Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Detection and Characterization of Blood-borne Prions

Dr Candace K Mathiason, Colorado State University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

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

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.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

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

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

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

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

Dr Alex Cagan, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The therapeutic utility of inhibiting the lectin pathway of complement activation

Dr Wilhelm Schwaeble, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Dogs, Cats, Disease, and the Galapagos Islands

Ben Howitt MRCVS, Galapagos Animal Doctors.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Genomic epidemiology of bacterial antimicrobial resistance across the One Health spectrum

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

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

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

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

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

A Wobbly Path: Looking for answers on Cervical Spondylomyelopathy

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

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

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

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

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

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

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

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Organoids: closing the gap between in vitro & in vivo models

Professor Jerry Wells (Wageningen University & Research).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Paint-on antimicrobial bandages: a new approach for veterinary wound management

Dr Nuno Faria (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The lectin pathway of complement: The Swiss army knife of innate immunity

Professor Peter Garred, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Dissecting the host response during pathogen-specific mastitis in cows

Dr Wolfram Petzl, Ludwig (Maximillians-Universitat Munich (LMU)).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Genome remodelling in Streptococcus pyogenes

Dr Claire Turner (The University of Sheffield).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Role of extracellular vesicles in helminth-host interactions: From immunomodulation to vaccine development

Dr Javier Sotillo-Gallego (Instituto Carlos III, Madrid).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The role of nutrients in host-pathogen interactions

Dr Sheena Cotter (University of Lincoln).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Equine Rotavirus Diarrhoea in Neonates: Situation in Argentina and optimisation of prevention and therapeutic methods

Dr Aldana Vissani, Institudo de Investigación Virología, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The parallelism of evolution of multi-drug resistant clones

Professor Alan McNally, Institute of Microbiology and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Canceled - will be rescheduled

Dr Alex Cagan, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Understanding Unconscious/Implicit Bias

Dr Miriam Lynn, Equality and Diversity Consultant, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Sickle cell anaemia: the first molecular disease

Prof John Gibson, Department of Veterinary Medicine..

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

How Listeria sense the environment-to-host transition via PrfA

Professor Jose Vazquez-Boland, Chair of Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Canine Babesiosis: selected aspects of the topic

Prof. Stanislaw Winiarczyk, University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Lublin, Poland.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Machine Learning in Radiology

Dr Joshua Kaggie, Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Direct from sputum sequencing of TB in the field, and connecting them to a global google.

Dr Zamin Iqbal, Research Group Leader, The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Pathophysiology of feline diabetes mellitus

Prof Thomas Lutz, University of Zurich | UZH · Institute of Veterinary Physiology.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The dynamics of haemorrhagic fever in Africa

Prof Simon Frost, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Broad complement inhibition in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

Dr Elena M. Ribe, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The Evolutionary Genomics of Staphylococcus aureus Infections

Prof Daniel Wilson, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Udderly different?: A comparative approach to studying the mammary gland in health and disease.

Dr Kate Hughes, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Jockeying for position: defining Streptococcus equi gene essentiality in the horse

Dr Andrew Waller, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

New materials and devices for interfacing with the nervous system

Prof George Malliaras, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Phasevarions of bacterial pathogens: shedding new light on old enemies

Dr John M. Atack, Research Fellow, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University .

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 12 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Challenges in Veterinary Forensic Pathology

Dr Lorenzo Ressel, Head of Department of Veterinary Pathology and Public Health, University of Liverpool.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Brachycephalic dogs: There is plenty of bad news. So is there any good news?

Dr David Sargan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Comparative glucocorticoid metabolism; lessons from horses, humans and mice

Dr Ruth Morgan, University of Edinburgh.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

AGE IMMUNE: do bats hold the secret of extended longevity?

Professor Emma C Teeling, School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Engineering biology – where science meets imagination

Dr Wayne Bowen, Chief Scientific Officer, TTP Laptech.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The HIV glycan shield as a target for broadly neutralizing antibodies

Dr Katie Doores, MRC Career Development Fellow, Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London .

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

'Friends or Foes? Helminth-microbiota interactions in the equine gastrointestinal tract

Dr Laura Peachey, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Who gave that to me? Carriage and transmission of Staphylococcus aureus in schools.

Citizen Scientists from Cottenham Village College and St Bedes Inter-Church School and Dr Andrew Conlan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Unlocking medical questions with a developmental biology key

Dr Laura Hardwick, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Vaccines for notorious Zoonotic Viruses

Prof. Jonathan Heeney, Department of Veterinary Medicine, (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Optimisation of a recombinant vaccine to control parasitic nematodes

Dr Alasdair Nisbet, Moredun Research Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The Power of Non-invasive Approaches to Conservation Science

Professor Samuel K Wasser, Department of Biology, University of Washington on sabbatical, Department of Zoology, Cambridge University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Insect-based biomass valorisation: using Hermetia illucens to convert waste into food & medicine

Miha Pipan, Entomics, Chief Scientific Officer, Entomics.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Accelerating the control of bovine Tuberculosis in developing countries

Dr Andrew Conlan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 21 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Sneks long balus

Professor David Pritchard, University of Nottingham.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The MHC ligandome of two contagious cancers within the Tasmanian devil population, Devil Facial Tumour 1 and Devil Facial Tumour 2

Dr Hannah Siddle, Lecturer in Molecular Immunology, University of Southampton.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Participatory approaches to encourage responsible use of antibiotics in livestock

Dr Kristen Reyher, Senior Lecturer in Farm Animal Science, University of Bristol.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Streptococcus suis - managing a global zoonotic pathogen of pigs

Dr Dan Tucker, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Cancelled - Intracellular Salmonella persisters

Canceled - This talk will be rescheduled for a later date

Dr. Sophie Helaine, MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

DEVELOPMENT OF BIOMATERIALS AND CELL THERAPIES FOR BONE REGENERATION

José Miguel Campos DVM MRCVS, Veterinary Clinics, Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS), University of Porto (UP), Porto, PORTUGAL.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Rapid host-pathogen co-evolution following a severe emerging infectious outbreak

Dr Camille Bonneaud, Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, University of Exeter.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Horizontal transfer of antimicrobial resistance drives multi-species population level epidemics

Dr Kate Baker, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The value of improving livestock health and fitness through genetics

Prof Eileen Wall, Professor of Integrative Livestock Genetics at SRUC.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Dissecting disease transmission between species

Dr Mafalda Viana,Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Sustainability of livestock production: water, welfare and woodland

Professor Don Broom, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Could pluripotent stem cells ever be used for equine tendon regeneration?

Dr Debbie Guest, Centre for Preventive Medicine, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, UK.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

A transmissible RNA pathway in honeybees

Dr Eyal Moari, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Linking Mammary Development and Breast Cancer

Professor Pamela Cowin, NYU School of Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Selection and diseases in structured populations

Dr. Andrea Manica ( Dept. of Zoology, Cambridge University).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Compensatory lameness in dogs: kinematic description and inertial sensors detection

Dr Constanza B. Gómez Álvarez, Lecturer in Musculoskeletal Biomechhanics, Head of Veterinary Biomechanics Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

THERE IS NO TALK ON WEDNESDAY 24TH May

Cancelled.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Recent advances in the molecular diagnosis of canine and feline lymphoma

Dr Sabine Hammer (Molecular Geneticist), and Dr Barbara Rütgen (Clinical Pathologist) Dept of Pathobiology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Can we exploit companion dogs to advance therapies for spinal cord injury?

Dr Nicolas Granger, Research Fellow, School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Molecular dissection approaches to study diseased tissues

Dr Walker Jackson, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

IgA-mediated enchained growth mediates protection and modulates bacterial evolution in the intestinal lumen

Dr Emma Slack, Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

It's a dog's life - or is it? The health and welfare of dogs owned by homeless people

Dr David Williams, Associate Lecturer in Veterinary Ophthalmology, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Please note: Talk now Cancelled

Canceled

Dr Jaume Forcada, British Antarctic Survey.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Vector-borne helminths of zoonotic concern in Europe: emerging or neglected?

Professor Domenico Otranto, Professor of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, University of Bari.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Sensitivity to BST-2 restriction correlates with Orthobunyavirus host range.

Dr Mariana Varela, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Andrea Manica ( Dept. of Zoology, Cambridge University).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

A Biotechnology Start Up Approach to Developing Medicines for Animal Health

Simon Aspland, General Manager Acidophil Ltd, VP Business Development.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

'Translational orthopaedics - vet in a medics world'

Dr Fran Henson, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Understanding and manipulating the T-cell response to peptide-MHC

Prof Linda Wooldridge, University of Bristol.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Zoonotic leishmaniosis: don’t put the blame on dogs only

Professor Emanuele Brianti, Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, University of Messina.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Mechanical signalling in stem cells and development

Dr Kevin Chalut, WT-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Complement therapeutics on the crossroads between inflammatory and infectious disease

Professor Wilhelm Schwaeble, Professor of Immunology, University of Leicester.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 11 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Large Animal Models For Retinal Gene Therapy

Prof Simon Petersen-Jones, Myers-Dunlap Endowed Chair in Canine Health, Michigan State University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 07 December 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The highs and lows of rotavirus vaccines; why don’t they work as well where they are needed most?

Prof Miren Iturriza-Gomara, Institute of Infection and global health, Univeristy of Liverpool.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Informing immunisation policy for meningitis vaccines in UK and Africa using mathematical models

Dr Caroline Trotter, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

A Natural History of Sentience

Dr Liz Paul, Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Cognitive antimicrobial discovery

Dr Max Ryadnov, Science Leader for Biosciences, National Physical Laboratory, UK.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Woofing it down – lessons on the neurobiology of appetite from man’s best friend

Dr Eleanor Raffan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Canine Obesity Group, WT-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Interpreting variants in the genomic era and utility of IPSC derived retinal cells and optic cups to explore mechanisms of disease and potential therapies for retinal degenerations

Prof Alison Hardcastle, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Disease dynamics in animal hosts: How natural selection affects disease transmission in insects; and how animal density and climatic factors can influence the prevalence of zoonotic diseases

Dr David Paez, Montana State University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Syntax in C. elegans locomotion

Dr Andre Brown, Group leader, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London .

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Debunking the Neandertal myth

Professor William Amos, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The translation of discovery research with nanostructured bio-minerals: from Cancer to Crohn’s disease’

Prof Jonathan Powell, Group Leader, Biomineral Research Group, MRC Human Nutrition Research.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 10 August 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Biocompatible Virucidal Materials as Broad Spectrum Antivirals

Dr Samuel Jones, Postdoctoral Researcher SuNMIL Lab, EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 22 July 2016, 14:30-15:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Non-antibiotic Strategies to Prevent and Control Respiratory Bacterial Infections in Swine

Dr Tracy Nicholson, The Swine Respiratory Disease Project of the USDA, USA.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 20 July 2016, 13:30-14:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

(Cancelled:) Understanding and manipulating the T-cell response to peptide-MHC

Cancelled

Professor Linda Wooldridge, Chair in Translational Immunology, University of Bristol.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 15 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Climate Change, Infectious Disease and the Arctic: Are we opening Pandora's box?

Dr Claire Heffernan, Chair in Infectious diseases, School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Hello From the Other Side: The Cutting Edge of Skeletal Reconstruction in Human Medicine’

Dr Will Eward, Orthopaedic Oncology Section, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University, NC, USA.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 01 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Rapid adaptation and the predictability of evolution

Richar Neher, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Horizontal transfer of mitochodria in cancer.

Professor Jiri Neuzil, Head of Apoptosis Research Group, Griffith University, Australia.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Recombinant adeno-associated virus for therapeutic gene delivery: 30 million years in the making.

Dr Grant Logan, Research Fellow in the Gene Therapy Research Unit at the Children's Medical Research Institute, Sydney Australia.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Monday 09 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

100 years after William Bateson - what can we learn about epistasis by today's statistical machine learning?

Professor Jukka Corander, Bayesian Statistics Group, University of Helsinki.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

"The meaning of art, life and everything" An introduction to your resident artist

John Piper, Artist in Residence, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambrdige.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

People, pathogens and parks: ecosystem health research in Tanzania

Sarah Cleaveland, University of Glasgow.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Functional genomics for schistosomes: approaches to interrogate host-parasite interaction, and schistosomiasis-associated diseases.

Dr Gabriel Rinaldi, Sanger Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Dr Mariana Varela, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflamation, University of Glasgow..

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Monday 22 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

New discoveries about ageing in C. elegans

Prof David Gems, Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Natural history collections and parasitology - links with veterinary research

Dr Tim Littlewood, Head of Life Sciences Department, Natural History Museum.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Parasites on the move. Travelling pets and parasite control.

Professor Laura Kramer, University of Parma Veterinary School, Parma, Italy.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Bottlenecks, diversity and phase variation during infection; the pneumococcal model.

Professor Marco Oggioni, Department of Genetics, University of Leicester.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

What is a Pet?

Dr Philip Howell, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Invasive Salmonella infections in animal models and man: castles of cards, roundabouts, vaccines and disease

Dr Piero Mastroeni, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Introducing the High Performance Computing Service: a computing resource for researchers

Jenny Barna, High performance computing service .

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

“If only they could talk” – the role of a vet in Parliament

Hannah Jordan, Parliamentary Veterinary Intern.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 07 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Ocular Manifestations of Systemic Infectious Disease

Additional evening talk

Dr. Eric Ledbetter, DVM, DACVO, Associate Professor, Ophthalmology, Cornell University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 12 August 2015, 18:30-19:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Ocular Canine Herpesvirus-1 Infections: Recurrent Disease Triggers and Treatments

Dr. Eric Ledbetter, DVM, DACVO, Cornell University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 12 August 2015, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Of worms, germs and men: a role for the gut microbiota in helminth-induced suppression of inflammation

Dr Cinzia Cantacessi, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 17 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Ebola: Response, vaccines, survivors and sequencingon

Note unusual time

Professor Miles W Carroll, Head of Research & Deputy Director, Public Health England.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 10 June 2015, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Microbiota-host interplay in the intestine and its impact on health and disease

Prof Jerry Wells, Chair - Host-Microbe-Interactomics Group University of Wageningen.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Noisy stress responses and their fitness consequences for C. elegans

Olivia Casanueva, Group Leader, Epigenetics ISPG, Babraham Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Onobrychis viciifolia a natural alternative to ivermectin

Marina Mora Ortiz, The Legume Plus Project, NIAB, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The impact of Toxoplasma gondii on host behaviour: can this parasite play a role in some cases of human schizophrenia?

Joanne Webster, Chair of Parasitic Diseases, Department of Pathology and Pathogen Biology,, Centre for Emerging, Endemic and Exotic Diseases (CEEED), RVC; and Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Generating Evidence from Vetcompass for Practice: Survival of dogs with Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease

David Brodbelt, Senior Lecturer, Companion Animal Epidemiology, The Royal Veterinary College.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Nutritional and immunoparasitological insights into the cause of death in a wild ruminant population

Dr Romain Garnier, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, USA.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Finding cancer drivers in mouse, man and dog

Dr David Adams, Experimental Cancer Genetics, Faculty Lead Mouse Genetic Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The political economy of bovine tuberculosis

Richard Bennett, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Director of Research and Enterprise, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Neurones calling: neuronal activity regulates oligodendrocyte differentiation in health and disease

Dr Ragnhildur Thora Karadottir, Cambridge Neuroscience, Cambridge Stem Cell Initiative, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 14 January 2015, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Hedgehog signalling in Cytotoxic T cell function

Maike de la Roche, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 07 January 2015, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Evidence-based Veterinary medicine – so what?

Nick Royle, Executive Director of RCVS Knowledge,.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Fowling things up for avian flu - transgenic intervention as an approach to combatting influenza infection in livestock.

Dr Laurence Tiley, Dept of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Understanding Mechanisms of Sterile Inflammation

Dr David Brough, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Re-building the diseased retina with stem cells

Dr Rachael Pearson, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Vets and Animal Research - 5 short talks

Dr Bella Williams, Head of Engagement, Understanding Animal Research.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Ebola Wave Spread and Gorilla Vaccination

Dr Peter Walsh (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Evolving technologies for liver targeted gene and cell therapies.

Professor Ian Alexander, Professor in Paediatrics & Molecular Medicine, Disciplines of Paediatrics and Child Health and Genetic Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, .

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 08 October 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

One Health and the future of the Veterinary Profession

Refreshments served from 3.45 in SCR

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

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 01 October 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Regulators of inflammatory responses

Dr. Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Molecular subclasses in canine osteosarcoma and mammary cancer

Geoffrey Wood, Associate Professor, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Canada.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Working internationally and locally; rolling out the Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Control Strategy, one step at a time

Keith Sumption, Executive Secretary, European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EUFMD) Animal Health Service, Food-and-Agriculture Organization of the United Nations .

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Cellular self-defense: how cell-autonomous immunity protects against pathogens

Dr Felix Randow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Lessons in innate immunity taught by a virus

Dr Brian Ferguson, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Just how do the poor chickens survive all those pathogens?

Professor Jim Kaufman.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Digital Pathology: Why bother?

Will Howat, Cancer Research UK.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Preclinical and Clinical Animal Models in Translational Orthopaedic Research

Matthew J. Allen, Vet. M.B., Ph.D.Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH .

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Sensors and systems for animal monitoring and welfare assessment

Malcolm Mitchell, SRUC, the Roslin Institute Building, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Understanding and manipulating CNS remyelination - in mouse, man and zebrafish.

Dr Anna Williams, University of Edinburgh, MRC Centre for Inflammation Research.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Bovine TB: A Black and White Issue?

Prof Glyn Hewinson, Chief Scientist Animal Health & Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Infectious Diseases

Area Coordinated Disease Control: Tools, methods and collaborations targeting PRRS in the US

If you would like to arrange to meet with the speaker before or after the talk, please contact the talk organiser

Dr Dale Polson, Boehringer-Ingelheim Vetmedica .

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Monday 11 March 2013, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

Why Animals Matter

Marian Stamp Dawkins, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Monday 21 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC): hidden genetic diversity in an economical important poultry pathogen

Professor Lothar Wieler, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität, Berlin.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 12 September 2012, 16:30-17:30

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments

Andrew Knight, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Monday 11 June 2012, 16:30-18:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Combating TB: the challenges aheads

Professor Seyed E Hasnain, Professor of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology and Emertius Vice C.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 16 March 2012, 15:30-16:30

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

Trade-offs in Conservation: Deciding What to Save

Nigel Leader-Williams, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Tuesday 31 May 2011, 16:45-18:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Evolution of viral host ranges through alterations of receptor binding - canine and feline parvovirus capsid interactions with host transferrin receptors and antibodies.

Colin R. Parrish, Professor of Virology, Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Tuesday 14 October 2008, 12:30-13:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Avian influenza in China: Epidemiology, Control Strategies and Problems

Xiufan Liu, Animal Infectious Disease Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine,.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 17 September 2008, 16:30-17:30

Special Veterinary Medicine Seminars

Bordetella autotransporters: virulence factors, vaccine candidates and models for unraveling type V secretion mechanisms

Dr Rachel Fernandez, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Monday 07 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Special Veterinary Medicine Seminars

"New insight into the secretion and function of Bordetella filamentous hemagglutinin"

Dr Peggy Cotter, Associate Professor, MCDB, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 04 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

A biomechanical evaluation of pullout strength of three suture patterns for canine trachea anastamosis"

Jackie Demetriou.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 09 March 2007, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Zebrafish Myelination - A Transparent Model for Remyelination?

Clare Buckley.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 09 March 2007, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Unexpected dynamics of resistance to helicase primase herpesvirus antivirals

Dr Hugh Field.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 02 March 2007, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

"Polyneuropathy in Leonberger dogs: An emerging pan-European polyneuropathy"

Nicolas Granger.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 02 March 2007, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Development of ex vivo model of pig trachea for swine influenza dynamics .

Filipe Nunes.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 23 February 2007, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Results of portovenography are related to outcome in dogs receiving surgical treatment for single congenital portosystemic shunts’

Karla Lee.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 23 February 2007, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

CTL regognition of maedi visna virus antigens

Dr Barbara Blacklaws.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Friday 16 February 2007, 08:45-10:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

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Dr Emma Slack, Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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