• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Rachel Exley (University of Oxford) , Kenny Moore (University of Oxford) , Eva Gluenz (University of Oxford) , Joanna Miller (University of Oxford) , Helen Farr (University of Oxford) , Rebecca Moore (University of Oxford)
• Organising department: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

Tuesday 17 February 2015 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Diagnosing Ebola Virus in Sierra Leone: a First-Hand Account
  Marian Killip (University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Tuesday 3 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Competition between host molecules influences susceptibility to meningococcal disease
  Hayley Lavender (University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Wednesday 11 March 2015 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Seeing Type Three Secretion activity during Shigella infection: think globally, act locally.
  Francois-Xavier Campbell-Valois (Institut Pasteur)

Tuesday 17 March 2015 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The evolutionary dynamics of antibiotic resistance: insights from experimental evolution with pseudomonas
  Craig Maclean (Department of Zoology)

Tuesday 31 March 2015 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Immune evasion and the protective VSG coat of African trypanosomes
  Gloria Rudenko (Imperial College London)

Tuesday 12 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Rift Valley Fever virus and innate immunity evasion: insights from the first structure of an NSs protein.
  Michal Barski (University of St Andrews)

Wednesday 27 May 2015 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Bacterial warfare: the Type VI secretion system of Serratia marcescens.
  Please note: this talk will be held on WEDNESDAY at the later time of 2pm.
  Sarah Coulthurst (University of Dundee)

Tuesday 9 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Exploring Novel Antiviral Drug Targets.
  Cathy Adamson (University of St Andrews)

Tuesday 23 June 2015 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Iminosugars and dengue: the uncensored story of an antiviral therapeutic.
  Drew Sayce (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 24 June 2015 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - My family and no other animals: studies on CEACAM binding by human restricted pathogens
  Please note talk is on a Wednesday
  Darryl Hill (University of Bristol)

Wednesday 1 July 2015 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Genetic interaction mapping of HIV host factors
  Dr David Gordon (UCSF)

Tuesday 7 July 2015 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Structure of malaria invasion protein RH5 with erythrocyte basigin and blocking antibodies.
  Kate Wright (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 July 2015 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Pneumococcus rolls epigenetic dice with a six phase random switch that controls virulence.
  Marco Oggioni (University of Leicester)

Tuesday 1 September 2015 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Human MAIT cells respond to virus infection
  Bonnie van Wilgenburg (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 September 2015 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Shedding light on mechanisms of genome encapsidation in RNA viruses
  Alex Borodavka (University of Leeds)

Friday 2 October 2015 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The SHAPE of retroviral RNAs
  Julia Kenyon (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 13 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - HIV-1 entry and fusion in reporter cells and primary CD4+ T cells is dynamin dependent
  Sergi Padillaparra (University of Oxford)

Friday 23 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - From a Single Cell to Aerosols: Defining Molecular Properties that Contribute to the Epidemiological Success of Influenza V
  Dr Seema Lakdawala (University of Pittsburgh)

Tuesday 27 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - From Cancer Gene Therapy to Influenza Vaccines
  Lynda Coughlan (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The chemical glycosylation of adenovirus DNA vaccine vectors - targeting DCs and protecting from host immunity
  Leanne Minall (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - You are what you eat - Metabolism drives genome evolution in parasitic microorganisms
  Emily Seward (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 December 2015 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - A tale of two plasmids: maintenance of virulence in Shigella species
  Gareth McVicker (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - The curious case of herpesvirus nuclear egress
  Tzviya Zeev-Ben-Mordehai (Division of Structural Biology, Oxford University)

Tuesday 2 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Taming the untreatable: interventions against hazard group 4 viruses
  Stuart Dowall (Public Health England)

Tuesday 23 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Immunity as a lifespan determinant
  Petros Ligoxygakis (Biochemistry, Oxford University)

Tuesday 1 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Novel system-wide methods to study protein-RNA interactions: insights into host-virus interactions
  Dr Alfredo Castello Palomares (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 9 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Interactions of Helicobacter pylori with Gastric Epithelial Stem Cells
  Michael Sigal (Max Planck Institute)

Tuesday 15 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - TIE proteins & covalent adhesion of Gram-positive bacteria
  Ona Miller (University of St. Andrews)

Tuesday 10 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - The actions of small GTPases at the membrane - mechanisms important to cell biology and infection
  Daniel Humphreys (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 24 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - New insights into the recognition of pathogen-associated RNA in mammalian cells
  Peter Simmonds (Nuffield Department of Medicine)

Tuesday 7 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - PA-X prevents activation of the RIG-I pathway by influenza A virus
  Rachel Rigby (Rehwinkel Group)

Tuesday 21 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - The immunological challenges in Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) disease
  Jonathan Dodd (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)