Immunology Disease Day
Immunology Disease Day Friday 29 November, Rooms A&B

09:30 – 09:40 Crash course (or recap!) in immunology
Calli Dendrou

09:40 – 10:00 Methods for analysing antigen-specific B-cells in autoimmunity, a
neuroscience perspective
Bo Sun (Bashford-Rogers group)

10:00 – 10:20 Tissue biomarkers for adalimumab in inflammatory bowel disease and
rheumatoid arthritis: A parallel observational study
Tom Thomas (Dendrou group)

10:20 – 10:40 Reverse immunology applied to vaccine design against flaviviruses
Jose Slon-Campos (Screaton group)

10:40 – 11:00 Mapping the tick – human interface to develop new therapeutics
Shoumo Bhattacharya

11:00 – 11:20 – COFFEE BREAK –

11:20 – 11:40 Genetic susceptibility to Rheumatic Heart Disease
Kate Auckland (Hill group)

11:40 – 12:00 Linking disease-associated variants to target genes in type 1 diabetes
Tony Cutler (Todd group)

12:00 – 12:20 A chromatin state comparative study of primary blood cell epigenomes
unveils the relation between non-coding enhancers and immune disease
activity
Gabriele Migliorini (Knight group)

12:20 – 12:40 Investigating pathophysiological mechanisms shared across immune-
mediated diseases
Victor Yeung (Dendrou group)

12:40 – 13:40 – LUNCH BREAK –

13:40 – 14:00 Infection and inflammation in UK Biobank
Amanda Chong (Hill group)

14:00 – 14:20 B cells and T cells in sepsis: Understanding the adaptive immune response
Lauren Overend (Bashford-Rogers group)

14:20 – 14:40 The sepsis plasma proteome: patient stratification and sub-endotype
discovery
Yuxin Mi (Knight group)

14:40 – 15:00 Malaria – A battle for survival
Kirk Rockett (Kwiatkowski group)
Date: 29 November 2019, 9:30
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Rooms A&B
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organiser: Calliope Dendrou (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Topics:
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Isabel Schmidt