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

Current seminar co-ordinator: Jayne Hope

Seminar Programme: January - December 2009

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Contact
07/01/2009        
14/01/2009 Dr Stuart Pepper Institute for Cancer Research "Use of the Affymetrix array platform to analyse limited sample material." Jayne Hope
21/01/2009 Dr Sharon Tooze Cancer Research UK "Trafficking and Signalling in mammalian Autophagy";
 Jayne Hope
28/01/2009 Dr Karen Stevenson Moredun Research Institute Title to be announced Jayne Hope
04/02/2009 Professor Ian Jones School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading "Going it alone: the structure and function of the baculovirus glycoprotein gp64" Sue Baigent
11/02/2009 Dr. Philip Donoghue Palaeontologist, University of Bristol "MicroRNAs and the evolution of vertebrate complexity" Sue Baigent
18/02/2009 Professor John A. Pickett Scientific Director, Rothamsted Centre for Sustainable Pest and Disease Management "Semiochemicals and haematophagous arthropods: new possibilities for control" Jayne Hope
25/02/2009 Professor Ian Kimber University of Manchester Title to be announced Jayne Hope
04/03/2009 Dr Adam Cunningham  University of Birmingham Title to be announced Mark Stephens
11/03/2009        
18/03/2009 Dr Julia Kydd School of Veterinary Medicine & Science, Nottingham University Title to be announced Jayne Hope
25/03/2009        
01/04/2009 Dr David Sansom University of Birmingham "The role of CTLA-4 in regulatory T cell function" John Young
08/04/2009      
15/04/2009        
22/04/2009        
29/04/2009 Dr. Juergen Haas Institute of Pathway Medicine, University of Edinburgh "A Systems Approach towards Herpesviruses" Venugopal Nair
06/05/2009 Prof Andrew Easton University of Warwick Title to be announced Efrain Guzman
13/05/2009        
20/05/2009 Dr Isabel MacDonald Jenner Institute "Structural studies of cattle MHC class I and relationship to peptide binding" Shirley Ellis
27/05/2009 Simon Graham Virology Department, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Weybridge "The role of vaccine-induced T cell responses in rapid protection against classical swine fever virus." Jayne Hope
03/06/2009 Dr. Martin Fray Frozen Embryo and Sperm Archive Manager, MRC Harwell 'Cryo-preserving mouse models of human disease’ Sue Baigent
10/06/2009 Dr Alfonso Martin-Fontecha Guys Hospital, London   Jayne Hope
17/06/2009 Prof Laura Green University of Warwick ‘Epidemiological thoughts on introduction, persistence and control of bovine tuberculosis in GB’ Efrain Guzman
24/06/2009 Dr T Ahmad Meso-Scale Discovery Ltd Title to be announced Jayne Hope
01/07/2009 Dr Maria Harkiolaki Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford Title to be announced Shirley Ellis
08/07/2009        
15/07/2009 Prof Yaqoub Ashhab Palestine Polytechnic University Bioinformatics approaches to study segmental genomic duplications and their impact on environmental adaption Francis Dziva
22/07/2009
11:00AM		 Prof David Groth
Jenner Conference Room		 Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia ‘The structure of the sheep MHC and other interesting stuff from down under!’ Shirley Ellis
22/07/2009
4:00PM		 Prof. Jon Frampton University of Birmingham "Diverse roles of Myb family proteins in the transcriptional control of stem cells" Yuguang Zhao
29/07/2009 Dr Alfonso Martin-Fontecha Guys Hospital London Title to be announced Jayne Hope
05/08/2009        
12/08/2009        
19/08/2009 Prof Andrew Read Centre for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Penn State University Vaccination: the evolutionary consequences of humankind’s biggest attempts to perturb organismal ecology Sue Baigent
26/08/2009        
02/09/2009 James Cussens York University "Inferring gene regulatory networks from data and interventions" Nicos Angelopoulos
09/09/2009 Prof Dirk Werling Royal Veterinary College "pDCs in bovine blood: myth or reality?" Jayne Hope
16/09/2009 Dr Reiner Schulte Senoir Scientific Offier Cancer Reasearch UK Prevention of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection by vaccination and topical antivirals Efrain Guzman
23/09/2009        
30/09/2009
07/10/2009        
14/10/2009 Kenth Gustafsson Institute of Child Health Gamma/delta T-cells: a new member of the exclusive professional phagocytosing cell club jayne hope
21/10/2009        
28/10/2009 No Seminar   PhD supervisor's meeting  
04/11/2009 Dr Aras Kadioglu University of Leicester Host immune responses in models of pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage and acute respiratory infection Mark Stephens
11/11/2009        
18/11/2009 Dr. Anita Milicic The Jenner Institute Jenner Adjuvant Bank: Adjuvants in Veterinary Vaccines. Geraldine Taylor
Nicky Green Joint presentation with Dr. Anita Milicic Update on the Jenner Vector Core facility.
25/11/2009
02/12/2009 Dr Sonja Vermeren Babraham Institute PI3-kinase signalling through the GTPase activating protein ARAP3 is essential for embryonic angiogenesis. Shirley Ellis
09/12/2009 Dr John Huntley Moredun Research Institute Towards a vaccine to the poultry red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae? Sue Baigent
16/12/2009        
23/12/2009        
30/12/2009