Cambridge Infectious Diseases


2026-04-23 15:00: Bacterial Physiology During Growth Arrest: Can It Be Targeted by Anti-Bacterial Therapeutics? (Dr Megan Bergkessel - University of Dundee)

2026-04-23 16:00: RNA-Mediated Regulation of Germinal Centre B-Cell Fitness: a tale of two DEAD-box RNA helicases (Claudia Ribeiro Almeida, Group Leader, Babraham Institute)

2026-04-30 16:00: Good and Evil Plasma Cells: Guardians & Saboteurs of Immunity (Dr Dinis Calado, Senior Group Leader, Immunity and Cancer Laboratory, the Francis Crick Institute)

2026-05-07 15:00:  Chemical strategies for biomolecule functionalisation, and biomaterial conjugation (Dr Chris Spicer - University of York)

2026-05-07 16:00: Interferon: Tug of War between Host and Pathogen (Dr Charlotte Odendall, Senior Lecturer, Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London)

2026-05-14 16:00: Professor Philip Rosenstiel, W3 Professor of Clinical Molecular Biology, Director, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB), Kiel University  (Prof Philip Rosenstiel, W3 Professor of Clinical Molecular Biology, Director, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB), Kiel University )

2026-05-21 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Giovanna Mallucci - Altos Labs)

2026-05-21 16:00: Prof Caetano Reis e Sousa, Head of Immunobiology Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute (Prof Caetano Reis e Sousa, Head of Immunobiology Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute)

2026-05-28 16:00: Arturo Zychlinsky, Director of the Department of Cellular Microbiology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (Arturo Zychlinsky, Director of the Department of Cellular Microbiology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology)

2026-06-11 15:00: From Plate to Brain: Global Diet, Cognitive Function and Neuroimaging in Diverse Populations (Professor Sonia Anand)

2026-06-11 16:00: Studying viruses to understand what makes pandemic viruses special and how innate immunity works (Prof Greg Towers, Professor of Molecular Virology, Centre for Immunobiology and Infection, Queen Mary University of London)

2026-06-18 15:00: Professor James Davies, Professor of Genomics, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-06-25 16:00: Dr Leticia Monin Aldama, Department of Immunology and Inflammation - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London (Dr Leticia Monin Aldama, Department of Immunology and Inflammation - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London)

2026-07-02 16:00: Dr Masahiro Ono, Reader in Immunology, Imperial College London (Dr Masahiro Ono, Reader in Immunology, Imperial College London)

2026-07-09 16:00: Dr Molofsky, Tissue Immunology Research Lab, UCSF, USA (Dr Molofsky, Tissue Immunology Research Lab, UCSF)

2027-01-22 17:30: Cooperation as a Laboratory of Being (Professor Iris van der Tuin, Utrecht University)

2027-01-29 17:30: Cooperation in Nature (Professor Stuart West, University of Oxford)

2027-02-05 17:30: Market Failure, Organ Shortage, Pandemic and Climate Change: The Architecture of Cooperation (Professor Axel Ockenfels, Max Planck Institute)

2027-02-12 17:30: Welfare Reform and the Imperative of Cooperation (Sir Andrew Dilnot, Nuffield College Oxford)

2027-02-19 17:30: The Magic of Magnetism (Professor Russell Cowburn, University of Cambridge)

2027-02-26 17:30: Security Cooperation within Government and between Governments (Ms Suzanne Raine, Selwyn College Cambridge)

2027-03-05 17:30: Together Now: Cooperation and Collaboration in Social Art Practice (Mr Harold Offeh, Royal College of Art)

2027-03-12 17:30: Cooperation for Nature (Dr Mike Rands, Cambridge Conservation Initiative)