Kennedy Institute Seminars

Weekly seminar held at the Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre every Monday at 12pm at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology by an external Guest Speaker. At Kennedy we focus on understanding the causes of chronic inflammatory conditions to develop new treatments that change lives.We are located in our own purpose designed building at the heart of the University of Oxford’s Old Road campus, a premier site for translational research in Oxford.
Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser: Jo Silva (NDORMS)
Web Address: http://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/upcoming-events
Organising department: Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS)

Talks:

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Immune cell migration in complex environments
Date: 20 May 2024, 10:00 - 11:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Michael Sixt (The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA))
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Doris Chan (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Marco Fritzsche (Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology, University of Oxford)

CAR T-cell immunotherapy of solid tumours: moving through the generations
Date: 20 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr John Maher (King's College London)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Doris Chan (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Dr Ewoud Compeer (University of Oxford - The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Bacterial induced IFN-y primes the lung for innate control of SARS-CoV-2 infection
Date: 3 June 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Alan Sher (NIH Distinguished Investigator)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Doris Chan (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mark Coles (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology )

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

"Systems analysis of inflammation" AND "Oxford - Berlin Partnership: joined forces for excellent research in and beyond rheumatology"
Date: 5 June 2024, 12:00 - 13:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Prof Eicke Latz (German Rheumatology Research Center (DRFZ)), Ms Uta Bielfeldt (German Rheumatology Research Center (DRFZ))
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Doris Chan (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Dr Jelena Bezbradica (The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Polysaccharide Metabolism in the Infant Gut: Pathways to Immune Homeostasis
Date: 6 June 2024, 10:00 - 11:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Marcin Pekalski (University of Oxford)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Doris Chan (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Dr Jethro Johnson (The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

A disease-associated gene desert directs macrophage inflammation via ETS2
Date: 10 June 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr James Lee (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Doris Chan (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Dr Franze Progatzky (University of Oxford - Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Monday 17 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

Myeloid derived suppressor cells and macrophages in regulation of immune response in cancer and tumor progression
Date: 17 June 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Dmitry Gabrilovich (Chief Scientist, Cancer Immunology, AstraZeneca)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Doris Chan (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Professor Irina Udalova (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Monday 1 July 2024 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

Feeding the inflammasome to damage the liver
Date: 1 July 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 11th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Sabrina Sofia Burgener (University of Queensland)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Doris Chan (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Dr Jelena Bezbradica (The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Monday 8 July 2024 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

Sympathetic neuroimmune interactions regulating outcomes of viral infection and cancer
Date: 8 July 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 12th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Scott Mueller (University of Melbourne)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Doris Chan (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Hosts: Professor Christopher Buckley (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford), Prof Mark Coles (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology )

Editors: Anne Bowtell, Nicole Harris, Jo Silva, Josie Eade, Lola Chaplin, Doris Chan