Infection and Immunity Seminar Series, Spring 2012

Talks are on Mondays at 4pm in the Rothschild Lecture Theatre,

Wright-Fleming Institute, Norfolk Place, W2 1PG,  unless indicated

January 30th, Stuart Siddell, University of Bristol

The coronavirus 2-Omethyltransferase: serendipity strikes again (host MAS)

February 6th, Greg Smith, Northwestern University

 Assembly and intracellular transport of a neuroinvasive herpesvirus (host MAS//GE/POH)

February 13th, Graham Taylor, Imperial College

TBA   (host IM)

 February 20th, Gerry McInerney, Karolinska Institute

Semliki Forest Virus Non-Structural Protein 3 Disrupts Stress Granule Assembly Via Sequestration Of G3BPInto Viral Replication Complexes  (host MAS/IG)

February 27th, Adriano Boasso, Imperial College

Understanding the immunopathogenic nature of HIV (host MAS/PF)

March 5th, Dalan Bailey, Institute for Animal Health Pirbright

Proteomics Based Analysis of Morbillivirus Host Interactions  (host MAS)

March 12th, TBA (host IM)

March 19th, Guy Thwaites, Imperial College

Using clinical trials to define the pathogenesis and management of tuberculous meningitis  (host IM)

March 26th. Peter Kelleher, Imperial College

B cell and vaccine response in HIV-1 infection (host IM)

April 2nd, Markus Munder, University of Mainz

TBA   (host IM)

April 9th, Easter

April 16th, Andrew Bowie, Dublin

Exploiting viral know how in innate immune pattern recognition receptor signalling  (host MAS/PF)

April 23rd, Nicola Rose, NIBSC

Refining the tamarin model of acute Hepatitis C virus infection (host MAS)

If you would like to meet the speaker, please contact the host: Ingrid Müller (IM), Charles Bangham (CB), Paul Farrell (PF), Peter Openshaw (PO), Peter O'Hare (POH) or Mike Skinner (MAS) - as soon as possible, preferably 2 weeks before to allow travel and timetable planning.   If you have any questions about the programme or suggestions for future speakers, please contact the organisers: Ingrid Müller (i.muller@imperial.ac.uk) or Mike Skinner (m.skinner@imperial.ac.uk).