Name: Renata Sojka
MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford

Events this person is organising:

Wednesday 10 April 2024

From bulk to single cell: Leveraging Multiomics Data to Study Autoimmunity in the Era of Precision Medicine
Date: 10 April 2024, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Dr Marina Sirota (University of California San Francisco)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Host: Anna Rozina (Rehwinkel Lab, University of Oxford)

Friday 3 May 2024

Transcriptomic studies in the human airways
Date: 3 May 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Timothy Hinks (Oxford Respiratory Unit, NDM)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 10 May 2024

Genomics of vaccine response: Learning from COVID-19
Date: 10 May 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Prof Julian Knight (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 17 May 2024

SARS-CoV-2 specific memory T cell response - 4 years after initial infection
Date: 17 May 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker s: 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)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 May 2024

The effects of iron deficiency and repletion on adaptive immunity and vaccine response
Date: 24 May 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Nicole Stoffel (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 31 May 2024

The role of Grb2 in B cell selection
Date: 31 May 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Jianwei Cui (Cornall Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 June 2024

Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals the presence of immature neutrophils in inflamed murine joints
Date: 7 June 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Erinke van Grinsven (Udalova Lab, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 June 2024

Publishing science in Science: an editor’s perspective
Date: 12 June 2024, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Dr Sarah H. Ross (Associate Editor, Science)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Hal Drakesmith (WIMM HIU)

Friday 14 June 2024

Characterization of human lymphoid tissue CD8+ T cell subsets with potential roles in modulation of germinal center responses
Date: 14 June 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Quang Nguyen (Borrow Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 June 2024

Antimicrobial immunity and intestinal inflammation
Date: 21 June 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Prof Holm Uhlig (WIMM, HIU)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 June 2024

Engineering T cells with reduced cross-reactivity
Date: 28 June 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Jose Cabezas Caballero (Dushek Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 September 2024

Understanding dysregulation of antibody and immune memory responses to chronic viral infection
Date: 25 September 2024, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Professor Kim Good-Jacobson (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Australia)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 27 September 2024

Peptide Specific Immune Receptors
Date: 27 September 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Malcolm Sim (Centre for Immuno-Oncology, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 4 October 2024

Mechanobiology of early T-cell activation across scales from tissues down to cells and molecules
Date: 4 October 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Prof Marco Fritzsche (Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 11 October 2024

Endemics and pandemics: The development and testing of vaccines against outbreak pathogens
Date: 11 October 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker s: Dr Katrina Pollock (Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford), Daniel Wright (Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 18 October 2024

Engineering Proximity-Induced Signaling: Novel Approaches to Modulate Immune Checkpoints and Receptor Tyrosine Kinases
Date: 18 October 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker s: Dr Victoria Junghans (Fernandes Group, University of Oxford), Dr Christina Heroven (Fernandes Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 25 October 2024

Mitochondrial RNA is a danger signal and triggers innate immunity via ZBP1
Date: 25 October 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Anna Rozina (Rehwinkel Lab, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 1 November 2024

Targeting HLA-E for translation
Date: 1 November 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker s: Dr Hongbing Yang (University of Oxford), Max Quastel (Gillespie / McMichael Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 8 November 2024

Engineering TCR-controlled Fuzzy Logic into CAR T Cells Enhances Therapeutic Specificity
Date: 8 November 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Sooraj Achar (Dustin Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 15 November 2024

Longitudinal bone and immune aging morbidities among adolescents living with perinatal HIV/CMV coinfection in Zimbabwe and Zambia
Date: 15 November 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker s: Dr Anthony Hsieh (Rowland-Jones Group, University of Oxford), Dr Lisha Jeena (Rowland-Jones Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 22 November 2024

Can infection confer protection? Identifying determinants of response and toxicity to checkpoint immunotherapy
Date: 22 November 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Professor Benjamin Fairfax (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 29 November 2024

A therapeutic atlas of inflammatory bowel disease
Date: 29 November 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Professor Calliope Dendrou (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 December 2024

The co-inhibitory receptor TIGIT promotes tissue protection and repair
Date: 4 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Nicole Joller (Department of Quantitative Biomedicine, the University of Zurich)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof Jan Rehwinkel ((Radcliffe Department of Medicine) University of Oxford), Dr Ross Chapman (University of Oxford)

Friday 6 December 2024

Decoding Immune Checkpoint Signalling Pathways Through CRISPR-Based Screening Approaches
Date: 6 December 2024, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker s: Dr Sumana Sharma (Davis Group, University of Oxford), Dr Joseph Clarke (T-cell Biology Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 29 January 2025

Imaging lung lymphatics in inflammation and metastatic cancer
Date: 29 January 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Dr Simon Cleary (King's College London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof David Jackson (WIMM HIU)

Friday 31 January 2025

DamAged memories: how autophagy-dependent mitochondrial inheritance controls T cell fate decisions
Date: 31 January 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Mariana Borsa (Simon Group, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 February 2025

Development of novel hepatitis C vaccines encoding T and B cell antigens that target multiple HCV genotypes
Date: 7 February 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker s: 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)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 February 2025

Genome-wide Analysis of Aquaporin-4-positive Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder and MOG antibody-associated disease: Insights into Comorbidities and Future Therapeutic Approaches
Date: 14 February 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Kate Attfield (Fugger Group, Oxford Centre for Neuroinflammation, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 February 2025

Multi-omics approaches to understand immune cell biology in health and disease
Date: 21 February 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Prof Rachael Bashford-Rogers (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 February 2025

Discovery of pan-sarbecovirus neutralising antibody: a battle between viral mutation and antibody evolution
Date: 28 February 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Chang Liu (Screaton Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 March 2025

Type I IFN-activated lung monocytes and macrophages as initiators of disease in lung fibrosis
Date: 7 March 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Vishal Nathwani (Ho Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 March 2025

Shedding light on how immune cells become dysfunctional in tumours
Date: 14 March 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Professor David Withers (NDM-Centre for Immuno-Oncology, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 March 2025

Challenges and advancements in the development of vaccines against Chagas disease
Date: 21 March 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker s: Dr Emil Vergara (Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford), Dr Young Kim (Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 March 2025

Unravelling T cell recognition: Insights from Immunology and AI
Date: 28 March 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker s: Dr Ili Ilievski (Koohy Group, University of Oxford), Dr Christopher Thorpe (Koohy Group, University of Oxford), Benjamin McMaster (Koohy Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Epithelia and macrophages in lung infection: Roles in tissue damage, protection and repair
Date: 30 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Dr Andreas Wack (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Ling-Pei Ho (University of Oxford)

Friday 2 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 2 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Audrey Gerard (The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 9 May 2025

Novel transcriptional regulators of neutrophil maturation
Date: 9 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Abhinandan Devaprasad (Udalova Group, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 16 May 2025

Leveraging Clonal Dynamics to Identify Tumour Specific T Cells in Human Cancer
Date: 16 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker s: Dr Mariana Pereira Pinho (Dong Group, University of Oxford), Dr Adam Bates (Dong Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 23 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Barnes Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 30 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 30 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Simmons Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Knight Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 13 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Cornall Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Uhlig Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 27 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 27 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dushek Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 4 July 2025

Title TBC
Date: 4 July 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Drakesmith Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA