Institute for Animal Health
Compton Laboratory
Nr. Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 7NN. Tel: 01635 578411
Seminar Programme - January to December 1999
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13 January 1999: Dr Steve Goodbourn, Dept of
Biochemistry, St George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London. The
Regulation of Beta-IFN Gene Expression. Contact: John McCauley
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20 January 1999: Dr Paul Digard, Dept of Pathology,
University of Cambridge. Interactions Between Influenza Viruses and the Cytoskeleton. Contact:
Julian Hiscox
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27 January 1999: Dr Tracey J Coffey, Wellcome Trust
Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, Dept of Zoology, University of Oxford. Title
to be announced. Contact: Jamie Leigh
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3 February 1999: Dr Gillian Griffiths, Sir William
Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. Sorting Out the Multiple Roles of Fas
Ligand. Contact: Chris Birkett
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10 February 1999: Dr Brad Spiller, Dept of Medical
Biochemistry, Wales University College of Medicine, Cardiff. Human Cytomegalovirus: the
Molecular Viking. Contact: John McCauley
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Monday, 15 February 1999 at
12:30 pm: Prof. Masanori Kasahara, The Graduate
University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan. "Genome Paralogy: A New
Perspective on the Genomic Organisation of the MHC." Contact: John McCauley
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17 February 1999: Dr Alan Hall, MRC Laboratory for
Molecular Cell Biology, University College London. Rho GTPases and the Organisation of
the Actin Cytoskeleton. Contact: Tim Wallis
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24 February 1999: Dr Eddie Holmes, Dept of Zoology,
University of Oxford. Sex in A Clonal World: Recombination and Evolution in RNA
Viruses. Contact: Angela McLean
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3 March 1999: Dr Paul Clapham, Institute for Cancer
Research, London. Tropisms of HIV. Contact: Lynne Bountiff
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10 March 1999: Dr Keith Leppard, School of Biological
Sciences, University of Warwick. Adenovirus 5: A Powerful Eukaryote Cell and Molecular
Biology Model System and Gene Vector. Contact Julian Hiscox
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Thurdsay, 18 March 1999:
Dr Doug Fearon, Wellcome Immunology Unit, University of Cambridge. Innate
Immunity and Immunogenicity. Contact: Jim
Kaufman
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24 March 1999: Dr. Margaret Millrain,
Transplantation Biology Group, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of
London. "Minor Transplantation Antigens: Direct Visualisation and
Phenotypic Analysis of T Cell Responses." Contact: Lynne Bountiff
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Friday, 26 March 1999:
Dr. Dirk Dobbelaere, University of Berne, Institute for Animal Pathology,
Switzerland. "Transformation of T cells by Theileria parva: Survival Strategies
in the Jungle of T Cell Signalling." Contact: Fiona Tomley
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31 March 1999: Dr. Jeremy Hyams, University
College London. "Muscling in on Myosin Function in Fission Yeast." Contact:
Julian Hiscox
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21 April 1999: Dr. Brendan Larder, Virco UK
Ltd, Cambridge. "New Insights into Genetic Mechanisms of HIV-1 Drug Resistance."
Contact: Angela McLean
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28 April 1999: Dr. Tim Elliott, Nuffield
Dept. of Clinical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. "MHC Class I
Assembly and Quality Control in the ER." Contact: Shirley Ellis
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5 May 1999: Dr. Matthew Baylis, IAH
Compton. "Methods for Predicting the Distribution and Timing of Outbreaks of
African Horse Sickness."
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12 May 1999: Dr. Jeremy Mottram, MRC Senior
Fellow, Wellcome Unit of Molecular Parasitology, Glasgow. "A Plethora of
Stage-Regulated Cysteine Proteinases in Leishmania: How & Why?" Contact: Martin Shirley
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19 May 1999: TO BE ANNOUNCED
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26 May 1999: Dr. David Blackbourn,
Institute of Virology, University of Glasgow. "Human Herpesvirus 8 and
Kaposi’s Sarcoma." Contact: Pete
Kaiser
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9 June 1999: Dr. Alex Law, MRC
Immunochemistry Unit, Dept. Biochem., University of Oxford. "The Chemistry of
Opsonisation: the Covalent Binding of Complement Proteins C3 and C4 on the Surface of
Pathogens." Contact: Jim Kaufman
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16 June 1999: Dr. David Rollinson, Natural
History Museum. "Evolutionary Flukes: Molecular Insights into Schistosome and
Snail Interactions." Contact: Martin
Shirley
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23 June 1999: Dr. Hugh Reyburn, Department
of Pathology, University of Cambridge. "NK Cells: Their Receptors and Ligands."
Contact: John McCauley
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30 June 1999: Dr. Rose Zamoyska, National
Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London. "Are Lineage Commitment
Decisions in the Thymus Directed by Discrete Signalling Pathways?" Contact: Jim Kaufman
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29 September 1999: Dr Tim Crow, Department
of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. "What Made Homo-Sapiens Different?"
Contact: John McCauley
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6 October 1999: Dr Diana Williams, London
School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. "Do Immune Mechanisms Underlie
Neospora caninum-Associated Abortions in Cattle?" Contact: Pete Kaiser
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13 October 1999: Dr Steve Harding, National
Centre for Macromolecular Hydrodynamics (NCMH) at Sutton Bonnington. "Analytical
Ultracentrifugation in Biology and Technology." Contact: Jim Hope
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20 October 1999: Prof Chris Secombes,
Department of Zoology, University of Aberdeen. "Cytokines and Their Genes in
Lower Vertebrates." Contact: Pete
Kaiser
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27 October 1999: Dr Gordon G. MacPherson,
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. "The Other Side of
Dendritic Cells." Contact: Martin
Shirley / Adrian Smith
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TUESDAY, 2
November 1999: Prof Stuart Siddell, Institute of Virology and Immunology,
Wuerzburg, Germany. "Structural and Functional Analysis of a Complex RNA Virus
Replicase." Contact: Mike Skinner
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THURSDAY, 4
November 1999: Dr Gary Entrican, Moredun Research Institute. "Cytokine
Control of Chlamydophila abortus: Implications for Immune Regulation During Pregnancy."
Contact: Bob Collins
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10 November 1999: The seminar scheduled for today
has been cancelled. [Prof Chris Marshall, Institute for Cancer Research,
London. "Small GTPases and Cell Cycle Control." Contact: John McCauley]
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17 November 1999: Prof Declan McKeever,
Moredun Research Institute. "Sustainability of Subunit Vaccines Against
Tick-borne Parasites: the Case of Theileria parva." Contact: Shirley Ellis
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24 November 1999: No seminar.
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1 December 1999: Dr Rowland Kao,
Epidemiology of Scrapie Group, IAH Compton. "Don't Shoot the Messenger: TB in
Cattle and Possums in New Zealand." Contact: Angela McLean
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8 December 1999: Dr Mike Parkhouse, IAH
Pirbright "The Pathogenesis of African Swine Fever Virus." Contact: John McCauley
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15 December 1999: Dr Kathryn Vardy,
Ciphergen Biosystems Ltd, Camberley. "A Technical Presentation on Ciphergen
ProteinChipTM Technology." Contact: John McCauley
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Seminar Co-ordinator: John
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