Seminar series
We hold a number of different events during the academic year, including regular seminar series every Wednesday afternoon for staff and students.
Research seminar programme - autumn/winter 2019
- Venue: Redwood Building, lecture theatre 2.60
(Paul Spencer Lecture Theatre) - Time: 14:00 (unless otherwise stated)
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
03/10/2019 Thursday | Professor David Goulson (Professor of Biology (Evolution, Behaviour and Environment), University of Sussex) | The Garden Jungle: How to Save our Insects – 3pm START | Miss J Jenkins |
09/10/2019 | Professor Alessio Ciulli (School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee) | Targeted protein degradation with small molecules: How PROTACs work | Dr Y Mehellou |
16/10/2019 | Dr Mariah Lelos (School of Biosciences, Cardiff University) | Cell Therapies for Parkinson’s Disease: Challenges and Successes in The Path to the Clinic | Dr Y Mehellou |
23/10/2019 | Professor David Leigh (School of Chemistry, University of Manchester) | Making the Tiniest Machines | Dr Y Mehellou |
| 30/10/2019 | Professor Matthias Eberl (School of Medicine, Cardiff University) | Local unconventional T cell responses in acute infection: protection versus tissue damage | Dr S Ferla |
| 06/11/2019 | Professor Graciela Andrei (Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KH Leuven) | Resistance to Antiviral Drugs | Prof AT Jones |
| 13/11/2019 | Dr Caterina Garone (University of Bologna) | Mitochondrial nucleotides pool in health and disease | Dr Y Mehellou |
| 20/11/2019 | Professor Sir Phillip Cohen (MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, University of Dundee) | Kinase inhibitors; major drugs for the 21st century | Miss O Lambourne & Mr A Voisey |
| 27/11/2019 | Dr Elsa Anes (Faculdade de Farmácia, Lisbon, Portugal) | Exploiting innate immunity as host directed therapeutic strategies for Tuberculosis and HIV-coinfection. | Prof AT Jones |
| 04/12/2019 | Professor Khuloud Al-Jamal (Drug delivery Group, King’s College London) | Rationale Design of Nanocarriers for Brain and Cancer Targeting | Dr P Prokopovich |
| 11/12/2019 | Professor Simon Mackay (Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde) | Targeting the mitotic spindle in cancer: the development of allosteric regulators | Prof AD Westwell |
