Name: Professor Oreste Acuto
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

Events this person is hosting:

Wednesday 30 September 2015

Cancer vaccines in the era of successful immunotherapies
Date: 30 September 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Pedro Romero (Ludwig Center for Cancer Research, University of Lausanne)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organisers: Jo Peel (University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology), Omer Dushek (University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Wolfson College), Joanne Collett (University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology), Anton van der Merwe (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 6 June 2016

2D analysis of TCR-pMHC interaction reveals differential cell fate governed by tissue compartmentalization
Date: 6 June 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Cheng Zhu (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 20 June 2016

Cholesterol binding to TCRbeta keeps the TCR in the inactive conformation
Date: 20 June 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Wolfgang Schamel (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Tuesday 19 July 2016

Regulation of signal strength through the T cell receptor
Date: 19 July 2016, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Nick Gascoigne (Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine :: National University of Singapore )
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 19 September 2016

Host cellular reprogramming induced by dengue virus infection
Date: 19 September 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Sumana Sanyal (HKU - Pasteur Research Pole)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Tuesday 15 November 2016

The enigmatic role of lipids in membrane protein organization
Date: 15 November 2016, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Gerhard J.Schuetz (Institute of Applied Physics, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 5 December 2016

Transmission of signals across cell membranes: Elucidating the integrin and T-cell receptor activation mechanism via multi-scale simulations.
Date: 5 December 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Antreas Kalli (Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, St James's University Hospital, University of Leeds)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 10 April 2017

DNA methylation restrains effector functions in immune cells
Date: 10 April 2017, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Silvia Monticelli (Institute of Biomedical Research (IBR) - Bellinzona (Switzerland) )
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Thursday 28 September 2017

Role in cell-membrane organization of protein-protein interactions mediated by the membrane
Date: 28 September 2017, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Prof. Nicolas Destainville (Université Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier/CNRS)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 27 November 2017

Structures and functions of membrane interacting proteins using NMR, lipid screens and polymer-based nanodiscs.
Date: 27 November 2017, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Prof Michael Overduin (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Wednesday 24 January 2018

Discovering and re-discovering human memory T cell differentiation by high-dimensional single cell analysis
Date: 24 January 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Enrico Lugli (Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Italy)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Thursday 12 April 2018

Anti-hypoxia/HIF-1alpha and Anti-A2A- adenosinergic Co-Adjuvants to enable the rejection of the most resistant to therapies hypoxic and adenosine-rich tumors:
Date: 12 April 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr. Michail Sitkovsky (Northeastern University, Boston)
Venue: Pathology EPA Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Friday 8 June 2018

Modulating T cell function for specific immunotherapy of autoimmune and allergic diseases
Date: 8 June 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor David Wraith (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dawn Gibbons (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology )
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Thursday 14 June 2018

Maintenance of CD4 T effector function under glucose restriction
Date: 14 June 2018, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Jose Aramburu (Immunology Lab, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 2 July 2018

A window of opportunity for allostery in the T cell Receptor
Date: 2 July 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Balbino Alarcon (National Research Council of Spain (CSIC), Center for Molecular Biology 'Severo Ochoa', Madrid, Spain)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Wednesday 19 September 2018

In vitro and in silico approaches to obtain tailored reagents - Nanobodies as a model
Date: 19 September 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Ario de Marco (Laboratory for Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Nova Gorica)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Monday 22 October 2018

How Does The Thymus Control Diversity in T-cell Development ?
Date: 22 October 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Graham Anderson (Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Friday 26 October 2018

Taking a closer look at T cell fate decisions
Date: 26 October 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Stephen Cobbold (University of Oxford)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dawn Gibbons (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology )
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Wednesday 7 November 2018

Membrane-mediated cooperativity and domain formation of receptors and ligands in cell adhesion
Date: 7 November 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Thomas Weikl (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Friday 7 December 2018

Resolving mechanisms of protein organization and signalling at the cell membrane in single molecule detail
Date: 7 December 2018, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Eilon Sherman (Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Thursday 24 January 2019

Orchestrating T cell activation at the immunological synapse. Interplay between cytoskeleton and vesicle traffic
Date: 24 January 2019, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Andres Alcover (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Wednesday 13 February 2019

Mechanobiology of T-cell activation
Date: 13 February 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Marco Fritzsche (MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Hosts: Dr Marion H Brown (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford), Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Friday 6 December 2019

Dynamics in protein translation sustaining T cell preparedness
Date: 6 December 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Roger Geiger (IRB, Switzerland)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Friday 31 January 2020

New Perspectives on Innate Lymphoid Cell Development and Function
Date: 31 January 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor James Di Santo (Institut Pasteur, France)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dawn Gibbons (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology )
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 12 April 2018

Anti-hypoxia/HIF-1alpha and Anti-A2A- adenosinergic Co-Adjuvants to enable the rejection of the most resistant to therapies hypoxic and adenosine-rich tumors:
Date: 12 April 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr. Michail Sitkovsky (Northeastern University, Boston)
Venue: Pathology EPA Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Professor Oreste Acuto (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)