• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Anne Farmer (University of Oxford, NDM Experimental Medicine, RDM Investigative Medicine Division)
• Organising department: MRC Human Immunology Unit

Wednesday 25 February 2015 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Virus-associated cancers of the aging skin
  Prof. Herbert Pfister (Institute of Virology, University of Cologne, Germany)

Wednesday 11 March 2015 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Tissue-specific control of tolerance by Dendritic Cells
  Prof. Thomas Brocker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Germany)

Wednesday 25 March 2015 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Regulation of inflammasome activation
  Dr Mohamed Lamkanfi (VIB Department of Medical Protein Research, University of Ghent, Belgium)

Thursday 26 March 2015 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Molecular signals that regulate γδ T cells in human health and disease
  Dr Erin Adams (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago)

Wednesday 1 April 2015 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Intracellular DNA sensing mechanisms during pathogen infection
  Dr Andrea Ablasser (Global Health Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)

Wednesday 8 April 2015 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Gate-keepers of the interfollicular area: ILCs as checkpoints for adaptive immune responses
  David Withers (School of Immunity and Infection, University of Birmingham)

Wednesday 15 April 2015 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - A20 in inflammatory signaling and pathology
  Dr Geert van Loo (VIB Inflammation Research Centre, University of Ghent, Belgium)

Wednesday 29 April 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Endogenous retroviruses and the immune system of the host
  Dr George Kassiotis (The Francis Crick Institute, London)

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

• 13:30 - MAITS and their mates
  Prof. Paul Klenerman (Peter Medawar Building, NDM, Oxford)

Wednesday 3 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Iron, malaria and the gut microbiome
  Prof. Michael Zimmermann (ETH Zurich)

Wednesday 24 June 2015 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Environmental influences on inflammatory immune responses
  Prof. Brigitta Stockinger (The Francis Crick Institute, London)

Wednesday 8 July 2015 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Immunosurveillance of the Liver by Intravascular Effector CD8+ T Cells
  Dr Matteo Iannacone (San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan)

Wednesday 16 September 2015 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Ubiquitin networks in blood pathologies
  Dr Heike Laman (Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 23 September 2015 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Exploring Functional Effects of Genetically Determined Gene Expression: From Inflammation to the DNA Damage Response
  Dr Ben Fairfax (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 7 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Cellular Strategies for Airway Maintenance
  Dr Emma Rawlins (MRC Research Fellow, Dept of Pathology, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)

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

• 13:30 - What Shapes the Human Immune System?
  Prof Adrian Liston (VIB Autoimmune Genetics Laboratory, Belgium)

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

• 13:30 - Functional Adaptations of Thymic APCs for Central Tolerance Induction
  Prof Ludger Klein (AG Thymus Function, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich)

Wednesday 4 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Regulation of Immunity in the Allergic Lung
  Prof Clare Lloyd (Prof of Respiratory Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London)

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

• 13:30 - ER Stress and Autophagy Conspiring in the Crohn's Disease Epithelium
  Prof Arthur Kaser (Head, Div of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cambridge University Hospitals)

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

• 13:30 - Human cytomegalovirus IE1: an enigmatic regulatory protein antagonizing innate immune defense mechanisms mediated by PML nuclear bodies
  Prof. Dr. Thomas Stamminger (Medical Immunology Campus Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg)

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

• 13:30 - Cell entry and innate immune recognition of enveloped RNA viruses
  Professor Yorgo Modis (Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 16 December 2015 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - ImmTAcs - Can a Biologic Eestablish the Missing Link Between Cancer and T Cells?
  Dr Bent Jakobsen (Chief Scientific Officer, Immunocore)

Wednesday 6 January 2016 (-1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - A Window into Virus-Host Interactions: The Dividend of Phenotypic Screens
  Professor Ray Chung (Director of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Harvard Medical School, USA )

Wednesday 20 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - The Role of TL1A/DR3 in Intestinal Inflammation
  Dr Fabio Cominelli (Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Director of the CWRU/UH Digestive Health Centre, USA)

Wednesday 17 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Breaking Bad and Creating Good: Exploiting DNA as an Immune Adjuvant to Treat Cancer and Autoimmune Syndromes
  Professor Andrew Mellor (Professor of Translational Immunology, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University)

Wednesday 24 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - The Impact of Immunogenetic Variation on Human Health and Disease
  Professor Mary Carrington (Head, HLA Immunogenetics Section, National Cancer Institute, USA)

Wednesday 16 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Natural Killer cell receptors and MHC class I ligands in humans and chimpanzees
  Professor Peter Parham (Professor of Structural Biology and of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, USA)

Wednesday 27 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - A role for toll-like receptors in the regulation of cellular senescence
  Dr Juan Carlos Acosta (MRC Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 5 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Lymphocyte population dynamics and genetic susceptibility to autoimmune disease
  Prof Rose Zamoyska (Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, Edinburgh University)

Wednesday 11 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 01:30 - Immunotherapy with dendritic cell nanovesicles
  Prof Jonathan Sprent (Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney)

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

• 13:30 - From Broadly Neutralising Antibodies to a New Mechanism of Diversification
  Professor Antonio Lanzavecchia (Director, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Bellinzona, Switzerland )

Wednesday 15 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Using super-resolution microscopy to watch immune cells kill
  Prof Dan Davis (Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research)

Wednesday 6 July 2016 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - The twisted paths between Iron and Inflammation
  Prof Martina Muckenthaler (Dept of Paediatric Oncology, Haematology, Immunology & Pulmonology, University of Heidelberg)

Thursday 8 September 2016 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Breaking the in vitro impasse: human lung small airway-on-a-chip for clinical translation
  Dr Kambez Benam (Wyss Institute, Harvard University)

Tuesday 13 September 2016 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Role of DNA damage signaling machinery in innate immune regulation
  Professor Nelson Gekara (Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University)

Wednesday 12 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Improving the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy
  Prof Benoit Van den Eynde (Tumor Immunology Group, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Tuesday 18 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Mechanisms controlling intestinal IgA production
  Dr Andrea Reboldi (University of Massachusetts Medical School)

Monday 31 October 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Mucosal Associated Invariant T cells: Friend or Foe?
  PLEASE NOTE THE DATE (Monday 31st) and time (3pm) - not the usual slot
  Professor James McCluskey (University of Melbourne)

Wednesday 2 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - DAMPening Autoreactivity at the First Tolerance Checkpoint
  Prof Garnett Kelsoe (Duke University School of Medicine)

Thursday 1 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Targeting leukemia by lipid specific T cells
  Dr Giulia Casorati (Experimental Immunology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute)

Tuesday 6 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - PD-1 cancer immunotherapy
  Professor Gordon Freeman (Harvard Medical School)

Wednesday 7 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Antibody Responses in Dengue and Zika Infection
  Prof Gavin Screaton (Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College)

Wednesday 14 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - IFITM3 Regulation of Viral Pathogenesis
  Prof Ian Humphreys (Systems Immunity Research Institute, Cardiff University)

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

• 13:30 - From happiness on twitter to the genome: Network based integrative approaches in epigenomics
  Dr Vera Pancaldi (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid)

Thursday 26 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - The genetic and epigenetic principles of V(D)J recombination during B cell development
  Dr Hashem Koohy (Babraham Institute, Cambridge)

Wednesday 1 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - A DaNGeRous talk about dendritic cells
  Professor Caetano Reis e Sousa (Immunobiology Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London)

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Pathogenesis of arbovirus-induced diseases: role of follicular dendritic cells
  Professor Massimo Palmarini (Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow)

Wednesday 22 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Goldilocks & 3 Tales of the Immune System
  Professor Sophie Hambleton (Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University)

Friday 7 April 2017 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - A role for immune cells in sterile injury
  Professor Paul Kubes (Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary)

Wednesday 19 April 2017 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - New cancer immunotherapy strategies: the host is the target
  Dr Tobias Janowitz (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 25 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Novel Technologies For Rapid Generation Of Custom-Designed Animal Models
  Dr Matthew Wheeler (Associate Director of European Markets Cyagen Biosciences GmbH)

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - A novel pathway controlling metabolite sensing and ILC function in the intestine
  Dr Tim Willinger (Karolinska Institutet)

Wednesday 17 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Exploiting neo-antigens for cancer immunotherapies
  Dr John Castle (Senior Director - Computational Biology & Genomics, AGENUS )

Thursday 18 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Highly multiplexed imaging of tissues with subcellular resolution by imaging mass cytometry
  Dr Hartland W. Jackson (Laboratory of Prof. Bernd Bodenmiller, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland )

Wednesday 24 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - When MAITs matter – microbial defence and drug modulation
  Dr Sidonia Eckle (The University of Melbourne)

Wednesday 14 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Rare diseases as tools to understand autoimmunity
  Professor Olle Kämpe (Karolinska University Hospital)

Friday 7 July 2017 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Using NKT Cell Antigens as Vaccine Adjuvants
  Professor Ian Hermans (Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, New Zealand)

Wednesday 27 September 2017 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Inflammation at the interface: dendritic cell coordination of Type 2 immunity
  Prof. Andrew S. MacDonald (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 1 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Asymmetric signaling endosomes in asymmetric division
  Professor Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan (University of Geneva)

Wednesday 15 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Catch me if you can – illuminating the onset of adaptive immunity
  Professor Robert Tampé (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Discovery of Novel and Misfit Lipids that Control Human Macrophage Activation and T cell Response
  Professor Branch Moody (Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA)

Wednesday 17 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Self perception by natural killer cells
  Professor Petter Höglund (Karolinska Institutet)

Wednesday 7 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Control of signal-driven gene expression in innate and adaptive lymphocytes
  Dr Rahul Roychoudhuri (Babraham Institute, Cambridge)

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Targeting immune regulation within tumours
  Professor Sergio Quesada (University College London)

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Metabolic adaptation as a protective strategy against infectious diseases
  Dr Miguel Soares (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal)

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Human gamma delta T cells – unconventionally adaptive
  Professor Benjamin Willcox (University of Birmingham)

Friday 25 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - CANCELLED: Translating Immunity: Literally
  Professor Jon Yewdell (Chief, Cellular Biology Section, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, USA)

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Litchfield Lecture - "MR1-Restricted T Cells and Mycobacterium tuberculosis"
  Professor David Lewinsohn (Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA)

Thursday 28 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Characterising the Role of the Novel C-type lectin Receptor CD302 in Dendritic Cell Migration
  Dr Pablo Silveira (University of Sydney)

Tuesday 10 July 2018 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - In vivo imaging of adaptive immune responses to pathogens and tumors
  Dr Matteo Iannacone (San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan)

Wednesday 19 September 2018 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Ebola: Molecular epidemiology, transcriptomics, acquired immunity & vaccines
  Professor Miles Carroll (Public Health England)

Thursday 20 September 2018 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The organization and function of immune cell plasma membranes
  Dr Ilya Levental (McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas - Houston)

Monday 1 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Finally: empty class I molecules
  Prof Sebastian Springer (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany)

Wednesday 17 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Unexpected roles of tissue-localized macrophages in the developing CNS
  Dr Yosuke Mukoyama (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA)

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - CANCELLED: Vector-mediated prophylaxis against airborne infectious viruses
  Professor Maria Limberis (University of Pannsylvania)

Wednesday 24 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Advanced single-molecule imaging of cellular proteins, from surface to nucleus
  Dr Aleks Ponjavic (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 1 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Epithelial damage and tissue gd T cells promote a unique tumour-protective IgE response
  Dr Greg H Crawford (Imperial College London)

Wednesday 7 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Pathologically distinct fibroblast subsets drive inflammation and tissue damage in arthritis
  Professor Christopher Buckley (University of Birmingham)

Tuesday 13 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Targeting subcellular trafficking behaviour for the design of therapeutic antibodies
  Professor E. Sally Ward (University of Southampton)

Wednesday 21 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - A Ready Made killer: Preconfiguration of the chromatin landscape and fate determination for virus-specific CD8+ killer T cells
  Professor Stephen Turner (Monash University)

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Molecular intricacies of T-cell receptor autoreactivity towards CD1 molecules presenting self-lipids
  Dr Adam Shahine (Monash University, Melbourne)

Wednesday 28 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - The transcriptional regulation of mucosal tolerance
  Professor Graham Lord (King's College London)

Tuesday 4 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Salmonella species as initiators of gallbladder and colon carcinoma
  Professor Sjaak Neefjes (Leiden University)

Wednesday 16 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Molecular archaeology of cancer
  Dr Peter Van Loo (The Francis Crick Institute, London)

Friday 18 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Accessories to the crime: functions of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment
  Dr Arianna Calcinotto (Institute of Oncology Research, Bellinzona, Switzerland)

Wednesday 30 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Uncovering the enigmatic role of IL-33 in GI inflammation and cancer
  Professor Theresa Pizarro (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA)

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

• 13:30 - Cellular mechanics of B cell responses
  Dr Pavel Tolar (The Francis Crick Institute, London)

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

• 13:30 - Inferring epitope-specific T-cell receptor sequence motifs from immune repertoire sequencing data
  Dr Mikhail Shugay (Skoltech, Russian Medical State University, Moscow, Russia)

Wednesday 13 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Identification of relevant antigenic targets for successful liver cancer immunotherapy
  Professor Anna Pasetto (Karolinska Institutet)

Wednesday 27 March 2019 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Dissecting the role of programmed cell death-1 receptor (PD-1) in the immune system
  Dr Shoba Amarnath (Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University)

Wednesday 10 April 2019 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - Democratising Live-Cell Compatible High-Speed Super-Resolution Microscopy
  Professor Ricardo Henriques (University College London)

Wednesday 1 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Protective and pathogenic effects of type I interferon: lessons from human genetics
  Dr Christopher Duncan (Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University)

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

• 13:30 - The human leukaemia virus HTLV-1: chromatin structure, epigenetics and regulation of latency
  Professor Charles Bangham (Imperial College London)

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Glycolipid-peptide vaccination induces liver-resident memory CD8+ T cells that protect against malaria
  Professor Gavin Painter (Ferrier Research Institute, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand)

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Sweet Drug Delivery Systems: Heparosan-based Enhancers for Protein & Liposomal Therapeutics
  Professor Paul DeAngelis (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center)

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

• 13:30 - Energy metabolism in macrophage plasticity and inflammatory disease
  Dr Jacques Behmoaras (Department of Medicine, Imperial College London)

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

• 13:30 - Airway Macrophage phenotypic and metabolic alterations during lung fibrosis
  Dr Adam Byrne (Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College)

Wednesday 26 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Regulation of adaptive immunity in viral infections
  Professor Annette Oxenius (Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich)

Tuesday 16 July 2019 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - The role of the acute-phase protein serum amyloid A in colitis-associated cancer
  Dr Tanja Davis (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

Wednesday 17 July 2019 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Antibody germline gene variation in the human population
  Professor Gunilla B. Karlsson Hedestam (Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet)

Friday 6 September 2019 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Unexpected New Functions of the Cells and Molecules Involved in Antigen Presentation
  Prof. Jose Villadangos (The University of Melbourne)

Wednesday 2 October 2019 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - NO TIME TO DIE: how herpesviruses and host ensure their survival
  Prof. Melanie Brinkmann (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany)

Monday 7 October 2019 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Human Dendritic Cell Subsets in the High-Dimensional Era
  Prof. Juliana Idoyaga (Microbiology and Immunology Department, Stanford University, USA)

Thursday 10 October 2019 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - MRC: priorities and funding opportunities
  Dr Martin Broadstock (Programme Manager for Immunology and Vaccines, Medical Research Council)

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

• 13:30 - Metabolic control of Natural Killer Cell anti-tumour responses
  Professor David Finlay (Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin)

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

• 13:30 - Organization of intracellular antiviral defense mechanisms and disturbance by viruses
  Prof. Andreas Pichlmair (Institute of Virology, TUM School of Medicine, Munich, Germany)

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

• 14:30 - Overcoming constraints on adaptive immunity to HBV
  Professor Mala Maini (UCL Division of Infection and Immunity)

Wednesday 15 January 2020 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - New immunomodulatory role of epidermal hepcidin in infectious conditions
  Dr Carole Peyssonnaux (DR2 INSERM, Institut Cochin, Paris)

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Role of MAIT cell responses in viral and bacterial infections in humans
  Professor Johan Sandberg (Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)

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

• 13:30 - A cubist approach to translational “omics”: immune memory and immune deficiency
  Professor Ken Smith (Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 14 July 2020 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Transcriptional silencing of exogenous and endogenous retroelements
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Paul Lehner (Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, University of Cambridge)

Thursday 23 July 2020 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Tissue immunity – defence at the borders
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Prof. Menna R. Clatworthy (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 4 August 2020 (15th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Multidimensional Single Cell Approaches to Define Intestinal Immunoregulatory Circuits
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Alison Simmons (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 August 2020 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Viruses, vaccines and (unconventional) T cells
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Prof. Paul Klenerman (Peter Medawar Building, NDM, Oxford)

Friday 21 August 2020 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Remember COVID-19?
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor David Price (School of Medicine, Cardiff University)

Wednesday 26 August 2020 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Hepcidin and the Immune Response
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Hal Drakesmith (MRC Human Immunology Unit)

Friday 4 September 2020 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - From Parasites to Cancer: Parallels in Immune Mechanisms of Pathology and Therapeutic Response
  *** This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event. ***
  Kenneth J. Gollob, PhD (Head of Translational Immuno-oncology Group A.C.Camargo Cancer Center São Paulo, SP Brazil)

Thursday 24 September 2020 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - T-cells as causes and cures of human disease
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Andrew Sewell (Cardiff University)

Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Predicting Antigen Presentation - What Could We Learn From a Million Peptides?
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor David Gfeller (Department of oncology UNIL CHUV, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne)

Wednesday 11 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Regulation and consequences of self-DNA sensing by cGAS
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Christian Zierhut (The Institute of Cancer Research, London)

Wednesday 18 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Exploring novel frameworks to modulate T cell function
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Maternal antibodies regulate neonatal immunity to the gut microbiota
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Meghan Koch (Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle)

Wednesday 2 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Modeling cellular state and dynamics in single cell genomics
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Fabian Theis (Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Germany)

Wednesday 20 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Interplay of transcription, mutation & replication in antibody maturation and lymphomagenesis in B cells
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Rushad Pavri (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna)

Wednesday 27 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Platelet and neutrophil biology during homeostasis and injury
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Mark Looney (Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco)

Wednesday 24 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Covid 19 and Africa
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Kevin Marsh (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 3 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Unravelling dendritic cell heterogeneity in health and disease
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Chrysothemis Brown (Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York)

Wednesday 10 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Repetitive element sensing enhances hematopoietic regeneration and stem cell development
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Eirini Trompouki (Department of Cellular and Molecular Immunology​, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany)

Wednesday 24 March 2021 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Viral manipulation of autophagy for assembly and secretion
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Sumana Sanyal (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 19 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Immune sensing of lipids
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Patricia Barral (Immune Responses to Lipids Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London)

Wednesday 26 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Neuroimmunometabolism
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Ana Domingos (University of Oxford, DPAG)

Wednesday 7 July 2021 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Metabolic control of helper T cell lineage selection
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Daniel Puleston (The Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute of Cancer Immunotherapy, Johns Hopkins University)

Wednesday 14 July 2021 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Die to live another day: The battle between virus and host for Z-RNA
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event
  Dr Heather Koehler (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vaccine Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA)

Wednesday 21 July 2021 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - RNA-protein interaction dynamics in human T-lymphocyte activation and response
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Rayner Queiroz (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 1 September 2021 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Vascular control of tissue and immune microenvironments
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Anjali Kusumbe (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Wednesday 15 September 2021 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - From SNPs to biology in immune-mediated diseases
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr James C. Lee (Division of Medicine, University College London; Genetic Mechanisms of Disease Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London)

Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Heterogeneity of Type 2 immune responses during helminth infections
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor P'ng Loke (Type 2 Immunity Section Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health Bethesda, USA)

Wednesday 10 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Metabolic flexibility of T cell responses: Implications for adaptive immunity
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Russell Jones (Department of Metabolism and Nutritional Programming, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA)

Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Friend or foe: lipid metabolism in tailoring macrophage immune responses in tumors
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Ping-Chih Ho (Department of Fundamental Oncology, University of Lausanne; Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Switzerland)

Wednesday 8 December 2021 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Interplay between afferent lymphatics and leukocytes in inflammation
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Cornelia Halin Winter (Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Wednesday 15 December 2021 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - How personalised is your immune repertoire
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Aleksandra Walczak (Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

Wednesday 26 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Acquired mechanisms of disease tolerance underpin immunity to human malaria
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Phil Spence (School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday 2 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Targets of adaptive responses to SARS CoV2 and its variants
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Prof Alessandro Sette (La Jolla Institute for Immunology, Division of Vaccine Discovery, Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation, University of California, School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, USA)

Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - The bioenergetics of T cell senescence
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Sian Henson (Translational Medicine & Therapeutics, Queen Mary University of London)

Wednesday 16 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Interrogating T cell metabolic dysfunction in Multiple Myeloma
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Sarah Dimeloe (Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham)

Wednesday 16 March 2022 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Novel mechanisms of pathogen sensing by the innate immune system
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Dr Moritz Gaidt (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna)

Wednesday 15 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Cell intrinsic control of viral infection
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor John Schoggins (Microbiology Department, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA)

Wednesday 6 July 2022 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Tissue macrophages at CNS borders
  This seminar will be held as a hybrid event with in-person admittance open to WIMM-based researchers only (until further notice). If you would like to join the seminar on Teams, please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk.
  Professor Marco Prinz (Institute of Neuropathology, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Germany)

Wednesday 13 July 2022 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Molecular Mimicry: Are there lessons from the EBV connection to MS, relevant to Vaccines and Adverse Reactions to Them?
  This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
  Professor Lawrence Steinman (Zimmermann Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, and Pediatrics, Beckman Center for Molecular Medicine, Stanford University, USA)

Wednesday 28 September 2022 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Antibody-mediated immune response against tumors in ovarian cancer patients
  Professor Ziv Shulman (Department of Systems Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

Wednesday 5 October 2022 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Improving cancer treatment by targeting epigenetic modifiers & RNA modifiers
  Dr Parinaz Mehdipour (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 19 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Therapeutic modulation of inflammation at barrier tissues of skin and gut
  Dr Tangsheng Yi (Director, Inflammation Biology, Gilead Sciences)

Thursday 24 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Running to stand still: epigenetic restraint of virus-specific CD8+ T cell differentiation
  Professor Stephen J Turner (Department of Microbiology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Australia)

Wednesday 30 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - New proteomic approaches to characterise and quantify antiviral immunity
  Professor Michael Weekes (Infectious Diseases, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 15 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Mechanisms of innate immune response and beyond
  This seminar will be virtual only. If you would like to attend please contact hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk.
  Dr Fajian Hou (Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology)

Wednesday 1 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Adaptive immune receptor repertoire profiling for diagnostics and therapeutics discovery and design
  Dr Victor Greiff (University of Oslo)

Wednesday 8 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Data mining the human T-cell receptor repertoire.
  Dr Pieter Meysman (University of Antwerp)

Friday 26 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Deconstructing the form and function of T cell responses to pathogens and tumors
  The Seminar is taking place on a Friday instead of the usual Wednesday.
  Prof Paul Thomas (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital)

Wednesday 14 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Leveraging deep neural networks for structure-based prediction of TCR:peptide-MHC interactions
  This seminar will be virtual only. If you would like to attend please contact hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Phil Bradley (Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Seattle)

Monday 26 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Skin resident T cells modulate IL-17 response via metabolite sensing and gene dosage
  Please note this event is taking place on Monday rather than Wednesday. This event is in-person only
  Dr Michela Frascoli (UMass Chan Medical School)

Wednesday 12 July 2023 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Intestinal IgA: The Importance of being specific
  In-person event only.
  Professor Emma Slack (Department of Health Sciences & Technology, ETH Zürich)

Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Mechanisms for immune decline and strategies for immune enhancement in ageing
  Prof Arne Akbar (University College London)

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Circadian anti-tumor immune responses
  In person Only
  Professor Christoph Scheiermann (University of Geneva)

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - "Macrophage FErrometabolism; An Ally or Adversary for Respiratory health?
  In-person only
  Professor Suzanne Cloonan (Trinity College Dublin)

Wednesday 10 April 2024 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - From bulk to single cell: Leveraging Multiomics Data to Study Autoimmunity in the Era of Precision Medicine
  In-person only
  Dr Marina Sirota (University of California San Francisco)

Wednesday 24 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Exploring cell-intrinsic innate immunity to advance antiviral strategies
  In person only
  Prof Christine Goffinet (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine)

Wednesday 15 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  In person only
  Dr Aimee Hanson (Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol)

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Retroviral legacy in immunity and cancer
  In person only
  Dr George Kassiotis (The Francis Crick Institute, London)

Wednesday 12 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  in-person only
  Dr Sarah H. Ross (Associate Editor, Science)

Wednesday 19 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Introduction to the Centre for Medicines Discovery: Implementing Drug Discovery in Medical Sciences at Oxford
  in-person only
  Daniel Ebner (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 13 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Multimodal decoding of human liver regeneration and repair
  In person only
  Prof Neil Henderson (University of Edinburgh)