Seminars at Compton

Seminars will be held in the conference room of the Henderson Building at 4.00 pm (unless otherwise stated). Visitors are welcome and are asked to sign in upon arrival at the Gatehouse. From the Gatehouse you will be directed to a parking area and the Henderson Building.

Please telephone IAH reception on the day(s) you wish to attend to check seminar information is correct and to register your attendance

 

Seminar Programme: January - July 2008

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Contact
16/01/2008 Prof. Dirk Werling Royal Vetinary College. "Bovine TLRs – Does Variation Really Matter?" Pete Kaiser
23/01/2008 Dr. Mick Bailey University of Bristol. "Life and Death in the Intestine: Controlling Mucosal Immune Responses." Bernardo Villarreal
30/01/2008 Dr. Paul Langford Imperial College. "The Pig Pathogen Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae: From Signature Tagged Mutagenesis to Live Attenuated Vaccines."
 Mark Stevens
06/02/2008 Dr. Julian Hiscox University of Leeds. 'Biophysical and Cell Biological Analysis of the Coronavirus Nucleocapsid Protein.' Paul Britton
13/02/2008 Fiona A. Macdonald   'From Concept to Commercialisation - a Pathway through the Regulatory Maze' Patrick McCarthy
20/02/2008 Prof. Yike Guo
 
Alan Price		 Imperial College London
InforSense		 "Building Large Scale Bioinformatics Applications with Workflow" Fiona Tomley or
Xikun Wu
27/02/2008 Jenner Conference Room        
05/03/2008 Jenner Conference Room Professor David Haig Nottingham Vet School. 'The pathogenesis and control of Malignant Catarrhal Fever' Jayne Hope
12/03/2008 Dr. Mark Chambers VLA, Weybridge. "TB diagnosis and vaccination in badgers" Bernardo Villarreal
19/03/2008        
26/03/2008 Professor Steve Walkden-Brown University of New England, Australia 'Towards an alternative approach to managing Marek's disease' Sue Baigent
02/04/2008 Dr Carlos Hermosilla RVC “ Interactions of Eimeria bovis with its host cell and with cells of the innate immune system” Shirley Ellis
09/04/2008        
16/04/2008 Postponed      
23/04/2008 Prof. Tony Cass Imperial College London
 "From Micro to Nano: The Biological Diagnostics Programme at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering" Munir Iqbal
30/04/2008        
07/05/2008 Ian Harrison Alchemy Healthcare Ltd 'Needle free vaccine delivery of conventional and DNA vaccines' Mark Cracknell
14/05/2008        
21/05/2008 Dr Nicholas Barker Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands “The WNT target gene LGR5/GPR49 marks stem cells in multiple adult tissues” Shirley Ellis
THURSDAY
29/05/2008 		Donald Mair BBSRC 'BBSRC Support for Innovation' Mark Cracknell
04/06/2008 Dr. Sebastien Pfeffer "Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes" at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg-France 'The roles of microRNAs in viral infections' Abdou Tahiri-Alaoui
11/06/2008        
18/06/2008 Prof. Stephan Beck Professor of Medical Genomics, UCL Cancer Institute. 'Reverse Phenotyping: Towards an integrated (epi)genomic approach to complex phenotypes and common disease' Sue Baigent
25/06/2008        
02/07/2008        
09/07/2008        
16/07/2008 Prof.  Ronnie Friedman
Professor of Immunology,
Ron Barabaro Chair in Veterinary Medicine
 Dept. Animal Sciences,
Faculty of Agriculture, Nutrition and Environment
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel		 "Ontogeny of protective immunity in the digestive tract: adaptation to lifestyles" Ronnie Friedman
23/07/2008        
30/07/2008        
06/08/2008        
13/08/2008        
20/08/2008        
27/08/2008        
03/09/2008        
10/09/2008        
17/09/2008        
24/09/2008 Dr Bill Mullen Chairman: Prokyma Technologies Ltd (Porton Down) "Rapid separation of bacteria and other cells from complex specimens" Mark Cracknell
01/10/2008 Professor Ian Kimber
POSTPONED		 University of Manchester To be announced Jayne Hope
08/10/2008        
15/10/2008        
22/10/2008        
29/10/2008 Dr Oliver Pybus Oxford University "Phylodynamics: integrating the evolutionary and epidemiological dynamics of RNA viruses" Paul Britton
05/11/2008        
12/11/2008 Prof. Andy Morgan Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol University "Recent progress in the development of Epstein-Barr virus vaccines and immunotherapy" Sue Baigent
19/11/2008 Dr Alan Wheals Dept of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath. "Rapid identification of yeasts" Sue Baigent
26/11/2008 Dr David DeShazer United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA. 'Molecular basis of virulence of the glanders pathogen Burkholderia mallei' Mark Stevens
03/12/2008 Dr Diana Williams Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Title to be announced Jayne Hope
10/12/2008 Dr James Pease Imperial College London Title to be announced Jayne Hope
17/12/2008        
24/12/2008        
31/12/2008