Name: Gintare Kolesnikovaite
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology

Events this person is organising:

Monday 9 November 2015

Using zebrafish to unpick the relationship between genes and loading in shaping and maintaining joints
Date: 9 November 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Chrissy Hammond (School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Jo Silva (NDORMS), Wulf Forrester-Barker (University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences)
Host: Professor Tonia Vincent (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Friday 20 November 2015

Actin cytoskeletal dynamics underpinning T-cell activation
Date: 20 November 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Marco Fritzsche (Group leader at MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Molly Glaze (PA to Professor Michael Dustin ), Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Actin cytoskeletal dynamics underpinning T-cell activation
Date: 20 November 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Marco Fritzsche (MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Molly Glaze (PA to Professor Michael Dustin ), Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 23 November 2015

Lessons from Animal Models of Giardiasis
Date: 23 November 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Steven Singer (Georgetown University)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Jo Silva (NDORMS), Wulf Forrester-Barker (University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 30 November 2015

Early Life Microbiota-Host Interactions
Date: 30 November 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Lindsay Hall (Microbiome Research Leader  Institute of Food Research)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: The Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Jo Silva (NDORMS), Wulf Forrester-Barker (University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 14 December 2015

Gaucher disease (with a skeletal perspective)
Date: 14 December 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Timothy Cox (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Jo Silva (NDORMS), Wulf Forrester-Barker (University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences)
Host: Prof Nicole Horwood (University of oxford)

Monday 11 January 2016

Microbiota-host interaction from the immune system point of view
Date: 11 January 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Maria Rescigno (European Institute of Oncology)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Dr Ahmed Hegazy (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Tuesday 12 January 2016

Mechanisms of tumor evasion from NK cell surveillance and potential clinical applications
Date: 12 January 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Michele Ardolino (Raulet Laboratory, University of California, Berkley)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jo Silva (NDORMS), Wulf Forrester-Barker (University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences), Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 18 January 2016

Functional plasticity of CD4+ T cells is driven by an asymmetric inheritance of mitochondria
Date: 18 January 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Stephen Cobbold (University of Oxford)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jo Silva (NDORMS), Wulf Forrester-Barker (University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences), Molly Glaze (PA to Professor Michael Dustin ), Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Tuesday 19 January 2016

Interferons: Tug of war between host and pathogen
Date: 19 January 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Charlotte Odendall (Harvard Medical School)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jo Silva (NDORMS), Wulf Forrester-Barker (University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences), Molly Glaze (PA to Professor Michael Dustin ), Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Thursday 21 January 2016

Novel anti-chemokine peptides from ticks
Date: 21 January 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Shoumo Bhattacharya (University of Oxford)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Jo Silva (NDORMS), Wulf Forrester-Barker (University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences)
Host: Prof Claudia Monaco (University of Oxford)

Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome in HIV: from bedside to bench
Date: 21 January 2016, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Irini Sereti (Chief HIV Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, NIAID/NIH)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 25 January 2016

Chemokines and miRNAs in atherosclerosis
Date: 25 January 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Christian Weber (Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention, Ludwig-Maximilians-University)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Jo Silva (NDORMS), Wulf Forrester-Barker (University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences)
Host: Prof Claudia Monaco (University of Oxford)

Monday 1 February 2016

Altering the Vasculature to Promote Tumour Immunity
Date: 1 February 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Awen Gallimore (University of Cardiff)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Kim Midwood (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, NDORMS, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7FY)

Tuesday 2 February 2016

Dissecting autoimmunity – B and T cell responses in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Date: 2 February 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Vivianne Malstrom, Professor in Rheumatological Immunology (Dept of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jo Silva (NDORMS), Wulf Forrester-Barker (University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences), Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Thursday 4 February 2016

The Regulation of Intestinal Immune Homeostasis in Mice and Men
Date: 4 February 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Arthur Mortha (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Science and Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center )
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Jo Silva (NDORMS), Wulf Forrester-Barker (University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 8 February 2016

Mechanisms of osteoarthritis progression following non-invasive repetitive murine knee trauma
Date: 8 February 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Blandine Poulet (University of Liverpool)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Jo Silva (NDORMS), Wulf Forrester-Barker (University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences)
Host: Prof Tonia Vincent (Director, Arthritis Research UK Centre for Osteoarthritis Pathogenesis,PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL BIOLOGY)

Monday 22 February 2016

Oh To Be Seventeen Again: IL-17 signaling in fungal immunity
Date: 22 February 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Sarah Gaffen ( King's College London, University of Pittsburgh)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Jo Silva (NDORMS)
Host: Natasha Whibley (University of Oxford)

Monday 14 March 2016

The maternal microbiota drives early postnatal innate immune development
Date: 14 March 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Andrew Macpherson (Director of Gastroenterology University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Jo Silva (NDORMS), Wulf Forrester-Barker (University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences), Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Dr Ahmed Hegazy (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Tuesday 15 March 2016

The role of inflammation in osteoarthritis
Date: 15 March 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Virginia Byers Kraus, MD, PhD (Professor of Medicine Duke University School of Medicine Duke Molecular Physiology Unit)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Tonia Vincent (University of Oxford)

Monday 21 March 2016

A role for neutrophils in Alzheimer’s disease
Date: 21 March 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Gabriela Constantin (University of Verona)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Irina Udalova (University of Oxford)

Monday 11 April 2016

Structural proteomics: development of an integrated pipeline from genes to crystals
Date: 11 April 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Raymond Owens (University of Oxford)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Nicole Horwood (University of oxford)

Wednesday 13 April 2016

Transcriptional control of adaptive immunity by BACH2 - lessons from patients
Date: 13 April 2016, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Ben Afzali (Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Research Fellow, Honorary Consultant Nephrologist)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Jo Peel (University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Wednesday 20 April 2016

Specificity, cross-talk and adaptation in Type I Interferon signaling
Date: 20 April 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Anton Zilman (Department of Physics and Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 9 May 2016

Dissecting GlcNAc-1-Phosphotransferase Function - the key to understanding lysosomal enzyme trafficking
Date: 9 May 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Stuart Kornfeld (Professor of Medicine, Washington University in St Louis )
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 16 May 2016

Transcription activation and termination in a dynamic system: lessons from macrophages
Date: 16 May 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Gioacchino Natoli (European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Irina Udalova (University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 June 2016

Single-cell omics with microfluidics and mass cytometry
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 9 June 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Dave Ruff (visiting Senior Research Fellow University of Oxford)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Jo Silva (NDORMS)
Host: Dr Stephen Sansom (University of Oxford)

Monday 13 June 2016

A role for blood derived mononuclear cells in joint surface defect repair
Date: 13 June 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Frances Henson (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Tonia Vincent (Director, Arthritis Research UK Centre for Osteoarthritis Pathogenesis,PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL BIOLOGY)

‘Non-coding RNAs in vascular disease detection and therapy’
Date: 13 June 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Lars Maegdefessel, MD PhD (Molecular Vascular Medicine, Karolinska Institute Center for Molecular Medicine Stockholm, Sweden)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Claudia Monaco (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 June 2016

Tumour-associated macrophages
Date: 15 June 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Toby Lawrence PhD ( Centre dImmunologie de Marseille- Luminy)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Irina Udalova (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 June 2016

Mitochondrial dysfunction and MAVS regulation in lupus: return of the LE cell
Date: 20 June 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Ralph C. Budd, M.D. (Professor of Medicine and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Wednesday 22 June 2016

Novel microscopy approaches for label-free sub-diffraction imaging
Date: 22 June 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Kseniya Korobchevskaya (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Tuesday 12 July 2016

C1q in health and disease – roles outside the complement system
Date: 12 July 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Marina Botto (Professor of Rheumatology, Imperial College, London )
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Professor Sir Marc Feldmann (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, NDORMS)

'Publishing in Science'
Date: 12 July 2016, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Stella Hartley (Senior Editor of Science)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Wednesday 13 July 2016

Dendritic Cell and Macrophage Biology: from Development to Functions
Date: 13 July 2016, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Florent Ginhoux ( Senior Principal Investigator , Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Singapore)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Irina Udalova (University of Oxford)

Monday 12 September 2016

Realising the promise of stratified medicine in asthma
Date: 12 September 2016, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Stephen Holgate (MRC Professor of Immunopharmacology, Honorary Consultant Physician, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Sir Marc Feldmann (University of Oxford)

Probiotic and Prebiotic modulation of Brain Function
Date: 12 September 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Philip Burnet (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 19 September 2016

Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Thymus Function
Date: 19 September 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Georg Holländer (Department of Paediatrics,University of Oxford)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Dr Stephen Sansom (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, COMPUTATIONAL GENOMICS GROUP)

Thursday 22 September 2016

Complex origins of autoimmunity: genes, sex and the microbiome
Date: 22 September 2016, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Jayne Danska (Professor, Faculty of Medicine Dept. of Immunology and Dept. of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Friday 23 September 2016

Novel mechanisms regulating B cell activation
Date: 23 September 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Bebhinn Treanor (University of Toronto)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 26 September 2016

Epigenetic analysis of cartilage aging and osteoarthritis
Date: 26 September 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Louise Reynard (Newcastle University)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Tonia Vincent (Director, Arthritis Research UK Centre for Osteoarthritis Pathogenesis,PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL BIOLOGY)

Monday 3 October 2016

NanoString ‘molecules that count’ and applications in disease research
Date: 3 October 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Ajay Johni (Regional Account Manager at NanoString Technologies), Jamie Rose Kuhar, Ph.D. (Associate Product Manager at NanoString Technologies)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 October 2016

CUSTOM –DESIGNED MOUSE AND RAT MODELS FOR YOUR RESEARCH
Date: 6 October 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Matthew Wheeler, PhD (Associate Director of European Markets)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Katja Simon (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY)

Monday 10 October 2016

Immunity in atherosclerosis
Date: 10 October 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Ziad Mallat (Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Claudia Monaco (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 12 October 2016

Please join us to celebrate Patrick Venables’ career in medicine & science
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 12 October 2016, 13:00 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Organisers: Prof Kim Midwood (Professor of Matrix Biology), Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Kim Midwood (Professor of Matrix Biology)

Thursday 13 October 2016

Are you interested in learning about the underlying science of joint disease?
Date: 13 October 2016, 9:30 - 13:00
Speaker s: Professor Jeremy Saklatvala (Emeritus Professor, Kennedy Institute), Dr Linda Troeberg (University Research Lecturer, NDORMS), Associate Professor Chris Murphy (Director of Graduate Studies, Kennedy Institute), Professor Tonia Vincent (Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology, NDORMS)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 October 2016

Neutrophil-vessel wall interactions in vivo: Mechanisms & Complexities of two way trafficking
Date: 17 October 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Sussan Nourshargh PhD FBPhS FMedSci (Head of Centre for Microvascular Research & Professor of Microvascular Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Claudia Monaco (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 19 October 2016

New insights into the role of type I Interferons in regulating the innate immune response in infectious and inflammatory diseases
Date: 19 October 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Paul Hertzog (Hudson Institute of Medical Research)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Kim Midwood (Professor of Matrix Biology)

Monday 31 October 2016

Role of lymphocyte macroautophagy in the humoral response
Date: 31 October 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Frédéric GROS (Assistant Professor for Immunology,Strasbourg University)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Katja Simon (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY)

Tuesday 1 November 2016

Quantitative Methods for Cell and Tissue Imaging
Date: 1 November 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Jens Rittscher (University of Oxford)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Volodymyr Nechyporuk-Zloy (IMAGING FACILITY MANAGER)

Thursday 10 November 2016

Please join us to celebrate Patrick Venables’ career in medicine & science
Date: 10 November 2016, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Prof Kim Midwood (Professor of Matrix Biology), Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Kim Midwood (Professor of Matrix Biology)

Monday 14 November 2016

Regulation of muscle fuel metabolism and mass under non-inflammatory and inflammatory conditions
Date: 14 November 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Paul Greenhaff (Professor of Muscle Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences,University of Nottingham)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Tonia Vincent (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL BIOLOGY)

Tuesday 15 November 2016

Roles of the ubiquitin system in host-pathogen interactions
Date: 15 November 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof. Dr. Christian Behrends (Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Katja Simon (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY)

Wednesday 23 November 2016

Oral Pathobiont Regulation of n-3 Docosapentaenoic Acid-derived SPM in Inflammatory Arthritis
Date: 23 November 2016, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Magdalena B. Flak (Postdoctoral Research Fellow Centre for Experimental Medicine & Rheumatology William Harvey Research Institute)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 28 November 2016

Innate lymphoid cells orchestrate organ homeostasis
Date: 28 November 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Andreas Diefenbach (Chair of Medical Microbiology Coordinator of the Research Centre of Immunology Johannes-Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 5 December 2016

New mechanisms of auto inflammatory disease
Date: 5 December 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Seth Masters (Laboratory Head Inflammation Division The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Friday 9 December 2016

Beyond inflammation: MMP-9 in neuro-psychiatric disorders’
Date: 9 December 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Leszek Kaczmarek (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Yoshi Itoh (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR CELL MIGRATION GROUP)

Thursday 15 December 2016

'Lipid galaxy – Engaging invariant Natural Killer T cells in immunoprotection
Date: 15 December 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Henk Schipper, MD PhD (Pediatric Resident Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital Utrecht / University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands Postdoctoral research fellow pediatric immunology / cardiology )
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Claudia Monaco (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 December 2016

Immune checkpoints in atherosclerosis
Date: 20 December 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Esther Lutgens (Department of Medical Biochemistry Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Claudia Monaco (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 January 2017

Stromal cell microenvironments in inflammation, autoimmunity and cancer
Date: 10 January 2017, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Mark Coles (Professor of Immunology Centre for Immunology and Infection University of York)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 16 January 2017

Morphogen signalling in intestinal inflammation and cancer
Date: 16 January 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Simon Leedham (University of Oxford)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Tuesday 17 January 2017

Supporting your research career
Date: 17 January 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr C.J.S. Hassall (Head of Researcher Affairs Wellcome Trust)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Friday 20 January 2017

If it’s about Quality and Cost, let clinicians run healthcare
Date: 20 January 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Keith Willet (Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery University of Oxford)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Jagdeep Nanchahal (Professor of Hand,Plastic and Reconstructive surgery)

Monday 23 January 2017

Neutrophils in infection and disease
Date: 23 January 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Venizelos Papayannopoulos (Group leader, Antimicrobial Defence Laboratory The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Claudia Monaco (University of Oxford)

Monday 30 January 2017

Novel Kinases controlling T cell development, trafficking and immune responses
Date: 30 January 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Robert Köechl (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 6 February 2017

Differentiation and function of regulatory B cells: what goes wrong in autoimmunity
Date: 6 February 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Claudia Mauri (Professor of Immunology Vice-Dean (International) Faculty Medical Science Centre for Rheumatology Research)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Richard Williams (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 February 2017

Can unbiased single-cell analysis of immune cells improve data-driven selection of tailored therapies in human atherosclerosis?
Date: 7 February 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Chiara Giannarelli, MD, PhD (Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Hosts: Prof Sir Marc Feldmann (University of Oxford), Prof Claudia Monaco (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 February 2017

New paradigms in leukocyte trafficking in acute inflammation and chronic inflammatory disease
Date: 20 February 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Ed Rainger (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Claudia Monaco (University of Oxford)

Monday 27 February 2017

Host-pathogen interactions: understanding viral infection and inflammation in airway epithelial cells
Date: 27 February 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Lisa Parker (University of Sheffield)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Kim Midwood (Professor of Matrix Biology)

Monday 6 March 2017

T-B Crosstalk on the Germinal Centre Road to Memory
Date: 6 March 2017, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker : Prof Hai Qi (Professor, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, China)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details: NDM lecture theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

A DaNGeRous talk about dendritic cells
Date: 6 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Caetano Reis e Sousa (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 13 March 2017

Making Muscle Mighty
Date: 13 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Mark Lewis (Dean of School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology Loughborough University)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Tonia Vincent (Director, Arthritis Research UK Centre for Osteoarthritis Pathogenesis,PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL BIOLOGY)

Monday 20 March 2017

Molecular mechanisms of the TGFß signalling pathway in human stem cell fate choice, tissue formation and disease
Date: 20 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Siim Pauklin (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Thursday 23 March 2017

Understanding the myeloma microenvironment
Date: 23 March 2017, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Irene M. Ghobrial, MD (Attending Physician, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Director, Michele & Stephen Kirsch Laboratory)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 27 March 2017

Long-range training of mononuclear phagocytes following infection and injury
Date: 27 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr. John R. Grainger (Wellcome Trust & Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research (MCCIR), The University of Manchester)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 3 April 2017

Kynurenines and serine proteases: from brain to periphery and back
Date: 3 April 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Trevor W. STONE (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Richard Williams (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 April 2017

ZEISS Lightsheet Z.1 imaging for cleared biological samples – to reveal the details deeper and clearer
Date: 4 April 2017, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Dr Katherine Lau (3D Account Manager – West Region Microscopy)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Volodymyr Nechyporuk-Zloy (IMAGING FACILITY MANAGER)

Monday 10 April 2017

Role of neutrophils in health and disease
Date: 10 April 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Paul Kubes (Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Irina Udalova (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 April 2017

Cytosolic RNA sensing in T-dependent immunity
Date: 18 April 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Cecile King (Associate Professor Department of Immunology Garvan Institute of Medical Research)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 8 May 2017

Investigating the mechanisms of regulatory T-cell differentiation in vivo by novel Fluorescent Timer reporters
Date: 8 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Masahiro Ono, MD, PhD (Imperial College London)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 15 May 2017

Regulatory T cell Fitness in Type 1 Diabetes - using a gene signature
Date: 15 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Anne M Pesenacker, PhD (Postdoctoral fellow, Megan Levings Lab Faculty of Medicine Department of Surgery The University of British Columbia (UBC) Child & Family Research Institute (CFRI))
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 22 May 2017

Krebs Cycle reprogrammed for Cytokines
Date: 22 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Luke O’Neill (Chair and Professor of Biochemistry, School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Tuesday 23 May 2017

Alarmin HMGB1 orchestrates tissue regeneration
Date: 23 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Marco E. Bianchi (Professor of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, San Raffaele University)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Jagdeep Nanchahal (Professor of Hand,Plastic and Reconstructive surgery)

Monday 5 June 2017

Inflammation control by inflammasomes
Date: 5 June 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Kate Schroder (Head, Inflammasome Lab, Institute for Molecular Bioscience The University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Jelena Bezbradica Mirkovic (KTRR SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW)

Friday 9 June 2017

Oxysterol regulation of inflammation and immunity
Date: 9 June 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Jason Cyster (Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, University of California, San Francisco Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 12 June 2017

Bench to bedside and beyond. A journey that cannot get away from clinical trials
Date: 12 June 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Sarah Lamb (Co-Director of the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit – University of Oxford)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Jagdeep Nanchahal (Professor of Hand,Plastic and Reconstructive surgery)

Wednesday 21 June 2017

Functional genomic studies of the protein tyrosine phosphatase PTPN22
Date: 21 June 2017, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Prof Andrew Cope ( Arthritis Research UK Professor of Rheumatology Head of Department, Academic Rheumatology King’s College, London)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 26 June 2017

TGF-beta, Immune cells and Microbiota: three ingredients to control gut inflammation and colorectal cancer development
Date: 26 June 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Julien C. Marie, PhD (Helmholtz association investigator Department of Immunology Virology and Inflammation Cancer Research Center of Lyon, France )
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Audrey Gérard (KTRR SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW)

Wednesday 28 June 2017

Cues and barriers for lymphocyte emigration and proliferation
Date: 28 June 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Ronen Alon (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Katja Simon (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY)

Monday 3 July 2017

Visualising Pattern Recognition Receptor Signalling
Date: 3 July 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Clare Bryant (Professor of Innate Immunity,University of Cambridge)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Tuesday 4 July 2017

Personalising treatment of inflammatory autoimmune arthritis: immune regulation and the microbiome
Date: 4 July 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Ranjeny Thomas (Arthritis Queensland Chair in Rheumatology)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 10 July 2017

Building tools and a common infrastructure for endotype discovery and response stratification in Immune-Inflammatory diseases
Date: 10 July 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Michael R Barnes, PhD (Director of Bioinformatics William Harvey Research Institute Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 17 July 2017

Anti-TNF Therapy: How Did We Get There and Where To Next?
Date: 17 July 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Sir Ravinder Maini FRS FMedSci (Emeritus Professor, Imperial College, London President, Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Fiona Powrie (PROFESSOR OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES AND DIRECTOR OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Wednesday 19 July 2017

Syndecan proteoglycans: gatekeepers of the cell adhesion phenotype
Date: 19 July 2017, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor John Couchman (Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC) University of Copenhagen)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mike Dustin (PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY AND WELLCOME PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE KENNEDY INSTITUTE)

Monday 7 August 2017

Single cell genomics:  tools for computational analysis with application to innate immune response to HIV-1 infection
Date: 7 August 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Nir Yosef (Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Center for Computational Biology, UC Berkeley)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mark Coles (SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW AND NEW GROUP LEADER)

Thursday 10 August 2017

Structured illumination microscopy for super-resolution live cell imaging
Date: 10 August 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Dong Li (National Laboratory of Biomarcomolecules, Institute of Biophysics Beijing, China)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 6 September 2017

Immune Checkpoint Deficiencies in Large Vessel Vasculitis
Date: 6 September 2017, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Cornelia M. Weyand, MD, PhD (Chief, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology Professor of Medicine Stanford University)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 18 September 2017

Patching up the crypt: Innate immune cells orchestrate intestinal regeneration
Date: 18 September 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Tom Cupedo (Department of Hematology Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mark Coles (SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW AND NEW GROUP LEADER)

Monday 4 December 2017

Cancer cells: the evil companions corrupting good tissue behaviour
Date: 4 December 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Ilaria Malanchi (The Francis crick Institute)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Gintare Kolesnikovaite (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Irina Udalova (University of Oxford)