Centre for Inflammation Research seminar series 2012, held in the Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI, Little France at 12 noon. Friday 7th December 2012 - Cancelled Title: The brain in flames! Microglial mechanisms of inflammatory neurodegeneration Speaker: Dr Guy Brown, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN 2012 Friday 30th November 2012 Title: The vulnerable newborn: novel insights into neonatal immunology Speaker: Professor Adrian Hayday, Department of Immunology, Infection and Inflammatory Disease, King's College London Friday 23rd November 2012 Title: Mechanisms underlying the onset and maintenance of paediatric allergic airways disease Speaker: Dr Sejal Saglani, Clinical Senior Lecturer Respiratory Paediatrics, Imperial College London Monday 19th November 2012 Title: Defining a post-transcriptional mechanism for the anti-inflammatory action of glucocorticoids. Speaker: Professor Andy Clark, Professor of Inflammation Biology, University of Birmingham Change of start time: 12.30pm Friday 16th November 2012 Title: Complement inhibition: bringing pregnancy to term Speaker: Dr Guillermina Girardi, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, The Queen’s Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh Friday 9th November 2012 Title: B-13/H cells: An unlimited supply of functional hepatocytes for toxicological (and clinical) research Speaker: Professor Matthew Wright, Professor of Toxicology, Newcastle University Friday 2nd November 2012 Title: Innate and adaptive regulation of CNS autoimmune inflammation in MS - Toll-like receptors can modulate regulatory T cells Speaker: Dr Bruno Gran, Clinical Neurology, Nottingham University Hospitals, Queen's Medical Centre Friday 26th October 2012 Title: TBC Speaker: TBC Friday 19th October 2012 No seminar today Friday 12th October Title: TBC Speaker: Professor Tom Kirkwood, Associate Dean for Ageing, Newcastle University Friday 5th October 2012 Title: Complement, Atherosclerosis and SLE: lessons from animal models Speaker: Professor Marina Botto, Professor of Rheumatology, Imperial College London Friday 28th September 2012 Title: RNA methylation pathways in tissue stem cells and diseases Speaker: Dr Michaela Frye, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge Friday 21st September 2012 Title: New insights into the role of HLA-B27 in inflammatory arthritis Speaker: Dr Simon Powis, Senior Lecturer, Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St Andrew's Monday 2nd July 2012 Title: Allergen recognition and uptake by innate immune cells: potential targets for developing novel intervention strategies Speaker: Professor Amir Ghaem-Maghami, Associate Professor in Immunology, Nottingham University SPECIAL SEMINAR: Change of start time - 2pm Friday 22nd June 2012 Title: Clearance of dying cells and its relevance for tumor therapy Speaker: Professor Kirsten Lauber, Molecular Oncology, Universität München, Germany Friday 15th June 2012 NO SEMINAR Friday 8th June 2012 NO SEMINAR Friday 1st June 2012 Title: Imaging and treating metastatic melanoma Speaker: Professor Marisol Soengas, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Melchor, Fernandez Almagra, Madrid Friday 25th May 2012 Title: Energy insufficiency in neuroinflammatory lesions Speaker: Professor Kenneth Smith, Head, Department of Neuroinflammation, UCL Institute of Neurology Friday 18th May 2012 Title: How Multi-tasking Macrophages Deal with Death, Damage and Development Speaker: Dr Will Wood, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath Friday 11th May 2012 Title: Beta-defensin copy number variation and disease Speaker: Dr Ed Hollox, Department of Genetics, University of Leicester Friday 4th May 2012 No seminar today. Monday 30th April 2012 Title: Genomic imprinting and the epigenetic control of developmental processes Speaker: Dr Anne Ferguson-Smith, Dept of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge DIFFERENT START TIME - 12.30pm Friday 27th April 2012 Title: Manipulating the vascular response to injury by inhibition of tissue factor, thrombin and protease activated receptors Speaker: Professor Anthony Dorling, Head of Innate Immunity Section, Division of Transplantation Immunology and Mucosal Biology, King’s College London Easter Break Friday 9th March 2012 Title: Mechanisms of co-receptor function in T-cells Speaker: Professor Chris Rudd, Professor of Molecular Immunology, Head - Cell Signalling Section, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge Friday 2nd March 2012 No seminar today. Friday 24th February 2012 - Additional seminar Title: Ambivalent role of neutrophil-derived cathelicidin in atherosclerosis and vascular healing Speaker: Dr Oliver Soehnlein, Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich Change of venue: Lecture Theatre A, Chancellor's Building Monday 23rd February 2012 - Additional seminar Title: BMP signalling and cell fate specification in Drosophila Speaker: Dr Hilary Ashe, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester Please note change of time for this seminar only - 2pm. Friday 10th February 2012 Title: Systems Biology of Innate Immunity: From basic research to novel therapies Speaker: Dr Bob Hancock, Centre for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research, University of British Columbia Friday 3rd February 2012 Title: From B cells to osteoclasts and back again Speaker: Dr Carl Goodyear, University of Glasgow Monday 23rd January 2012 - Special seminar Title: Innate immune signalling pathways in rhinovirus infection Speaker: Dr Michael R Edwards, Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine & Infections, Asthma UK Research Fellow, National Heart Lung Institute, Imperial College London. Please note change of time for this seminar only - 5.15pm. Friday 20th January 2012 Title: Nuocytes in type-2 immunity and asthma Speaker: Dr Andrew McKenzie, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge Friday 13th January 2012 Title: Helper T cell allorecognition pathways in post-transplant humoral immunity Speaker: Mr Gavin Pettigrew, Clinical & Translational Immunology, University of Cambridge. All Welcome Related Links Centre for Inflammation Research - Events Publication date 18 Jun, 2015
