Centre for Inflammation Research seminar series 2011

Centre for Inflammation Research seminar series 2011, held in the Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI, Little France at 12 noon.

Friday 25th November

Title: tbc

Speaker: tbc

Friday 18th November 2011 - QMRI PhD Open Day

The on-campus Open Day is a great opportunity to learn more about the University and College, to meet staff and current students, and to tour the facilities.

QMRI PhD Open Day

Friday 11th November 2011

Title: From tissue homeostasis to repair; the role of neural stem cells in brain regeneration

Speaker: Prof Gianvito Martino, Division of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan

Friday 4th November 2011

No seminar.

Monday 31st October - QMRI Seminar

Title: TGF-β superfamily signalling: mechanism and function

Speaker: Dr Caroline Hill, CRUK London Research Institute

Friday 28th October 2011 - QMRI Seminar

Title: Effects of cell death and inflammation on atherosclerosis; IL-1 alpha-induced sterile inflammation is necrotic cell type-dependant

Speaker: Dr Murray Clarke, Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Cambridge

Friday 21st October 2011

No seminar.

Friday 14th October 2011

Title: Discovery and Validation of Biochemical Markers for COPD and Cystic Fibrosis

Speaker: Dr Jeffrey Huang, Director, Biomarker and Drug Analysis Core Facility, University of Dundee

Friday 7th October 2011

Title: A Role for Autophagy in the control of Inflammation

Speaker: Dr James Harris, School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin

Friday 30th September 2011

Title: A new immune-metabolic axis uncovered by a non-sterile sterol inflammatory pathway

Speaker: Professor Peter Ghazal, Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine, University of Edinburgh

Tuesday 27th September 2011 -QMRI Seminar

Title: The role of macrophage receptors in innate immunity

Speaker: Professor Siamon Gordon, Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford

Friday 23rd September 2011

Title: Specialized Pro-Resolving Mediators in Airway Inflammation and Disease

Speaker: Dr Bruce Levy, Harvard Medical School

Friday 17th June 2011

Title: Evolution of mammalian transcription

Speaker: Dr Duncan Odom, Regulatory Systems Biology Laboratory, Cambridge Research Institute

Friday 10th June 2011

Title: Research into pulmonary fibrosis: new findings and future directions

Speaker: Professor Geoff Laurent, Centre for Respiratory Research, University College London

Friday 3rd June 2011

Title: Impact of mononuclear phagocyte epithelium crosstalk on pneumonic alveolar injury and repair

Speaker: Professor Jurgen Lohmeyer, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Giessen

Friday 20th May 2011

Title: Human rhinoviruses and dysregulation of the immune response in asthma

Speaker: Professor John Upham, Respiratory Medicine, University of Queensland

Friday 13th May 2011

Title: Using pathogens to understand microRNA function and mechanism in immune signalling

Speaker: Dr Amy Buck from the Centre for Immunity, Infection & Evolution, University of Edinburgh

Friday 6th May 2011

Title: DNA methylation in health and disease

Speaker: Professor Adrian Bird, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh

Friday 25th March 2011

Title: Fall of a Wall: The early stages of autoimmune brain disease

Speaker: Professor Hartmut Wekerle, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried

Friday 18th March 2011

Title: IL-1: The Good, the Bad and the Unknown

Speaker: Dr David Brough, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester- Host: Dr Donald Davidson

Friday 11th March 2011

Title: NK cells and hepatitis C: activation, inhibition and antagonism

Speaker: Professor Salim Khakoo, Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellow/Professor of Hepatology, Imperial College London

Friday 4th March 2011

Title: Role of the cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide LL-37 in lung disease

Speaker: Professor Pieter Hiemstra, Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands

Thursday 3rd March 2011 - special seminar

Title: The key roles of the lectin pathway of complement activation in infectious and non-infectious human disease

Speaker: Professor Wilhelm Schwaeble, Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation at the University of Leicester.

1pm -2pm

Friday 25th February 2011

Title: Regulation of endothelial activation and vascular inflammation by shear stress

Speaker: Dr Paul Evans, BHF Cardiovascular Sciences Unit, NHLI, Imperial College London

Friday 11th February 2011

Title: Hypoxic sensing and macrophage responses to infection

Speaker: Dr. Andreas Lengeling from the Infection & Immunity Division, The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Veterinary Research Centre

Friday 4th February 2011

Title: TGF-beta signalling in lung fibrosis

Speaker: Dr Gisli Jenkins, Clinical Associate Professor & Reader in Pulmonary Biology, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham

Friday 28th January 2011

Title: tba

Speaker: Professor V Hugh Perry, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton

Tuesday 25th January 2011

Title: tba

Speaker: Professor Siamon Gordon, Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford

Friday 14th January 2011

Title: Regulation of cancer cell proliferation and survival by NF-kB

Speaker: Professor Neil Perkins, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University.

All Welcome