Immunology, infection and inflammation seminars
Description: Seminars of interest to the immunology, infection and inflammation community
Talks:

Wednesday 4 December 2024

The co-inhibitory receptor TIGIT promotes tissue protection and repair
Date: 4 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Nicole Joller (Department of Quantitative Biomedicine, the University of Zurich)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof Jan Rehwinkel ((Radcliffe Department of Medicine) University of Oxford), Dr Ross Chapman (University of Oxford)

Friday 6 December 2024

Decoding Immune Checkpoint Signalling Pathways Through CRISPR-Based Screening Approaches
Date: 6 December 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker s: Dr Sumana Sharma (Davis Group, University of Oxford), Dr Joseph Clarke (T-cell Biology Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 December 2024

Activation of Inhibitory Receptors on Mast cells: Is it a Winning Strategy to Fight Allergic Diseases and Mastocytosis?
Date: 9 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof. Francesca Levi-Schaffer (Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Live cell imaging unveils novel innate immune biology
Date: 9 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Paul Kubes (Queen’s University, Canada)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Doris Chan (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Professor Mike Dustin (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Thursday 12 December 2024

TGLU Christmas Quiz
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 12 December 2024, 17:00 - 20:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Room, GPEC Level 3, JR Hospital
Organiser: Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 December 2024

Pericardial lymphoid clusters control cardiopathogenic T-cell activation and differentiation during autoimmune myocarditis
Date: 17 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Nadine Cadosch (Kantonsspital St. Gallen)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Level 6 seminar room
Organiser: Lucy Garner (Klenerman Group, University of Oxford)
Host: Lucy Garner (Klenerman Group, University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 January 2025

Prof Edith Heard - title TBA
Date: 16 January 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Edith Heard (EMBL, Heidelberg)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Understanding and targeting PARP inhibitor resistance in cancer
Date: 16 January 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Chris Lord (Institute of Cancer Research, London)
Venue Details: 3 a/b
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Bass Hassan (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 January 2025

TBC
Date: 22 January 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Yaron Carmi (Kennedy Institute - Oxford University)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Hosts: Prof Omer Dushek (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology), Prof Anton van der Merwe (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford)

Thursday 23 January 2025

Dr Karina Pombo-Garcia - title TBA
Date: 23 January 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Pombo-Garcia (the Rosalind Franklin Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Wednesday 29 January 2025

Title TBC
Date: 29 January 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Dr Simon Cleary (King's College London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof David Jackson (WIMM HIU)

Thursday 30 January 2025

The prebiotic origin of RNA nucleosides and translation
Date: 30 January 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Thomas Carell (LMU, Munich)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Friday 31 January 2025

Revisiting the neoantigen approach to cancer immunotherapy
Date: 31 January 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Yardena Samuels (The Weizmann Institute of Science)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Omer Dushek (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Thursday 6 February 2025

Tumor-associated macrophages in tumor progression: double edged swords
Date: 6 February 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Alberto Mantovani (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Friday 7 February 2025

TBC
Date: 7 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Harriet Waters (Head of Environmental Sustainability, University of Oxford)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Anton van der Merwe (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford)

Thursday 13 February 2025

Prof Josef Penninger - title TBA
Date: 13 February 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Josef Penninger (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

How life works: Dealing with biology’s changing narrative
Date: 13 February 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Philip Ball
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Organisers: Catherine Lidbetter (Centre for Personalised Medicine), Thea Perry (Centre for Personalised Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 February 2025

TBC
Date: 14 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Molly Stevens (DPAG, Uni of Oxford)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Hosts: Prof Ervin Fodor (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology), Prof Matthew Freeman (Dunn School of Pathology)

Friday 21 February 2025

TBC
Date: 21 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Ian Henderson (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Hosts: Prof Fumiko Esashi, Dr Anjali Hinch (University of Oxford)

TBC
Date: 21 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Ian Henderson (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Hosts: Prof Fumiko Esashi, Dr Anjali Hinch (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 February 2025

Prof Frances Balkwill - title TBA
Date: 27 February 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Frances Balkwill (Cancer Research UK)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Friday 28 February 2025

TBC
Date: 28 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Andrea Musacchio (Max Planck, Germany)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Ulrike Gruneberg (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Thursday 6 March 2025

Prof Gareth Inman - Title TBA
Date: 6 March 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Gareth Inman (University of Glasgow)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Thursday 13 March 2025

Dr Céline Vallot - Title TBA
Date: 13 March 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Céline Vallot (Institut Curie)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Parinaz Mehdipour (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 March 2025

Targeting KRAS oncogenic signaling and tumour immune evasion in lung cancer
Date: 27 March 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Julian Downward (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Friday 28 March 2025

TBC
Date: 28 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Ross Chapman (NDM - University of Oxford)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Dr Anjali Hinch (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Title TBC
Date: 30 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Dr Andreas Wack (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Ling-Pei Ho (University of Oxford)

This list contains talks from the following series:
2022 - Oxford Festival of Open Scholarship
AIMday
BDI seminars
Botnar Seminar Series
BRC3 Gastroenterology and Mucosal Immunity Theme Seminars
CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars
Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars
Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars
Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
Entrepreneur in Residence Masterclass Series 2022
Experimental Medicine TGU Seminars
Immunology, Brain and Behaviour
Infection and Disease Processes Seminars
Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
Infectious Disease Seminar Series
Jenner Seminars
Kennedy Institute Seminars
Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
Medawar Infectious Diseases Forum
MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series
NDM Seminar Series
OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
OUCAGS Forum
Oxford GCRF Seminars
Oxford Martin School Events
Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series
Peter Medawar Building Seminars
TGLU Seminars
The Hill Expert-in-Residence Programme 2017
Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars
Tropical Medicine Seminars
WHG High Profile Seminars
WIMM MONDAY SEMINARS