Name: Andrea Kastner
Department of Biology
https://www.biology.ox.ac.uk/home

Events this person is organising:

Monday 25 November 2024

Advances in Vaccines and Antibodies for Blood-Stage Malaria
Date: 25 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Simon Draper (Department of Biochemistry)
Venue: Biology South Parks Road, South Parks Road OX1 3RB
Venue Details: (former Plants Sciences Building) - Large Lecture Theatre. Building has receptionists
Organiser: Andrea Kastner (Department of Biology)
Host: Prof Sunetra Gupta (Department of Biology)

Monday 10 March 2025

Multi-host multi-parasite evolution and impact in action: challenges for the schistosomiasis elimination targets
Date: 10 March 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
Venue: Biology Mansfield Road, 11a Mansfield Road OX1 3SZ
Venue Details: Biology Research and Admin Building, 11a Mansfield Road, OX1 3SZ, Seminar room
Organiser: Andrea Kastner (Department of Biology)
Host: Dr Anna Borlase (Department of Biology/Oxford)

Friday 20 June 2025

Airborne dissemination of antimicrobial resistance: a multi-national microbiological and genomic study
Date: 20 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Xiangdong Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: Seminar Room, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RE
Organisers: Avni Gupta (University of Oxford), Andrea Kastner (Department of Biology)
Host: Prof Timothy Walsh (University of Oxford)

Friday 25 July 2025

AI-enabled structural comparisons uncover the deep evolutionary histories of viral glycoproteins
Date: 25 July 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Spyros Lytras (University of Tokyo)
Venue: Biology Mansfield Road, 11a Mansfield Road OX1 3SZ
Venue Details: Biology building 11a Mansfield Road, OX1 3SZ, Seminar room
Organisers: Dr Mahan Ghafari (University of Oxford/Department of Biology), Andrea Kastner (Department of Biology)
Host: Dr Mahan Ghafari (University of Oxford/Department of Biology)

Tuesday 30 September 2025

Understanding, predicting and controlling stochastic evolution in cancer (and other systems)
Date: 30 September 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Robert Noble (City St George's, University of London)
Venue: Biology South Parks Road, South Parks Road OX1 3RB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Biology South Parks Road (former Plants Sciences) building, OX1 3RB
Organiser: Andrea Kastner (Department of Biology)
Hosts: Dr Bridget Penman (University of Oxford), Professor Sunetra Gupta (University of Oxford)

Monday 13 October 2025

Integrating Interdisciplinary Strategies to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance in Mycobacterial Diseases
Date: 13 October 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Prof Sanjib Bhakta (Birkbeck, University of London & UCL)
Venue Details: Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road, OX1 3EL, seminar rooms 7 & 8, Lower Ground Floor
Organiser: Andrea Kastner (Department of Biology)
Host: Prof Rachel Tanner (University of Oxford)

Monday 10 November 2025

Host-pathogen interactions in the diseased lung
Date: 10 November 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Dr Josie Bryant (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
Venue Details: Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road, OX1 3EL, seminar rooms 7 & 8, Lower Ground Floor
Organiser: Andrea Kastner (Department of Biology)
Host: Dr Craig Maclean (Department of Biology University of Oxford)

Monday 24 November 2025

The evolution of rabbits and the myxoma virus: invasions, pandemics and resistance
Date: 24 November 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Prof Frank Jiggins (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road, OX1 3EL, seminar rooms 7 & 8, Lower Ground Floor
Organiser: Andrea Kastner (Department of Biology)
Hosts: Prof Sunetra Gupta (Department of Biology University of Oxford), Dr Bridget Penman (Department of Biology University of Oxford)

Monday 1 December 2025

Development and use of enabling technologies to accelerate schistosome drug discovery​
Date: 1 December 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Prof Karl Hoffmann (Dept of Life Sciences Aberystwyth University)
Venue Details: Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road, OX1 3EL, seminar rooms 7 & 8, Lower Ground Floor
Organiser: Andrea Kastner (Department of Biology)
Host: Prof Gabriel Rinaldi (Department of Biology, University of Oxford)

Monday 2 February 2025

Is the bacterial accessory genome adaptive?
Date: 2 February 2026, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Dr John Lees (Welcome Genome Campus Hinxton)
Venue Details: Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road, OX1 3EL, seminar rooms 7 & 8, Lower Ground Floor
Organiser: Andrea Kastner (Department of Biology)
Host: Professor Sam Sheppard (INEOS Oxford Institute and Department of Biology, University of Oxford)