Seminar Series 1st October, 1pm Ulf Klein (Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Centre, New York) “Molecular Control of Mature B-Cell Development” 26th November: Mary Collins (University College London) “Regulation of NFkappaB signalling by viral and cellular FLIP proteins” 8th October: Sophie Hambleton (University of Newcastle) “Forward Genetics of Human Immunity – Learning from Extreme 3rd December: Graham Anderson (University of Birmingham) Phenotypes” “Control of T-cell development and tolerance in the thymus” 15th October: Ann Ager (University of Cardiff) “Directing the traffic of effector T lymphocytes: breaking down dogma” 22nd October: Oliver Pabst (Institute of Molecular Medicine, Aachen, Germany) “Pathways of IgA induction in the intestine” 10th of December: Ludewig Burkhard (Institute of Immunobiology, St. Gallen, Switzerland) Title TBC 7th of January: Mads Gyrd-Hansen (University of Oxford) Title TBC 29th October: Graham Lord (King’s College London) “The role of the transcription factor T-bet in gut mucosal responses” 14th of January: Arthur Kaser (University of Cambridge) “ER stress and autophagy conspiring in the Crohn's disease epithelium” 5th November: Jessica Quintin (The Pasteur Institute, Paris) “Innate immune memory: ‘training’ and beyond” 21st of January: Philippe Bousso (Institut Pasteur, Paris) Title TBC 12th November: Mark Field (University of Dundee) “A novel nuclear lamina in trypanosomes: Evolution, epigenetics and immune evasion” 28th of January: Catharien Hilkens (University of Newcastle) Title TBC 19th November: Reinhold Förster (Hannover Medical School, Germany) Title TBC 4th of February: Steven Singer (Georgetown University, Washington/) “Lessons from animal models of giardiasis” The Manchester Immunology Group is part of the 3i Research Theme http://www.ls.manchester.ac.uk/research/themes/iii/ Seminar Series 11th of February: Esther de Jong (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Title TBC 7th of April: Careers Seminar by Taylor Rowlinson Recruitment Title TBC 18th of February: Steffen Jung (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel) “Macrophages –Tissue Specialisations and Functions” 14th of April: Alan Sher (NIAID, Bethesda) Title TBC 25th of February: Alexandre Potocnik (The university of Edinburgh “Integrins in haematopoiesis: What is the impact of alpha4 integrin on stem cell and progenitor survival, migration and compartmentalisation?” 3rd of March: Graham Pawelec - Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research,Tuebingen, Germany) “Immunosenescence and Cancer: is there an Immune Risk” 10th of March: Andres Hidalgo (CNIC, Madrid, Spain) “Innate immunity beyond inflammation” 17th of March: Paras Anand (Imperial College London) Title TBC 24th of March: Santiago Zelenay - CRUK MI “Cyclooxygenase-dependent tumour growth through evasion of immunity” 31st of March: Nick Gay (University of Cambridge) Title TBC 21st of April: Kris Clark (University of Dundee) Title TBC 28th of April: Leonie Taams (Kings College London) “Cellular and molecular mechanisms of immune regulation in inflammatory arthritis” 5th of May: Mark Peakman (Kings College London) “HLA-guided studies of autoreactive T cells in type 1 5th diabetes” 12th of May: Ken Murphy (Washington University) “Development and function of dendritic cell subsets in immunity” 19th of May: Edward Pearce (University of Freiburg) “The metabolic regulation of innate immune cell activation” 26th of May: Amy Buck (University of Edinburgh) “Vesicle and RNA secretion by helminths: a new mode of parasite-host communication” The Manchester Immunology Group is part of the 3i Research Theme http://www.ls.manchester.ac.uk/research/themes/iii/