JOHN SQUIRES SEMINARS - AUTUMN 2013
SEMINARS COMMENCE AT 12.45, N143, IBR SEMINAR ROOM
Friday 13 September
Friday 20 September
Friday 27 September
Friday 4 October
Friday 11 October
Friday 18 October
Wednesday 23 October
Seminar at 2.00pm
Friday 25 October
Friday 1 November
Friday 8 November
Monday 11 November
Friday 15 November
Friday 22 November
Dr Greg Bancroft
Department of Immunology and Infection, Faculty of Infectious & Tropical
Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Title: Killer in the rice paddy- studying immune responses against the Gram
negative bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei
Host: Professor Antal Rot
Professor Gerard Graham
Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, Chemokine Research Group,
University of Glasgow
Title: The roles for the D6 chemokine scavenging receptor in lymphatic biology
Host: Professor Antal Rot
Awaiting confirmation of speaker details
TBA
Title: TBA
Host: TBA
Professor John Kirby
Institute of Cellular Medicine (Transplantation), Newcastle University
Title: The contributions of TGF-beta to allograft failure
Hosts: Dr Simon Afford and Dr Gideon Hirschfield
Professor Lars Klareskog
Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Title: Studies of gene-environment interactions as a basis for understanding and
modulating adaptive immunity in rheumatoid arthritis
Hosts: Professor Chris Buckley and Dr Andrew Filer
NO JOHN SQUIRE SEMINAR
SCHOOL OF IMMUNITY & INFECTION AWAY DAY
Prof Dr Michael Meyer-Hermann
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany
Title: Optimising cortisol therapy of rheumatoid arthritis with a clock
Host: Dr Kai Toellner
Professor Robert Barker
Division of Applied Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen
Title: Decisions, decisions...choices made by the immune system that cause disease
Host: Professor Graham Anderson
Professor Padraic Fallon
School of Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin
Title: Atopic Dermatitis: a tail of mice and men
Host: Dr Jorge Caamano
Professor Sebastian Johnston
National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London
Title: Mechanisms of Asthma and COPD Exacerbations
Host: Professor Adam Cunningham
Dr Jakub Abramson
Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, , Israel
Title: Molecular control of mTEC-mediated immune tolerance
Host: Professor Graham Anderson
Professor David Hume, FRSE
The Roslin Institute and R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh
Title: Functional Genomics of Macrophages’
Host: Dr Graham Wallace
Dr David Cole
Cardiff University School of Medicine
Title: CD4 T-cell antigen recognition: The core is not enough
Host: Dr David Withers