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Seminars

The Pirbright Seminar Series takes place on Thursday afternoons in the Centre for Collaborative Learning at Pirbright. Extra seminars are sometimes scheduled at late notice; please contact the programme organisers for any changes to the schedule.

Seminar times

13.00 - Seminar
14.00 - Student Q&A

Seminar contacts

For further information about individual seminars please contact the host directly.

For general information about upcoming seminars, please contact the programme organisers, pirbright.seminar@pirbright.ac.uk.

2023 Seminar programme

Date Speaker Organisation Title Host
19 Jan 2023               Michael Hassell           University of Surrey  "Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the HE Sector" Dr Marion England
24 Jan 2023 Dr Clare Bhunnoo UKRI-BBSRC “Culture and careers in bioscience research and innovation” Dr Louise Barton
26 Jan 2023 Professor Anca Dorhoi 

Friedrich Loeffler Institute

"Immunity to infection: keep it real" Prof Elma Tchilian
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7 Feb 2023      Daniel Santos Mansur  Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil 

"PKR-Mediated Stress Response Enhances Dengue and Zika Virus Replication"

Dr Renata Fleith
9 Feb 2023 Marcus Blagrove University of Liverpool

"Host in the machine: Construction of an explainable AI framework which identifies its own weaknesses and directs wet-lab experiments to answer the question – “in which hosts do viruses hide?” 

Dr Graham Freimanis             
16 Feb 2023                 
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9 Mar 2023 Dr Nicola Stonehouse University of Leeds    Dr Helena Maier
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23 Mar 2023     Professor Geoff Smith University of Cambridge   Prof Bryan Charleston
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