Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

These seminars cover a wide range of topics including microbiology, immunology, cell biology, molecular biology, and pathology. Lectures are normally given in the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, which is behind the Department, and are followed by refreshments in the Bridge Cafe in the Department. All are welcome.

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Anton van der Merwe (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology) , Chris Norbury (University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, The Queen's College) , Fumiko Esashi (University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine) , Jo Peel (University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology) , Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Organising department: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

Friday 5 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Title TBC
This talk has been cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience caused
Professor Simon Draper (University of Oxford)

Friday 12 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Title TBC
This talk has been cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience caused
Dr. Yanlan Mao (University College London)

Friday 19 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Title TBC
This talk has been cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience caused
Professor Gia Voeltz (Univesity of Colorado, Boulder)

Friday 3 July 2020 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Systems-wide analysis of ADP-ribosylation using quantitative mass spectrometry
This talk has been cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience caused
Professor Michael Nielsen (Novo Nordisk Foundation, Copenhagen)

Friday 11 September 2020 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

15:00 - ER contact sites regulate the dynamics of membrane bound and membrane-less organelles
WEBINAR - zoom link - https://zoom.us/j/96813570811?pwd=YkZTQURPRlg3eFFNcVp5a0R6QzduZz09
Prof Gia Voeltz (HHMI and University of Colorado - Boulder)

Friday 25 September 2020 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Membrane protein biogenesis at the endoplasmic reticulum
Zoom link - https://zoom.us/j/95934709943?pwd=a1FxWUYyZVJEdmhVbW9ZTFhJVFNjdz09
Dr Ramanujan Hegde (Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory, Cambridge)

Friday 9 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Neuropilin-1 promotes SARS-CoV-2 entry and spread by binding the furin-processed SARS-CoV-2 Spike and is a target for antiviral intervention
https://zoom.us/j/95331996644?pwd=OWphQkM3K29aeVdzRzM4b29mU1VtZz09
Dr Yohei Yamauchi (University of Bristol)

Friday 23 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Understanding congenital diseases in relation to nuclear envelope dynamics
Dr Christian Schlieker (Department of Cell Biology, Yale University)

Friday 6 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Unravelling the structure of toxic protein aggregates in situ
https://zoom.us/j/98323763786?pwd=VnN0NGtBckduV2huWk1WeGx3VVVkZz09
Prof. Ruben Fernandez-Busnadiego (University of Göttingen Medical Center, Institute of Neuropathology)

Friday 13 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Single-cell physiology of bacterial pathogens in rodent and human host tissues
https://zoom.us/j/97385041140?pwd=b0d5M1ZCZG5MN3YrWTdHMDA2cmJ1QT09
Prof Dirk Baumann (Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland)

Friday 20 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - A mechanistic basis for modulating signalling by immune receptors
https://zoom.us/j/92715812459?pwd=S0dyVmY5TitDYUJOdm81bDlaanNEdz09
Dr Ricardo A Fernandes (Nuffield Department of Medicine and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences at Oxford Institute (CAMS/COI))

Friday 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Coping with mechanical stress: tissue dynamics during growth and repair
https://zoom.us/j/94992502579?pwd=c3lmOHBmMVI2b25rT084M2tlWTFiQT09
Dr Yanlan Mao (UCL)

Friday 29 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Pathoecology and evolution of Vibrio cholerae
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/91760131201?pwd=bHdMUTVtN2VZVXlpd1VsMEd6RkRqZz09 Passcode: 565019 Webinar ID: 917 6013 1201
Prof Melanie Blokesch (EPFL (Lausanne), Switzerland)

Friday 5 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Development of Next-Gen Vaccines against the Blood-Stage Human Malaria Parasite
ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/92997778356?pwd=VFVmdFlhWlZySWN4dXlteVVvNHcrdz09 Passcode: 441955 Webinar ID: 929 9777 8356
Prof Simon Draper (Jenner Institute, University of Oxford)

Friday 12 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Control of microtubule organisation and dynamics: seeing proteins and drugs in action
ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/93298616588?pwd=YmJJMkYwKy9wVXR0NjZkOXZqWVFrUT09 Passcode: 351472 Webinar ID: 932 9861 6588
Prof Anna Akhmanova (Life Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Policing secretion: quality control during export from the endoplasmic reticulum.
Dr Liz Miller (MRC - LMB, Crick Institute, Cambridge)

Friday 5 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - E. coli persistence to ofloxacin
Zoom Link https://zoom.us/j/92172459889?pwd=QTNMYkxudDFyNkpCNzVKWXN2U2J1dz09
Prof Laurence Van Melderen (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Cancer evolution, immune evasion and metastasis
ZOOM LINK https://zoom.us/j/95490025190?pwd=cFV5Nkd2bFR3SEkzTE9JeFV1WTlwZz09
Prof Charles Swanton (The Francis Crick Institute, London)

Friday 19 March 2021 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Lung epithelia under attack: Infection, Interferon, Inflammation
https://zoom.us/j/95308712651?pwd=Sm9lNVpPMjUvb3BXYXVWRXNQMUswUT09
Dr Andreas Wack (The Francis Crick Institute, London)

Friday 26 March 2021 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Advanced Cell Therapy Designs Using Synthetic Biology
https://zoom.us/j/98965906761?pwd=Ulh2MCtnd3JldEtUR0tVM3JxcVFKdz09
Dr Wilson Wong (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biological Design Center, Boston University)

Friday 23 April 2021 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Decoding the aneuploidy conundrum
https://zoom.us/j/96016250156?pwd=NlZrQ2wrVjBEQVp5VFZ0Z052RFdjQT09
Prof Rong Li (John Hopkins University, Maryland, USA)

Friday 7 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Deconstructing a T3SS effector network unravels the inherent robustness and plasticity in pathogenesis and immunity
https://zoom.us/j/98337177657?pwd=cURud3NVN3VTK1pFVER0REMrcFJwZz09
Prof Gad Frankel (Imperial College, London)

Friday 14 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Rewiring Cell Division
https://zoom.us/j/97182989483?pwd=TXRnK1ZicmFDeWVuTHFZSGZjcXhHQT09
Prof Iain Cheeseman (The Whitehead Institute, MIT, USA)

Friday 4 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - How has Salmonella become so dangerous in Africa?
https://zoom.us/j/94552594140?pwd=QmliN2F5Sm53TEY5NHZiRjE1VlBQdz09
Prof Jay Hinton (University of Liverpool)

Friday 11 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Chromosome-membrane ensheathing: unwrapping a mitotic mystery
https://zoom.us/j/94535031923?pwd=SDN0OTlvOHY4RXJza1pUNHplUGtKQT09
Prof Steve Royle (University of Warwick)

Friday 9 July 2021 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - A chromosome separation checkpoint
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/91563720281?pwd=U1hmdWZYN1FhKyttdWJBRGhHSGdqQT09
Prof Helder Maiato (Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Porto, Portugal)

Friday 10 September 2021 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Cell type-specific functions of mammalian centrosomes
Dr Fanni Gergely (Biochemistry - University of Oxford)

Friday 17 September 2021 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Inspecting the secretory pathway with whole-cell, volumetric FIB-SEM
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/97456211089?pwd=S1VFbEdnMnNuYTFUUmlnNGFvTy9kdz09
Prof Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (HHMI - Janelia Research Campus, USA)

Friday 1 October 2021 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - The importance of protection against formaldehyde in human physiology – From blood production to supressing cachexia and premature ageing’
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82648304156?pwd=aFNKOG44d3NsSFJwRHpjSHYzUHA2Zz09
Prof K J Patel (WIMM, Oxford)

Friday 8 October 2021 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - The evolutionary ecology of host defence and counter-defence
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86468144339?pwd=QTZ4K2swM2tPYzU2TlBVV0RRTG9jdz09
Prof Edze Westra (University of Exeter)

Friday 5 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Protein quality control at the endoplasmic reticulum
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82123734298?pwd=TnNtejBic3l4aW1DVHZwZEYwVldWUT09
Dr Yihong Ye (NIDDK, NIH)

Friday 25 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Genome-led vaccine target discovery for parasitic infections
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81828509326?pwd=TWRkVEg0NmxORlJYbW5GZ3lTVExyQT09
Prof Gavin Wright (University of York)

Friday 11 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Chromosome and Chromatin Dynamics at DNA Double Strand break
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88509904291?pwd=NGFmcXBzTTNneStUamFqa1JBdlB4Zz09
Prof Gaelle Legube (CNRS - University of Toulouse)

Friday 22 April 2022 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Decoding and reprogramming immunity
This will also be presented in a hybrid format - zoom link : https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84906011491?pwd=NDdmY1dDZUwwSU1FamdWVlMvcXNnQT09
Prof Michael Birnbaum (MIT, USA)