Monday 17 July 2023

• 12:00 - "Microbiome and cell death mediated regulation of inflammatory immunity " Professor Tracy McGaha
  Prof Tracy McGaha (University of Toronto)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 24 July 2023

• 12:00 - How does CD45 signal?
  Dr Hayley Sharpe (Babraham Institute, Cambridge)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 4 September 2023

• 12:00 - A collaborative approach to mapping the distribution of cell surface proteins
  There is no virtual option for this seminar.
  Professor Dylan Owen (Universitiy of Birmingham)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 11 September 2023

• 12:00 - T cells as regulators of germinal center kinetics
  There is no virtual option for this seminar.
  Prof Johanne Tracey Jacobsen (University of Oslo)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 21 September 2023

• 11:00 - Breakdown of tolerance to self drives atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
  There is no virtual option for this seminar.
  Prof Klaus Ley (Augusta University)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 25 September 2023

• 12:00 - Aspergillus infection and inflammation in Cystic Fibrosis
  There is no virtual option for this seminar.
  Prof Adilia Warris (University of Exeter)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 2 October 2023

• 12:00 - Population-scale metabolomic and genomic prediction of common diseases
  There is no vitrual option for this seminar
  Dr Jeffrey Barrett (Chief Scientific Officer of Nightingale Health)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 16 October 2023

• 12:00 - Vaccine modalities for more effective immunisation
  Dr Anita Milicic (Group Leader, Vaccine Formulation and Adjuvants)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 23 October 2023

• 12:00 - Autoimmune connective tissue diseases - intracellular DNA/RNA sensing
  Prof Bent Deleuran (Aarhus University)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 30 October 2023

• 12:00 - Targeting TCR and Co-Receptor Signaling in T Cell-Mediated Immunity
  Dr Ricardo Fernandes (Nuffield Department of Medicine - University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 13 November 2023

• 12:00 - Epi-microRNA mediated metabolic remodelling ensures affinity maturation
  No virtual option for this seminar
  Dr Dinis Calado (Senior Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute (London, UK))
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 20 November 2023

• 12:00 - Metabolic regulation of T cell signalling and function
  No virtual option for this seminar
  Dr Joy Edwards-Hicks (University of Cambridge)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 27 November 2023

• 12:00 - Commercialising research by creating newco’s with OSE
  No virtual option for this seminar.
  Claire Brown (Oxford Science Enterprises), Craig Fox (Oxford Science Enterprises), Sally Dewhurst (Oxford Science Enterprises), Katharina Ramshorn (Oxford Science Enterprises), Sanne de Jongh (Oxford Science Enterprises)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 4 December 2023

• 12:00 - DNA fragility and the chemistry of normal life
  This has been cancelled and will be reschedule to 2024.
  Prof Ketan Patel (University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 11 December 2023

• 12:00 - Neutrophils in chronic inflammation – from physiology to therapeutic interference
  No virtual option for this seminar
  Prof Oliver Soehnlein (University of Münster, Germany)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 15 January 2024

• 12:00 - Follicular Dendritic Cells Spill the Transcriptomic Tea
  No virtual option for this seminar
  Dr Balthasar Heesters (Utrecht University - The Netherlands)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 22 January 2024

• 12:00 - Cancelled: Intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes - guardians of the gut
  This seminar has been cancelled, and it will be rescheduled.
  Dr Mahima Swamy (University of Dundee)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 29 January 2024

• 12:00 - Dendritic cells and initiation of immune responses
  No virtual option for this seminar
  Dr Patrycja Kozik (The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology - Cambridge)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 5 February 2024

• 12:00 - DNA fragility and the chemistry of normal life
  No virtual option for this seminar
  Prof Ketan Patel (University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 12 February 2024

• 12:00 - Following the fate of cancer cells using intravital microscopy
  No virtual option for this seminar
  Dr Colinda Scheele (University of Leuven, Belgium)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 19 February 2024

• 12:00 - Mast cells help organize the Peyer’s patch niche for induction of IgA responses
  No virtual option for this seminar
  Dr. Marco De Giovanni (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Milan, Italy))
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 26 February 2024

• 12:00 - Computational Biology in Drug Discovery
  In person only
  Dr Philippe Sanseau (GlaxoSmithKline (GSK))
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 4 March 2024

• 12:00 - Tissue T cells: Life in Lockdown in Liver and Lung
  In person only
  Prof Mala Maini (UCL Institute of Immunity and Transplantation)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 11 March 2024

• 12:00 - Understanding the causes and consequences of immune variability
  In person only
  Dr Darragh Duffy (Institut Pasteur, Paris)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 18 March 2024

• 12:00 - Cross-regulation between the immune system and the extracellular matrix during lung pathology
  In person only
  Dr Tara Sutherland (University of Aberdeen)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 25 March 2024

• 12:00 - Lymphocyte mechano-regulation for immunotherapies
  In person only
  Dr Enrico Klotzsch (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 8 April 2024

• 12:00 - Spermatogenesis: a paradigm of stem cell regulation
  In person only
  Prof Benjamin Simons (University of Cambridge)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 15 April 2024

• 12:00 - From GWAS to function: interrogating biology at scale to move genetic variant associations to therapies
  In person only
  Dr Gosia Trynka (Wellcome Sanger Institute - Cambridge)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 17 April 2024

• 12:00 - The control of inflammatory pain and disease- a new pathway?
  In person only
  Prof John Hamilton (University of Melbourne)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Friday 19 April 2024

• 10:00 - Inside Nature
  In person only
  Dr Michelle Trenkmann (Editor in Chief, Nature’s magazine)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 22 April 2024

• 12:00 - Lessons into lupus pathogenesis from inborn errors of immunity
  In person only
  Prof Carola Vinuesa (The Francis Crick Institute)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 25 April 2024

• 12:00 - Cell Shape Sensing by Immune Cells
  In person only
  Dr Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil (Institut Curie, Paris)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 29 April 2024

• 12:00 - Regulation and immunotherapy responses of NK cells (and T cells) against tumors
  In person only
  Professor David Raulet (UC Berkeley)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 13 May 2024

• 12:00 - Epstein Barr Virus - searching for a metabolic Achilles' heel
  In-person only
  Prof Christoph Hess (University of Cambridge)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 20 May 2024

• 10:00 - Immune cell migration in complex environments
  In-person only
  Prof Michael Sixt (The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA))
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 12:00 - CAR T-cell immunotherapy of solid tumours: moving through the generations
  In-person only
  Dr John Maher (King's College London)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 3 June 2024

• 12:00 - Bacterial induced IFN-y primes the lung for innate control of SARS-CoV-2 infection
  In-person only
  Dr Alan Sher (NIH Distinguished Investigator)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 5 June 2024

• 12:00 - "Systems analysis of inflammation" AND "Oxford - Berlin Partnership: joined forces for excellent research in and beyond rheumatology"
  This is a joint seminar. In-person only.
  Prof Eicke Latz (German Rheumatology Research Center (DRFZ)), Ms Uta Bielfeldt (German Rheumatology Research Center (DRFZ))
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Thursday 6 June 2024

• 10:00 - Polysaccharide Metabolism in the Infant Gut: Pathways to Immune Homeostasis
  In-person only
  Dr Marcin Pekalski (University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Friday 7 June 2024

• 11:00 - Multiscale approaches for understanding single cell spatial omics data
  In person only
  Dr Shila Ghazanfar (University of Sydney)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 10 June 2024

• 12:00 - A disease-associated gene desert directs macrophage inflammation via ETS2
  In-person only
  Dr James Lee (The Francis Crick Institute)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 17 June 2024

• 12:00 - Myeloid derived suppressor cells and macrophages in regulation of immune response in cancer and tumor progression
  In-person only
  Prof Dmitry Gabrilovich (Chief Scientist, Cancer Immunology, AstraZeneca)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 24 June 2024

• 12:00 - Molecular Organisation of Cell Junctions in Epithelial Tissue
  In person only
  Dr Karina Pombo-Garcia (Rosalind Franklin Institute)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 1 July 2024

• 12:00 - Feeding the inflammasome to damage the liver
  In-person only
  Dr Sabrina Sofia Burgener (University of Queensland)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Friday 5 July 2024

• 10:30 - Immune organoids and combinations to advance our understanding of autoimmunity, vaccination and infection.
  In person only
  Prof Mark Davis (Stanford University)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 8 July 2024

• 12:00 - Sympathetic neuroimmune interactions regulating outcomes of viral infection and cancer
  In-person only
  Prof Scott Mueller (University of Melbourne)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 15 July 2024

• 12:00 - Advantages of Academic and Industry Research: Are They So Different, and Do They Lead to Expected Results? Can Things Go Wrong?
  In person only
  Prof Beat Imhof (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 22 July 2024

• 12:00 - Lessons from the human prenatal immune system
  In person only
  Prof Muzlifah Haniffa (Newcastle University)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 29 July 2024

• 12:00 - 'Host-Plasmodium interactions' AND 'Science and design of nucleic acid-based vaccines/adjuvants'
  This is a joint seminar, in-person only
  Prof Cevayir Coban, Prof Ken Ishii (University of Tokyo)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 16 September 2024

• 12:00 - Effector and regulatory T cells balance in inflamed human livers
  In person only
  Prof Ye Htun Oo (University of Birmingham)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 23 September 2024

• 12:00 - An introduction to Octopus.ac – a new way to publish your research
  In person only
  Dr Alexandra Freeman (Winton Centre - University of Cambridge)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 30 September 2024

• 12:00 - Using high-throughout genetic and genomic screens to understand the biological basis of inflammatory bowel disease and deliver precision medicine
  In person only
  Dr Carl Anderson (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Friday 4 October 2024

• 12:00 - From immune regulation to anti-tumor effects: A tale of cytotoxic regulatory T cells
  In person
  Prof Bruce Blazar (University of Minnesota)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 7 October 2024

• 12:00 - Tissue Immunity at CNS borders
  In person only
  Prof Menna Clatworthy (University of Cambridge)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 14 October 2024

• 12:00 - Fibroblasts: master regulators of inflammation
  In person only
  Prof Christopher Buckley (University of Oxford - The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 21 October 2024

• 12:00 - Towards synchrotron functionality in the X-ray lab
  In person
  Dr Martin Peter Pichotka (University Medical Center Freiburg)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 28 October 2024

• 12:00 - From Nuclear Swelling to Chemoattractant Production During Tissue Damage
  In person only
  Dr Balázs Enyedi (Semmelweis University, Hungary)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 4 November 2024

• 12:00 - Axes of T cell diversification
  In person
  Dr Carmen Gerlach (the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Wednesday 6 November 2024

• 15:00 - Machine learning and inference methods for the study of spatially structured cell heterogeneity within tissues
  In person
  Dr Paul Villoutreix (INSERM/ Aix-Marseille University (Marseille, France))
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 11 November 2024

• 12:00 - Turning morphology into numbers and streamlining bioimage analysis at scale
  In person
  Dr Virginie Uhlmann (BioVisionCenter, University of Zurich)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 18 November 2024

• 12:00 - The multiple roles of intraepithelial T lymphocytes in maintaining intestinal homeostasis
  In person
  Dr Mahima Swamy (University of Dundee)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Friday 29 November 2024

• 12:00 - 'A History of Herd Immunity: Between Observation and Cultivation' AND 'The Long-term Context of Medical Debates: A History of Herd Immunity'
  In person
  Dr David Robertson (University of Oxford), Prof Erica Charters (University of Oxford)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 2 December 2024

• 12:00 - Molecular and spatial control of tumor-associated macrophages
  In person
  Prof Renato Ostuni (San Raffaele Telethon Institute, Milan)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars

Monday 9 December 2024

• 12:00 - Live cell imaging unveils novel innate immune biology
  In person
  Dr Paul Kubes (Queen’s University, Canada)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars