population with high vaccination coverage &Inferring the relationship between viral load and infectiousness using contact tracing data

User Dr Miguel Silva, University of Manchester & Dr Martyn Fyles, University of Manchester.

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Tea Club Seminar - Alfredo Castello

User Alfredo Castello.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 12:30-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Evan Group "Where cancers come from and how to make them go away"

User Gerard Evan (University of Cambridge).

Friday 19 November 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Functional heterogeneity of tissue-resident lymphocytes

Professor Laura Mackay, The University of Melbourne. Hosted by Dr Raquel Bartolomé Casado. Due to speaker location please note different time.

User Professor Laura Mackay, The University of Melbourne. Hosted by Dr Raquel Bartolomé Casado..

Friday 19 November 2021, 09:00-10:00

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

Investigating the role of glycosylation in Toxoplasma gondii protein homeostasis

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this talk will be delivered VIA ZOOM ONLY. See abstract for link.

User Dr. Giulia Bandini. University of York..

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Functional Phylogenetics on the Scale of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

User Dr Emily Scher, University of Edinburgh.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Tea Club Seminar - Sarah Zanders "wtf Causes Infertility"

User Sarah Zanders .

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 12:30-14:00

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

PI3Kd coordinates transcriptional, epigenetic and metabolic changes to promote effector CD8+ T cells at the expense of central memory

Due to speaker location - please note different time.

User Dr Jennifer Cannons, NIH/NIAID, Bethesda MD. Hosted by Professor Klaus Okkenhaug..

Friday 12 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Gallop Group

User Dr Jenny Gallop.

Friday 12 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Markers of mucosal immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination

User Dr Amy Thomas, University of Bristol.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Tea Club Seminar - Jochen Zimmer "Diverse mechanisms of hyaluronan biosynthesis in different kingdoms of life"

User Jochen Zimmer.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Broadhurst Group "GATA2: Journey from the bench to bedside and back"

User Dr Sarah Nurmohamed.

Friday 05 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

A multidisciplinary approach to SARS-CoV-2 modeling

User Dr Josh Schiffe, Fred Hutchingson Cancer Research Centre.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Tea Club Seminar - Sara Lopez Gomolion "sRNAs and genomic shock"

User Sara Lopez Gomolion.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 12:30-14:00

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

Mitochondrial translation is required for sustained killing by cytotoxic T cells

Professor Gillian Griffiths, Cambridge Institute of Medical Research. Hosted by Professor Arthur Kaser.

User Professor Gillian Griffiths, Cambridge Institute of Medical Research. Hosted by Professor Arthur Kaser..

Friday 29 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Brindle Group "Imaging tumour metabolism – From mouse to man"

User Professor Kevin Brindle (CRUK and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge).

Friday 29 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

Heavy metal parasite: The role of iron in Toxoplasma gondii

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

User Dr Clare Harding. Sir Henry Dale Fellow (Parasitology), University of Glasgow. .

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Tea Club Seminar - Ritwick Sarwarkar - "Host chromatin response to SARS-CoV-2 et al"

User Ritwick Sarwarkar.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 12:30-14:00

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

The radial intranuclear position of the provirus determines selective clonal survival of human retroviruses in vivo

Charles Bangham, Imperial College London. Hosted by Paul Lehner.

User Charles Bangham, Imperial College London. Hosted by Paul Lehner..

Friday 22 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Borodavka Group "Biomolecular Condensates Go Viral: Shedding the Light on RNA Assembly in Viruses with Segmented Genomes"

User Dr Alex Borodavka.

Friday 22 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

A renewal equation model for disease transmission dynamics with contact tracing

User Dr Francesca Scarabel, University of Manchester.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Tea Club Seminar - Johanna Syrjanen "Exploring the molecular architectures of largepore channels"

User Johanna Syrjanen.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 12:30-14:00

House Biochemistry Zoom & Jean Thomas Lecture Theatre.

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Blundell Group "Learning from basic science underpinning DNA repair and targeting cancer to address the challenges of Covid 19”

User Professor Sir Tom Blundell, Dr Amanda Chaplin, Dr Shikang Liang and Chris Beaudoin.

Friday 15 October 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Targeting T cell ion transport to advance cancer immunotherapy

Robert Eil, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Hosted by Rahul Roychoudhuri.

User Robert Eil, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Hosted by Rahul Roychoudhuri..

Friday 15 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cluster outbreaks: are they isolated incidents and how can they be managed?

User Dr Helena Stage, University of Manchester.

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Tea Club Seminar - Dr Sophie Martin “Cell patterning by secretion-induced membrane flows, and other membrane events”

User Dr Sophie Martin.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 12:30-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Maori Group "Of honey bees & RNA cooperation between organisms"

User Eyal Maori (University of Cambridge).

Friday 08 October 2021, 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/.

An essential role for interferon epsilon in gonococcal infection

Doug Golenbock, University of Massachusetts. Hosted by Clare Bryant.

User Doug Golenbock, University of Massachusetts. Hosted by Clare Bryant..

Friday 01 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar [TBC]

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 24 September 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

The smallest unit: Deciphering adaptive immune responses by fate mapping of single lymphocytes

Veit Buchholz, Technical University Munich. Hosted by Arianne Richard.

User Veit Buchholz, Technical University Munich. Hosted by Arianne Richard..

Friday 24 September 2021, 13:00-14:00

Bayesian estimation of the instant growth rate of SARS-CoV-2 positive cases in England and forecasting, using Gaussian processes.

User Dr Laura Guzman Rincon, University of Warick.

Wednesday 08 September 2021, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - CANCELLED

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 20 August 2021, 15:00-16:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - CANCELLED

User Dr Darerca Owen.

Friday 13 August 2021, 15:00-16:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - CANCELLED

User Professor Steve Oliver.

Friday 06 August 2021, 15:00-16:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - CANCELLED

User Dr Daniel Nietlispach.

Friday 30 July 2021, 15:00-16:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - CANCELLED

User Dr Helen Mott.

Friday 23 July 2021, 15:00-16:30

A longitudinal survey of contacts, symptoms, and behaviour in a university setting: Results, applications, and participants’ perspectives

User Dr Emily Nixon, University of Bristol.

Wednesday 21 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar [TBC]

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 16 July 2021, 15:00-16:30

Quantifying social mixing patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic; a cross-sectional study

User Jessica Bridgen, Univerity of Lancaster.

Wednesday 14 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User TBC.

Friday 09 July 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Role of astrocytes in the control of CNS inflammation

Francisco Quintana, Harvard Medical School. Hosted by Stefano Pluchino.

User Francisco Quintana, Harvard Medical School. Hosted by Stefano Pluchino..

Friday 09 July 2021, 13:00-14:00

Selection in human viruses: From HIV to SARS-CoV-2 (and what the future might hold)

User Dr Katrina Lythgoe, BDI, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 07 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Professor Sarah Lummis.

Friday 02 July 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

2A or not 2A?: Structural insights into a new viral gene expression switch

Chris Hill, University of Cambridge. Hosted by Paul Lehner.

User Chris Hill, University of Cambridge. Hosted by Paul Lehner..

Friday 02 July 2021, 13:00-14:00

Open and FAIR – how can we improve traceability of modelling for public policy?

User Dr Richard Reeve, University of Glasgoe.

Wednesday 30 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar [TBC]

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 25 June 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

CTLA-4-mediated control of follicular helper T cells and autoimmunity

Lucy Walker, University College London. Hosted by Rahul Roychoudhuri.

User Lucy Walker, University College London. Hosted by Rahul Roychoudhuri..

Friday 25 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Wastewater epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Scotland: a tool for surveillance support?

User Dr Gianluigi Rossi, University of Edinburgh.

Wednesday 23 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Luisi Lab “How Pseudomonas superbugs choose what they (don’t) want to eat.”

User Tom Dendooven.

Friday 18 June 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

NLRP3 inflammasome activation in neurodegenerative disease

Michael Heneka Univ. of Bonn DZNE. Hosted by Clare Bryant.

User Michael Heneka Univ. of Bonn DZNE. Hosted by Clare Bryant..

Friday 18 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

An agent-based model to simulate workplace transmission of SARS-CoV-2

User Dr Nicholas Warren, Health and Safety Executive, Science and Research Centre.

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - "Getting to the heart of sodium channels"

User Dr Tony Jackson.

Friday 11 June 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Role of the IgE-FceRI axis in cancer immune-surveillance

Jessica Strid, Imperial College London. Hosted by Rahul Roychoudhuri.

User Jessica Strid, Imperial College London. Hosted by Rahul Roychoudhuri..

Friday 11 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Investigating inherited diseases in the domestic dog - an introduction to the Canine Genetics Research Group

User Dr Cathryn Mellersh, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

LSOA level risk model and early detection system; a framework to incorporate mobility, vaccination, health background, land use factors, and socioeconomic and demographic characteristics in evaluating COVID19 prevalence and risk

User Dr Kaveh Jahanshahi, Office of National Statistics.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Wes Robertson - Sense codon reassignment in a recoded bacterium enables encoded polymer synthesis

User Wes Robertson.

Tuesday 08 June 2021, 12:30-14:00

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

Antibody Mediated Protection Against SARS-CoV-2 If we have it, will it last?

Michael Diamond, Washington University in St. Louis. Hosted by Yorgo Modis.

User Michael Diamond, Washington University in St. Louis. Hosted by Yorgo Modis..

Friday 04 June 2021, 15:00-16:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - "Power plants - making electricity from photosynthesis"

User Prof Chris Howe.

Friday 04 June 2021, 15:00-16:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Dr Anthony Jackson.

Friday 28 May 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

AMR surveillance for public health

Dr Veeraraghavan Balaji, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. Hosted by Ankur Mutreja.

User Dr Veeraraghavan Balaji, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. Hosted by Ankur Mutreja..

Friday 28 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Novel methods for estimating the instantaneous and overall COVID-19 case fatality ratio among care home residents in England

User Dr Chris Overton, University of Manchester.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

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

Investigating thymic Treg selection and death by a transcriptional timer and single cell methods.

Host: Rahul Roychoudhuri, rr257@cam.ac.uk

User Dr Masahiro Ono, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

Gisela Otten - Ubiquitylation of lipopolysaccharide by RNF213 during bacterial infection

User Gisela Otten.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 12:30-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar: "There must be 50 ways to inhibit your PPI"

User Dr Marko Hyvonen.

Friday 21 May 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

An ancient immunoreceptor educates maternal natural killer cells to optimise reproduction

Francesco Colucci, University of Cambridge. Hosted by Andrew Sharkey.

User Francesco Colucci, University of Cambridge. Hosted by Andrew Sharkey..

Friday 21 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Adaptation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to growth as a biofilm

User Professor Caitlin Pepperell, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin Madison.

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/834693107?pwd=SzhzMXdPbmJJOHJubEFpZm8rVnRkZz09 Meeting ID: 834 693 107 - Passcode: 533456.

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

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

Global studies of the host-pathogen interface using physical and genetic interaction mapping

David Gordon , University of California San Francisco. Hosted by Paul Lehner.

User David Gordon , University of California San Francisco. Hosted by Paul Lehner..

Friday 14 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - CANCELLED

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 14 May 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Uncertainties around SARS-CoV-2 infection and immunity.

Host: Nick Holmes, nh106@cam.ac.uk

User Professor George Kassiotis, Francis Crick Institute.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

Prof Gabriel Waksman - Structural and molecular biology of bacterial Type IV Secretion Systems

User Prof Gabriel Waksman.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 12:30-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Cancelled.

Friday 07 May 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Visualizing Myddosome assembly and the induction of IL-1 receptor signalling

Marcus Taylor, MPIIB Berlin. Hosted by Gillian Griffiths.

User Marcus Taylor, MPIIB Berlin. Hosted by Gillian Griffiths..

Friday 07 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Modelling the impact of lateral flow testing and isolation of close contacts on Covid-19 transmission within secondary schools in England

User Trystan Leng, University of Warwick.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

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

Principles of squamocolumnar transition zone homeostasis: metaplasia, infections, and cancers.

Host: Margherita Turco, myt25@cam.ac.uk

User Dr Cindrilla Chumduri, University of Würzburg, Germany.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 12:30-13:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Dr Brian Hendrich.

Friday 30 April 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Membrane-cytoskeleton mechanical crosstalk during phagocytosis

Nils Gauthier, IFOM, Milano. Hosted by Gillian Griffiths.

User Nils Gauthier, IFOM, Milano. Hosted by Gillian Griffiths..

Friday 30 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Targeting protein aggregate clearance pathways to slow neurodegeneration in prion disorders

User Dr Christina J. Sigurdson, Center for Veterinary Sciences and Comparative Medicine, UC San Diego.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

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

The Marginal Zone B cell - T follicular helper cell connection.

Host: Klaus Okkenhaug, ko256@cam.ac.uk

User Dr Meritxell Nus, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 12:30-13:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Cancelled

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 23 April 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Development and maintenance of human tissue immune responses

Donna Farber, Columbia University Medical Center. Hosted by Cecilia Dominguez Conde.

User Donna Farber, Columbia University Medical Center. Hosted by Cecilia Dominguez Conde..

Friday 23 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Fast predictions of the COVID-19 spatiotemporal infection risk in indoor space

User Dr Katerina Kaouri and Dr Thomas Woolley Cardiff University.

Wednesday 21 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Professor Nick Gay.

Friday 16 April 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Understanding the CD28-CTLA-4 pathway from a ligand perspective

David Sansom, UCL Institute of Immunity and Transplantation. Hosted by Gosia Trynka.

User David Sansom, UCL Institute of Immunity and Transplantation. Hosted by Gosia Trynka..

Friday 16 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Building an open platform for pandemic modelling

User Professor Simon Frost, Microsoft Research.

Wednesday 14 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - No Seminar

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 09 April 2021, 15:00-16:30

House Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Genomics and epidemiology of the novel SARS-CoV-2 P.1 lineage in Manaus

User Professor Samir Bhatt, Imperial College London and University of Copenhagen .

Wednesday 07 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Who gets freshers' flu and why? - a survey of coughs, colds and freshers' flu in the University of Cambridge, 2007-2008

User Maria Tang, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

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

Non-canonical cross-presentation: what is it and when does it work?”

Julie Magarian Blander, Cornell University. Hosted by Patrycja Kozik.

User Julie Magarian Blander, Cornell University. Hosted by Patrycja Kozik. .

Friday 26 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Spillover – lessons learned from emerging bat viruses

User Dr Raina Plowright, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Montana State University.

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Visualizing uncertain advice for command decision makers

User Professor Nick Holliman (Newcastle University).

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Dr Kiran Patil - “What drugs do to our bugs"

User Dr Kiran Patil.

Tuesday 23 March 2021, 12:30-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - No Seminar

User Dr Jenny Gallop.

Friday 19 March 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Environment control of T cell function

Doreen Cantrell, University of Dundee. Hosted by Cecilia Dominguez Conde.

User Doreen Cantrell, University of Dundee. Hosted by Cecilia Dominguez Conde..

Friday 19 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

House https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3acc3fcb2535da4e97be5f2664d5e1673c%40thread.tacv2/1615452276828?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22d2a81d23-5c22-41c0-990d-f480478a0a4c%22%7d.

Coronaviruses: activation and antagonism of innate immune response

User Prof Susan Weiss (Dept Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, USA).

Thursday 18 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

NHP models of prion disorders

User Dr Emmanuel Comoy, Unit of Prion Disorders and Related Infectious Agents (SEPIA), François Jacob Institute of biology.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK university students: Lessons from September-December 2020 and modelling insights for future student return

User Dr Edward Hill, University of Warwick.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Prof Gloria Rudenko - How does the African trypanosome generate phenomenal levels of VSG coat expression?

User Prog Gloria Rudenko.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 12:30-14:00

Blood Sculptures

User Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

Friday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Deconstructing cancer progression and regression

User Professor Gerard Evan.

Friday 12 March 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

T cell metabolism in aging and age-related diseases

María Mittelbrunn, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Hosted by Meritxell Nus.

User María Mittelbrunn, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Hosted by Meritxell Nus..

Friday 12 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

New developments in the understanding of canine intervertebral disc extrusion

User Paul Freeman, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Estimating the impact of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 on mortality due to COVID-19 in the UK

User Dr Rob Challen, University of Exeter.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Dr Andrew Edwards - Antibiotics of last resort: from mechanisms to increased efficacy

User Dr Andrew Edwards.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 12:30-14:00

Cold Blood

User Professor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

Friday 05 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Professor Paul Dupree.

Friday 05 March 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Regulating the regulators: controlling transcription factor and chromatin modifier function during cell differentiation

Richard Jenner, University College London. Hosted by Rahul Roychoudhuri.

User Richard Jenner, University College London. Hosted by Rahul Roychoudhuri..

Friday 05 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Therapies for hereditary retinal diseases

User Professor Simon Petersen-Jones, Michigan State University.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Prof Charlotte Deane - Computationally designing therapeutic antibodies - building from the natural immune repertoire

User Prof Charlotte Deane.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 12:30-14:00

Blood villains and heros

User Ms Rose George, Journalist.

Friday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Dr Marc de la Roche.

Friday 26 February 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Accelerating vaccine development: from COVID-19 to the future

Alexander (Sandy) Douglas, University of Oxford. Hosted by Gavin Wright.

User Alexander (Sandy) Douglas, University of Oxford. Hosted by Gavin Wright..

Friday 26 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

A booster dose enhances immunogenicity of the COVID-19 vaccine candidate ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 in aged mice

User Dr Michelle Linterman, Babraham Institute.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Dr David Tollervey - "Lighting Up RNA-Protein Interactions”

User Dr David Tollervey.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 12:30-14:00

Bloodlines of the British

User Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

Friday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Professor Mark Carrington.

Friday 19 February 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Innovations to Tackle COVID19 Pandemic in South Asia

Mohammad Nowroz Haqma, University of London. Hosted by Ankur Mutreja.

User Mohammad Nowroz Haqma, University of London. Hosted by Ankur Mutreja..

Friday 19 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Dr Michael Boemo - Observing DNA Replication on Single Molecules with Nanopore Sequencing and Deep Learning

User Dr Michael Boemo - Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 12:30-14:00

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

User Professor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Friday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Professor Guy Brown.

Pathology Microbiology Seminar Series

Friday 12 February 2021, 15:00-16:30

RNA structuromics: In vitro, in vivo and in silico

User Franz Narberhaus (Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany).

House Microsoft Teams (Please email npg22@cam.ac.uk for a link to the seminar).

Thursday 11 February 2021, 11:00-12:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

A Tale of Two Sigmas; It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…with Fasciola.

User Dr Russ Morphew, The Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

User Professor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

Friday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

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

The role of microbes and microbial metabolites in regulation of host responsiveness

Kathy McCoy, University of Calgary. Hosted by Katharina Ramshorn.

User Kathy McCoy, University of Calgary. Hosted by Katharina Ramshorn..

Friday 05 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Shuffling the pack: the dynamic genome of Bordetella pertussis.

User Dr Andrew Preston, The Milner Centre for Evolution and Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath.

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Immune regulatory functions of group 2 innate lymphoid cells in health and disease

User Dr Tim Halim.

Tuesday 02 February 2021, 12:30-14:00

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

User Dr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

Friday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Professor Kevin Brindle.

Friday 29 January 2021, 15:00-16:30

Nongenetic mechanisms of tumor evolution and therapy resistance

User Dr Chris Marine.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 12:30-14:00

Battle Blood

User Dr Claire Roddie, UCL.

Friday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

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

Environmental exposures shape the immune system early in life

Petter Brodin, Karolinska Institutet. Hosted by Cecilia Dominguez Conde.

User Petter Brodin, Karolinska Institutet. Hosted by Cecilia Dominguez Conde..

Friday 22 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Safe food (meat) or that which appears to be ‘safe’

User Dr Milorad Radakovic, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Professor Sir Tom Blundell.

Friday 15 January 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Post-transcriptional control of T cell differentiation

Vigo Heissmeyer, Helmholtz Zentrum München. Hosted by Martin Turner.

User Vigo Heissmeyer, Helmholtz Zentrum München. Hosted by Martin Turner..

Friday 15 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Vaccines to prevent the next Pandemic

User Professor Jonathan Heeney, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Prof G Salmond.

Friday 08 January 2021, 15:00-16:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Unraveling the stress response mechanisms in starving yeast

User Dr Nianshu Zhang.

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 18 December 2020, 15:00-16:30

tbc

User Dr Andrew Preston, The Milner Centre for Evolution and Department of Biology and Biochemistry University of Bath.

Thursday 17 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Time to rethink DNA replication control?

User Dr Philip Zegerman.

Friday 11 December 2020, 15:00-16:30

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

RIG-I-like receptors: assembly, action and clearance of the signalosome.

Sun Hur, Harvard University. Hosted by Yorgo Modis

User Sun Hur, Harvard University. Hosted by Yorgo Modis..

Friday 11 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Dr Martin Welch.

Friday 04 December 2020, 15:00-16:30

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

Persistent asymptomatic malaria in the dry season: host control or parasite ploy?

In partnership with Cambridge Infectious Disease IRC

User Peter Crompton, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Hosted by Georgie Bowyer..

Friday 04 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

AO Global Data – revolutionising medical data collection, enabling outcome reporting and evidence-based medical decision making.

User Dr Alexander Joeris, Head of Clinical Science, AO Innovation Translation Centre (AO ITC).

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Mutation-guided insights in Wnt signalling alterations in cancer

User Prof Madelon Maurice.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 12:30-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - The Biophysics of SLiMming

User Dr Katherine Stott.

Friday 27 November 2020, 15:00-16:30

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

Tissue resident CD4 T cells: division of labor in the lung.

Carolyn King, University of Basel. Hosted by Michelle Linterman.

User Carolyn King, University of Basel. Hosted by Michelle Linterman..

Friday 27 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Detection and Characterization of Blood-borne Prions

User Dr Candace K Mathiason, Colorado State University.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

(POSTPONED TO 19/01/21) Immune regulatory functions of group 2 innate lymphoid cells in health and disease

User Dr Tim Halim.

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 12:30-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Prof J Taipale.

Friday 20 November 2020, 15:00-16:30

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

Influence of vaccine on the evolution of Corynebacterium diphtheriae.

Vartul Sangal, Northumbria University. Hosted by Ankur Mutreja.

User Vartul Sangal, Northumbria University. Hosted by Ankur Mutreja..

Friday 20 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Parallel evolution of neural microexons in insects and vertebrates

User Dr Manuel Irimia.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 12:30-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Hollfelder Group.

Friday 13 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Replenishing the end: Structural mechanism of human telomerase

User Dr Kelly Nguyen.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 12:30-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Prof Chris Smith.

Friday 06 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

Mitochondrial dynamics fine-tunes T cell exhaustion.

Ping-Chih Ho, University of Lausanne. Hosted by Christoph Hess

User Ping-Chih Ho, University of Lausanne. Hosted by Christoph Hess.

Friday 06 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Unsocial Medicine: exploring intersections between livestock health epidemiology and local knowledge networks

User Dr Alex Tasker, Embedded Scientist at UK Government International Joint Comparisons Unit; Teaching Fellow in Human Ecology/Health and Environment, Dept of Anthropology, University College London.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

“Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cell (ILC2) and T cell co-development in the embryonic thymus – The role of the transcription factor RORa”

User Dr Ana Carolina Ferreira.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 12:30-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - “Pluripotency and epigenetic processes”

User Dr J Silva.

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 30 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

'Use of genetic and serological data in dynamical models of infectious disease'

User Dr Henrik Salje, Pathogen Dynamics Group, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

House Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Mycobacterial structural biology and prospects for drug development in academia

User Dr Lionel Mourey Pro.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 12:30-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - CANCELLED Vegetarian bacteria and their viruses: pathogenicity, chemical conversations, antibiotics and biocontrol’

User Salmond Group.

Friday 23 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

Tissue-specific features of human innate lymphoid cells.

Jenny Mjosberg Karolinska Institute, Hosted by Tim Halim

User Jenny Mjosberg Karolinska Institute, Hosted by Tim Halim.

Friday 23 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The Cancer Paradox: Investigations into the somatic mutation rate across mammals

User Dr Alex Cagan, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Pellegrini Group.

Friday 16 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

Dynamic regulation of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α activity is essential for normal B cell development.

Natalie Burrows, University of Cambridge. Hosted by Menna Clatworthy

User Natalie Burrows, University of Cambridge. Hosted by Menna Clatworthy.

Friday 16 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The therapeutic utility of inhibiting the lectin pathway of complement activation

User Dr Wilhelm Schwaeble, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Inflammatory niches shape alveolar regeneration

User Dr Joo-Hyeon Lee, Welcome Trust Stem cell Institute .

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 12:30-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Prof L Pellegrini.

Friday 09 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

House https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3acc3fcb2535da4e97be5f2664d5e1673c%40thread.tacv2/1601401009394?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22d2a81d23-5c22-41c0-990d-f480478a0a4c%22%7d.

The wonderful world of archaeal viruses

Via Microsoft Teams

User Dr Mart Krupovic (Institut Pasteur, Paris).

Thursday 08 October 2020, 12:00-13:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Dr Darerca Owen.

Friday 02 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Prof Steve Oliver.

Friday 25 September 2020, 15:00-16:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Dr Juan Mata.

Friday 18 September 2020, 15:00-16:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - "G protein-coupled receptors – How do they work?"

User Dr Daniel Nietlispach.

Friday 11 September 2020, 15:00-16:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Dr Helen Mott.

Friday 04 September 2020, 15:00-16:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Dr Paula MacGregor.

Friday 28 August 2020, 15:00-16:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Professor George Salmond.

Friday 28 August 2020, 15:00-16:30

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - No Seminar

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 21 August 2020, 15:00-16:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Prof Ben Luisi.

Friday 14 August 2020, 15:00-16:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Prof Kathryn Lilley.

Friday 07 August 2020, 15:00-16:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Prof Ernest Laue.

Friday 31 July 2020, 15:00-16:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Dr Svetlana Khoronenkova.

Friday 24 July 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

'Resistance to Helminths: Location, Immunity and Modulation.'

Richard Grencis, University of Manchester. Hosted by Bidesh Mahata.

User Richard Grencis, University of Manchester. Hosted by Bidesh Mahata..

Friday 24 July 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar: "Getting to Grips with Sodium Channels, in Health and Disease"

User Dr Tony Jackson.

Friday 17 July 2020, 15:00-16:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar: "Electrogenic photosynthetic microorganisms: what they are, how they work and what we can do with them"

User Paolo Bombelli & Stephen Rowden.

Friday 10 July 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

'Multidimensional Super-resolution Imaging.'

Steven Lee, University of Cambridge, Hosted by Andres Floto

User Steven Lee, University of Cambridge, Hosted by Andres Floto.

Friday 10 July 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar: “Microfluidic Droplet Compartments: Experiments with Cells in the World’s Smallest Test Tube”

User Prof Florian Hollfelder.

Friday 03 July 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

'Role of PYHIN proteins in innate immune sensing and signalling'

Andrew Bowie, University of Dublin. Hosted by Clare Bryant.

User Andrew Bowie, University of Dublin. Hosted by Clare Bryant..

Friday 03 July 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar: Enhancer Lockdown: How chromatin remodellers keep things moving during times of change

User Dr Brian Hendrich.

Friday 26 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

'Identification of a Kupffer cell subset capable of reverting the T cell dysfunction induced by hepatocellular priming.'

Matteo Iannacone, San Raffaele Scientific Institute. Hosted by Menna Clatworthy.

User Matteo Iannacone, San Raffaele Scientific Institute. Hosted by Menna Clatworthy..

Friday 26 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - COVID-19 projects @ Department of Biochemistry:Research from cause to detection and cure.

User COVID-19 projects @ Department of Biochemistry .

Friday 19 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

'A distal enhancer at the human chromosome 11q13.5 risk locus promotes suppression of colitis by Treg cells'

Rahul Roychoudhuri, University of Cambridge. Hosted by Andrew McKenzie.

User Rahul Roychoudhuri, University of Cambridge. Hosted by Andrew McKenzie..

Friday 19 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - INNATE IMMUNITY TO COVID: IS THIS THE ‘IMMUNOLOGICAL DARK MATTER’ THAT PROTECTS 80%?

User Prof Nick Gay.

Friday 12 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

'Cohort-based whole genome sequencing in Primary Immune Deficiency: the end of the beginning of PID genetics?'

James Thaveniran & Ken Smith, University of Cambridge. Hosted by Menna Clatworthy.

User James Thaveniran & Ken Smith, University of Cambridge. Hosted by Menna Clatworthy..

Friday 12 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Morris Animal Foundation: Grant funding opportunities and access to the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study

During Covid Lockdown these seminars will be held via Zoom

User Janet Patterson-Kane, Chief Scientific Officer, Morris Animal Foundation.

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Blowing Up a Cytokine Storm on Mosquito Immunity

User Dr Monique Gangloff.

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 05 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Cannabis Medicines - a Modern Reality

Zoom

User Dr Geoffrey Guy, GW Pharmaceuticals .

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Actin' Up and down Two tales at the actin-membrane interface

User Gallop Group.

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Friday 29 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

Commensal E. coli are a reservoir for the transfer of XDR plasmids into epidemic fluoroquinolone-resistant Shigella sonnei

During Covid lockdown these seminars will be held via Zoom

User Prof. Stephen Baker, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Where do cancers come from and how do we make them go away?

User Prof Gerard Evan.

Friday 22 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Tim Gilberger, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg.

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Of cats and men: Studying feline biliary tract disease’

During Covid lockdown these seminars will be held via Zoom

User Dr Penny Watson, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - The plant cell wall and its sweetness

User Dupree Group featuring Henry Temple & Li Yu.

House Reddit.

Friday 15 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

Metabolomics: Applications and impact in animal health and husbandry

During Covid lockdown these seminars will be held via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/834693107 Meeting ID: 834 693 107

User Alessandro Busetti, Metabolomics Field Application Scientist, Metabolon, Inc..

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/834693107 Meeting ID: 834 693 107.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Paul McVeigh, School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University, Belfast.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - No Seminar

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Reddit.

Friday 08 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

Cholinergic regulation of immunity to gastrointestinal nematode parasites

User Prof Murray Selkirk, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London.

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Using genomics to enrich our knowledge of the human gut microbiome

During Covid lockdown these seminars will be held via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/834693107 Meeting ID: 834 693 107

User Dr Alexandre Almeida, ESPOD Postdoctoral Fellow - Finn research group, EMBL-EBI.

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/834693107 Meeting ID: 834 693 107.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Two Tales of Differentiation

User Carrington Group.

House Reddit.

Friday 01 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Vicky Hunt, Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Bath.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Adventures in Wnt Signalling

User Dr Marc de la Roche.

Friday 24 April 2020, 15:00-16:00

Chromatin structure changes are essential for development and evolution of the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni

User Prof Christoph Grunau, University of Perpignan Via Domitia.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

Metallic metabolism in Toxoplasma gondii

User Dr Clare Harding, Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Glasgow.

Wednesday 08 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Dupree Group.

Friday 27 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar

User Carrington Group.

Friday 20 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

CANCELLED Ubiquitin-like modifications and proteasomaldegradation pathways in the Archaea

User Dr Nick Robinson.

Tuesday 17 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

CANCELLED Biochemistry Friday Seminar - “Killing the oncogenic Wnt pathway”

User Dr Marc de la Roche.

Friday 13 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Paediatric Genomics - what have we learnt so far?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

User Professor Brian H. Y. Chung, Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Paediatrics, Hong Kong University.

Friday 13 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

To be confirmed

User Neva Caliskan (University of Wurzburg).

Thursday 12 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Dogs, Cats, Disease, and the Galapagos Islands

User Ben Howitt MRCVS, Galapagos Animal Doctors.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

CANCELLED: APOBEC3B and TKI Resistance

User Dr Deborah Caswell, The Francis Crick Institute.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Novel mechanismscontrolling IL-1-driven inflammation during cell senescence, haemostasis andimmune dysfunction

User Dr Murray Clark.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Archaeological Mysteries

User Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

House Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

TALK POSTPONED

User Conni Ciavarella, Imperial.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - “How the brain eats itself. Microglia in Dementia”

User Prof Guy Brown.

Friday 06 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Tumours induce immune cell-mediated steroid biosynthesis to evade immunity.

Bidesh Mahata, University of Cambridge. Hosted by CIN.

User Bidesh Mahata, University of Cambridge. Hosted by CIN..

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Greaves Room, Department of Pathology.

From magnets to stigma: multiple approaches to tackle the challenges of cutaneous leishmaniasis

User Dr Helen Price, Centre for Applied Entomology & Parasitology, Keele University.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

CANCELLED: APOBEC3B and TKI Resistance

User Dr Deborah Caswell, The Francis Crick Institute.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Isolation and analysis of Immune niches along the human intestine.

Host: Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15

User Dr. William Winston Agace, Danish Technical University .

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

Towards XNA molecularbiology: reinventing biology one protein at a time

User Dr Vitor Pinheiro.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Biochemistry, Hopkins Building, Marjory Stephenson Lecture Theatre.

Seeing is believing: Using visual biochemistry to study the mechanisms of eukaryotic DNA replication

User Dr Thomas Miller.

Monday 02 March 2020, 15:30-16:10

House Department of Biochemistry, Hopkins Building, Marjory Stephens Lecture Theatre.

The role and molecular mechanism of wound-induced plant electrical signals.

User Dr A Kurenda, Department of Plant Molecular, Biology University of Lausanne.

Monday 02 March 2020, 11:30-12:10

House Department of Biochemistry, Hopkins Building, Marjory Stephens Lecture Theatre.

Viral manipulation of information transfer in biology: structural and functional insights

User Dr Chris Hill, Dept. of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Monday 02 March 2020, 10:00-10:40

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

User Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

House Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Multi-Scale Superinfection Models in Evolutionary Epidemiology

User Helena Stage, Manchester.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - The Resolution Revolution in Cryo-EM: Impact on Understanding DNA Double-Strand-Break Repair through Non-Homologous End Joining (NHEJ)

User Blundell Group.

Friday 28 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

Uncovering the role of centrioles and cilia in signal transduction and metabolism

User Dr Barbara Tanos.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

African swine fever virus mechanisms for evading host defences and application to vaccine development

User Linda Dixon (Pirbright Institute).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Understanding the mechanism of chromosome segregation: lessons from diversity

User Dr Bungo Akiyoshi, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Genomic epidemiology of bacterial antimicrobial resistance across the One Health spectrum

User Dr Alison Mather, Group Leader and Food Standards Agency Fellow, Quadram Institute.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Protection against pathogen colonisation and transmission by the microbiota.

Host: Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15

User Dr. Thomas B. Clarke, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

iRhom pseudoproteases as metabolic regulators

User Dr Colin Adrain.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cellular Genetic Disease Seminar

Clonal dynamics in normal and cancerous testicular tissues.

Host: Paolo D'Avino (ppd21@cam.ac.uk)

User Dr Raheleh Rahbari.

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

User Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Molecular Imaging of Tumour Cell Death using Positron Emission Tomography’

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 21 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

Characterization of RNA splicing factors involved in metabolic regulation in the liver

User Dr Santiago Vernia .

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

NK cells and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.

Veronique Braud, Nice, France. Hosted by Francesco Colucci.

User Veronique Braud, Nice, France. Hosted by Francesco Colucci..

Thursday 20 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Exploring the intimacy between bats and viruses: the evolution and function of bat antiviral IFITM proteins

User Dr Camilla Benfield, Royal Veterinary College, University of London.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Oxygen-dependent control of T-cell mediated immunity.

Host: Nick Holmes, (nh106@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15

User Dr. Sarah Ross, Babraham Institute.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

The Enigma of Emotion

User Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - Putting the spotlight on the molecular choreography of viral RNAs

User Dr Alex Borodavka.

Friday 14 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

House LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

Antagonistic inflammatory phenotypes dictate tumor fate and response to immunotherapy.

Santiago Zelenay, The University of Manchester, Hosted by Bidesh Mahata

User Santiago Zelenay, The University of Manchester, Hosted by Bidesh Mahata.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Metabolomics meets Phylogenetics

User Dr Balazs Papp, Synthetic and Systems Biology Unit, Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary .

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Vector-host interactions and innate immunity in hematopoietic stem cell gene engineering

User Anna Kajaste (Ospedale San Raffaele Milan).

Thursday 13 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Identification of a novel protein complex essential for erythrocyte invasion by human-infective malaria parasites

User Dr Ellen Knuepfer, Francis Crick Institute, London.

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

A Wobbly Path: Looking for answers on Cervical Spondylomyelopathy

User Professor Ronaldo C. da Costa, The Ohio State University, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Perham Seminar Room, Sanger Biochemistry Building.

Structural Biology of DNA Repair Plugged into the Ku-DNA hub

User Professor Jean-Baptiste Charbonnier, Institute of Integrated Biology of the Cell Gif-s-Yvette, FRANCE.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 10:15-11:30

Cell Biology in Medicine Seminar Series

"Cross-talk between cell surface mechanics, cell shape and cell fate"

Host - Professor Paul Luzio

User Professor Ewa Paluch, University of Cambridge.

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, Addenbrooke's .

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

The fascinating world of nucleic acids. From the origin of life to modern biochemistry

User Dr Jiri Sponer.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

User Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - "Polyketide synthases: dissection and precision surgery"

User Dr Bill Broadhurst.

Friday 07 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

The translational journey of quorum sensing inhibition approach to managing chronic bacterial infections: a case study.

Michael Graz, University of Bristol, Hosted by Ankur Mutreja

User Michael Graz, University of Bristol, Hosted by Ankur Mutreja.

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Mechanisms of germinal centre dependent antibody dysregulation in early life.

Host: Naomi McGovern, nm390@cam.ac.uk; Tea and coffee will be available at 12.15

User Dr James Harker, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

How do plant roots sense water availability?

User Prof Malcolm Bennett .

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

User Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Defining “at risk states”: molecular pathways and clinical phenotypes associated with rheumatoid arthritis.

Andrew Cope, King’s College London. Hosted by Ken Smith.

User Andrew Cope, King’s College London. Hosted by Ken Smith..

Friday 31 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - A reorganisation of 3D genome folding during early differentiation

User Laue Group.

Friday 31 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

House LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

Transforming heathcare through AI-enabled pathways.

Mihaela van der Schaar, The Alan Turing Institute, Hosted by Andres Floto

User Mihaela van der Schaar, The Alan Turing Institute, Hosted by Andres Floto.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Candida recognition and manipulation of NK cells.

Host: Dr Francesco Colucci (fc287@medschl.cam.ac.uk)

User Professor Ofer Mandelboim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

The Toxoplasma acrobat: combining biophysics and real time imaging to decode Toxoplasma top gliding performance

User Dr Isabelle Tardieux, Université Grenoble.

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Ancient DNA, extinction, domestication and the cost of modern farming

User Dr Laurent Frantz, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Adaptive control of RIPK1 dependent cell death signalling in T-cells.

Tea and coffee will be available at 12.15

User Professor Ben Seddon, University College London.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Department of Biochemistry, Hopkins Building, Stephenson Seminar Room.

Scaffolds for the Cytoskeleton: Structural Biology of Septins and their Assembly as a Molecular Jigsaw

User Professor Richard Garratt, Institute of Physics of Sao Carlos, University of São Paulo São Paulo, Brazil.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Unravelling the visual system of a bacterium

User Prof Conrad Mullineaux.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Mysteries of Modern Physics

User Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - New Solutions to Old Problems

User Waller Group.

Friday 24 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Mechanisms of immune decline and strategies for enhancing immunity during ageing.

Arne Akbar, University College London, Hosted by Menna Clatworthy

User Arne Akbar, University College London, Hosted by Menna Clatworthy.

Friday 24 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Unravelling mysterious interactions between viruses and antibodies: molecular mechanisms and importance in vaccination

User Dr Sarah Caddy, Senior Research Fellow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Molecular approaches for studying antigen processing topology and T-cell activation kinetics.

Host: Louise Boyle (lhb22@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15pm

User Dr. Sander van Kasteren, Leiden University.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Perham Seminar Room, Sanger Biochemistry Building.

Selective inhibition of phosphatases to boost protein quality control: A possible treatment for degenerative diseases

User Dr Anne Bertolotti.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 10:15-11:30

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

Co-translational quality control of membrane protein biosynthesis

User Dr Elizabeth Miller.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Human Origins

User Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

Friday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - (down)Regulation of Cancer Cell Growth

User Prof J Taipale/O Kauko.

Friday 17 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Recent insights into drug resistant Shigella: a major contributor to the global diarrhoeal disease burden

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

User Stephen Baker, Professor of molecular microbiology, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease .

Friday 17 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House LMB, Max Perutz Lecture Theatre .

Within-host bacterial infection dynamics: from cells to vaccines.

Piero Mastroeni, University of Cambridge, Hosted by Menna Clatworthy

User Piero Mastroeni, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Unravelling early host intestinal epithelia interactions with whipworms.

María Adelaida Duque-Correa, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hosted by Gordon Dougan

User María Adelaida Duque-Correa, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hosted by Gordon Dougan.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Organoids: closing the gap between in vitro & in vivo models

User Professor Jerry Wells (Wageningen University & Research).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Epitope target discovery: what can we see when we think outside the box.

Host: Louise Boyle (lhb22@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15pm

User Dr Michele Mishto, Kings College London.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminar - No Seminar

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 10 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

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

Biochemistry Friday Seminars- The signalling network of the Cdc42 effector protein, ACK

User Owen Group.

Friday 13 December 2019, 15:00-16:00

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

UK-Israeli SYNERGY-funded meeting - Targeting the bad guys: exploring ways to improve the selectivity of antimicrobial agents in multi-species environments

User Biologists, Clinicians and Chemists.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 09:30-14:00

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

Takes two to Tango: the tale of ApiAP2 transcription factors and the regulation of crucial cell cycle functions in the apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii

User Dr Mathieu Gissot, Institut Pasteur de Lille.

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Integrative NMR, Molecular Modeling, and Functional studies of immune recognition complexes

Host: Louise Boyle (lhb22@cam.ac.uk), tea and coffee available at 12.15pm

User Dr Nikolaos Sgourakis, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

UK-Israeli SYNERGY-funded meeting - Targeting the bad guys: exploring ways to improve the selectivity of antimicrobial agents in multi-species environments

User Biologists, Clinicians and Chemists.

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 09:30-17:30

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

Hit/lead finding/optimization against different antibacterial/oncology targets

User Professor Antti Poso.

Tuesday 10 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

User Dr Nianshu Zhang, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambrige.

Friday 06 December 2019, 15:00-16:00

House Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Immunology of the human biliary tract: from basic mechanisms to a single gene causing disease

Niklas Bjorkstrom, Karolinska Institute. Hosted by Tim Halim.

User Niklas Bjorkstrom, Karolinska Institute. Hosted by Tim Halim..

Friday 06 December 2019, 13:00-14:00