Department of Infection and Immunity Seminars

All seminars are held in the Alan Johnson Lecture Theatre (Room K136).

Any queries regarding the seminar programme should be sent to Dr Colin Bingle (c.d.bingle@sheffield.ac.uk). Suggestions for future speakers would also be gratefully received by Colin.

Date and Time	Title	Speaker
10 May 2012	Respiratory Genetics: Gene discovery and translation	Dr Ian Sayers, University of Nottingham, www.nottingham.ac.uk/scs/divisions/therapeuticsmolecularmedicine/people/driansayerswebpage.aspx
26 April 2012 - 4.30 pm	Microbial parasitism of macrophages	Dr Robin May, Senior Lecturer and Lister Fellow, School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/biosciences/may-robin.aspx. Robin is very much a rising star and has been awarded the Biochemical Society Colworth Medal for 2013
12 April 2012 - 4.30 pm	The Yin and Yang of lymphoid stromal cell development and function	Dr Mark Coles, Centre for Immunology and Infection, York University
29 March 2012 - 4:30 pm	The design of scaffolds and potential of stem cells for repairing peripheral nerve tissue injury	Professor John Haycock, Centre for Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering, Kroto Research Institute, University of Sheffield
1 March 2012 - 4.30 pm	Mucus, mucins and mucosal protection	Professor Dave Thornton, University of Manchester. For more about Prof Thornton's laboratory click here.
2 Feb 2012 - 4.30 pm	Effects of within-host parasite interactions on coinfection treatment outcomes	Emily Griffiths, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences. For more about Emily's work please click here.
19 Jan 2012 - 4.00 pm	Orchestration of anti-tumour immunity and the development of new immunotherapeutic strategies	Professor Graham Pockley, Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield
13 Jan 2012 - 4.00 pm	Small airways dysfunction in asthma and COPD	Professor Dirkje Postma, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
5 Jan 2012 - 4.30 pm	Lung stem cells in airway regeneration and cancer	Dr Adam Giangreco, University College, London
1 Dec 2011 - 4.30 pm	Into thin air: Regulation of gene expression by hypoxia	Professor Cormac Taylor, University College Dublin. For more about Prof Cormac's interests click here.
17 Nov 2011 - 4.30 pm	Perspectives on the future management of rheumatoid arthritis	Professor John Isaacs, University of Newcastle
10 Nov 2011 - 4.30 pm	Bacterial Recognition by Pattern Recognition Receptors	Dr Clare Bryant, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge
23 June 2011 - 4.30 pm	Regulation of inflammation by endogenous danger signals	Dr Kim Midwood, Department of Matrix Biology, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London
9 June 2011 - 4.30 pm	Matrix metalloproteinases and the immunopathology of tuberculosis	Professor Jon S Friedland, Section of Infectious Diseases & Immunity, Imperial College, London click here.
12 May 2011 - 4.30 pm	MicroRNAs as master regulators of immune gene expression	Dr Dimitris Lagos, Centre for Immunology and Infection, University of York. For more information click here.
31 March 2011 - 4.30 pm	Innate Immunity and Inflammasome Activation in Disease	Professor Michael McDermott, Professor of Experimental Rheumatology, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds
17 March 2011 - 4.30 pm	Using zebrafish embryos to understand staphylococcal disease	Dr Tomek Prajsnar, MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield
3 March 2011 - 4.30 pm	Heterologous Desensitisation of CC Chemokine Receptors on Human Monocytes	Dr Nathalie Signoret
17 Feb 2011 - 4.00 pm	Unusual and unexpected properties of the macrophage chemoattractant protein chemerin	Dr David Greaves, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
9 Dec 2010 - 4.00 pm	Molecular mechanisms of signal transduction by the Toll-like receptors; key mediators of innate immunity	Professor Nick Gay, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
25 Nov 2010 - 4.00 pm	Immune regulation of small cell lung cancer	Professor Sarah Howie, MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh
18 Nov 2010 - 4.00 pm	Subcellular trafficking of viral interferon antagonists: Role in immune evasion and viral pathogenicity	Dr Greg Moseley, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Australia
11 Nov 2010 - 4.00 pm	White death: new insights into the pathogenesis of systemic candidiasis	Dr Craig Murdoch, Oral Disease Research Group, University of Sheffield School of Clinical Dentistry
14 Oct 2010 - 5.00 pm	MicroRNA regulation and inflammation - two stories from two distinct zebrafish mutants	Dr Luke Pase, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia
22 July 2010 - 4.00 pm	TBA	Jens Rolff, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield
24 June 2010 - 4.00 pm	Prions and prion disease: evolving pathogens without nucleic acids	Simon Mead, MRC Prion Unit, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL
10 June 2010 - 4.00 pm	Zebrafish models of neutrophilic inflammation	Dr Steve Renshaw, Department of Infection and Immunity
29 April 2010 - 4.00 pm	ENU mutagenesis and mouse models of immunity	Dr Vera Ripoll Nunez, MRC Mammalian Genetic Unit, Harwell
15 April 2010 - 4.00 pm	Targeting membrane proteins in infection and immunity	Dr Pete Monk, Department of Infection and Immunity