Wednesday 10 April 2024

• 13:30 - From bulk to single cell: Leveraging Multiomics Data to Study Autoimmunity in the Era of Precision Medicine
  In-person only
  Dr Marina Sirota (University of California San Francisco)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 3 May 2024

• 09:15 - Transcriptomic studies in the human airways
  In-person only
  Dr Timothy Hinks (Oxford Respiratory Unit, NDM)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 10 May 2024

• 09:15 - Genomics of vaccine response: Learning from COVID-19
  In-Person only
  Prof Julian Knight (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 17 May 2024

• 09:15 - SARS-CoV-2 specific memory T cell response - 4 years after initial infection
  In-person only
  Prof Tao Dong (CAMS Oxford Institute, University of Oxford), Dr Yanchun Peng (Dong Group, University of Oxford), Dr Elie Antoun (Dong Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 24 May 2024

• 09:15 - The effects of iron deficiency and repletion on adaptive immunity and vaccine response
  In-person only
  Dr Nicole Stoffel (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 31 May 2024

• 09:15 - The role of Grb2 in B cell selection
  In-person only
  Dr Jianwei Cui (Cornall Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 7 June 2024

• 09:15 - Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals the presence of immature neutrophils in inflamed murine joints
  In-person only
  Dr Erinke van Grinsven (Udalova Lab, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Wednesday 12 June 2024

• 13:30 - Publishing science in Science: an editor’s perspective
  in-person only
  Dr Sarah H. Ross (Associate Editor, Science)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 14 June 2024

• 09:15 - Characterization of human lymphoid tissue CD8+ T cell subsets with potential roles in modulation of germinal center responses
  In-person only
  Quang Nguyen (Borrow Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 21 June 2024

• 09:15 - Antimicrobial immunity and intestinal inflammation
  In-person only
  Prof Holm Uhlig (WIMM, HIU)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 28 June 2024

• 09:15 - Engineering T cells with reduced cross-reactivity
  In-person only
  Jose Cabezas Caballero (Dushek Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Wednesday 25 September 2024

• 13:30 - Understanding dysregulation of antibody and immune memory responses to chronic viral infection
  in person only
  Professor Kim Good-Jacobson (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Australia)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 27 September 2024

• 09:15 - Peptide Specific Immune Receptors
  In person only
  Dr Malcolm Sim (Centre for Immuno-Oncology, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 4 October 2024

• 09:15 - Mechanobiology of early T-cell activation across scales from tissues down to cells and molecules
  in-person only
  Prof Marco Fritzsche (Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 11 October 2024

• 09:15 - Endemics and pandemics: The development and testing of vaccines against outbreak pathogens
  in-person only
  Dr Katrina Pollock (Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford), Daniel Wright (Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 18 October 2024

• 09:15 - Engineering Proximity-Induced Signaling: Novel Approaches to Modulate Immune Checkpoints and Receptor Tyrosine Kinases
  in-person only
  Dr Victoria Junghans (Fernandes Group, University of Oxford), Dr Christina Heroven (Fernandes Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 25 October 2024

• 09:15 - Mitochondrial RNA is a danger signal and triggers innate immunity via ZBP1
  in-person only
  Anna Rozina (Rehwinkel Lab, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 1 November 2024

• 09:15 - Targeting HLA-E for translation
  This talk is for members of Oxford University only.
  Dr Hongbing Yang (University of Oxford), Max Quastel (Gillespie / McMichael Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 8 November 2024

• 09:15 - Engineering TCR-controlled Fuzzy Logic into CAR T Cells Enhances Therapeutic Specificity
  in-person only
  Sooraj Achar (Dustin Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 15 November 2024

• 09:15 - Longitudinal bone and immune aging morbidities among adolescents living with perinatal HIV/CMV coinfection in Zimbabwe and Zambia
  in-person only
  Dr Anthony Hsieh (Rowland-Jones Group, University of Oxford), Dr Lisha Jeena (Rowland-Jones Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 22 November 2024

• 09:15 - Can infection confer protection? Identifying determinants of response and toxicity to checkpoint immunotherapy
  in-person only
  Professor Benjamin Fairfax (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 29 November 2024

• 09:15 - A therapeutic atlas of inflammatory bowel disease
  in-person only
  Professor Calliope Dendrou (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Wednesday 4 December 2024

• 12:00 - The co-inhibitory receptor TIGIT promotes tissue protection and repair
  in person only
  Professor Nicole Joller (Department of Quantitative Biomedicine, the University of Zurich)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 6 December 2024

• 09:15 - Decoding Immune Checkpoint Signalling Pathways Through CRISPR-Based Screening Approaches
  in-person only
  Dr Sumana Sharma (Davis Group, University of Oxford), Dr Joseph Clarke (T-cell Biology Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 13:30 - Imaging lung lymphatics in inflammation and metastatic cancer
  in person only
  Dr Simon Cleary (King's College London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 31 January 2025

• 09:15 - DamAged memories: how autophagy-dependent mitochondrial inheritance controls T cell fate decisions
  In person only
  Dr Mariana Borsa (Simon Group, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 7 February 2025

• 09:15 - Development of novel hepatitis C vaccines encoding T and B cell antigens that target multiple HCV genotypes
  in person only
  Professor Eleanor Barnes (Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford), Dr Nicole Frumento (Barnes Group, University of Oxford), Dr Gerardo Flores (Barnes Group, University of Oxford), Rebecca Strain (Barnes Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 14 February 2025

• 09:15 - Genome-wide Analysis of Aquaporin-4-positive Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder and MOG antibody-associated disease: Insights into Comorbidities and Future Therapeutic Approaches
  In person only
  Dr Kate Attfield (Fugger Group, Oxford Centre for Neuroinflammation, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 21 February 2025

• 09:15 - Multi-omics approaches to understand immune cell biology in health and disease
  in person only
  Prof Rachael Bashford-Rogers (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 28 February 2025

• 09:15 - Discovery of pan-sarbecovirus neutralising antibody: a battle between viral mutation and antibody evolution
  In person only
  Dr Chang Liu (Screaton Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 7 March 2025

• 09:15 - Type I IFN-activated lung monocytes and macrophages as initiators of disease in lung fibrosis
  In person only
  Vishal Nathwani (Ho Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 14 March 2025

• 09:15 - Shedding light on how immune cells become dysfunctional in tumours
  In person only
  Professor David Withers (NDM-Centre for Immuno-Oncology, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 21 March 2025

• 09:15 - Challenges and advancements in the development of vaccines against Chagas disease
  In person only
  Dr Emil Vergara (Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford), Dr Young Kim (Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 28 March 2025

• 09:15 - Unravelling T cell recognition: Insights from Immunology and AI
  In person only
  Dr Ili Ilievski (Koohy Group, University of Oxford), Dr Christopher Thorpe (Koohy Group, University of Oxford), Benjamin McMaster (Koohy Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Wednesday 30 April 2025

• 13:30 - Epithelia and macrophages in lung infection: Roles in tissue damage, protection and repair
  in-person only
  Dr Andreas Wack (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series

Friday 2 May 2025

• 09:15 - IFNγ and anti-tumour responses – Friend or Foe?
  in person only
  Dr Audrey Gerard (The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 9 May 2025

• 09:15 - Novel transcriptional regulators of neutrophil maturation
  in person only
  Dr Abhinandan Devaprasad (Udalova Group, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 16 May 2025

• 09:15 - Leveraging Clonal Dynamics to Identify Tumour Specific T Cells in Human Cancer
  in person only
  Dr Mariana Pereira Pinho (Dong Group, University of Oxford), Dr Adam Bates (Dong Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 23 May 2025

• 09:15 - Characterisation of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine-induced immune responses in immunocompromised individuals through multi-omic approaches – a journey leading to analysis of the role of IgM monoclonal antibodies
  in person only
  Sam Murray (Barnes Group, University of Oxford), Callum Board (Barnes Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 30 May 2025

• 09:15 - Spatially resolved insights into fistulating Crohn's disease pathogenesis
  in person only
  Dr Agne Antanaviciute (Simmons Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 6 June 2025

• 09:15 - Influence of aging on the Host response to sepsis
  in person only
  Dr Maxime Nguyen (Knight Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 13 June 2025

• 09:15 - To be or not to be: the role of the zinc transporter ZIP7 in adaptive immunity
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jie Yan (Cornall Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 20 June 2025

• 09:15 - Monogenic inflammatory bowel disease and autoimmune phenocopy.
  in person only
  Professor Holm Uhlig (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 27 June 2025

• 09:15 - Co-inhibitory receptors promiscuously inhibit T cell activation
  in person only
  Sofia Bustamante Eguiguren (Dushek and Van der Merwe Groups, Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 4 July 2025

• 09:15 - Iron regulates T-cell memory and autoimmunity
  in person only
  Shamsideen Yusuf (Drakesmith Group, University of Oxford), Dana Costigan (Drakesmith Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 26 September 2025

• 09:15 - The soluble isoform of the type I interferon receptor is a negative regulator of antiviral gene expression
  In person only
  Alexander Redmond (Rehwinkel Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 10 October 2025

• 09:15 - Vaccines targeting rabies and EBV's class III fusion proteins
  In person only
  Dr Sandy Douglas (Jenner Institute, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 17 October 2025

• 09:15 - Quantitative imaging of immune cell-tissue dynamics at relevant spatiotemporal scales
  In person only
  Dr Narain Karedla (Fritzsche Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 24 October 2025

• 09:15 - Mapping the specificity of natural and engineered TCRs
  In person only
  Kristen Koopmans (Fernandes Group, University of Oxford), Khuluud Hussein (Fernandes Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 31 October 2025

• 09:15 - Developing next-generation vaccines against SARS-CoV-2: overcoming imprinting and improving breadth
  In person only
  Alexander Sampson (Lambe Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 14 November 2025

• 09:15 - Spatial mechano-transcriptomics: mapping mechanical forces and gene expression in tissues at single-cell resolution
  In person only
  Dr Adrien Hallou (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 21 November 2025

• 09:15 - Designing vaccine immunogens to maximise HLA-II presentation and increase help for antibody maturation
  In person only
  Aure Aflalo (Borrow Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 28 November 2025

• 09:15 - The nature of the early interactions of T cells with their targets
  In person only
  Mateusz Kotowski (University of Oxford), Davis Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Friday 5 December 2025

• 09:15 - Characterising lung mucosal and systemic immune response in humans following inhalation of attenuated Mycobacterium bovis BCG using single cell sequencing.
  In person only
  Shuailin Li (University of Oxford), McShane Group (University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Wednesday 11 February 2025

• 13:30 - Diet-microbe-host interaction in early life: discovery of novel microbial therapies
  In-person only
  Professor Christopher Stewart (Newcastle University)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series