• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: JL Kiappes (University of Oxford) , Konstantina Foteinou (University of Oxford)
• Timing: WEDNESDAYS AT 11.00-12.00
• Organising department: Department of Biochemistry

Wednesday 4 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Understanding the mechanism of chromosome segregation
  Bungo Akiyoshi

Friday 20 March 2015 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Bats, viruses and longevity: what's the link?
  Prof. Linfa Wang (Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore and the Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Australia)

Wednesday 13 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - 'The ER stress pathway: an immunologist's perspective'
  Dr Jane Goodall (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 27 May 2015 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - 'Dissecting the regulation and dynamics of malaria parasite egress from its host red blood cell'
  Mike Blackman (The Francis Crick Institute)

Wednesday 14 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - New insights into disease pathogenesis provided by enhanced bioluminescence imaging of experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infections
  Professor John Kelly (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Wednesday 21 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Veni, Vidi, Voronoi: Attacking Viruses with Spherical Voronoi Diagrams
  Dr Tyler Reddy (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Protein export by the malaria parasite
  Andrew Osborne (UCL/Birkbeck)

Wednesday 11 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - “Responding to the West African Ebola Outbreak: the Médecins Sans Frontières Experience”
  Dr Armand Sprecher (Médecins Sans Frontières)

Wednesday 18 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Host and vector regulate malaria chronicity and virulence
  Jean Langhorne (Crick Institute)

Wednesday 25 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Dengue therapeutics: current state and future directions
  Jamie Whitehorn (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Wednesday 2 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - The impact of Immunogenetics on human disease
  Mary Carrington (Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor in Medical, Biological and Chemical Sciences)

Wednesday 9 December 2015 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - The anti-filoviral drug U18666A increases lysosome pH and disrupts glycolipid transport.
  Dan Sillence (De Montfort University)

Wednesday 13 January 2016 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - "Vaccine design insights from pre-fusion RSV and HIV-1 glycoprotein trimer structures"
  Dr Guillaume Stewart-Jones, Dr Guillaume Stewart-Jones (Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.)

Wednesday 3 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - 'Broad Neutralization of Influenza Virus & Implications for a Universal Vaccine and Therapy’
  Professor Ian Wilson (Scripps Research Institute in San Diego)

Wednesday 2 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - GNT-V TARGETING BY THE PHOSTINE PST3.1a INHIBITS GBM STEM CELLS STEMNESS AND THEIR IN VIVO PROLIFERATION AND INVASIVENESS
  Professor Norbert Bakalara (The Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier)

Wednesday 8 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Identification of protective carbohydrate epitopes for the development of fungal glycoconjugate vaccines"
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Stefan Oscarson (University College Dublin)

Wednesday 18 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Investigating potential drug targets to prevent vascular leak in acute dengue
  Professor Neelika Malavig (University of Sri Jayawardanapura)

Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Antibody Responses in Dengue and Zika Infection
  Professor Gavin Screaton (Imperial College London)

Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - How HIV gets around
  Professor Quentin Sattenau (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 July 2017 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - ‘Sensing and responding to respiratory virus infections’
  Professor Patrick Reading (Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne)

Monday 11 September 2017 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - "Modulation of innate immunity by dengue virus: feeling the STING"
  Professor Ana Fernandez-Sesma (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)

Wednesday 18 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Arboviruses in Cameroon: history, current status, challenges and perspectives"
  Professor Maurice Demanou (Centre Pasteur, Cameroun)

Wednesday 25 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - “Recombinant vaccines for emerging and reemerging viruses”
  Professor Ian Jones (University of Reading)

Wednesday 8 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - “The Philosophical Virus: What Viruses Tell Us About What It Means To Be Alive And What It Means To Be Human”
  Carl Zimmer (New York Times Columnist )

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - “Border patrol: mechanisms of membrane protein quality control”
  Prof Pedro Carvalho (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Wednesday 6 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Using a human challenge model to characterise the early host response to enteric fever
  Amber Barton (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 13 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Rotavirus infection: immune responses, correlates of protection, and factors involved in differences of vaccine effectiveness by country
  Dr Ulrich Desselberger (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 20 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Part II Talks
  Bora Guloglu (University of Oxford), Katie Hammond (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 27 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Part II Talks
  Mateusz Kotowski (University of Oxford), Amber Stewart (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 6 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Part II Talks
  Lucy Britton (University of Oxford), Jonathan Machin (University of Oxford)

Thursday 21 March 2019 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Early events in dengue and chikungunya virus infection
  Prof. Jolanda Smit (University of Groningen)

Wednesday 15 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Re-engineering SAS-6: from spirals to rings
  Jodie Ford (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - The Laos Central Nervous System Infection study
  Dr Audrey Dubot-Peres (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement and LOMWRU)

Wednesday 29 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - DPhil Talk
  Natalie Barber (Univeristy of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - DPhil Talks
  Thomas Harrison (University of Oxford), Samuel Gerard (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 12 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - DPhil Talks
  Juli Brun (University of Oxford), Re'em Moskovitz (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 19 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - DPhil Talks
  Tehmi Bharucha (University of Oxford), Mario Hensen (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Regulation of chronic inflammation by the circadian clock
  Dr Julie Gibbs (The University of Manchester)

Wednesday 23 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Structural and functional studies of the antiviral target proteins HCV p7 and ER alpha-glucosidase II
  Mario Hensen (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 30 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Pills, Germs and Iron: From membrane protein structure to mechanistic insights
  Dr Petra Lukacik (Diamond Light Source, Research Complex)

Wednesday 6 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - (Dr Mohamad): Magnetically aligned bilayers as a novel tool for membrane protein crystallisation; (Dr Margolin): Leafing cell culture behind: making viral glycoprotein vaccines in plants
  Dr Nada Mohamad (University of Oxford), Emmanuel Margolin (University of Cape Town)

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Host-virus interactions: It's about time
  Dr Rachel Edgar (Imperial College)

Wednesday 27 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of centriole assembly and polarity
  Dr Anastasia Kantsadi (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 4 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - A novel system to study dengue/zika virus replication organelle biogenesis independent from viral RNA replication
  Dr Berati Çerikan (University of Heidelberg)

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Thomas Harrison: Structural basis for RIFIN-mediated activation of an inhibitory immune receptor in malaria, Patryk Ludzia: Structural characterisation of unconventional kinetochore protein: KKT4
  Thomas Harrison (University of Oxford), Patryk Ludzia (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 4 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Honglin Chen "Elucidating the impact of interferon signalling in the cellular proteome " and Wael Kamel “Discovering the composition of viral ribonucleoproteins using “Viral RNA interactome capture""
  Hoglin Chen (University of Oxford), Wael Kamel (University of Oxford)