Kennedy Institute Seminars

Weekly seminar held at the Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre every Monday at 12pm at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology by an external Guest Speaker. At Kennedy we focus on understanding the causes of chronic inflammatory conditions to develop new treatments that change lives.We are located in our own purpose designed building at the heart of the University of Oxford’s Old Road campus, a premier site for translational research in Oxford.
Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser: Jo Silva (NDORMS)
Web Address: http://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/upcoming-events
Organising department: Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS)

Talks:

Monday 28 September 2020 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Archetypes of Antitumor Immunity
Date: 28 September 2020, 16:00 - 17:00 (Monday, -1st week, Michaelmas 2020)
Speaker : Professor Matthew Krummel (University of California, San Francisco)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: This seminar will be held using Zoom. Please register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvde2hrzsuH9NVy9126szAdYU_lfRR_O5U
Organisers: Jennifer Pope (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Professor Irina Udalova (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Dr Audrey Gerard (The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Wednesday 30 September 2020 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

scRNA-seq and scSLAM-seq reveal the complexity and heterogeneity of infection processes
Date: 30 September 2020, 14:00 - 15:00 (Wednesday, -1st week, Michaelmas 2020)
Speaker : Dr Emmanuel Saliba (Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Germany)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: This seminar will be held using Zoom. Please register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYod-qhrj8pE9Oz9DvgeZ_P1ldfVNhCMD1K
Organisers: Jennifer Pope (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Professor Irina Udalova (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Professor Mike Dustin (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Monday 5 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Using Genetics to Investigate the Adaptive Immune Responses in Health and Immune-mediated diseases
Date: 5 October 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 0th week, Michaelmas 2020)
Speaker : Dr Rachael Bashford-Rogers (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: This seminar will be held using Zoom. Please register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocuupqDMrGtOwJIyKcF2nOHuPMm7F_ZzS
Organisers: Jennifer Pope (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Professor Irina Udalova (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Professor Lynn Dustin (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Monday 12 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Targeting the NLRP3 inflammasome for the treatment of inflammatory diseases
Date: 12 October 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2020)
Speaker : Dr Rebecca Coll (Queen's University Belfast)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: This seminar will be held using Zoom. Please register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclcO2rpzIiH9JG_grb8pybKQ5PxvxHC83I
Organisers: Jennifer Pope (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Professor Irina Udalova (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Dr Jelena Bezbradica (The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Monday 19 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

The lung as a central regulator: Mediating host disease tolerance and innate immune triage
Date: 19 October 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2020)
Speaker : Dr Amanda Jamieson (Brown University, USA)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: This seminar will be held using Zoom. Please register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vdOquqTosGtJ-yKLAQr8iKrfjuojGxunr
Organisers: Jennifer Pope (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Professor Irina Udalova (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Dr Jelena Bezbradica (The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Monday 9 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Introduction to Consultancy and Services, policy, pitfalls and management
Date: 9 November 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 (Monday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2020)
Speaker : Kerry Antcliffe (Oxford University Innovation)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: This seminar will be held using Zoom. Please register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArdeiqqzgqGtzBWPFhw7R5hxQVCnE4FoYV
Organiser: Jennifer Pope (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Jonathan Truslow (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Editors: Nicole Harris, Abigail Ludlow, Jo Silva, Jennifer Pope, Tiyamike Muluzi, Anne Bowtell