Immunology talks and seminars

The list below provides details of talks that might be relevant to those with an interest in immunology. Follow the links for further information on each talk.

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Last updated Wed Feb 10 03:35:49 2010

February 2010			February 2010
10th Feb Wednesday 12:30pm	Human T cell immunity against tumour antigens Immunology in Pathology Host: Peter Goon (pg336@cam.ac.uk)	Dr Stephen Man, University of Cardiff	Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road
10th Feb Wednesday 4:30pm	Hunting foot-and-mouth disease virus Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine	Dr Bryan Charleston, The Institute for Animal Health	Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Veterinary Medicine
11th Feb Thursday 4:30pm	Title to be confirmed Worms and Bugs	Sam Lycett (University of Edinburgh)	Meeting room 12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
15th Feb Monday 12:30pm	The role of NK cells and their receptors in cancer and transplantation Immunology in Pathology Host: Ashley Moffett (am485@cam.ac.uk)	Professor Jeffrey Miller, University of Minnesota	Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road
16th Feb Tuesday 12:30pm	How inhibition leads to activation - the dynamics of natural killer cell education Immunology in Pathology Host: Francesco Colucci (francesco.colucci@bbsrc.ac.uk)	Professor Petter Höglund, Karolinska Institute, Sweden	Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road
17th Feb Wednesday 12:00pm	Molecular control of cellular differentiation and specification in the adult CNS BRC Seminar Series	Dr Olivier Raineteau, Brain Research Institute Zurich, Switzerland	Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way
17th Feb Wednesday 12:30pm	Imaging T cell activation and functional diversification in vivo Immunology in Pathology Host: Helga Schneider (hs383@cam.ac.uk)	Dr Philippe Bousso, Pasteur Institute, France	Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road
17th Feb Wednesday 4:30pm	Species-differences in pathogen recognition and their consequences for Vaccines Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine	Professor Dirk Werling, Dept. of Pathology and Infectious Diseases, Royal Veterinary College	Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Veterinary Medicine
19th Feb Friday 1:00pm	E4bp4 and NK cells Immunology and Medicine Seminars Host - Andrew McKenzie	Hugh Brady, Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Imperial College	Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
22nd Feb Monday 11:30am	Generation of stable monoclonal antibody-producing human memory B cells by genetic programming Immunology and Medicine Seminars Host - Students. Please note change of day and time - Monday at 11.30	Hergen Spits - Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
23rd Feb Tuesday 2:30pm	Regret-regression for optimal dynamic treatment regimes MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars	Robin Henderson, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Newcastle	Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge
24th Feb Wednesday 12:30pm	The role of natural killer cells in MS Immunology in Pathology Host: John Trowsdale (jt233@cam.ac.uk)	Professor Danny Altmann, Imperial College, London	Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road
24th Feb Wednesday 4:30pm	Receptor usage and the pathogenicity of the felid lentiviruses Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine	Professor Brian Willet, Division of Infection and Immunity, University of Glasgow	Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Veterinary Medicine
26th Feb Friday 1:00pm	Immunotherapy of established disease caused by high risk Human Papilloma Virus Immunology and Medicine Seminars Host - Douglas Fearon	Cornelis Melief, Leiden University Medical Center, Dept. Immunohematology and Bloodtransfusion	Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
March			March
2nd Mar Tuesday 2:15pm	"Chemical Biology and Chemogenomics in Drug Discovery" Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics	Professor Hugo Kubinyi, Weisenheim am Sand	Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry
3rd Mar Wednesday 12:00pm	Molecular mechanisms of degeneration: understanding function and dysfunction ot tau, alphasynuclein and LRRK2 BRC Seminar Series	Dr Richard Wade-Martins, Dept Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford	Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way
3rd Mar Wednesday 12:30pm	Evolution and involution of CD4 memory Immunology in Pathology Host: Nick Holmes (nh106@cam.ac.uk)	Professor Peter Lane, University of Birmingham	Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road
3rd Mar Wednesday 4:30pm	What can the olfactory system offer for CNS repair? Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine	Professor Sue Barnett, Professor of Cellular Neurosciences, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre	Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Veterinary Medicine
4th Mar Thursday 12:00pm	“HPV Vaccines” Virology Seminars	Prof. Margaret Stanley Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK	Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
5th Mar Friday 1:00pm	Human cytomegalovirus and its obsession with Natural Killer cells Immunology and Medicine Seminars Host - John Trowsdale	Gavin Wilkinson, Medical Microbiology, University of Cardiff	Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
5th Mar Friday 2:00pm	"Precise Distance Measurements in Complex Biological Systems" Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics	Professor Garland Marshall, Centre for Computational Biology, Washington University	Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry
8th Mar Monday 12:00pm	"New approaches to virtual screening of molecules and reactions" Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics	Professeur Alexandre Varnek, Faculté de Chimie, Université de Strasbourg,	Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry
10th Mar Wednesday 12:30pm	Controlling secretion at the immunological synapse Immunology in Pathology Host: Nick Holmes (nh106@cam.ac.uk)	Professor Gillian Griffiths, CIMR, University of Cambridge	Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road
10th Mar Wednesday 4:30pm	TBC Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine	Professor Alfonso Martinez-Arias, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge	Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Veterinary Medicine
11th Mar Thursday 12:00pm	“The Interplay between HCV Infection and Lipid Metabolism” Virology Seminars	Prof. John McLauchlan MRC Virology Unit, Institute of Virology, Glasgow, UK	Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
11th Mar Thursday 4:30pm	Title to be confirmed Worms and Bugs	Nim Arinaminpathy (University of Oxford)	Meeting room 12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
12th Mar Friday 12:30pm	Investigating the lymphoid stress-surveillance response Immunology and Medicine Seminars Host - Douglas Fearon	Adrian Hayday - Division of Immunology, Infection & Inflammatory Diseases, Kings College, London	Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
16th Mar Tuesday 11:00am	Some issues for causal inference in observational epidemiology MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars	Nuala Sheehan, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester	Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge
17th Mar Wednesday 12:00pm	Transgenic studies of gliogenesis in the healthy and damaged CNS BRC Seminar Series	Prof Bill Richardson, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London	Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way
24th Mar Wednesday 5:30pm	Maintenance of T helper cell memory Immunology in Pathology Host: Nick Holmes (nh106@cam.ac.uk)	Prof. Dr. Andreas Radbruch, DRFZ, Berlin, Germany	Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road
April			April
20th Apr Tuesday 2:15pm	"Modelling (skin) lipid bilayers" Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics	Dr Massimo Noro, Unilever Discover, Port Sunlight	Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry
May			May
4th May Tuesday 2:15pm	“Accurate in-silico predictions can halve costs for experimental ADME Tox studies” Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics	Dr Igor Tetko, Institute for Bioinformatics & Systems Biology, Neuherberg	Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept. of Chemistry