DOID Weekly Seminars
This weekly seminar series will feature internal (Department of Infectious Disease staff) and external guest lectures based on our research interests.
Everyone is welcome to attend this joint DOID seminar series which will take place weekly alternating from mini presentations to guest lectures at the South Kensington Campus. for general enquiries contact Yasmin Mallu.
Current Seminar Series - Jan April 25
| Date/Time | Speaker/Institute | Title | Venue | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27th May, 1-2pm - 2025 | Dr Amber Barton (University of Oxford) | Evolution of pandemic cholera at its global source | SAFB 120/Online | link |
| 24 June, 1-2pm - 2025 | Prof Thumbi Ndung'u | Towards improved HIV prevention and antiretroviral-free control: lessons from the FRESH cohort in South Africa | SAFB122 | |
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Past Seminars
Recent/Past Seminars - Jan-April 25
| 21st Jan, 1-2 pm | Dr Tamas Korcsmaros (ICL) | Mapping host microbe interactions with network biology and organoid-based approaches | SAFB 122/online | link |
| 4th Feb, 1-2 pm | Dr Charlotte Odendall (Kings College London) | Interferon: Tug of War between Host and Pathogen | SAFB 121/online | no recording |
| 18th Feb, 1-2 pm | no seminar |
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| 4th March, 1-2 pm |
Prof Angelika Gründling (ICL) |
Lipid Phosphatases and beyond | SAFB 122/Online | no recording |
| 18th March, 1-2 pm | Prof John Tregoning (ICL) | RSV and RNA vaccines: can John squeeze 3 year’s work into a brief talk? | SAFB 122/Online | no recording |
| 1st April, 1-2 pm | Prof Sarah Fidler (ICL) | The use of Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies to control HIV off antiretroviral therapy | SAFB 120/Online | link |
| 15th April, 1-2 pm | Dr Sylvie Alonso (University of Singapore) |
Viral determinants that drive Dengue virus fitness and virulence | SAFB 122/Online | no recording |
| 29th April, 1-2 pm | Dr Borko Amulic (University of Bristol) | Fine tuning the neutrophil response for improved infection outcome | SAFB 120/Online | no recording |
Recent/past seminars Oct-Dec 24
| Date/Time | Speaker/Institute | Title | Venue | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29th October 2024 | Dr Dinesh Aggarwal | Determining the basis of Staphylococcus aureus carriage and virulence | SAFB Seminar Room 121/ONLINE |
link |
| 12 November 2024 | Dr Matthew Child | How to ‘get’ Fat: targeted saturation mutagenesis reveals biochemical signatures of amino acid function | SAFB G34 LT/ONLINE |
link |
| 26 November 2024 | Professor Jethro Herberg | Precision diagnosis of febrile illness in children | SAFB Seminar Room 121/ONLINE | link |
| 3rd December 2024 | Professor Ashraful Haque | Temporal mapping of adaptive immune responses during experimental malaria using single-cell and spatial transcriptomics | SAFB G34 LT/Online | link |
| 10 December 2024 | Professor George Kassiotis (Francis Crick Institute, London) | Endogenous retroviruses in immunity and cancer | SAFB G34 LT/ONLINE | no recording |