Department of Infection and Immunity Seminars

All seminars are held in the Alan Johnson Lecture Theatre (Room K136), unless stated otherwise.

Any queries regarding the seminar programme should be sent to Dr Colin Bingle (c.d.bingle@sheffield.ac.uk). Suggestions for future speakers would also be gratefully received by Colin.

Date and Time	Title	Speaker
10 July 2013 - 13:00 Venue Seminar Room 9, C Floor Medical School	“Macrophage Heterogeneity and Renewal During Inflammation”	Professor Phil Taylor, Cardiff Uiversity
9 July 2013 - 13:00 Venue MLT3 - F Floor Medical School	“Living in a complex world: Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Cystic Fibrosis”	Dr Jo Fothergill, Institue of Infection and Global Health at the University of LIverpool
4 July 2013 - 13:00	"Found in Translation: Hydroxylases target the protein synthesis apparatus"	Dr Mat Coleman, Oxford.
27 June 2013 - 13:00	"Molecular and structural mechanisms of RET receptor tyrosine kinase activation and oncogenic deregulation: biological and clinical implications"	Dr Ivan Plaza-Menacho, London Research Institute, CRUK
24 June 2013 - 13:00 Venue MLT3 - F Floor, Medical School	"A unifying role of primary cilia in cystic kidney and aneurysm formation"	Dr Surya Nauli. Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, University of Toledo
28 May 2013 - 13:00 Venue MLT3 - F Floor, Medical School	"Cilia, flow and polycystins: telling left from right in the mouse"	Dr Dominic Norris. MRC Harwell.
23 May 2013 - 13:00	"Horizon 2020 Awareness"	Dr Graham Hughes. Faculty of MDH EU Research Support Manager.
18 April 2013 - 13:00	“Mechanisms underlying the onset and maintenance of paediatric allergic airways disease”	Dr Sejal Saglani. The National Heart & Lung Institute. Imperial College London.
11 April 2013 - 13:00	“Paradoxical effects of TNF blockade in rheumatoid arthritis”	Dr Richard Williams. The Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology at The University of Oxford.
28 March 2013 - 13:00	"Inflammatory responses in pulmonary tuberculosis and sarcoidosis".	Dr Gillian Tomlinson. The Institutional Research Information System (IRIS), University College London.
5 March 2013 - 16:00 Venue MLT3 - F Floor, Medical School	“P2X7receptor and inflammasome in renal diseases”	Dr Fred Tam. Department of Renal Medicine, Imperial College London.
26 February 2013 - 16:00 Venue MLT2 - B floor, Medical School	“The role of stromal cells in the persistence of chronic inflammation"	Professor Chris Buckley. Centre for Translational Inflammation Research, University of Birmingham.
14 February 2013 - 13:00	"Bacterial biofilms in the respiratory tract: growing against the flow".	Dr Luanne Hall-Stoodley. (nrmicro821). University of Southampton.
31 January 2013 - 16:00 Venue - MLT3 - F Floor, Medical School	"Understanding intracellular protein sorting: How do SNAREs get packaged into transport vesicles"	Dr Andrew Peden. Department of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Sheffield.
13 December 2012 - 13.00	"Curing infectious disease with quantitative imaging and cell biology"	Dr Simon Johnston. Department of Infection and Immunity, The University of Sheffield.
6 December 2012 - 16:00	POSTPONED	Dr Luanne Hall-Stoodley. Department of Medicine, University of Southampton.
ADDITIONAL SEMINAR 26 November 2012 - 16:00 Venue - MLT3, F Floor, Medical School	"HIV immunity: a tale of two villages"	Professor Sarah Rowland-Jones. Nuffield Department of Medicine, The University of Oxford.
22 November 2012 - 13:00	"Identification of a novel bacterial defence system against host derived antimicrobial peptides"	Professor Dave Kelly. Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Sheffield.
13 November 2012 - 13:00 MLT3	"Ciliogenesis and Cell Polarity in the vertebrate embryo".	Dr Jarema Malicki. Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, The University of Sheffield.
8 November 2012 - 13:00	"Vitamin D in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis"	Dr Adrian Martineau. Barts and the London School of Medicine.
23 October 2012 - 16:00	'Metabolic clocks: circadian control of energy balance'	Dr David Bectold. University of Manchester.
11 October 2012 - 16:00	"Don't be too sweet! - glucose and pulmonary infection"	Dr Debbie Baines. from St George's, University of London.
5 July 2012 16:30	Haemophilus influenzae - a highly variable pathogen	Dr Derek Hood. Molecular Infectious Diseases Group, University of Oxford.
7 June 2012 16:30	Human responses to pneumococcal challenge; how can we decrease the burden of disease?	Professor Stephen Gordon. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
10 May 2012	Respiratory Genetics: Gene discovery and translation	Dr Ian Sayers. University of Nottingham.
26 April 2012 -16:30	Microbial parasitism of macrophages	Dr Robin May. Senior Lecturer and Lister Fellow, School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham. Robin is very much a rising star and has been awarded the Biochemical Society Colworth Medal for 2013.
12 April 2012 - 16:30	The Yin and Yang of lymphoid stromal cell development and function	Dr Mark Coles. Centre for Immunology and Infection, York University.
29 March 2012 - 16:30	The design of scaffolds and potential of stem cells for repairing peripheral nerve tissue injury	Professor John Haycock. Centre for Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering, Kroto Research Institute, The University of Sheffield.
1 March 2012 - 16:30	Mucus, mucins and mucosal protection	Professor Dave Thornton. Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.
2 Feb 2012 - 16:30	Effects of within-host parasite interactions on coinfection treatment outcomes	Emily Griffiths. Department of Animal and Plant Sciences.
19 Jan 2012 - 16:00	Orchestration of anti-tumour immunity and the development of new immunotherapeutic strategies	Professor Graham Pockley. Department of Oncology, The University of Sheffield.
13 Jan 2012 - 16:00	Small airways dysfunction in asthma and COPD	Professor Dirkje Postma. University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
5 Jan 2012 - 16:30	Lung stem cells in airway regeneration and cancer	Dr Adam Giangreco. University College, London.
1 Dec 2011 - 16:30	Into thin air: Regulation of gene expression by hypoxia	Professor Cormac Taylor. University College Dublin.
17 Nov 2011 - 16:30	Perspectives on the future management of rheumatoid arthritis	Professor John Isaacs. University of Newcastle.
10 Nov 2011 - 16:30	Bacterial Recognition by Pattern Recognition Receptors	Dr Clare Bryant. Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.
23 June 2011 - 16:30	Regulation of inflammation by endogenous danger signals	Dr Kim Midwood. Department of Matrix Biology, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London.
9 June 2011 - 16:30	Matrix metalloproteinases and the immunopathology of tuberculosis	Professor Jon S Friedland. Section of Infectious Diseases & Immunity, Imperial College, London.
12 May 2011 - 16:30	MicroRNAs as master regulators of immune gene expression	Dr Dimitris Lagos. Centre for Immunology and Infection, University of York.
31 March 2011 - 16:30	Innate Immunity and Inflammasome Activation in Disease	Professor Michael McDermott. Professor of Experimental Rheumatology, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds.
17 March 2011 - 16:30	Using zebrafish embryos to understand staphylococcal disease	Dr Tomek Prajsna. MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, The University of Sheffield.
3 March 2011 - 16:30	Heterologous Desensitisation of CC Chemokine Receptors on Human Monocytes	Dr Nathalie Signoret. Centre for Immunology and Infection, University of York.
17 Feb 2011 - 16:00	Unusual and unexpected properties of the macrophage chemoattractant protein chemerin	Dr David Greaves. Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford.
9 Dec 2010 - 16:00	Molecular mechanisms of signal transduction by the Toll-like receptors; key mediators of innate immunity	Professor Nick Gay. Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.
25 Nov 2010 - 16:00	Immune regulation of small cell lung cancer	Professor Sarah Howie. MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh.
18 Nov 2010 - 16:00	Subcellular trafficking of viral interferon antagonists: Role in immune evasion and viral pathogenicity	Dr Greg Moseley. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Australia.
11 Nov 2010 - 16:00	White death: new insights into the pathogenesis of systemic candidiasis	Dr Craig Murdoch. Oral Disease Research Group, University of Sheffield School of Clinical Dentistry.
14 Oct 2010 - 17:00	MicroRNA regulation and inflammation - two stories from two distinct zebrafish mutants	Dr Luke Pase. Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia.
22 July 2010 - 16:00	TBA	Jens Rolff. Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, The University of Sheffield.
24 June 2010 - 16:00	Prions and prion disease: evolving pathogens without nucleic acids	Simon Mea. MRC Prion Unit, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London.
10 June 2010 - 16:00	Zebrafish models of neutrophilic inflammation	Dr Steve Renshaw. Department of Infection and Immunity, The University of Sheffield.
29 April 2010 - 16:00	ENU mutagenesis and mouse models of immunity	Dr Vera Ripoll Nunez. MRC Mammalian Genetic Unit, Harwell.
15 April 2010 - 16:00	Targeting membrane proteins in infection and immunity	Dr Pete Monk. Department of Infection and Immunity, The University of Sheffield.